For all you Northern Soul fans out there I thought I would create a wall art print of the iconic Wigan Casino.

I changed my style a little for this one. For previous artwork I sketched out the scene, inked in the outline then primarily filled with the paint bucket tool. I then finished off with the paintbrush tool. This left the inked outline visible in the finished artwork.

For this piece though I roughly inked the outline and hand painted, using only the paintbrush ensuring that no linework was visible.

Picture below shows a work in progress snapshot.

Takes a lot more time but I feel it is worth it.

I also created a version with a watercolour finish (see below)

You can check out all my digital artwork here

My grandson is obsessed with Thomas the Tank Engine and I wanted to try my hand at something different, so I thought I’d have a go at creating a piece of wall art featuring Thomas. My idea was to create a digital painting of Thomas looking like he is crashing through the wall and into the room.

Here is the finished item as viewed on a tablet.

I saved the progress along the way so I could share with you………

My intention was to physically cut out the image and stick it to a wall so I ordered a reasonably large print. I also ordered a 20″ x 16″ print to check out how it would look frame mounted. See below.

I cut out the large image and stuck it to the wall (using blue tack as my wife didn’t want to commit)

If you have ideas for future projects please feel free to let me know, and as always you can check out all my digital artwork here