Practice

Been doing some practicing lately with random images and trying to paint things out of them, I just google "picture" and grab the first one I see. Today it was this pic

And painted this out of it

Tis good fun

Guitar Girl

A pencil sketch that I cleaned up in photoshop, I think I might render it in pencil on bristol board for the giggle

Practice

Trying to paint freely in photoshop, using a textured brush to start making random shapes and then seeing something in it and running with it. This is what I did today.

The hound and the bull

I'v been trying to come up with an idea for the upcoming Islander Art exhibit. So far the only thing I like is a picture of Cuchullain having killed his friend Ferdia, those of you up on your Irish mythology will know the story of course : )
After a whole bunch of sketches I'm getting happier with this image

This is one I did real quick in photoshop just to play with the colours. The shape of the overall image is based on a celts shield and I prefer the idea of showing just the hand to leave the viewer to figure it out rather than having the body float away, which is how I had it originally.