Art by Ollie Longuet

Final version

Paul Smith (Glide Surfboard) like the logo I made him. Looks like it'll going on board pretty soon.

I've been meaning to do something like that for ages and I finally got some time this weekend.
This was my first surfboard ever, I didn't know what to go for at the time and this old battered semi-gun was the cheapest thing in the shop. Naturally i thought, "hey a surfboard's a surfboard right ?"
Anyhow, I took out the box acrylics got cracking at it. I haven't used acrylics in a while, so the first hour was a bit sketchy, no pun intended, to say the least.
I finished the edges and couple of details with some posca markers.
I'm glad with the way it came out at the end, I'll definitely be doing more of that.

Glide surfboard logo, episode II

Another concept for the Glide Surfboard logo for shapper Paul Smith.
Funny how "little" things end up taking forever. I battled with this one for about 4 hours.

going, going, gone !

A week ago, I was contacted by someone from the Scoop Foundation to see if' I'd be interested in donating a painting for their fund raising auction in Dublin in September.

I thought about for a while and decided to give two.

The guys at scoop seemed pretty exited at the idea and it looks like I'll be attending the auction too, so now I'm exited too! I'm heading to the Slash concert in Dublin tonight and will hand over the paintings then.

Coming out soon.

I haven't painted one of those in a good while, in fact I've had this one half started in a corner of my room for oover 6 months now. I must say it feels good to get back into it.

It must be psychological, once you get all of the canvas cover with a first layer of paint, you just can't stop anymore.

It just needs a couple more hours and it'll be ready. It should be going into a gallery as soon as it's ready and varnished.

I should get more of them done soon...

Shapping up

I could do with one of these in real life these days.

I need to put in more details , background and start on putting the cliffs in the background.
... and clouds, it needs coulds!!

Starting over

So what do you do when you don't want to finish one of your paintings ?

...
You paint over it and start a new one of course!
First layer down, more progress pictures to come.

I can't really explain why I didn't like the other one as much, but I've had it in that state for months and I just didn't really look forward to finishing it. Starting over seemed the best thing to do. go figure

Another one finished.

This one had a shaky start again, but I like the way it turned out.
I'm getting closer to finding a decent style for this waves series.

All Finished

After a good amount of trial and error I'm finally happy with it. I suppose knowing what I was going for at the start would've helped, but there you go, sometimes you just don't know where you're going and it's best to just let it happen.

Remove the barrier in Fanore

http://www.petitiononline.com/fanore/petition.html

Keeping 'em coming

Sky needs to be toned down abit, it looks a bit too "biblical for my taste". Also the foreground could do with a touch up, colors don't really match and there's no real sense of depth yet.

More progress...

Almost there... although I was a bit distracted by a 3 hours surf session last evening :)

Work in progress...

Added wave details on this. It's starting to take shape

A couple of things I'm working on.

I haven't made an update in ages. Some people have asked me if I'm even still painting :).

I've been keeping quiet on the painting side in order to concentrate on my house, but i still have a few commissions and a couple of additional pieces in the works.

Cards

I finally managed to get a few cards sorted. I have already left some in galleries and some shops. Let me know if you want any. I can send them by the unit but batches of 5 would be preferred.