Rescue Pics from WaybackMacine! Kievan Prince, WWII Germans, Mongol General, Old West

A few more pics rescued using Wayback Machine from  old website.

All painted in the early 2000's. My eyes were certainly better back then. It's interesting to see how my painting style has developed- come habits have stayed, some have been discarded. I have largely discarded painting in eyes, my layering is now less stark and smoother. Facial details are also smoother these days. The influence of Jock Ramage, Kevin Dallimore and Tom Wiess is very noticeable. much less so in my current work. 

As usual all the images are "clickable" if you want to enlarge them a little.

Kievan Prince:

WWII Late War Germans:

Old West:

Mongol General:

My God! Maiwand! Revamped.

I recently had to say "bye bye" to Adobe Photoshop CS2; my old mousepad on my last but one laptop started to give up the ghost. Rather than having to resort to downloading GIMP again (great software but not very intuitive) I splashed out on Photoshop Elements. Not happy about having to pay for it again as I already own Elements and CS 2 on another (steam powered) laptop but cannot for the life of me find old password! Needs must.

In order to test the new version of Elements out I thought I would have a go at revamping some pics which look like they were edited with stand in software.

These are the results:

Second Anglo Afghan War Brits - 66th Berkshire Regiment of Foot

Afghan Tribesmen:

(I really wish I had kept more pics of these guys)

66th Regiment of Foot:

Afghan Tribesmen:

These Afghan Tribesmen were entered into the Salute 2011 painting competition and made it to the finals table. Unfortunately they were trumped by other superb painting and deservedly so. I managed to retain my "Finals Table" card which I have somewhere safe. A proud moment of sorts.