Early Work

Here is a collection of early work by me. Select the thumbnail displayed to see the full resolution image.

This page is still to be done, need to get scans of old work ...

Collage01 
Collage01 A4, drawing pen
I guess I had a lot of excess energy when I did this in one afternoon.

London from Tower Bridge 
London A5, pencil
View of London looking northwest from Tower Bridge.

Westminster 
Westminster A5, pen and ink
The Houses of Parliment and Westminster.

Sports car in Desert 
car86 A4, oil paints
An early test on oil painting paper, at this stage canvas was far too expensive for me but I really liked oil paints so I started to do a series on titanium primed paper.

Castle 
castle87 A4, oil paints
Another one on titanium primed paper, with a sort of D&D theme.

Dalek 
Dalek A5, oil on photograph backing
A quick oil sketch of a Dalek done on a photograph as a media test to see how oils go on photographic paper - seems to work very well, but don't know how long it will last (chemically).

HiTech X-29 
x29 A4, mixed media - felt tip pen and poster colour
I always kept up-to-date with the latest aircraft technology. Many years ago the USAF and NASA were researching forward swept wings on aircraft sa these were unstable aircraft the required computers to control their hi-manouverability. This is my 'tek' vision of the X-29.

Watercolour Landscape 03 
WC03 A5, watercolour on scrap paper
Painted in 1979, one of my first actual water colours, until then I'd been using Poster colours but then I discovered Water paints and have used them as part of my painting arsenal ever since.

Captain America & Avengers 
Cap A4 Marvel 1 inch Marvel 1 inch, felt tip pens
Like most kids I was into comics, of the superhero kind mostly Marvel (Spiderman, Avengers etc) and DC (Batman, Superman etc). The film strip is a 1 inch square cell from a number of full length movies I did on this scale, small but detailed.

Cartoon characters 
Toons A4, felt tip pens
Of course I like cartoons, and had a wide taste, including one of my favorites ... Marine Boy, 'cause he had a cool submarine (the P1, in my drawing), could breath underwater (with the aid of oxygum), had jet power boots, a sonic boomerang stored in a holder on his upper arm - which never missed (I made one out of an old shoehorn, a piece of string and an empty toothbrush holder), and had a dolphin pet (Splasher) and mermaid girlfriend (Neptina) !