I was originally working in an experimental stage in various mediums mainly using pastel and watercolour with the intention to produce a loose style of portraiture as with these watercolour portraits in the style similar of renowned living watercolour artist Charles Reid for inclusion into my Noir photo portrait book which I am hoping to [...]
We all seem to take the mundane and familiar sights around us for granted as we rush around prioritising our daily lives and so with this above slideshow of photos I explored the identity of my partner whom enjoys living the rural life and collecting other people’s cast offs where over the years this “rubbish” [...]
We all have a phobia or a secret that we choose to hide from those around us, and the failure to share them leads to paranoia and nightmares in everyday objects . I have put together this stop motion animation from inspiration of William Kentridge’s great works in charcoal and cut paper. I tried to [...]
Tagged charcoal, cut paper, horror, identity, photgraphy, portrait, stop motionThis was a study in natural light using just a candle. I shot this short video with a Canon 60d video and a 50mm lens and purposely kept the image out of focus to enhance the way skin, hair and surroundings recieve light and bounce it around. I took this particular screen shot as the [...]
I envisaged the land sculpture as a multipurpose art work with many uses and spiritual meanings. Firstly I wanted something to blend in with the adjacent ancient woodland that borders the vast pasture on which I placed it. It had to be pleasing to the eye, a haven for insects and local reptiles such as [...]
Earths deep crust speaks unrest no creatures spared, put to the test from east to west Walls of water bring their curse lifes long dreams swiftly immerse into the sea, no time to reherse Air so foul, a wind of death reeks of man’s greed,now nothing left takes our last breath Fire, lifes enemy, makes [...]
This first image was inspired by my previous study of the anatomy of the horse.The importance of the study of anatomy is paramount in the painting animals from life to see where the major muscle groups appear so as to describe in tonal values the form of the animal bringing it to life on the [...]
This abstract was achieved by a system of using six natural shapes from nature . A square which is a salt grain in a Salt lake, a circle found in many fruits and pods as well as butterfly wing patterns,a hexagon from a beehive,a curve found in barley stalks heavily laden in summer fields, an [...]
At SNAP – Short Noir Authentic Portrait we believe in an unedited monochrome natural light portrait video or photograph taken with immediate skill with no post production editing In todays world of portrait photography we so often see the commercial photographer and videographer manipulate and enhance to their hearts delight, they will alter the subjects [...]