Adventures in Acrylic

Having worked digitally almost exclusively for the past 2 years I thought it would be good to get back to my traditional roots. To this end I ushered in the new year with a spree of acrylic paintings. These were given as gifts to various family and friends for their birthdays or long overdue promises (lovely sentiment or cheapskate solution - you decide!) 

I confess I'd forgotten how much I enjoy the tactile joy of working with physical medium, the push and pull of manipulating paint on canvas. This combined with the gut wrenching fear of fucking things up and the surprise of happy accidents has made this an interesting foray back into the wilds of traditional media.

This experience forced my hand into practicing techniques I have read about but are easily worked around in digital painting (painting fog is so much easier in photoshop!) and this is already feeding back into my digital work. I have found a new reverence for those old masters who could use such a fickle, indefinite medium to create works of such subtlety and elegance.

Enough pontificating, in no particular order here's the paintings...