James Tovey

Illustration of an Elephant Hawk Moth, James Tovey 2025

Line drawing illustration of an Elephant Hawk Moth, James Tovey artist 2025

We woke to find an Elephant Hawk Moth on the stairs wall. Not rare but worthy of a study to think about how to paint it.

#elephanthawkmoth #flyingworld #nectar #largemoths #nightlight #dawnsuprise #jamestovey #toveyarts #samsungtablet #mothstudy #corbyglen #drawinglife

Portrait of an Englishwoman

Portrait of an Englishwoman https://www.wikiart.org/en/hans-holbein-the-younger/portrait-of-an-englishwoman-1532

Gift of Heinz Berggruen

Still Life (Nature morte) http://www.moma.org/collection/works/63248

James, pencil on Daler Rowney pastel paper.

Thanks to everyone who came to drawing class this year and made it a success, Thanks too to everyone at Peterborough Museum who work hard making the event possible each week.

See the line before you draw it...

#blackwingpencil #jamestovey #toveyarts

Ink drawing of a dilapidated building being submerged in tree growth

ruins, roots etc

Observational life drawing of an Echeveria 5000x2000 pixels on a Samsung S8, 2024.

#echevaria #samsung #digitallifedrawing #succulents #drawnfromlife #tabletdrawing #mappingout #jamestovey #toveyarts

Day 5
In The Court of The Laundry King

Day 08 - The Industrialist

A black and white drawing on primed board showing a still life of a targene being prepared for cooking, with wine and a guitar waiting to be played. Posca pens on board, made during an timed art battle at an event called battlelines at a venue Metal Peterborough. Drawing by artist James Tovey, 2023.

A still life I drew at a local art battle on the theme of food during #flourishpeterborough 's 2023 festival.

#Battlelines has helped promote local artists with its timed drawing competitions.

Posca pens on primed hardboard.

#artbattle #stilllife #targene #posca #guitars #jamestovey #toveyarts

The skeletal Lord of the Summer walks with its floral cape in tow, wearing the visage of the Sun. In its right hand, it wields a giant flaming sunflower.

Memento Mori: The Estival

#illustration #characterdesign

Ink drawing of an abandoned, overgrown moon gate which for some reason is half way up a tree

moon gate

An image, a lithograph, of a Black woman cradling her child in her arms, with a landscape (tree, pathway) visible behind them. This is a print by the artist Elizabeth Catlett titled "Mother and Child"

Just finished teaching what I think is one of my favorite courses ever, and I'd like to share it with all of you, because I think it relates to where we are right now. In a time awash in anger, hate, and grievance the course was devoted to another set of themes: Love, Joy, and Devotion (thread)

Mandolin, Glass, Pot and Fruit

Mandolin, Glass, Pot and Fruit https://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-braque/mandolin-glass-pot-and-fruit-1927

A Black Pedestal

A Black Pedestal https://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-braque/a-black-pedestal-1919

An image of the “Snake Goddess” from the Temple of Knossos. A bare chested figuring in a skirt holding up two snakes.

You're bound to post something 🖤B&W🤍

Painting of a woman with dark skin and kinky hair in an emerald green / blue dress holding one arm with the other and looking intently to the right, her face in profile, with a layered burnt yellow background

“Saint Woman” (2015) by Amy Sherald ✨

Sherald is famous for painting former First Lady Michelle Obama’s portrait. Her work is bold and iconic.

#art #artsky #painting #fineart #oilpainting #blacksky

Oil painting of a scene with several Tahitian women relaxing and talking together on a shaded wooden platform. One wears a woven hat

“The Siesta” (1892-94) by Paul Gauguin ✨

Gauguin worked on this for more than a year, making several changes as he tried to capture the relaxed and graceful vibe that inspired the piece.

#art #artsky #painting #gauguin #fineart #tahiti #island #oilpainting #modernart

Detail - sideways view of a woman’s face, painting by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum @the Barbican

Painting -oil & pencil on wood by Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum - a mysterious figure of a woman walking away from the viewer - we see her from the back. The light in the painting is beautiful

I can thoroughly recommend this beautiful exhibition Pamela Phatsimo Sunstrum @barbican.bsky.social

The Green Napkin

The Green Napkin https://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-braque/the-green-napkin-1943

Mandolin

Mandolin https://www.wikiart.org/en/georges-braque/mandolin-1914

Breton Eve

Breton Eve, 1889
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12433

Around the huts

Around the huts, 1887
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12082

Andrew Wyeth - Sea Boots 1976

Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear

Young Man with a Flower Behind his Ear, 1891
https://botfrens.com/collections/44/contents/12767

Repeat pattern of the greenery crushed into a forest floor. tan leaf branches and grey slate branches with bright red and dark green large berries also small branches of tan leaves with red berries and slate grey branches with tan leaves on a dark navy blue background

black and white illustration depicting the myth of Corvus and Crater. The entire background is black with grain shading and a star map showing the constellations Corvus and crater. In the top left is an outline of a sun with a glowing black snake winding around it. In the middle sweeping down from the top right is a large crow in profile. In the middle in a double handle crater with Apollo’s laurel leaf on it. In the bottom right is a black lyre and in the bottom left is a large fig tree with one fig cut in half. Behind in the bottom half are swirling water like white lines.

Black and white ink illustration of a gigantic eldritch inspired underwater creature near a pier. There is a small dock to the left with a building on a pier above the water. In the middle below is a small fishing boat with dark ripples of water to the left of it. Behind is fog rolling in partially covering four giant tentacles coming out of the water

Black and white illustration of a Victorian wall with a scarab ward framed. The border of the whole piece is a torn paper. Inside is Victorian black and white striped wallpaper with damask type filigree in the black and smaller stripes and speckles in the white with small vertical black stripes on either side. In the damask pattern are slightly abstract symbols of infinity, an hourglass, an ankh and other resurrection symbols. In the middle is an ornate rectangular frame framing a large scarab beetle with its wings out. On its wings are celestial symbols like Jupiter, stars and the moon. Around the scarab are peony flowers and branches of a tree branching towards the top left with a vine white line swooping in an out and around the frame in the same direction. The scarabs body is engraved like metal with filigree. Behind the scarab in the frame is grain shading grey over black.

Hi #PortfolioDay
I’m Élle - Freelance illustrator & surface pattern designer

Focus in occult, mythology/folklore related art heavy on details & research

Open for new projects in publishing, posters & private commissions

Reach out let’s chat
✉️ babeandoak@gmail.com
Portfolio: cara.app/babeandoak

Off cuts,and jigs, line and shadows - still life class @peterboroughmuseum

Samsung s8 #tabletdrawing #ibispaintx #greyscale #toveyarts #jamestovey #stilllifedrawing #angles #arrow #cursor #lessthan

Nightfall Redux Nightfall is an epic Cyberpunk Narrative Artbook. 219 Illustrated Pages.

The day has arrived. Nightfall Redux is live!
I’m on the last push of the book and I need this to make it happen. It's been a rough journey and this book is massive (219 Illustrated pages btw)
Please share, comment, look intensely, do a funny dance, any form of support helps.
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Gift of G. David Thompson

Victor Vasarely, Ondho, 1956-60

https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1134584