Geezer

I painted this quick portrait from a magazine to test out my tasty new Spanish paints. They feel nice so far.

New Three-headed Cat-beast, Parts 1 & 2

I've re-fettled the background of the first of these Catberus pics, putting a lot more detail into the foliage, which I think makes the overall pic hold together a lot better, creates a lot more interest. And then I decided to paint a 'what-happens-next suggestion', hopefully putting an extra layer of intrigue over the whole thing. These are just paintings I've done for my own satisfaction, I'm currently working on spring-cleaning and sprucing up my portfolio. I might come back to these characters at some point though.

I ordered some new paints this week, waiting for them to arrive. Pretty excited about that, to be honest.

Catberus

Feature

Mine has been chosen as the Featured profile on 5oup for this week. Thanks for that guys. Go check it out!

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Bday

Another pic for a mate's birthday card.

My blog seems to be a bit of a mishmash mess at the moment. I'll have some lovely proper finished work to show soon, promise.

Mask II

I was supposed to post this a while back as part of my 'learning-to-get-tonal-balance-better' stage (this is very much ongoing), but I forgot. It's a still life (originally posted here: http://benjamintmills.blogspot.com/2010/01/maschera-veneziana.html) that I went back to as a quick experiment to rectify the horribly heavy background. Not one of my better paintings, but it's still a lesson learned a little bit.

Oscar