Supernatural Portrait

I have been working on a commission which had been super fun - actor Jensen Ackles who plays Dean in the tv show, supernatural.
I started out by using some new really smooth paper I bought, but the pencils were not blending at all! Very frustrating! So I started again using trusty Prisma Favini paper and it is coming along really well, check it out

EXHIBITION OPENING THIS SUNDAY!!

EXHIBITION OPENING THIS SUNDAY!!
Fairfield Farewell - A Retrospective of 10 years of Exhibitions
opens on SUNDAY 14 JUNE 4-6pm 2015

Photonet Gallery is closing in Fairfield, but it is not the end of the gallery. They are changing from a commercial to a not-for-profit model and will reopen as MAGNET GALLERIES - a centre for photography, education and conservation.

As a final exhibition farewell, they have invited past exhibitors to display 2 of their previously shown work.
I was a part of the FOUR ELEMENTS - WATER show of 2011

Fairfield Farewell opens on SUNDAY 14 JUNE 4-6pm and is going to be SPECTACULAR!
For more information click the link below.
Hope to see you there!
http://www.photonetgallery.com.au/

Sneak Peek at the two prints I am exhibiting!

Animal Inspiration

So I have been wanting to explore some animal themed artwork and I had 3 circle canvases waiting for me to decide what to paint. A student in one of my adult art classes has started a painting copying the lovely style of Leonid Afremov - I have included some examples of his work below -

This got me thinking about colour and backgrounds and how I could approach my paintings of animals in a very different way. I painted a colourful background with no distinguishing features on two of the canvases and once dry, have started to paint a lions head. This is the result so far

I am happy with how it's going so far but it is early days yet.

The third canvas however went in another direction. I found a beautiful photo of a panda in water and wanted to reproduce it as a painting, let me know what you think.