Lately I’ve been a little obsessed with classic comedians, in particular Lucille Ball and Jerry Lewis. And two weeks ago I bought 3 new canvasboards so of course I wanted to put them to good use right away and chose to start with Lucille Ball.
This sketch has been sitting on my (brand new) easel for a week and I am anxious to start painting it.

The thing is though, I would love to make a little art video of its process, but I mostly paint at night and I don’t have a good lamp to install in my new ‘creative corner’ yet, we have one somewhere and we sent out a search party but no luck yet.

Even though all I have right now is a sketch, I just really wanted to show you guys what I’m working on, or more specifically: hope to be working on soon! Just click it for a larger view. :)

I just want to say, I finished the painting and Happy Halloween!

Pumpkin Swamp, where pumpkins go to die and bananas get lost.
11×15″ - acrylics on canvas.

Visit tiogardubh.net for the scanned version in my art gallery for a better look.

Been a while since I updated, huh? I have not yet completed the Courteney Cox drawing I had been working on, I will though, at some point. I just have some stuff happening in my life which had temporarily distracted me from the drawing and then I suddenly felt I’d rather be painting:

Doesn’t look like much yet, I know, but hopefully its time will come.

It’s done, finally! It’s a bit sloppy in some places but the whole idea was to be somewhat more playful and less of a perfectionist so there you are, plus it’s in keeping with the theme so I wasn’t all that bothered with it, but now I am a little bit. Anyway, the final product (until one day I decide to perfect the rough edges when nobody’s looking,) just click for an enlargement:

Acrylics, linen on panel 30×24 cm.

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My “A Pink Bicycle’s Nightmare” painting is not yet completed, but last Saturday I stood here in my bedroom holding a beer in one hand and in the other, well, nothing, staring at my dull, empty, orange walls.
So I took a sip of my beer and a thought hit me right in the head “This wall would look great with Clint Eastwood on it, giving a thumbs up.” Luckily, I already had a little sketch of that somewhere - well not just somewhere, I knew exactly where I put it - so without any further hesitation, I went at it.

And one thing lead to another, and all of a sudden I found myself working on getting Angelina Jolie on my wall as well, though it wasn’t as sudden as I make it out to be; I couldn’t get Clint’s face to stop looking like Sly Stallone and I wanted to move on to something else for a while.

The blood smudges on the Clint side will probably get painted over with something else, after 7 beers I thought it was a nice touch, a stroke of genius, but it’s not so much.

And then Jolie was giving me a hard time so last night I started on incorporating a lion in there. But why stop there? I will probably add more stuff as I go along.
It’s the first mural I’m doing and it’s also a first that I’m working on something on this scale. The pieces of paper hanging on either side are regular A4 format so that gives you an idea of how big the painting is so far.
Everything still needs tons of work and correcting, but I’m excited about it so I thought I’d share what I’ve been doing 8 hours a day for the past week.

Been working on this for the last 2 weeks and as the title implies it’s still a work in progress.
I’m having fun sticking stuff onto the painting, something I haven’t done before, but after completing my latest painting I realised it’s really fun to be playful with your art.
So, I took some of my rolling paper, crumpled or balled up and stuck it on (girl’s earrings + skirt, beheaded bear’s bloody stump, evil red bear’s foaming mouth - I’ll try to take some decent close-up pics of it once it’s finished.)

Anyway, on to the progression’s picture, just click it to enlarge.

The picture isn’t of great quality because I used the flash, but the final product will get a decent treatment in that respect.

At last, I’ve finished that painting I’ve been working on since March.
It just sat there on top of my currently non-functioning speakers for the last few weeks waiting for me to finish the dreadful details and yesterday I finally got it done.

The story sort of goes like “FIRE! I go out the window, you take the teddy bear and the fire escape!”

I don’t know what happens to the spiders, I don’t even know what they’re doing in the painting, just a scare-factor I guess, and they probably burn at the end of the story.

Acrylics on aquarel paper, 30×40 centimeters. Simply click it for an enlargement.

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Closer to completion, all that’s left now are tedious little details that I hope to finish some time during this week.
The picture isn’t that great, the angle is off and some of the colors got a bit washed out due to the flash, but it’s only a Work in Progress picture, once it’s finished I will properly scan it so that I can add it to my website.

It still needs a title, I can’t stand having ‘Untitled’ stuff and I can’t come up with anything else except for ‘The One with the Freaked out Bear,’ but it’s like ripping off Friends. So any ideas?

As usual, for a larger view just click the image.

3rd Stage of the work in progress painting, although it didn’t change much since the 2nd one, but I wanted to share it anyway! Just click the image for a bit of a larger view.

The story behind this is slowly developing into “You go take the fire escape and the teddy bear, I’ll go out the window!” but you can use your own imagination.

Six more hours of work on the new painting! It’s slowly starting to look like something: