Friday 29 April 2016
Cushy Cushions!
You can now buy cushions featuring my illustrations through 'Signature At Home'. The cushion backs are a nice purple, but eventually the red backs (as seen in the photos) will be available as well.
Just search for 'Chris Dunn'.
Here's the link - http://www.signatureathome.com/search?q=chris+dunn&submit
Photos by http://www.photo-sensitive.co.uk/
Thursday 28 April 2016
Greetings Cards From 'Love From The Artist'
I'm very pleased to announce I now have a selection of greetings cards available to purchase through www.lovefromtheartist.com
'Love From The Artist' say: "We are a small community interest organisation (just a handful of art lovers really) and with your help we're hoping to make a big difference to British artists, photographers, designers and illustrators - amateurs and professionals alike - so they can earn fairly from their creativity."
Here's a link to my current stock library of cards - https://www.lovefromtheartist.com/Artists/calne/chris-dunn-illustration. I will be adding another 30+ images in August, so if you don't see the particular illustration you want, don't worry, everything will be available in a few months time.
'Love From The Artist' say: "We are a small community interest organisation (just a handful of art lovers really) and with your help we're hoping to make a big difference to British artists, photographers, designers and illustrators - amateurs and professionals alike - so they can earn fairly from their creativity."
Here's a link to my current stock library of cards - https://www.lovefromtheartist.com/Artists/calne/chris-dunn-illustration. I will be adding another 30+ images in August, so if you don't see the particular illustration you want, don't worry, everything will be available in a few months time.
Sunday 17 April 2016
'Circus Parade' Work In Progress
For the last six days I have been working intensely on this large 90 x 50cm watercolour painting. It might not be a mural but it's large enough for me!
You can see I returned to the usual sepia tonal under-painting to maintain a warm hue throughout the image. I decided if all the action is inside a tent lit by gas lamps, without natural light, then all the shadows are going to be warm.
Once the under-painting was completed, I blocked in all the local colour for every single character and object. In the process of 'blocking-in', I suddenly realised I needed to roughly outline most of the audience, using sepia, in order to create a mass of shapes that would convince the viewer they were looking at a group of seated animals. This took a l o n g time, not surprisingly, but as I introduced local colour, when I returned to 'blocking-in', the effect was as intended and so worth the effort.
Local colour down, I started to really render each individual character in the parade as best I could, starting from the left and moving across. I'm still in that tight rendering process now, but I'm happy with my progress. At this rate, I should be finished late next week - unless I run away to the circus.
Fuzzy photo time! Still using the drafting I was given when I was a school boy. |
Fuzzy / wonky photo! Note the reflected warm light on the underside of the elephants. |
Final fuzzy photo! The current state of the painting, waiting in my studio for Monday morning. |
Labels:
Animals,
Art,
Badger,
bear,
big tent,
cat,
children's book,
Chris Dunn Illustration,
circus parade,
dog,
elephant,
Horse,
Mouse,
Ostrich,
painting,
squirrel,
tiger,
watercolour,
Whimsical
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