This is only a blueprint

I did this one at the same time as the last one, you can see a shift to darker colours, but i think it suits it better. I attacked this one with watercolours then put it in the microwave to try and make it look messy. Despite not being very romantic, this one was actually for my girlfriend, lol

When things get complicated a robot needs to stop

This one was done quickly for a friend again, again I was trying to break my style mould and try new things, so i used a good bit of spray. This may be the first time 'Ctrl', 'Alt', 'Del' has been used in a painting, lol

Jump for robots!

I can't remember the real title of this one, but it took ages and ages. It was worth it though, I love using lots of different patterns. I even have a t-shirt someone made of this painting, which is awesome!!

And to all the destruction in man, and to all the corruption in my hand

Again, this picture just popped into my head pretty much exactly as you see it, when i was listening to an Interpol song, from which the title is taken. I wanted to do something different again and ditched the mad colours and to do a robot in a real landscape for once. I love scrapheaps by the way, I find them fascinating

A robot can only really be saved by one other

I love to use colour, and I love any excuse to use all othem on one canvas, this is another big canvas and I spent a lot of time blending the colours together very carefully. I wasn't sure about the illustration when i was doing it, but it worked out very well and it's another romantic one, awww....

This robot reaches for the stars, some other robots say that's stupid but she knows they're getting closer

This one was again done for a friend, in a very short space of time. The idea popped into my head exactly as you see it and I was very pleased that I was able to translate my idea to canvas, and its owner was overjoyed with it, which always makes me very happy

Sometimes a robot's world just completely falls apart

There was a big gap between this and my last, and this was the first painting that i did a proper full sketch for. It took over a week of lying on the floor as it's a big canvas and it hangs in my kitchen and is something I am very proud of. My granny's not sure what it is though

Sometimes girl robots are the feircest

I've always taken a lot of inspiration from Japanese cartoons, and this was me trying to do something a bit different, i like to change my style a lot, this had a lot of paint thrown at it and the writing reads "girl" and "chaos" and something else that I don't remember at all. It was done for a good friend and I was pleased that it reflected her personality a lot

Falling through thoughts and feelings

This was the first painting I ever did for anyone, and it was done in about 3 hours, with no prepartion drawings, it just took shape when the paint hit the canvas, i didn't even have very much paint, lol, its a pretty big canvas, it was the biggest one to date and the person it was for liked it a lot

A robot's path isn't always clear

I got a new set of paints for christmas, so i did this one in 2 or 3 days, i wanted to do lots of colour, and i'd been playing with this tube design for a while, and there is a sequel to this painting

Robots aren't always happy, sometimes they get sad and want to be alone

This was the result of a lot of spraypainting, i suffered more than a little asphyxiation, lol, and nearly blew up the garage, but i still like the blending of the colours and the unusual texture

When a robot's circuits stop working, it's parts are melted down but it's spirit lives on

This one was a gradual idea that just happened when i was painting over an extremely bad old picture, ironically, the picture quality is as bad as the picture used to be, lol, for one that's actually one of my favourites

Some Say All Robots Look The Same, But They Look Different Close Up

This one was an idea I'd been working on for a while, again I wated the robot to be marked out by the spaces I left, but this time I wanted a to blend (not sure if this is an artistic term, but its one I use in my head when I'm painting) on the robots panels. I was vey unsure as to how to leave the backgroung so I mixed up lots of colours and left them in circles, I like to see hints of other colours underneath and not them all blended together into one almighty brown. The title was a bit of a joke as to what people said about my stuff, and also to show that each painting was meant to be a different robot

For Each Robot, There Is Only One Other Whose Heart Is The Right Shape For Theirs

Yes yes, this one is indeed about love. It was just a feeling I couldn't get over. I think it marks a real departure in my work, this sees the first use of a girl robot and these are very cartoon-ised (is that a word? Probably not) The paint on it is thick to say the least, I was worried that the background was too dark but without it it'd be far too bright and happy a painting, and love isn't always about running through fields of flowers and going to the fair. This is a much better version of the very first robot painting I attempted and it is one of the ones I'm most proud of, I was unsure as to whether it was too personal, but you have to harness whats going on in your life and use that, painting isn't maths, although its accounting for some.

The Shifting Of A Robots Focus

This is just a small one i did quickly, its nothing special, I just taped down a rough robot and blended over it then did another robot on top. I thought this looked a lot like the other ones I'd done so far and i wasn't as pleased with it so it marked a change in direction into more exciting colours and backgrounds and different robot poses, I didn't want to be accused of every painting basically being the same

Solitary Robot Searches In The Darkness

This painting came about as a direct antitheis to "Majestic Robot", you will note that the colours are in opposite positions (mostly). I had a revelation that the subject would not be painted, rather the gaps left unpainted would represent it (although I'm hardly gonna claim I'm the first person to ever do that). Its a dark painting, no doubt, and the colours are blended very sparadically, which I like. Its subject matter is the oppposite of "Majestic Robot" which is about perservering, this is about uncertainty and doubt. The robot is not even sure what he's searching for, but search it must. I don't know if I would ever sell these two paintings, they act as major reference drawings for all my work, and this particular painting, despite being my second attempt, is one of the peices I would be most proud of.

Majestic Robot Stands Tall When The Wind Howls

This was the first robot picture I painted. I had been painting a different robot picture at the time, but I hadn't really planned out the idea and it wasn't turning out at all how I saw it in my minds eye (however I used this idea to much better effect in a later painting). I'm not obsessed with robots (entirely) I just thought it would be easier to paint if I always knew what I would be painting. I think I simply had a lot of excess paint that i'd squeezed out of the tube and onto where I was mixing and so slapped it down roughly on the a smaller canvas. I got a bit engrossed and did the whole thing in half an hour to an hour (I work at speed, especially on smaller canvasses). I really like trying to blend the colours, its a major part of my work, although its basic in this peice, to say the least. All my pictures have captions on the side to explain the scene a bit and to try and give a metaphor, but I decide all this stuff after when I look at the finished article, I find its best just to use the spark and then decide how the finished product makes me feel.

Introduction

These robots march right out of my mind and right onto a canvas, there is no art school, no expensive materials, no cocktail parties, no expression-ist crap, no big money. Just me, and some good friends who have given me help along the way, I'm creating my world on a canvas, be a part of it...