The St Valentine's Day Massacre

Hoped this painting would be the one where I really did have some control over it, alas, my organic style has thwarted me again!
So what started life as a clean, fresh, riot of colour and starkly contrasting shapes become an homage to the murders of 7 mobsters on the 14th of February 1929 in a Chicago warehouse....

And why 16 squares?

7 for the victims

5 for the perpetrators

3 for the ones that got away

And 1 for the dog that revealed the warehouse's secret......

16" x 16" box canvas - acrylic, ink, acetone and adhesive

Oculo

I started out with an image of an eye, and then went from there really....regular readers (if there are any!) will know that anything that happens after the main inspiration is painted is usually completely at random, which I suppose means I fall into the category of abstract art.
Anyway, I painted an eye, and was going to make the entire canvas just a cheek and an eye, when I noticed that the rough edges I'd left were encouraging me to extend them. The background shapes/vines came about to tie everything together. There's no real meaning to this; I just had a 'vision' of an eye floating against a background!
16" x 16" Box Canvas, Acrylic and Ink

The Forgotten God

This isn't new per se, as I painted it about 6 months ago, but only recently got to liking it! It was just based on a random 'photo from the 'net, and I sort of put some of where I live into it too....
The title comes from the spire of rock in the foreground; whenever I see something like that, I get a real sense that this was an earlier civilisation's focus of worship, but now it lies forgotten, abandoned, just another lump of stone on a wind blasted moor.....
Don't expect to see many landscapes though, I just can't seem to make myself enjoy painting them!

Elizabeta

Right; this started as a straight portrait, then I got disenchanted with 'straight' art, and got freaky on its ass! Et voila; 'Elizabeta'. I went for a limited palette (blue being the main colour) with highlights in ink. I was trying to create something sinister and lifeless, as I would imagine a vampire to be, and hopefully I succeeded! Not sure if I should have added the tips of barely visible fangs though...might have been a bit O.T.T if I did.