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Video – Spirit Battle

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Video – Bush Spirits Stalking A Camper

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Video – Unique Paint Surface – detail and light

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Video – Getting Unique Detail using Advanced Techniques

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Video – Cliffs and Swells in Mist

Click to see the painting here.

And various prints are available here.

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Video – Ocean Swells in Morning Light

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And various prints available here.

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Video – Spirit of a Sleeping Girl

Here’s a video of one of my paintings for sale on this site. Enjoy

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And various prints available here.

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Why do I paint like this?

Without getting too existential, because painting for me is deeply existential (I’d be dead without it), the answer became clearer in context when YouTube began flooding the world with craft on canvas that purported to be art, and a mass misleading of what oil painting techniques actually are.

There is simply no substitute for knowing the full range of techniques and using them.

Then it became clearer again with the rush to this problematic addiction to so-called AI.

While I enjoyed YouTube establishing worldwide the notion that anyone with an internet connection can be a creator, in the field of video, no less, which until then was the domain of broadcast TV and unimaginable in reach for most people, the misinformation that YouTube engendered and promoted is depressing. Precious clarity, so scarce in the field of oil painting and art let alone in the wider public realm, was suddenly lost. In its place, at best, heavy fog. All those people who could now express themselves began learning to do so from the unlearned. The good work of YouTube undone by its mass success.

Now, AI presents a whole new dimension and severity of fine art fog.

Therefore creative clarity would be one reason for painting as I do. Of course this is just to skim the surface of determinative reasoning, yet it leads to another important reason: the world is made so much richer because of it. Who’s world? Well, mine. Yet caught on canvas one lives in hope this rich life that dives a little deeper into the wonders and magic of our world can continue to be enjoyed by others.

Even just the paint surface, so complex and interesting, provides this richness:

These are close ups of an area created with advanced techniques no large than a few centimetres. A seemingly unimportant area of the painting as it is predominantly green. Yet the painting would not thrill with visual vitality and complexity if every square speck wasn’t a rich experience of itself. Here are some more of these areas that in other paintings are simply a single colour and flat in texture:

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Well, it’s finished

This is a major work of art. Took forever.

Duality of Human Plight investment artwork

I love these subjects. The techniques get pushed near to their limit (is there a limit for advanced techniques?) and I get to paint interdimensionally.

The painting is now available to purchase here, and if you like the image and would prefer a cheaper print, click here.

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Unfinished Seascape

I haven’t done this before unless there’s a photo of the finished version to show alongside it — but here it is. A a photo of an unfinished seascape that I’m working on.

Anyone who has enrolled in one of my online courses knows that a painting during its creation is a foundation. That means that what you’re seeing is not going to be the end result, obviously, but more importantly what you’re seeing doesn’t indicate the direction in which the work is going, nor the degree of artistic elements (such as in this case mist, definition, colour and visual emphases).

Colour is one of those to highlight. Being a foundation, the colours you’re seeing below drive the end result. They inform the end result. But they do not reflect the end result not dictate it. Most notably in this photo are the colours of the sea, which won’t be that cacky insipid blue green – though a perfect foundation for what they’ll become – and the mist, which here is mostly pure white. Mist will eventually have depth and artistic meaning and balance. And there may be more or less of it.

So we’ll see what it looks like when finished, and compare the two photos.

Seascape Under Construction

I’ve made the photo a little darker on purpose, because, as a foundation, much of it is lighter so as to capture nuances of colour as it develops.

UPDATE:

Finally, it’s finished.

Cliffs and Swells in Mist

Available to purchase here on the site, too. And if you like the image but would prefer a cheaper print, click here.