Two new paintings...

These two paintings have not yet been posted on my main website...just haven't had time, but I thought you'd like to have a look. They both showed at the Urban Angel group show in London (the smoker has sold).

Coming into focus...

Blocking out the color...

In the beginning....

Background ahoy. You are watching a painting session that lasted until 5 in the morning. I've never watched myself work before, I had no idea my face gets so close to the painting.

Prep time....

So, Next week I'm off to speak at the "Pixel Show" art and design conference in São Paulo, Brazil. In preparation for that I am filming myself complete a piece from start to finish in time lapse photography. For the next couple of days you will be treated with snippets of my painting process, I'm sure you are all overjoyed and anxious to see how it all happens.
The first segment here is how I prep my boards. I start with birch plywood, measure it, cut it, brace it with pine (which includes measuring cutting, gluing, clamping, unclamping, nailing, and probably a few other "ing"s I am failing to mention), sand it, rout it, sand it, plaster it, sand it, gesso it, sand it, and gesso it again. And voi-la! Ready to paint.

Cleaning the studio...

It seems that after every large project, or mad rush to meet a deadline, I end up surrounded with the detritus of obsession. Diet coke cans, fermenting cereal milk, 6 - 10 half empty cups of water, piles of paint tubes, bottles of failed color mixes, frayed brushes, mounds of displaced tools... basically everything, everywhere it's not meant to be. And to boot, the place is covered with a not so fine layer of dust. Hence the need for what you see above (please excuse my apparel, painting clothes are rarely flattering).

Soonish...

Starting soon...