Automaton (the World is a Hollow Glass Sphere)

As I think I've mentioned before, the titles of my artworks tend to come to me whilst I'm making them, as my mind starts to make sense of the ideas & images. This one might have been called "The Boy Who Thought the World Was a Toy", but it wasn't.

Automaton (the World is a Hollow Glass Sphere), 2013, acrylic on cardboard, 48" x 36".

The Boy Who Dreamed of Babel

Here is another painting depicting the Tower of Babel, though in this case it is relegated to a background element.

The Boy Who Dreamed of Babel, 2013, acrylic on cardboard, 48" x 36".

The Boy Who Captured Silence

I haven't done a smallish drawing for a while...

The Boy Who Captured Silence, 2013, brush & ink on paper, 11" x 8.5".

2 New Ink Drawings of Heads

These are actually gifts for family members...

Ink drawing of a Woman's Head, 2013, brush & ink on paper, 10" x 8".

Boy with Tousled Hair, 2013, brush & ink on paper, 10" x 8".

The Boy Who Sang at the End of the World II

I wasn't completely happy with the way the first version of this piece worked out, so I thought I'd try it again. This is now closer to how I intended it to be, but now, ironically, I suspect that the first version is better in many ways...perhaps the third version will be the charm.

The Boy Who Sang at the End of the World II, 2013, acrylic on board, 10" x 8".

Below is the original version:

The Boy Who Sang at the End of the World, 2013, acrylic on board, 12" x 9".

Morphing Heads

This is another animated GIF experiment done with Squirlz Morph, a freeware morphing program. I used two recent small paintings of heads, the Boy with a Long Neck, & the Madonna of the Western Lands, to create this strangely fascinating & disturbing image of the male & female images morphing into each other. I originally made this for my Tumblr blog (mymythsandmonsters.tumblr.com), but I thought I would also post it here.

Boy with a Long Neck (Who Dreamed of an Empire)

New painting with a long neck & a long title!

Boy with a Long Neck (Who Dreamed of an Empire), 2013, acrylic on board, 12" x 9".

The Boy Who Dreamed the World Away

For all the dreamers out there...

The Boy Who Dreamed the World Away, 2013, ink pens on tracing paper, 12" x 9".

Boy In Red

Small painting of a boy in red...this may be unfinished...

Boy In Red, 2012, acrylic on board, 12" x 9".

Imaginary Boy

A new figurative acrylic painting:

Imaginary Boy, 2012, acrylic on board, 20" x 16".

Boy

Head of a young man...this was pretty much an overgrown doodle over some random marks where I'd cleaned my ink brush on a piece of paper...

Boy, 2012, brush & ink on paper, 11" x 8.5".

The Boy From Atlantis

This is a new smallish color acrylic painting...I've long been fascinated by the idea of Atlantis as discussed by Plato, and possibly even more so by the seemingly futile attempts of humans to find it...

This painting was done specifically for the Journey to Somewhere collaboration on Flickr with Barry Farmer.

The Boy From Atlantis, 2011, acrylic on board, 14" x 11".

The Boy Who Created Darkness

Another head drawing:

The Boy Who Created Darkness, 2011, brush & ink wash on paper, 12" x 9".

Boy Supervising the Construction of a Ziggurat

This is a brush pen sketch on a scrap of paper I found in the basement (see previous post) for the Journey to Somewhere collaboration on Flickr with Barry Farmer:

Boy Supervising the Construction of a Ziggurat, 2011, ink on paper, 9" x 7" approx.

Boy Alchemist

This was a sketch of a head that I started a week or two ago, & have, over time, added more bits & pieces...

Boy Alchemist, 2011, brush pen & ink on paper, 16.5" x 14".

The Boy Who Witnessed the Birth of Stars

A new brush & ink drawing where hopefully the title tells it all...

The Boy Who Witnessed the Birth of Stars, 2011, brush & ink on paper, 16.5" x 14".

Boy

Head of a boy drawn on tinted paper...the tone of the gray gives the drawing more depth, I think.

Boy, 2011, brush & ink on tinted paper, 12" x 9".

Boy, Thinking

I just wanted to see how small I could make a drawing...may take this further...


Boy, Thinking, 2010. brush & ink on paper, 5" x 5".

Monochrome Boy's Head

New drawing/monochrome painting:


Monochrome Boy's Head, 2009, acrylic & crayon on card, 11" x 8.5".

Boy by the Sea

I realized I hadn't put a new piece of artwork up here for quite a few days, especially a colored one, so here is a small new painting:


Boy by the Sea, 2009, acrylic on board, 10" x 8".

Painted on an amber-colored ground. Not a particularly large or important painting, it just seems to glow with warmth.