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Not a sketchbook - Noone - 07-03-2024

My old account with my original sketchbook is inaccessible for some reason.
Some recent stuff in the last year

Oil paintings





Commission Wip



Chalk drawings







Plein Air






Life drawings























Portraits from life
20mins





3hr




Digital







Moleskine



RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 07-10-2024

Self portrait from life in graphite




RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 07-11-2024




RE: Not a sketchbook - JosephCow - 07-13-2024

Really nice pencil work, especially on the self portrait. I think that's really well done.

RE: Not a sketchbook - Daft Sketch - 07-19-2024

Holy moly great stuff! Really dig the top oilpaintings, like the subject matter. Or well atleast my interpretation of it. Good looking studies from life also, dig the way you handle lighting.

RE: Not a sketchbook - one_two - 07-19-2024

Drawings and oils look good, gestures are especially nice. Great stuff!

RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 07-30-2024

Joseph: Thank you, I think it turned out pretty good!
Daft Sketch: Thanks!
One_two: cheers!

Painting that is in a recent "Rubber Ducky" themed show at my gallery/studio. Sold pre opening, so pretty stoked



Portrait Tuesdays at the studio, from life, 3hr single session



RE: Not a sketchbook - smrr - 08-10-2024

Holy crap! Amit!

I see some beautiful paintings as per usual, v tasty yis thank you

P.s. why is this called "Not a sketchbook"?

RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 08-13-2024

Heya Smrr, long time!  Thank you muchly.
No reason for the name really...

Another 3 hr alla prima from life



RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 08-24-2024

Portrait from life and a finished commission in oils







RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 08-25-2024




RE: Not a sketchbook - JosephCow - 08-25-2024

Very nice paintings! the pencil portrait looks very good

RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 08-27-2024

Thanks Joseph!

Another portrait from life, chalk on paper.





RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 08-30-2024

Quick plein air painted on my phone in Infinite Painter




RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 09-03-2024

And some real ones






RE: Not a sketchbook - JosephCow - 09-05-2024

Ooh nice landscapes! That beach looks like a beautiful place to paint. New Zealand, right? I've always wanted to visit there.

RE: Not a sketchbook - one_two - 09-06-2024

Nice stuff, man!

RE: Not a sketchbook - Daft Sketch - 09-07-2024

Beautiful plein airs!
Thanks again for your comment in my thread, opened up some new doors for me.

RE: Not a sketchbook - RottenPocket - 09-08-2024

Hey Amit, 

 I actually really love this piece from you, and think it could be one of your best work. I'm curious about the process and journey behind creating it.

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RE: Not a sketchbook - Noone - 09-08-2024

Joseph: Yes, New Zealand! Come over and paint sometime, f'in awesome landscape!
One Two: Thanks again man!
Dark Sketch: Glad it helped!
Rotten Pocket: Thank you! I'll post the description about the piece for you below.


Had a mean plein air trip with probably the preeminant landscape painter in Nz, Freeman White that culminates in a gallery show over the last week. Here's a link to a little ig reel
Ig reel

Four years ago I got news that my brother Bobby had passed away in Belgium. He had issues with mental health which resulted in alcohol addiction issues. After being incommunicado for 8 months previously, after a steady deterioration in behaviour , I got news that he was found dead in his apartment. He had essentially melted into the floorboards. We could not get a cause of death.

The day before having it confirmed (on my birthday) and before I would tell my mother, she, not knowing any of this, had a dream in which he had come to her and told her he was very happy he was going to a new house, that was "very nice, but very far away, and that the real estate agent was coming to take him", and that she must not worry. He then turned around and walked into the house, and the dream ended. She mentioned how happy he looked. She seemed bemused.
 I asked her to draw the house (rotunda at right of image) The next morning I had to tell her that her first son had passed.

The vine-like growth within the skull, represents the battle with his addictions, the mind virus. The two ball like structures to the left of the head are slime mould, that can grow during decomposition. 

Teeth are teeth 

The waterfalls harken back to Victoria Falls in Zambia where I was born and Iguacu falls in Brazil, which we both were at together during somewhat happier times. He loved waterfalls.

The large figures in the background are a "mother and child" statue found in Malawi where we grew up, one was in the room he was found in

The dark clouds, I call the Dreamweaver; A weaver of the narratives that we believe our lives are about, coming to dispel the dream narrative. More on this one later 'praps.

I did a digital sketch, in order to process all this at the time, but it only really felt right to do it justice now in white chalk, on black paper, in a very iterative and intuitive process different to what I have worked in for a while now. It felt cathartic