a few bits of non-Photoshop stuff


From a photo of a Wharfie. Stippling in black ink. Apparently, if one does a lot of this, you'll go blind.



A bit twee, but it was rendered for a dear old lady in her late 80's - a kind of country bounty mandela. Fat of the Land.
Gouché, ink and water colour.
Unevenly scanned because it doesn't fit an A4, and was scanned in three pieces.



Type before computers! Because I need to look carefully at the thing I'm painting, I need to paint and draw from life, so to get the fly right, I went through about 20 flies to get the perfect splatter. The final was achieved by freezing the fly and then tapping it with a ball-peen hammer.
Gouché.



No - I don't take personal delight in drawing tractors, yet it was discovered - by a design firm I was working for - that farmers weren't responding to adverts for farming equipment that had been photographed and then photoshopped with gleams and metallic sparkles, and preferred things that were hand drawn.
Cross hatching - Ink.



Logo for a Garden Nursery. Gouché.