A Day Of Storms at the RSA.

"A Day Of Storms" - will be on display at the Royal Scottish Academy (RSA) exhibition from 29th November - 20th January 2015.

Royal Scottish Academy
The Mound
Edinburgh
EH2 2EL

Pink.

Digital experiment..

Flickry.

Hey folks,

Nearly completed uploading all the arty bits to Flickr now. It's taken a while, but I've got most of my artwork archived, plus some photo stuffs (like the pics above). Hopefully, all new artworky things will start appearing in sync across the internets :)

Gordon.

Saiga antelope.

pencil study of the Saiga antelope from Kelvingrove museum & gallery.
(2nd hind leg just peeking through)

Helensburgh.

Figure studies from a very breezy day in Helensburgh.

Lurgo.

"Lurgo" - character concept inspired by some of the Jim Henson Creature shop's work..

Cult Trooper.

Antiky trooper concept.

Corpus Quad.

Creature/sculpt concept sketch.

Oddess Massa.

A revised character concept...

Simulacrum.

A development of an old doodle..

Arac.

A creature doodle..

Squirrel Skelly..

Hi folks,

Quick update on the calibration issue.. I've been investigating and it appears the contrast & brightness were set way too high on my monitor so basically all the work I had white balanced on Photoshop was out - plus there appeared to be a severe blue cast on many of the images.  I've now corrected all of the posts and hopefully, everything should be hunky dory now.

If anybody out there contrast/brightness corrects their scanned images I would seriously recommend checking a site like Lagom for help. This website has been incredibly helpful for tweaking my monitor.

Finally,

Todays drawing - a squirrel skeleton study from Kelvingrove..  

Calibration...

Hey folks,

Thought I'd write a wee post on something that just occurred to me the other day - monitor calibration.

Over the last few years, I've noticed differences in image quality: colour casts, contrast and brightness with my work viewed on friends and family's computers, phones & tablets. Most of it wasn't too bad but probably because the work I do now is high contrast, the differences are much more apparent.

I set up a couple of test images with "A" being basically what I see on my screen and "B" the same image across a bunch of tablets, phones, PC's and Macs.  The "A" images on my screen are very bright, almost white with very little cast. This is basically how the artwork itself looks in reality. The "B" images are just very, very off. - grrrr!

I've calibrated my monitor using the Windows8 tool and  have  begun correcting my images. Hopefully you guys should see the differences soon.

Most of my Flickr & website images have now been corrected if anybody wants a peep at what they should look like btw.

Blogger posts affected will be sorted asap aswell.

Gordon.  

Japanese Spider Crab.

A pencil drawing of the humungous Japanese Spider Crab from Kelvingrove gallery & Museum..

Stasis.

A re-worked portrait study..

Celo.

A pencil drawing of a relative from another time. She's pregnant in the original reference btw..

Fairly.

Fairly newish life drawing..

A3 -  conte & charcoal on sugar paper.

Gaia study.

a pencil study.

The Faerie Glen.

I tend not to blog about places too often but the Faerie Glen (near Uig) on the isle of Skye might possibly be the most amazing place I've been in many, many years. It's basically Hobbiton - in Scotland. Seriously. Utterly mental & quite brilliant, check it out if you're ever on Skye.

Gordon.

Kelvin skulls..

Some Kelvingrove museum skulls..

A return to Flickr.

Hey folks,

I've been slowly reacquainting myself with Flickr over the last week and hope to get a lot of the work built up over the last 4 years uploaded over the next few months. I have two or three other social media accounts still to synchronize with uploads (I'll add blogger links sometime soon) and the plan is really to have them all updated pretty regular.

The wee drawing above is a new painting idea I'm still comping btw..  


Gordon.

Goliath

A Goliath Beetle study from a recent jaunt to Kelvingrove.

Blink.

A painting idea - might develop this slightly..

Square Go.

"Square Go"
Acrylic on canvas - 30x20" - 2014

Corvus corax.

Raven study from a recent jaunt to Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum.
conte on sugar paper - 24x16"

The Opportunists.

"The Opportunists"
Acrylic on canvas - 30x20" - 2014

Twigged..

A couple of rescans, colour & contrast corrected..

Zoom.

"Zoom"
Acrylic on canvas paper  - 6.5x5" -2013

- a teeny-weeny painting made for last years RGI Winter Postcard Exhibition..

Morbus.

"Morbus"
Acrylic on canvas - 12x10" - 2014

Ca' The Yowes.

"Ca' The Yowes"
Acrylic on canvas - 30x20" - 2014

Square Go. (WIP)

Some WIP..

Leafy.

Leaf sketches...

Horizons.

"Horizons"
Acrylic on canvas - 30x20" - 2014

Chimaera.

A wee H.R. Giger inspired drawing..

H.R. Giger

The god of Biomechanics - Swiss Painter & Sculptor H.R. Giger died yesterday.  An immeasurable influence on countless artists, musicians and filmmakers, the world has lost a true genius & visionary.

Negotium

"Negotium"
Acrylic on canvas - 20x16" - 2013


-slightly reworked painting from late, last year.

Empires.

"Empires"
Acrylic on canvas - 20x16" 2014

Two recent pieces of work - Empires & Czerwony will be part of Paisley Art Institute's 126th Annual Exhibition.

Paisley Museum & Art Galleries.

17th May - 22nd June.

- free admission.