Watercolor and a little bit of pen for accents
This was the cover commissioned for a restaurant menu in Truro. They were going for a Californian, sunny outdoor theme.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. Psychologists will recognise the elements of the Shepard and Metzler experiment on mental imagery and rotation. Two shades don’t get you far with a 3D design.
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
Commission for Mannings Restaurant, Truro, Cornwall
This was some Psychologist theme about explosive or surprising personality traits.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine.
Black and white people helping each other. Yes now I know it’s a cliche but I didn’t when I drew it.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. The Y sign is a Psychology icon. The shape was built with a 3D visualisation package which was more accustomed to showing simulated rock-structures.
The scene from a classic experiment by Bowlby in the 1950s (I think). Demonstrating that infant monkeys still preferred comfort even if the other simulated monkey was the provider of milk.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. Built by my hand-crafted Postscript.
Cover commissioned for the Psychologist. One of those challenges where you had to make an abstract idea concrete. It was drawn on an Acorn and then unusually I got professional acetates printed for the colour separations.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. This DNA took ages to craft, using a ray tracing package. Then I had to write some custom code to get 2-colour separations for print purposes.
Commissioned by The Psychologist in 1992
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. I used some 3D software (antique by today’s standards) with a bit of trial and error for placement of the symbols.
Psychologist – multi-cultural issue. Owes a lot to reference from the National Geographic magazine.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine.
Cover commissioned by the Psychologist magazine. How can your psychotherapist navigate this maze? I sneaked in a practical joke too, by ensuring that the maze had no way through to the centre.
Someone looks seriously worried.
Office workers. I was trying to break away from the dotty style which I’d adopted for too long.
Prize poster. Won ball tickets. Promptly sold them.
I wrote a Delphi program to let you make layers of radial lines. I was chasing “moiré” effects. Version 2 is on my ToDo list.
A ray-tracing visualisation of Stars-n-stripes.
Not really for a play, just a little exercise in water-colour
I drafted this shape on my home Acorn computer, before a full-quality rendition on our Meiko parallel processor at work.
Every evening class for painting seems to raise the idea of painting shoes.
Not sure what inspired the idea for this, but stylistically it is a nod to Barry Windsor Smith
A Delphi graphics experiment
Pencil sketch, helping with homework
My first & only attempt at “painting” entirely in Photoshop