As I mentioned in a previous post, in addition to my new digital artwork I have now been working on Hand Painted InkArt. These are based on my photographs which have been reprocessed into outline drawings and then printed onto canvas. The canvas is then painted using thin acrylic paints to maintain the outlines while creating a hand painted piece of original artwork.

You can have a look at them here in the new Hand Painted InkArt Gallery.

These are available as prints in two sizes. A 5″ x 7.5″ size print on art paper and an 18″ x 12″ limited edition size both as a canvas print and an art paper print. See the pricing page for details. The originals (usually 18″ x 12″ on canvas) may also be for sale at some point, please contact me if they are something that you would be interested in.

As always let me know what you think of them.

Below are a few examples of what I have been working on, some of them are not completely finished but they should give you a good idea. When they are finished they will appear in the gallery. If you are very interested in the ones below do contact me.

This is the first of three posts about my new artwork, this one focusing on PhotoSketchArt.

As I mentioned already all of this new artwork is based on my photography and enables me to make use of pictures which may not make the best photographs but make very interesting pencil drawings.

Having taken the photograph I then use various tools in an image editor to transform it into a sketch. Several things can be controlled during the process, including the level of detail picked out, the darkness of the final sketch and crucially, as in true sketching, details that don’t contribute to the picture can be carefully removed. All of this serve to create a very interesting final image.

This technique is particularly well suited to architectural subjects, as they have lots of fine line detail. This is why it works well for Cambridge colleges and other buildings of that style.

I am planning to add a series of posters using this technique very soon, incorporating many different images of Cambridge into the same poster, possibly around a theme like bridges or college entrances. Watch this space for further details.

To see PhotoSketchArt I have created so far please have a look in the PhotoSketchArt Gallery.

Below is a series of images showing the transformation from photograph to PhotoSketchArt.

Early next week these will be available to order as small prints in size 7″ x 5″ and large limited edition prints in 18″ x 12″ size, watch out for further details.

I have been working on some new work in addition to my photography. I have added a page for Digital Artwork all of which is based on my photography, but has been reprocessed to take on a more arty feel. Please let me know what you think of it.

There are three types of artwork, SketchArt which looks like a pencil drawing and works very well for architectural type drawings. InkArt which has a pen and ink effect to it, and can also be accompanied by a watercolour wash effect. MosaicArt, this is a single large picture which is made up of many small pictures. I haven’t created any MosaicArt yet, but I shall post again when I do.