Howdy all..
Not a lot happening here on the painting front unfortunately. Busy looking for work and then working when I get it. My computer is on the way out as well, and holding together due the 2 foot fan cooling it down while I work! I’d kill for a new Intel Mac.. my old dual [...]

Howdy Designer lovers!
Syd Mead is coming to Australia. My mate Paul is organising the Sydney leg and so I thought I’d give a quick shout out and post the details. So if you’re in Sydney, come along, it should be an awesome night!
For those who dont know Syd Mead.. SHAME on you!! Here are the [...]

Howdy lovers of all things Photoshop!
Seeing as how today is the 20th anniversary of our beloved (or hated) piece of software, I thought I would post my old 1994 RMIT BA Photography final year portfolio. Created entirely with Photoshop v2 without layers and Strata Studio Pro v1, a basic 3D program. The first version I [...]

Hi All,
A quick post this evening.. Here is a oil painting study of a stand of trees in the Kiewa Valley of Victoria’s Alpine region.
Enjoy.
 

20 x 10″ oil on panel

Howdy Sci FI fans!
This one is for you! I said in an earlier post that I would start painting more genre work, specifically, sf paintings. Well here is the second such painting Desert Storm being the first even though it isn’t apparent. In context with this new painting, it starts to fit.
This is the second [...]

Hi all,
As promised in part 1, here is part 2 of the matte painting projection post.
I recently finished two shots for a client that needed scenes of New York city circa 1927. This is not a literal rendition of NY city, the buildings are in all the wrong places.. but this was meant to be [...]

Howdy all..
Been a hellishly busy several weeks which has been both a blessing and a curse! Good for the cash flow, not so good for oil painting! Been working with SOAP Creative here in Sydney on a James Bond website promotion thingy.. I cant say much more than that and will post more when I [...]

I just had to post this..
Yesterday morning, the head of Dept of Industrial Design at Newcastle TAFE called me to apologise for his student’s poorly drafted email, (see last post, ‘How NOT to contact a professional artist!’).
I called this gentleman back today and we had an interesting chat. He had taken this issue up with [...]

For all you young guns out there who want to crack into the film, design, art industry and feel the need to contact working professional artists, art directors, producers etc.. this is how NOT to do it!
Dear, Wanye
im an  industrial design student, engaged in my major design project, which is visualising a Philip K. Dick [...]

Hi all!
I’ve been asked about the lighting set up in my painting studio, so I thought I would post some pics and a brief description.

My studio is quite small as I’m using the second bedroom in my 2 bedroom apt as my painting studio, the first being used as my digital studio (I sleep in [...]