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Latest News

24 August 2010

24/08/10

Times are moving quickly! I need to keep up! I've just finished a sketch for a band Stacked Actors which will appear on their website, here along side one of their great songs 'Terri'.

I'm still working on my 'Slash' & 'John Lennon' paintings, Lennon is nearly finished but still got a way to go with 'Slash.' He's penciled in and has 1 or 2 layers of paint covering certain parts of the canvas but is far from finished.

Also, a new addition to appear soon will be a new painting of Crosby Beach which will be appearing in the exhibition in 'Coffi' over Christmas! Woop!

20 August 2010

20/08/2010

Beep!



Well I've finished the painting 'Bulletproof,' inspired by the rise of gun crime in Liverpool. Check it out here.

I'm still working on my other projects I listed in my last blog, but now am trying to widen my 'Music' collection. So I have some upcoming pieces, including Slash and John Lennon.

On other news, I'm hoping to be part of a group exhibition in November which will run upto Christmas in 'Coffi', a bistro in South Road, Liverpool. Fellow artists Lee Killeen and Louise Boyce will be exhibiting Liverpool based art with myself. I'm excited to get work collected together, as I haven't worked on cityscapes for sometime and it would be great to get back into that frame of mind over the next couple of months :) keep those eyes pealed!! :)

12 July 2010

And it continues :) - 12/07/2010

So here we are, a couple of weeks since my last post. Well I've been working away, the paint has been flowing faster than ever & ideas pouring out all over my sketchbooks.

Couple of paintings in the works, ideas and so forth...

1st plan for painting:-
After all the shootings that have happened within the UK in the last month or so, the news coverage has benn massive. There was even a man shot dead 15 mins down the road from where I live, so in reaction to this I decided to pull out my sketchbook and get some ideas down for a piece. I had recently bought a new canvas, only a small one but it was circular. Looking round my studio I came across this and immediatly knew what I wanted to do. I collected some research photographs together and started painting an eyeball. A close up of someone's eye in shock, I used my own as a reference, with the reflection of someone pointing a gun.

The painting is looking well, I've nearly finished, just a few touchups, maybe another day or so. After seeing it up on my easel I've now had the idea of enlarging the canvas at least 10 times it's size to create an overwhelming, intimidating image which would hopefully overpower the viewer thereby getting across the fear someone in that situation would be facing.

After buying a roll of canvas, it is now on my 'to do list.'


2nd plan for painting:-
I am a great fan of film, one of them being 'Sin City' since it's based on the comics and is filmed in black & white with selected colour, red for blood, etc.
So I have taken a screenshot from the film and recreated it in Oils, it is only a small painting but I've been wanting to add film to my painting subjects for some time now.

This is now finished now and has been added (http://www.emma-worth.com/ViewArtwork.aspx?ArtworkCollectionMembershipID=54)

Also......

I have been working on my sketchbook, several doodles & Illustrations which I've now added to the site, just to keep the ideas coming. Another couple of paintings I'm working on are, Heath Ledger as the Joker in Batman, an Oil painting of Spiderman and a wrestler whos picture caught my eye and had to paint :) Inbetween as this work I am painting a smaller image of 'Dancing through the smoke' (http://www.emma-worth.com/ViewArtwork.aspx?ArtworkCollectionMembershipID=12) as a commision for a friend.

Watch this space :)

17 June 2010

Roma 17/06/2010

After my cousin Marco was born, discussion was underway as to where the Christening should be held. Since his father Antonio was Italian there was a large chance it could be in Rome. As it turns out Antonio's father has been quite ill, so he couldn't really fly over here. So we all packed our bags and set off for Roma. A lot of our family went over, taking up some space in the plane... It was an amazing journey and I'll definatley be heading back there, even just for the art scene.

Check this space for Rome paintings/ Sketches.

In painting news, I've finished a small painting of a gorilla from an image I fell in love with from a Planet Earth book. The ape, looking up towards the sky in contemplation. He sits and thinks, thereby naming him 'The Thinker.' I squared up my canvas and using thinner paint than usual created layers. By using a fine brush I was able to add the details of the hair, using the turpentine to blend the paint to create a warm fuzzy fur appearence.

6 June 2010

2nd Prize & Exhibition 06/06/2010

I entered 2 pieces of work into an Art competition in St Mary's Church in Bamber Bridge. They have an Art Festival every year, a work collegue's husband enter's the Photography exhibition and she told me about it on the Monday. I gave her 2 paintings, 'Pop' and 'Soaring in the Desert' which she entered in on the Saturday for me, then on the Sunday I recieved a phone call from the church informing me I have won 2nd prize in the Art competition :) I was made up, I won some money and a trophy which I'l post a picture of soon.

