UNHINGED - NEW BOOK OUT NOW! sept see pg 5

[Francesco D'Isa]

I love Mr. Blue.

[Sophia]

Wow!! Sick details! I love them all.. and would love to see them up close

[Paul McCarroll]

thanks to all!

also thanks to the Juxtapozian elete for adding me on the reader page
surprised but very much appreciated


to celebrate I added a few more to the first post on pg 1
hope you like them, a couple of years old
I have new work but its all been done for cds that haven't had promo yet so its bad form to jump ahead of the bands unless they want to

[Winfred Hawkins]

5/5

"Cross Pollination" and "Mr. Blue Sky"

are amazing. Love the detail, but besides that it has an emotive quality that makes you want to make since out it...even if the work by itself does not.
These are wonderful.

Even the way the eye droops in "Mr. Blue Sky", the skin/ muscles that sag, have an expression that denotes some sort of story.

Good stuff.

[Anthony Lucas]

How do you do that? Do they take a long time?
Great work Paul....Love it

[Paul McCarroll]

How do you do that? Do they take a long time?
Great work Paul....Love it

thanks Antony

I generally paint in photoshop with a wacom
some take a long time some take fucking ages 
everything on here has a diferent approach so it would take a while to go into specifics

but its generally freehand on as few layers as possible using as few tools as possible
-paint brushes - dodge - burn - smudge - the less complicated the process the less
you think about the technology and the more you can just be absorbed in the process
sometimes I use source material when I want to do something specific
but mostly I like to work off the top of my head

this might be interesting to you - a short flash movie I made of an image progression
it was for a cd cover than had to cover a lot of topics so I made a pencil sketch, scanned it then just painted over it,

http://www.unhinged.me.uk/unhinged2/content/a_societymovie.htm

[Paul McCarroll]

it has an emotive quality that makes you want to make since out it...even if the work by itself does not.
These are wonderful.

Even the way the eye droops in "Mr. Blue Sky", the skin/ muscles that sag, have an expression that denotes some sort of story.

Good stuff.

(in the more personal work) there is always a story
even if there isn't one when it starts there is by the time it finishes
I don't believe it has to make complete sense
I think you can empathise or at least sympathise with someone or a situation without understanding it

I think as individuals the sense we make of things, unless it is mathmatical,  is always going to be varied anyway, and those who consider themselves to be enlightened may well be much further from the trurth than the utterly confused

please forgive my atrocious spelling
and thank you Winfred for your interesting + considered post

[Anthony Lucas]

Thanks for that paul...clever stuff. Are you self taught? Great way to paint..no mess

[carlos]

very goog stuff!

[atom basham]

brilliant. Very Geiger, and yet... not. I'm especially partial to Cross Pollination

[Paul McCarroll]

Thanks for that paul...clever stuff. Are you self taught? Great way to paint..no mess

pretty much self taught, aye

and I quite like the mess of paint, there are pros and cons to both analogue and digital
but for a long time I've had no space to paint
I have a bigger room to work in now but now I have no time with all the commision shit I have
so I'm slowly working back into incorporating more analogue elements into the work
I've done a couple of acylics but nothing great, just getting back into the swing of it

brilliant. Very Geiger, and yet... not. I'm especially partial to Cross Pollination

thanks a lot man
actually that one started off as a painting about 15 years ago (approx 22 x 16 cm)
I only really liked a little part of it so i scanned and painted over it in photoshop
the only opart that remained similar is the largest head on the top left

[Robin Longerbeam]

Found it really engrossing. I love the unusual. Incredible work!

[Reece Thompson]

Man, it's quite a compliment coming from you.
Beautiful work.

[Sara Kobuszko]

Hello there, I love Cross Pollination.

 Exquisitely beautiful and slightly disgusting. It looks very Hieronimus Bosch. Excuse the probable bad spelling of his name! The execution of it looks like tempera painting. Fascianating.

[Winfred Hawkins]

"Cross Pollination"

Actually I think the title of it is what pulls everything together. The work in of itself is well done, but when you read the title...it takes you somewhere else. Just the idea of it is worth thinking about.