Brian's Notebook

 Paul Kruger. Acrylics on board, 15 x 10 cm: With portraits I am thoroughly out of my comfort zone, and they always tend towards the awkward...

 Oil on Masonite, ACEO (= 3.5 x 2.5 inches): One of my very occasional ventures into religious art, a genre I enjoy looking at, but am not t...

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: I cheated a bit for this one, using a photo instead of the traditional mirror. But I made a point of star...

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: SOLD

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: SOLD And another portrait from a police mugshot. 

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: SOLD

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: SOLD

 Acrylics on Masonite, 20 x 15 cm: SOLD I have long thought that dolls, particularly antique-looking ones, are the most wondrously creepy th...

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: This work is for sale. Contact me at brianvds@gmail.com. Painted from a police mugshot. I have no idea wh...

Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: SOLD Another one of my monochrome things. I am rather enjoying these; the monochrome gives a picture a qui...

 Acrylics on Masonite, 15 x 10 cm: SOLD

 Acrylics on Masonite, ACEO (= 3.5 x 2.5 inches): SOLD I have hardly ever tried portraiture before, so I don't know what possessed me to...

I can't always just work for the market; I'd go crazy that way. I'm an artist, not a money making machine. And thus, in between,...

I have been rather busy drawing illustrations for the latest children's book I'm working on. In between, made time for the Instagram...

I have been rather wildly experimenting with all manner of things. I am developing ideas for an illustrated children's story: ...