Cthulhu
These are some concept images I've been working on. I'm looking at Lovecraft inspired stuff, but I thought I'd start by looking at some of the actual creatures of his mythos. I started out trying to draw some sketches, but as so much of Lovecraft's creatures are as much to do with colour and atmosphere as form I thought a kind of 'photoshop cut-up' technique would work best. The results are very rough, but have a nice finish to them all the same! How many can you name?

The Wooden Bell
This is a design I made with my friend, Kim, for his play. The work was done in photoshop, aside from the calligraphy, which was completed by Kim and then scanned in.

Three Paintings
These are three paintings I did quite close together and I think they are the first proper pictures I've done. All three are oil on canvas, but the backgrounds are in acrylic. They were painted straight onto the canvas, without reference to models, photos or sketching. This isn't quite as drastic as it sounds, as oil is quite easy to push around, but it does mean that the images, the faces and their character, developed on the canvas.

The distortion is not meant to be actual physical mutilation, but rather to show more than one angle, or even possible angles at once. As the picture develops on the canvas, the random lines of paint often suggest more than on facet of the image and I was trying to hint at as many of the interesting ones (including the inside of the body) at the same time, without committing to any. I'm quite proud of how they turned out, but I think would like to develop this style more before painting again.

The painting on the blue background is based on a statue in Olympia, Greece. The broken statue seemed to suggest many of the ideas discussed above; separated from the context of the original tableau it formed a part of and missing limbs it hinted at various possibilities, without committing fully to any one in particular.