Middle-earth Marketplace – Limited Time Art Sale – Grab Yourself a Precious!

My Art Sale Has Begun!!!

I rolled my cart full of wares into the beautiful and bustling marketplace in the village of Bree this morning and have set up shop with the intention of staying until the end of October!

The Prancing Pony Inn has some ‘nice, cozy, Hobbit-sized rooms available’ and the drinks come in pints!

Click Here To Be Taken Straight To My Marketplace!

Here is a lowdown of the artworks that are presently available to buy –

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Linktober, Inktober, Life Drawing & Mowgli; A Jungle Book for my Precious Legend of Zelda Fans!

Lots of Variety for Today’s Post…

A couple of weeks ago I finally got around to attending a life drawing session. They are few and far between in the county that I live in, traveling to London isn’t a realistic option so I have to rely on local sessions; having found one only a 20 minute drive from home I am now set on making it a habit.

We’ll begin today’s post with the results of that life drawing session, I haven’t drawn from a live model since I was in college so I had a lot of loosening up to do and rust to clean off, I think I’ll fair better after a few more sessions…

Middle-earth Inspiration: Jerry Vanderstelt – Bag End: Expect Me When You See Me

Inspiration Time!

This week has been slightly slower on the art creating front for me so I decided to do something a little different in order to ensure getting a worthwhile post published and sticking to my new posting schedule of every Sunday.

For this post, we’ll be taking a brief look at an incredible piece of work from the amazing artist Jerry Vanderstelt!

Bag End: Expect Me When You See Me!

They Were Once Men – WIP Update – Lord of The Rings Oil Painting Illustration

The Nazgul Have Returned!

Well, in terms of my latest oil painting on the easel anyway…

I’ve been getting up earlier than necessary for work over the past week and sneaking in a 30-40 minute painting session in order to work my way back into this piece and make some serious headway. It’s proved productive and the painting is now at a stage where all I need to do is go over the figures and the render the finishing details, not long now and we’ll have another piece for the portfolio.

Anyway, let’s get to the artwork!

Still Life Drawing: Skull and Oak! Sketchbook V

Back to the Sketchbook!!!

Over the past couple of weeks I have made it my goal to get up half an hour earlier than I need to get ready for work and to get some quick sketching time in the mornings.

Using this time has been a great help for me to form this sketching habit and I’ll be using to cover a range of themes and subjects, I began with still life drawing, next week maybe I’ll do some master studies.

Another bonus aspect is that with it being so early in the morning, tight detailed drawings are not the way; this helps me to keep the sketches loose and fluent.

Oh bother; Mural Art, an Impressionist Sketch & a de Medici Skull…

Time For Change!

Yesterday I made some changes to my site, cleaned up the menus and got a new banner/header designed and uploaded, it was a much needed facelift and now I can focus on the writing and creating again.

First of all, I may or may not have mentioned that I’m going to put together a portfolio of mural art and start moving in that general direction to attempt to make a successful business from my artwork; earning a sustainable income and enjoying the work that I’m undertaking. I whitewashed a wall in my house and I’m going to work a bunch of small scale mural pieces in order to get the portfolio started, I’ll then attack a couple of the larger walls in my house with fully fledged pieces and jump into the business world and hopefully hit the ground running!

New News, Blog Update & Some Figure Drawings…

Evening all,

Things have been considerably quiet on the blog posting front as of late but behind the scenes the wheels haven’t stopped turning, well not quite anyway…

Work and other commitments take their toll on my time and make it hard to update the blog as regularly as I want to.

That being said, I’ve decided to step into a slightly new venture and try my hand at turning my artwork into a marketable business plan and I intend to start painting murals. I spent yesterday white washing a practice wall at home and I’ve drawn up a design to try out in my first attempt, it’s not a huge piece but a good starting ground for this new journey.