Specialisation: Drawing/Painting/PrintmakingI have lived in Brisbane for most of my life and have developed drawing skills from an early age. My focus at present is in landscape, figurative and in particular portrait genres of drawing and painting.
Key influences are music and photographyin which my emotive and melodramatic artworks take inspiration from.
Work In Progress: Amor Vincit Omnia
Inspired by Caravaggio's Cupid
For something that merely started out as a sketch became one of my most ambitious and difficult projects to date. In the beginning I thought I had the painting set and ready to go, but without any references for anatomy or lightening it soon became a problem. Soon after having encountered these issues I put the project on hold, when I began to collect a number of photographic and illustrated references I resumed painting and bit by bit I slowly corrected and redesigned my composition.
The references I found helped but not to a great extent, soon I had to rely on nothing but my intuition and with the help of a few friends that kindly agreed to pose for me to assist with correct lighting details.
After enduring many late hours spent painting and going over small anatomical errors, I began to paint the wings. I used photocopies from a text book that contained numerous illustrations of different species of birds as guidelines for the details on the wings, which compared to the rest of the painting was a relatively short task. I also went back to Caravaggio's painting for reference from time to time in order to maintain the composition without going overboard.
(The images below show a general progression of the painting over a period of several weeks.)
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