Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

DECEMBER 23, 2013

I finished my latest animal painting last week, 'Captain Seadog'. He's now fully rigged and ready to set sail and aim cannon against ' Captain Ratbeard '. Captain Seadog Watercolour & Gouache 24 x 31cm I found this piece challenging because there is not a lot of fussy detail and lots of open spaces in the composition. I kept going back to N.C Wyeth's treasure island paintings as I worked trying to grasp his wonderful sense of design and colour.

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Emmeline Illustration

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Last week I was honoured to feature in the very first issue of the completely gorgeous Pick Wick magazine. There's a great little interview with me about my childhood and how it's influenced the way I work in illustration today. Aside from a bit of an editing-whoopsie with the surname typo (actually happens quite a lot.) it's a really lovely feature with insightful questions and a double page spread of my Wren and The Bear illustration.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

DECEMBER 12, 2013

Here is what I am working on at the moment: This is Captain Seadog the navy captain sworn to guard the seas and coasts against Captain Ratbeard. In other news I am now a father to a lovely little baby born called Arthur! He was born early morning Thursday 5th December and both him and mother are doing great. Hopefully that explains why I haven't posted much recently.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

DECEMBER 29, 2013

The last of my small roughs that has been approved (below). I still have a lot of working out to do (not in the gym, on my drawing board) before I even think about reaching for my brushes. I hoping to give the viewer a bit of a shock in this one. At first glance it looks like a nice civilised game of cards in a warm pub, that is until you spot the stoats accusing look and small knife in his paw which he is about to brandish as the fox picks up is purse of winnings.

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Chris Dunn Illustration/Fine Art

DECEMBER 24, 2013

I have to wait for these drawings to be approved but hopefully I'll get the go-ahead. The first I like to call 'Retreat From The Windmills' and it is loosely based on the exploits of Don Quixote and Sancho Panza who are represented as an old wiry lion and a plucky meerkat. The second rough shows a father mouse reading a bedtime story, I can envisage the warm glow of the oil lamp and the big patchwork blanket lending a very soft feel to this painting.

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