Showing posts with label Toys. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Toys. Show all posts

Wednesday, 20 April 2016

Away but for good reason.

It's been too long since I posted a proper blog and for good reason, I'm not the type of person to vent my opinions, concerns and annoyances on social media and having just gone through a combination of disappointment, let down and upset I felt I needed a little time away from the blog so I didn't let my emotions get the better of me and end up writing a blog that quite frankly would have been totally unprofessional, all I'll say on the matter is that I felt very let down and wished people would be more open and honest as this is how I live my own life.

But the new page has been turned and here I am writing once again for all you lovely supporters. Regardless of what happens I continue to keep busy and create everyday and the last few months have not been any different, I have recently been working with fine art dealer Clive Ashmore and also teamed up with AC fine art galleries to create a number of limited edition fine art prints that I am super excited about.

The decision was made to put in two of my toy soldier paintings into print and these were "Black Gold" and "Make Peace Not War 2"


"Black Gold"
Signed limited edition of only 75 
28" x 19" Printed on Canvas
Framed
 £395


"Make Peace not War 2"
Signed limited edition of only 75
36" x 18" Printed on canvas
Framed
£475

Signing Prints - Canvas on board




for more information on prints email me on chris_morgan13@hotmail.com



And of course I've been working away on a whole bunch of other originals and commissioned pieces
The first is a piece that was something a little different for me but I wanted to convey my feeling of how I feel women should be treated, I feel that all to often men think that treating there women mean will keep them keen but I'm so far away from this opinion that I wanted to create a piece surrounding this very subject....I personally believe that a woman should be treated with respect and love and showered with compliments every day, building her up not putting her down and so I created this piece and as I am using a lot of toys in these new series of painting I decided to use little girls favourite the Barbie/Cindy doll.


"Shower Her with Compliments"
24" x 32"
Oil on box canvas

SOLD



I've also been Commissioned quite a bit recently and created three commissions for clients all different but all equally as enjoyable to paint.

 The first is of a Bertie Bassett box, a classic favourite sweet of many.


"Bassetts All Sorts"
22" x 16"
Oil on Canvas

SOLD

The Second was the entirely the clients idea as he had seen my star wars Lego commission and liked that idea but came to the table with his own twist, he wanted the characters stood on top of a floating galaxy bar and have the piece titled "On a Galaxy far far away"


"On a Galaxy Far Far away"
20" x 16"
Oil on Canvas

SOLD

and the third was a ladies favourite chocolate bar....the small but mighty Freddo and I was quite happy to paint this as it brought back a lot of my own child hood memories of going into the local paper shop and paying just 10p for this little chocolate frog


"Freddo"
30" x 18"
Oil on Panel

SOLD

And of course aside from commissions I've also created a few new original pieces, after being inspired by the Star Wars Galaxy commission I wanted to come up with something myself and decided to add a few more space related sweets in there and this is what I came up with


"Choc Wars"
18" x 30"
Oil on wooden Panel

SOLD

And of course I added to my toy soldier series with two new pieces one of which went straight into print with AC Fine art


" Make Peace Not War"
Oil on Panel

Original Available from Jamie Leigh Fine arts - sales@jamieleighfineart.co.uk

Accompanying this original I created a little promotional video and a new series that I will frequently post called "Studio Life" you can find it the video on my face book page -
just search Chris Morgan Art





"Rebel"
30" x 20"
Oil on Canvas

Original Available from Jamie Leigh Fine arts - sales@jamieleighfineart.co.uk

















Thursday, 5 November 2015

NEW WORKS


Please see below a selection of new paintings

Sweet Rock - Original Study - Oil on canvas Paper

SOLD

 
Trick Shot - Original Study - Oil on Canvas Paper
 
SOLD
 
 
War Study - Original Study  - Oil on Canvas Paper
 
SOLD

 
Sweet Bowl -  Original Study  - Oil on Canvas Paper
 
SOLD

 
Love - Original Study - Oil on Canvas Paper
 
SOLD
 
 
Sweet Bowl - Original Painting
24" x 24"
Oil on Panel
 
SOLD
 
 
 
