Yes, I finished painting them a while back, but they were mounted to some old hardboard using bits of wire and folded paper (to balance them). Hardly presentable!
Now I’ve finally made the nice bases I mentioned early in their creation.
Freddy and Pinhead on the wall
Have a look at the bottom of the Freddy and Pinhead pages to see more about the bases and how they were made.
Tags: blood, elm, flick, freddy, gore, hellraiser, horror, nightmare, pinhead, slasher, street
eBay - once called fleaBay, it’s now feeBay. The cost of a basic shop (from September) will rise from £6 per month to £15 per month!
And it’s not even April 1st!
I’ll be damned if I’m paying feeBay £15/mth for a basic shop especially since more frequent sellers (ie: powersellers) are to receive higher search result rankings! In other words: the sometime-seller pays more in the long run AND eBay want to take a percentage of the sale price!
I have no idea who makes the decisions at eBay, but said person seriously needs medical attention!
I’m still selling prints with ImageKind and deviantART and I’ll sort out a new ‘original, one of a kind’ shop soon.
Tags: daylight, ebay, gallery, increase, price, rip-off, robbers, robbery, shop, thieves
Based on a photo taken from BBC Wildlife magazine. It’s a Lammergeir which, as far as I can gather, is a type of Vulture.
Lammergeier - Digital Oil
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Not bad for my first attempt at digital painting. Still trying to get used to the gazillion different brushes available in Corel Painter X, but I’m getting there, building up a little custom palette of brushes.
All comments welcome! 
Tags: bird, canvas, corel, digital, oil, painter, painterx, vulture
Finally, I managed to get round to finishing my Pinhead (Hellraiser) model kit.
Pinhead model kit - finally done!
A photographic, step-by-step, is on my Painting the Pinhead Model Kit page. And don’t forget I also have the finished Freddy Krueger model kit too.
Also, as you’ve probably noticed from the image above, I’ve added a watermark feature to the site, so that I can try and advertise my work through the screenshots and photos I have. I’d like to think that if someone wants to use one of my photos, they’d at least leave the watermark intact…
And, finally, don’t forget to visit my new eBay Shop (Halcyon Art) where all my artwork (and other services - eg: model kit painting) are kept.
Tags: acrylic, barker, clive, heart, hellbound, hellraise, horror, kit, model, model-kit, modeling, modelkit, painting, pinhead
Got my Acer C301XMi tablet PC yesterday. Boy is it nice!
tablet in laptop mode
It came with Windows Tablet Edition installed and with Alias Sketchbook to show off it’s pressure sensitive screen. I installed Corel Painter X (above) on it and it seemed fine but the pressure sensitive stuff wasn’t happening. After a quick bit of Googling, I found that you have to install the Wacom drivers to get the pressure sensitive stuff working in some apps (like Painter) so all is good now.
tablet in easel mode
The screen can rotate through 180′ and fold back to give a sort of ‘drawing table/easel’ mode which is nice. It does mean that the keyboard is hidden but one tap gives you access to an on-screen keyboard.
Painter X is reeeeeally nice though, you can see in the above photo (top right of the screen, the brown square) the little mixing area where you can put paint then mix the colours as you would with real paint then ‘lift’ a colour. With the paint looking ‘marbly’ you can ‘lift’ the marbley colour and paint with that, again, like you’d do in real life with paint. Even better: rather than just let you guess colours by moving sliders, it can list all the different colours by name! So I can scroll through the list and choose ‘Cobalt Blue’ or ‘Burnt Sienna’. A really nice touch that.
tablet in book mode
And when you fold the screen right back and clip it in to place, the screen automatically rotates into vertical mode to give you a ’sketchbook’ mode which is nice. The buttons to the side of the screen let you rotate it back to landscape format if that’s what you want.
All in all, I’m VERY impressed with it. I have updated Sketchbook to the new Adobe Sketchbook 2009, this is nowhere near as powerful as Painter X but is excellent for just knocking out quick pencil/pen sketches. Painter is king for the real media stuff such as chalk, oil paint, watercolour etc. It means that I can now also do digital painting and print it out on my nifty HP Photosmart C3180 printer that I just recently bought.
I’m giving it two thumbs up, it is WELL worth the £200 I got it for on eBay
Tags: adobe, alias, art, art work, Artwork, corel, digital, drawing, laptop, painter, pc, sketchbook, tablet
Rather than continually messing with shop code and/or PayPal buttons and code I decided to just open an eBay Shop.
In there will (soon) be all my art for purchase. I realise that the prices have risen dramatically in the ebay shop, but I need to do that to cover my rising costs, but readers of this blog can mention the blog when purchasing and I’ll give you free postage or make me an offer on a piece.
Tags: art, drawing, ebay, free, halcyon, painting, postage, shop, sketch
If you’ve checked my blog before, you’ll know I’m a KDE fanboy, I admit it. More so with KDE4. Granted, 4.0 was a tad rickety, but with the latest release - RC1 - it’s awesome. With a nice wallpaper and plasma theme I present to you: my latest desktop…
aint she purrrrdy? :)
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Top right is KDE twitter, left of that is the new folderview plasmoid and stuck to the bottom of the twitter app is a nice little post-it note. Bottom right is a plasmoid to lock/reboot and at the bottom is the taskbar with the usual bits and bobs.
If you haven’t tried KDE4 lately, or you weren’t too keen on 4.0, I recommend giving it a whirl!
NOTE: KDE4 is available in the Ubuntu repositories by installing the kde4-core package.
I’ve done a few new paintings since last time. None were really, what I thought, particularly worthwhile but I did a new, good, one last night:
Run Aground - Oil on Canvas Paper - 8″ x 6″
Have added my twitter ‘tweets’ to the right hand panel of the site, feel free to follow me on Twitter.com.
Bought myself an HP Photosmart C3180 all-in-one printer. It’s reeeeealll purdy.
I can use it for printing, scanning and PC-less photocopying! Comes in handy for duplicating sketches and so on. Unfortunately the scan area is only A4 so not big enough to scan my paintings but, what the heck, my digital camera does good photos.
Will probably be doing a new painting tonight and, all going to plan (which will be a first), I’ll use my EEE PC & webcam to do a new time lapse video.
Fingers crossed!
Tags: twitter
Updated my Kubuntu 8.04 (with KDE 4.0.3) to KDE 4.1 beta and it is niiiiice!
Got itchy fingers and decided to try Kubuntu Hardy with KDE 4.1 on the EEE to see how good/bad it’d be.
Suffice to say, it is much goodness!
