Art By Kim

Structure of Life

artbykim — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 18:57:27 +0000

New painting for the lounge, it’s DNA double helix…we just wanted something simple in black and white to balance to the redness of the wall.

Toby complete

artbykim — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 21:33:36 +0000

After a lot of procrastination, I finally finished the sketch of Toby.
Quite pleased with my first time attempt at the fur, using a needle to outline the lines, but messed up the whiskers big time – see the shaky lines!

WIP 2 Toby

artbykim — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:16:33 +0000

Approx 2 hours later…

The longer fur around his forehead is proving tricky on such a small scale. I think I will try the next one on A3 paper so I can get more detail in. This drawing is just on some bog standard A4 paper from ‘Smiths.

You can see my reference photo Here.

WIP1 Toby – White fur

artbykim — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 15:36:13 +0000

I’m currently working on a drawing of my dog Toby. He’s a Japanese Spitz, so he’s pure white with striking black eyes…the fur will be a real challenge…he’s how far I’ve got:

WIP – surface of the sun painting

artbykim — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 19:39:15 +0000

Anyone who’s been in our lounge will know there are not many paintings on the walls…this is soon to change! I spotted a photo of the surface of the sun in an Astronomy book and thought it would make a colourful and abstract painting to brighten up one of the walls. What I didn’t realize was how boring it would be to paint all the little round “bubbles”. Attempts at progress such as “10 bubbles a day, might finally get there in a year” have failed. I’m currently blitzing an area each weekend…and slowly getting there.

I’ve been using Winsor and Newton’s water soluble oils (didn’t even know there was such a thing!) as I hate the smell of Turps. They seem to work fine, but I don’t have a greal deal of experience with regular “anti-water” oils to notice the difference really.

The original photo that I’m working from is courtesy of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences.