A New Paint Job

One or two distractions over the last few months but I'm slowly getting a few things back on track . . .

...the same car

The same car - just a fresh paint-job. It might not seem like a big deal but actually getting round to doing a painting rather than a drawing took quite a lot of effort. I'm pleased with the result and it's given me the confidence to take things a step further.

Scrap Yard

This piece has taken me ages to finish. I started it back in August and have only just completed it. I’ve done stuff between times but really this has been my main focus. It’s coloured pencil on paper – about 14 x 18cms. Very detailed, very controlled, very precise. The Friedrichstrasse photographs continue to offer up new perspectives.

Collage #2 - Dec 2011

A very small collage (on a postcard) - painting shapes with cut and torn elements from photos...

Collage - Dec 2011

Another scrap yard collage, the finished piece being constructed from an assembly of car parts.

Pile-up

Friedrichstrasse Column

The original Friedrichstrasse piece is a column of car bales and I thought that it would be interesting to take that primary form as the jumping-off point - retaining the style, medium and source images but imposing them upon this non-standard format.

Friedrichstrasse - gridlock

A detail from a larger piece - using squares from source photos to paint pixels.

Not very sucessful...