Sorry if my blog remains silent for a while longer

it has been a long, tough race... we actually finished... a great achievement... becoming a great team in the process, filled with both courage to stay in there and confidence in each other to do it

not surprisingly I have been summoned back to singapore... an assignment that might take some time and even more courage... the devastation of the south east asian tsunami is beyond comprehension

Belated Congratulations

countrybbw was looking radiant today... no wonder, congrats... this sketch was drawn almost one year ago...

an early watercolour & pencils sketch of paula

bell looking very curvy in pencil

sad news from the solomons

an australian policeman was shot dead by a sniper in honiara.... i
know how much this will shake the optermism of a wonderful group of
islanders... and plunge them back into a darkness of fear... i onlt
trust this is an unfortunate isolated incident...sad and horrible as
it is

Working from a photo

After the nude sitting I went and down loaded one of bell's profile photos... this time I tired to stay loose and let the wash show me where the detail should be... i'm pleased by this one... i feel it capture bells bright personality better than the photo, which is good by the way

A radiant look in watercolour

Original Photo

The belle sitting...

Newfie bell had requested another sitting last week... this time in the nude... we had a great time trying to figure out how to get a model posed remotely and well lit... the results were great... and the session a lot of fun... the poses are very artistic now that the paint has dried a real tribute to a wonderful model

The volumpuousness of Bell in watercolor wash


A classical relaxed and reclining nude belll, watercolour wash


a special thanks to bell's mum... who helped with some of the technical stuff like lighting and joining in the fun

House keeping in cyberspace

I don't know if you noticed but the number of daily visitors has significantly increased... unfortunately it is not due to my fame, or talent... just that I have put this web address in two web log directories blogwise & blogarama.. the are kind of like the yellow pages for all the personal outpouring that is web logging... sadly there is not an originality category... then again there aren't many original web logs.. if you are interested in what complete strangers are thinking and doing try looking up subjects that interest you and enrich your day...

another helper i have for this site is a software robot called blogbot, from hello, it/he helps me find scanned sketches and uploaded them to the blogspot site... the best bit is he, and I'm sure he's a he... 'cause he says so little... the best bit is he write the html code to display with a lower resolution version displayed on the blog but a higher resolution version behind it.

you simply need to click on an image you like and you can will see a higher resolution version displayed

I was joking about the house keeping chores, i like web logging.. with a few little automated helpers it takes care of itself and doesn't take up room in my kit bag.

visit from a saggylicious doll

pencil sketch of a maiden's feather bra

A quick shaded sketch in pencil of mika

a big weekend

I'm up in sydney now... had a great two day on the weekend out on the harbour racing the maxis in the rolex trophy... the new zealand yatch konica minolta showed everyone her tail... even though Targe won the regatta... oh well time left to improve...

the entire crew is at staying in highrise flats in north sydney... magnificent views.. so it is ferries to get anywhere... well maybe everywhere except the pub... so some team building, as in excessive drinking may in order... if only i can get the young blokes away from circular quay... or "smorgasbroad" as they call it

loaded brush for a panther

i'm back to experimenting with ways to speed up my painting... specifically the watercolour washes... they are wonderful things... graded washes in say, a dilutes violet followed by a crimson do let me get rich skin tones... but they take time to build up and get the paper very wet... this`makes it difficult to paint in detail.. so i've been letting the wash dry... often this takes hours... and drawing in the detail much later with coloured pencil, well after the sitting... in my watercolour of panther i opted to add the detail whilst the painting was still wet... by loading my brush with the deep umber which is not very transparent and tends not the bleed... result a painting i complete in a single session

Panther in multiple watercolour washes

Preliminary graphite pencil work

B-Enhanced..more amazing BBW art

The Portraits displayed at the B-enhanced site at geocities is a special treat... very beautiful and well executed purely digital images... amazing because they are not created with graphite & paper... they are totally created in Paint Shop Pro with a mouse and various software tools called smudge, blend and erase directly on the computer...

there are two reasons you should visit this site... first the very well expressed dedication to beauty... with which I wholeheartedly agree... I have found, and I quote here "the ample womanly form in all its luxurious softness" a real inspiration... second the work has a beautiful tonal quality... something I find conveys the personality of the models just as much as their shape and form...

this site is definitely worth a visit
B-Enhanced

i'm not ready trade in my pencil and paint brushes just yet... but it is amazing what can be achieved with computers... and the right inspiration

Yet another Kitten (in pencil)

BBW art

I hadn't actually heard the term BBW art used until recently... basically it is what I'm doing in here... I guess... anyway it is a true art form and there is a lot of really lovely work around... and be warned some tacky stuff as well

here are a couple of on-line galleries to give you an idea why artist find curvy girls so inspirational

• Les Toil An amazing "glamour" BBW artist... this one is for the bloke really
• beautiful site featuring the artwork by british artist Ian Strange (A.K.A. "Ianardo")... this is more likely to be appreciated by the ladies
• small gallery by Paul Delacroix
• Cafe Abundance
• Large & Luscious this has a wider range of artistic styles and lots of links.
• Fat Art and Artists lots of links

A gem rediscoverd

I did these sketches of crystal many months ago





She has a cool group on yahoo called bbws of the world

change of media

this was a portrait by request... from a photo... a task that scares me and i seldom do... it was a nice image and a nice friendly request so I decided I should attempt it... doing what I do from the web cams... which is looking for the essence not copying the detail... i've also trying out heavier grade watercolour paper and so i decided to also try out gauche to get a more relaxed result.. since i'm looking for ways to speed up the painting time required



i'm happy with the result... but i think conventional watercolour washes might still be the better medium for me.

original photo

cycles & ticking over...

it is funny how life is a series of cycles... and for me they are never planned... you see i had planned to do a lot of sketching over the next week or so... instead i am doing lots of errands and researching how to save money on what remains to be done at my beach house... AND training for the big race! ...yes I got offered a place in the sydney hobart race... for those that don't know me well thats a really big deal... i was a little disheartened earlier as i was cut from the crew of last years very successful team... reason..? ...probably i weight too much... anyway the swing and roundabouts are still working.

the other thing that has surprise me is the amount of traffic this humble blog is getting... thanks folks... keep that counter ticking over with a return visit from time to time... and don't be afraid to leave comments (nice friendly ones preferably, and any ideas to improve this place will be very welcome)

Pencil in hand and happy

Bell in graphite & pencil 


I really like sketching the BBW girls, they are so much fun... bell was a delight but a little shy and had a magical sense about her... this was a pretty fast effort but I like to results... and the model...

totaly wipe out

I have no idea what I did.... but my computer didn't seem to like
service pack two... it spat the dummy and my user account as well...
so now I am a guess on my own computer... kind of sums up my itinerant
life...

but don't dispair I'm still happy and sketching... just a long way
behind on my email.

pencil sketch of kitten's very pretty smile 

A more luminous bratty 

Developing a watercolour of Bratty

Bratty, is a wonderful fun model, and i enjoyed trying to capture her lovely skin tone in watercolour... so much so... i thought it was probably a good idea to show some of the progressive steps... they are different sketches but they show how I see the sketch developing...

Building a shaded sketch of Bratty 


The preliminary washes 


Laying on the underpainting 


The final watercolour with detailed added using coloured pencil 


what I was hoping to capture most was bratty's radiance... i trust you can see it