I think it's time to catch up!!

Work Work Work !!!

Its been a few months since my last upload and also entering the new phase of pyrography, and its been busy to say the least, I have gone from one piece to the next almost working everyday, some commission work and some sold because of the subjects and some still for sale! My latest piece is at the start here but scroll down to catch up will all of my recent work. 

Wallcreeper

This was a lovely piece to work on, a commission piece for a friend and wallcreeper enthusiast. This time I reverted to painting, and set on a lovely piece of cherry wood.

Wallcreeper piece underway.

The Predator ...finished. After 27 hours of burning I completed this burn, absolutely loved it despite all the hours of tricky detailing.

The start of the PREDATOR burn, this was asked for by a friend but I didn't have any problems with that as it was something I was looking at doing and so glad I did.

Deadpool

This took around 20 or so hours to complete and I learnt how to get different textured effects on this burn', the details were insane at times and I lost myself in so many places!! But it is one of my favourite pieces up to date so far.

The Fog burning with the Dane sign form the ship which is hanging in my garden. I wanted to do this piece because of how much I like the film, great fun.

I find the aircraft burning really fun and different, this F-14 Tomcat on the aircraft carrier with the smoke from the winch mechanism was a challenge to get that effect but I decided to use white paint to give a more surreal look to it, awesome planes...TOP GUN!

The A-10 Thunderbolt. I remember seeing these fly around in Norfolk when I was a kid, and I always thought what a cool plane they were so it was no struggle to want to do this one, very fiddly with the detailing on this but I kept it simple and am very pleased how it came out.

The Exorcist

A iconic scene from a very popular film, if you dont know the film it still works as a scenic portrait.

A favourite burn', the stricken crew from the Elizabeth Dane ship in the cult film The Fog.

A jump back to wildlife with this common seal burn. Lots of small hair detail in this one...and whiskers!

A commission piece of a Vulcan Bomber, this was a start into aircraft burns which I am happy to say will continue. I added the insignia to make it more personal to the owner.

I love this scene from the Force Awakens - Star Wars film of the Tie Fighters, a fun burn where I used paint for the sun to give it a real contrast.

Another block piece burning depicting the Omen films, I am a big fan of these films and loved burning the different poster images from them....makes me want to watch them all again!!

Yours truly working on a sign for a nephew, for his garden pub house! This was burnt on a lovely piece of chestnut.

A dog commission piece for a friend and neighbour of his dearly departed Rottie'.

This was a real joy to work on and was snapped up straight away, before it was even finished, it even got applause from the American Werewolf actor himself David Naughton.....wow!

Yours truly starting the first side of the American Werewolf in London burn'.

This pair of wildlife portraits were for my brother and his wife.

Deaths Head hawkmoth, burn and paint used on this small piece, as you know moths are a big thing with me, always nice to chop and change between subjects.

This is the largest piece I have done so far, a Red Deer stag, I went into this treating it like I was painting and so to create similar detail effects but instead of paint I burnt it in.

A new Burning Desire!

With no commission work and no pressure to get stuff done due to the lock down I decided now was a good time to start on a new journey with Pyrography. I had a few nice pieces of wood already prepped for painting on so I used these. First up would be a couple of Hawkmoths together.

 Lime Hawkmoth & Eyed Hawkmoth

This was something very different to get into but I really enjoyed working with burning the designs onto the wood..this was going to be the start of a new journey.

Hardly leaving time to take a breath as it were, I prepped and got going on the next piece, a Barn Owl.

 I was probably using all the wrong tips and burning in the incorrect way but it was a learning curve with shadow shading and detailing and tones but great fun, it took a lot more concentration to get things right, it wasn't like a drawing where I could erase a mistake!!

 The colour of the burning just added to the work as it matched the tones of a real Barn Owl. Really enjoyable and I already knew I had a lovely piece of Cherry wood measuring around 2ft, a jump up from my first 2 pieces but I was hooked....and my next subject was a Red Deer stag. Stay tuned to see how that went of if you want to follow my progress then follow me on Instagram as " hairyartist67 "

Busy Busy through Lockdown.

It's been a long and weird time through this national threat but with the restrictions came more time to plant my butt' in the studio and get stuff done. With the hope that in the not too distant future things will return to normal, the Norfolk Open Studio's obviously got cancelled but hopefully it will be able to run later in the year, so this was a good time to get some new work completed. First up was a commission piece of 'Sam' the border collie, a coloured pencil and gouache media art. 

 I then wanted to push myself into a couple of pieces, slightly bigger than the norm and more of a challenge, mixed media again with coloured pencil and gouache.

I couldn't resist another Gorilla.

 The finished piece, I was now more into my groove ( if I have a layoff for too long it becomes more difficult to get back into a smooth flow with drawing and painting..weird but like your're back tracking and learning again??) So I moved straight onto a subject I have been meaning to try for a while now, a Peregrine Falcon.

 I got stuck in with the beak and once completed I was a lot happier to move onto the rest of the bird. 

 Happy with the finished piece, such a majestic bird and at the time the local birds were again nesting on Cromer church so I was able to watch them from the garden passing along the coast on occasions. 

 A bit behind the times but nonetheless I wanted to draw/paint a Koala. 

 There was so much hair detail to complete it seemed to take ages, after a couple of hours work I wondered if I had actually progressed at all !!!!

I got there in the end.