Latest.

Well, things are proceeding nicely. Out of the twelve 8x8-inch paintings, eleven are now done. Just finished this one late last night (or was that early this morning?):

And I designed the lineart for another of the 8x24 pieces this afternoon:

The biggest hurdle to get past now is building up the layers of clearcoat on the remaining paintings. Love to get these finished by the end of August, so I can book the space for the show in September.

Oh, and I'll be spinning another painting off from this series - a friend has commissioned a big, expensive abstract piece. So essentially I'll be eliminating the white lineart that graces all the others and just going with a similar colour/texture combo. I may do a keyline in gold leaf, though. Just to show the depth of the clearcoat.

Good times.

Dawn Patrol Slideshow.

So in case you're wondering, January was all about the Dawn Patrol triptych. All the base colour work and glazing are done now; the next step will be building up coats of clear.

For you process junkies, this slideshow shows a bunch of macro texture shots:



Thanks.

Shiny!

And in other art news, I picked this up from the printer today:



That's a 16x20-inch lightjet print on metallic paper - essentially it's a photo, as opposed to an inkjet print. Up close it almost looks like there's a layer of liquid between the paper and the ink. I've done several commissioned pieces this way over the past few years, and they never fail to wow the client.