First commission proper

After showing a few people at work the Trilogy Triptych piece I received my first commission. It was a secret birthday present for Chris (whom I work with.)

There was a bit of back and forth via e-mail with his partner Jill. We finally decided upon 3 images of Darth Vader giving the impression that his head was turning when viewing these side by side.

Darth Rotation Triptych in situ

I'd like to thank Chris for taking a picture of the final paintings on his wall for me. I felt really cheeky bugging him for some photo's. I had some romantic notion I'd be able to get images of all my paintings sitting proudly in situ in future. This may be a logistical nightmare, but I guess I would just love to get a sense of how they look on peoples walls.

The obligatory first post

Well I have been putting this off long enough! But alas the time has come to set up a blog.

I have finally got back into painting in oils for the first time in some 13 years. I must admit that despite some early fear of failure, I have got back into the swing of things pretty quickly and am very happy with the results and the feedback my work has been getting.

The internet as I know it today was nothing like this when I graduated from art college all those years ago. I had a spell of 2-3 years doing commissions and trying to sell paintings in a few galleries. But it sadly didn't quite pan out as I had hoped.

For the last 10 years I have been working as an artist in the video games industry. It's not all been bad and it has allowed me to achieve my main goal in life. Now that has been achieved my desire to get back into traditional art has been re-ignited.

For the last year or so I have been hoovering up an amazing selection of images of representational art (mainly from American artists) and I have been inspired to create art again.

However in a twist of fate one of the first images I did in my traditional art Renaissance has opened up a very unexpected path. So with a bit of hesitation I have decided to grab this opportunity and run with it.

I am at the start of a new art journey and this is the image that started it off.