Art & Design

I have always had a passion for design, drawing, sketching and painting. This passion started at a very young age, which I continued through school, engineering college and during my apprenticeship as design engineer. I also took some professionally courses on product design and how to do rendering using airbrush and rendering pens - the good methods. This is really great fun. 

I worked as a professional designer within the Automotive, Aeronautical, Electronic Communications industry right up until 1989, before I went to Cranfield University to study Computer integrated Manufacturing and Organisational integration and change management. These days I mostly design, draw and paint for fun! 

On this webpage are some of my designs, painting, sketches and renderings:

Here are some pencil line sketches:

Here is one of my first attempts at watercolour painting. This was to experiment with the concord of colours and colour harmony. This is a copy from Johannes Itten (11 November 1888 – 27 May 1967) 

References: 

The art of color: the subjective experience and objective rationale of color By Johannes Itten

Here is another water colour painting. This is a copy of a picture called Hügel  (Hills)  Alexei von Jawlensky

These next pictures were create during a painting workshop, using just standard builders plaster board as base which was painted with thick white acrylic paint (matt paint used for walls). When dry the idea is to determine patterns, images and shapes. Here are some first results:

For my other CNC, metalworking and woodworking hobbies I use sketches, renderings, paintings and technical drawings to help me visualise what I trying to build. 3D drawings help me visualise how to make the item I'm building; similar to a step-by-step user guide. I seem to be able to only 'think' in pictures and use pictures to  help me solve problems. i also use pictures to remember numbers by using the memory technique described by Tony Buzan.  This may seem strange,  but I can't remember numbers and that includes my own telephone number!  I'm so glad of the built-in telephone book in mobile phones these days. Without that I would be totally lost. 

Here is a sketch of a kitchen table I made in 1997 when living in Brussels.