Flow Colour From Way Back When

Flow Colour
Originally uploaded by Mr.Burning

Actually only from 2007. I have just had a look through some old files and the back end of my Flickr account and found the on the very edge of going once I add some more files..

Tinkering around with Indian Ink and cleaned/Coloured In Photoshop.

It's a bit lazy to produce this in PS when I could just as easily contrived this with some 'real' media, so lazy that I produce quite a few in the space of a couple of hours. Useful, they act as tests and I am quite positive that I will transfer the idea over to canvas.

Collaboration 3 - Tappy Turtle

I may be tempted to use another similar sounding name for the turtle soon.


This is my current effort at achieving a turtle shape, Its not coming along as well as I would have hoped for. I have in my mind the turtles and koopas from Mario Bros hazing up my thoughts a well as Ninja Turtles and their ilk.

Maybe I should just go and do some research on Turtle and Tortoise' just to try and get an acurate idea of shape and build before turning my pencils and pens loose.

I am just to impatient.

Collaboration - with my sons

My boys have really gotten the arty bug, I cant really claim much credit since mum is a poet, Uncle is a poet and aspiring artist and grandad was an artisan engraver.

They both come up with weird and wonderful monsters and animals, sometimes after seeing what I am creating, sometimes I have a look at what they are doing and, truth be told, borrow some of their ideas!

John has written a very short three part tale about a lonely Turtle which I am hoping to illustrate in the coming weeks, Johns words and my illustration, it seems right to proceed but am anxious that it keep Johns unencumbered vision and wont be overly complicated or too simplistic.

Comic Hero?

Acrylics and Black Barker on 9x12" Board.

Adapted from one of my previous comic doodles. This guy is a hero, of sorts, helping to save a lad caught in some mega trouble, he never speaks, eats or sleeps. I'm not even sure that he is truly a good guy- he isnt an anti hero by any means - but his thoughts are his own as is his agenda.

I'm having trouble with the marker bleeding through under the white acrylic smoke trail and I am having issues with the marker on the figure itslf. I will remedy this by going over in ink or black acrylic hopefully this will dull the lines down a little.

Seal - Version 2

Not terribly happy with the first effort I went back and added some more 'detail' around the little critter.

Moderately more pleased with this attempt although It isnt as good as I would have hoped.
The idea is out there and the chances are that I may come back and do some more with this character. Maybe I will give the piece another name....

'Amnio Bunny' New Piece

'Amnio Bunny'.

9x12 Board

Acrylic and Black Marker.

One of the new pieces that I did just last night, it possibly shows but I don't care. True to the original doodle of a 'slightly' malformed parody of a bunny which I scribbled into one of my cheap little black books (markers bleed through numerous pages) resized to fit the board size that I am using.

I primed the boards with Cadmium Yellow Hue for a nice bright finish, upon drying I then splodged some red and gold acrylics onto my mixing plate and using some scrunched up tinfoil dabbed over the surface. letting this dry I then drew the bunny outline with marker, filling in the eyes before applying masking fluid to the outlines. I then let this dry and then roughly daubed some of the Cadmium Yellow. when this dried I peeled back the masking fluid to reveal the intact thick black bunny outline.

I have started using the masking fluid technique quiote a lot in experiments and it is giving some good results especially to the way that I create my work. It isnt perfect, but nether am I, so it all works out quite well.

Bunnies, in numerous bizarre forms are taking up a lot of my time at the moment, I cannot pinpoint the exact time or the reason I started debasing them. Possibly, I distres and distort the childlike image of the rabbit, being cute and fluffy? Dunno, I'm sure that a psych evaluation will sort this fetish out!