Landscape sketches 3...

More of these little landscape warm-up sketches.

Instagram pics...

As you may be aware, i use an iphone app called Instagram to take a lot of quick photos. At the moment (as far as im aware) there is no native website that allows people who dont have the app to view someones pictures. Of course you can see them if it gets posted through to Facebook, Twitter etc but not have a way to view everything that someone has taken. Fortuntely theres a site called Instagrid that allows you to view publish all you images under your profile and allow non Instagram users to see what youve been posting. Heres the link to my profile if you ever fancy a look:

http://instagrid.me/tombagshaw

Landscape sketches...

Heres a few more of these little sketches ive been doing as a warmup exercise. Check out the first post under the landscapes category for more.

3Cs Project Launched...

On the 1st of September i will start a project to create 100 portrait studies in 100 hours over 100 days! The idea is quite simple, take some reference photographs of 100 volunteers at noon on the 1st of September, then start creating a digital portrait study from the reference but only allow myself one hour to do it- one a day, for 100 days! Im hoping that this will allow me to further develop my portrait painting skills and will certainly make me do portraits that i would not normally undertake in my normal work!

I have set up a blogspot address, 100portraits.blogspot.com where you can find more information about the project if you would like to take part. Im also going to be promoting the project through Facebook and Twitter, if you can, please help in getting the word around, link to the blog, tell your friends etc. Obviously this is only going to be something you can volunteer for if youre in the Bath area on the 1st of September but i really need as much publicity as i can get in order for this to work!

Mostlywanted updated...

Ive just updated my main portfolio website mostlywanted.com with all the latest works including the full body of work for the Beautiful Imperfections show at Corey Helford Gallery. If you cant get to the gallery to see them, you can now see all the finished pieces in Portfolio One! I will try and get some detail shots up on the blog at some point but it may take awhile, ive also got a new project starting soon which i should be announcing tomorrow!

Beautiful Imperfections...

Beautiful Imperfections is the title ive chosen for my new body of work which will be on show at the Corey Helford Gallery in LA starting on the 6th August. The show runs till the 27th, as you will see from previous posts the main show on the ground floor will be David Stoupakis who has produced 7 new pieces (weirdly coincidental that i produced 7 new ones as well...). I really cant wait to see all his new work- from the couple ive seen so far he looks like hes produced a killer show.

Anyway, heres a little showcard ive put together using my 'Regrets' piece with some of the details. More info can be found on the CHG main site.

Something a bit different...

For a couple of weeks since i finished my work for Corey Helford ive been doing a couple of warm-up sketches per day, nothing fancy, just a nice landscape image sketched in photoshop with a single custom brush i made (again, nothing special- a dual brush, default round combined with a dry brush set on multiply).

I just wanted to do something i dont ever usually deal with for very long, i generally do figurative work so these were a nice way to 'warm up' before starting work properly, im really enjoying it so far. Im going to see how long i can keep producing these sketches and every now and again upload a little collection of them here (if you follow me on Instagram / twitter etc you may have already seen small versions of them). I will put them all under a new 'Landscapes' category and see how they come along. Heres the last couple of weeks worth..

ST Fashion AW/11...

Heres a bit of new work recently commissioned for ST Fashion, a bi-annual published with the Daily Telegraph. They are for a 'Guide to coats' feature in the Autumn / Winter issue. A really nice job with a lot of supplied ref images and a pretty much free hand in what to produce. The first illustration is on a right hand page so the image leads your eye over the turn to the next page where the second image is boxed within a couple of columns. Really enjoyable job- thanks Ciara!