Another note, I have some work up in the Wirral in an exhibition run by my old college friend Elizabeth Monks. It is in Royden Park on Hill Bark Road. Up for sale in the exhibition are 'F-f-frog,' 'Teddy's New Best Friend' and 'Lake Louise.' I hope the exhibition goes well and expands in the future.

25 May 2010

Sharjah, Dubai, the World... 25/05/2010

Well since coming back from Sharjah I have been considering taking some work over to the UAE, mostly around Dubai. I wouldn't want to go too commercial with my art just to sell it, I will still paint things I love and am passionate about. But not just limiting my art to just inside the UK, even Liverpool. I haven't thought much about other areas till now but I feel happy about seeing the bigger picture, these places ARE accessible.


I have just finished a mini project I've been working on, a painting for the Petrofac company, a donation from myself. This may broaden my work to sign art and company office paintings. Either way, it can't hurt to try something new! I'm back on track with my doodles, having produced several in the past week, I need to upload them onto the website.

I feel very happy with these little doodles as I know I can expand and take the ideas futher. One of the sketches, entitled 'Yum Cake' has a few lines to describe a mini story. Only something to follow the drawing, I prefer to add words later to a picture than the other way round.

Now I have several ideas in my brain box and a painting I am hoping to finish by the end of the week, keep checking the website for more work as it comes :)

26 April 2010

'Sketchy sketchy' 26/04/2010

After a break from painting (well a rest inbetween paintings,) I have concentrated a lot more on my sketchbook work. I'm so used to painting a final piece, from a photograph or image. I've lost the ability to tap into my imagination and sketch whatever comes to mind. I need to slow things down, not to jump to the finish line with the final image. So here I am, sketching, sometimes from researched images merged with ideas to make the final sketch. This is just so I don't put unnecessary pressure on myself as an artist and just to enjoy the process as a whole. It's working out very well so far :)

21 March 2010

Commision 21/03/2010

Well, well well it's been a long couple of days/ weeks. After being commissioned to paint a work colleage's son & daughter in a merged image, the time has nearly come to finish up and hand it over. It's been a tough one, after much confusion, & working with very small images, the painting is nearly complete. Although I am happy with the finished product, I have never experienced this before, a major rough patch. Fighting my way through.

After discovering a new interest in Illustrational work, my mind seemed to turn whatever I painted into an almost cartoon figure. I realised that I needed to resort back to my earlier painting technique of thinning down the paint, making smoother, finer brushstrokes.

A thicker application of paint was not going to work in this painting. It was creating rough edges on the canvas and therefore made it harder to go back and add lines or a thin layer. I do like Impasto paintings and hopefully I will master the effect. However I realise in certain paintings/ situations it will not work. Lesson learnt :)

17 March 2010

17/03/2010

'Teddy's New Best Friend' up now Sketches/ Illustrations, check it out :)

17 March 2010

17/03/2010

Art Prints now for sale, for more information click here

13 March 2010

13/03/2010

'F-f-frog' now posted up in Sketches/ Illustrations

22 February 2010

22/02/2010

More Sketches, 'Leap of Faith' & 'A Cat?.. Yes a Cat!' added to Sketches/Illustrations' :)

16 February 2010

16/02/2010

After some inspiration from a friend's kitten in play, 'Worth the Risk for the Cheese' was created. Check it out in 'Sketches/ Illustrations' :)

12 February 2010

12/02/2010

Check out 'Inquisitive Ape' in Sketches/ Illustrations :)

4 February 2010

04/02/2010

Just finished another sketch 'Fly finds Toad'. Check it out in Sketches/ Illustrations.

3 February 2010

3/02/2010

Gone back to to the start- coloured pencils. This time however sketching from my imagination images that are clear and much more refined, check out my new Sketch/ Illustration 'Snail Finds Mushroom' :)

28 January 2010

28/01/2010

Working away, slowly but surely :) The studio is fantastic! I'm still adjusting to getting my head down to working on a daily basis, however it is starting to create a professional environment to paint in. I'm working on a couple of ideas that involve a range of different subjects. Portraits will always be there to fall back on as I enjoy it more than anything else I've painted so far, yet I'm dabbling in the world of film and music with paintings of the late Michael Jackson and Batman movie tie ins. It's an experiment, to continue learning and developing more skills as a painter.