Sweet Rock - Original Painting
40"x 30"
Oil on Canvas
 
SOLD
 
 
Make Love not War - Original Painting
30" x 20"
Oil on Panel
 
SOLD
 
 
Trick Shot - Original Painting
24" x 24"
Oil on panel
 
SOLD
 

 
Black Gold  - Original Painting
24" x 36"
Oil on Canvas
 
SOLD
 
 
Remember  - Original Painting
24" x 24" 
Oil on Panel
 
SOLD
 

Wednesday, 11 March 2015

FIRST BLOG OF 2015

It's the first blog of the new year, and in all fairness it's been a pretty manic few months in the Morgan household, but lets start at the beginning.

January saw my Mum and Dad celebrate there 30th wedding anniversary and I wanted to do something extra special for them and so I decided to take some time out of my schedule to create them there own original painting, but what to paint??

This was actually easy to decide because during my show in November a client had called me over who was speaking with my parents, when I went to speak with them she asked me why my Mum and Dad didn't have one of my originals, we joked a little and then I remembered...wedding anniversary!

I asked my parents "what would you even have" and my mum went on to say that she loved Walnut whips but hated the actual walnut and always broke it off to give it to my Dad, I quite liked this small gesture of togetherness and decided that this would be the subject for there  Wedding anniversary present.

 
"You're the Walnut to my Whip"
18" x 18"
Oil on wooden panel
 
I also decided this year was going to be the start of a new body of work, as artists I think its good to evolve and allow that to happen naturally without forcing it.
My new work will be more narrative, sometimes this narrative will be serious, sometimes comical.
 I think that the majority of the time I may use toys to explain this narrative and I'm excited to produce them as I have so many ideas.
 
The first piece of this new series was created during January, this idea had been playing around in my head for quite some time and was so pleased when I had finally settled on a composition.
 


 
"Make Peace Not War"
40" x 20"
Oil on wooden panel
 
SOLD
 
PRINTS AVAILABLE
 
I decided to use toy soldiers propped onto wooden toy bricks, the bricks spelling out the narrative clearly "make peace not war" like many people, I hate war and although I'm under no illusion that world peace is around the corner I'd like to think maybe one day we will all just ....get along....but I doubt it.
 
I decided to keep all the soldiers green so to not give them "Sides" and I changed almost all the colours of the blocks because the original colours were quite dull, thankfully this piece was really well received and sold the day after I had created it which was totally amazing and cemented my belief that this new avenue was the right way to go with my work  and Im currently working on the next
 
Also Excitedly I have created a limited edition print run on this piece
The image below shows one of the prints next to the original painting and as you can see the colour matching is very good. Each print is 700mm x 351mm It's printed on smooth rag 300gsm paper using lucia pigment colours, each print is hand signed and a certificate of authenticity provided with matching serial numbered hologram on both the certificate and the print
 
Prints are sold unframed although I can provide a framing and fine art delivery  service but obviously this would be at an additional cost
 
If you are interested then please email me on  - chris_morgan13@Hotmail.com
 
 
 
 
 
I also decided to create a new portrait of my father, I created a portrait of him back in 2012 and so I just wanted to create another to see my improvements over the last 3 years, I have been studying skin tones and form quite intensely over the years as I really want to get good.
 
I was so pleased with how this piece turned out and I feel showed a true evolution in my painting, I have decided to create a few more portraits throughout the year to keep on learning. How many I will actually do I have no idea as this will be along side my still life pieces.
 

 
Portrait of my father
18" x 18"
Oil on panel
NFS
 
And last but certainly not least, on February 15th 2015 at 00:48 my new son Charlie Sydney Morgan arrived in the world, It's wonderful to be a father again to this little bundle and have enjoyed taking a couple of weeks off to enjoy him fully and help my wife out, My other son Lewis is totally in love with him and we now feel complete as a family unit. My drive to work even harder to provide for them has increased and I'm so thankful that my work continues to make people smile
 
 
Charlie Sydney Morgan