Landscape painting

I undertook this project to develop painting landscapes as well as people. I gathered reference photos of the obelisk in Robe, South Australia.

Self Portrait

This was my first acrylic painting, in 2008.

Celebrity Portraits

Portrait of Ian McKellan. In this image I was conveying McKellan's love of the theatre, most obviously with the Shakespearean ruffles.

The other celebrity portraits are of Owen Wilson & Ben Stiller, and Paris Hilton. I bound Owen and Ben together in film roll to show that they're pretty chummy and are in a lot of movies together. For the Paris Hilton portrait I decided to paint her posing on a red carpet with her reluctant chihuahua in her handbag. The bubbles and pink surrounding her are there to convey 'airhead'.