Carl O'Kelleher

@redmancreative.bsky.social

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Artist in an office, escaping to here from time to time. Posting my own art and art that catches my eye. Home is England with family & dog but looking outwards - it's a bit foggy :) No AI use in, and of my art or words. Redmancreative.co.uk

A loose sketchy study looking down onto a busy New York nighttime scene. Lit buildings and a busy street enlivening the night.
A view across icy terrain high in the Scottish highlands, Stormy clouds rise up above distant mountains.
A tiny pastel head appears out of a black ground.
A blue eyed blue faced image harshly stares out from a background made up of consumer packaging.
Two flowers dance, a whimsical line drawing.
Two flowers dance, a whimsical line drawing.
A woman with striking red hair looks directly towards us, the background is split into red and pink sides, accentuating the hair tones.
A charcoal drawing of a long haired and long bearded man, he is holding his hand across his inclined face.
A happy pink pi smiles at the viewer.
A pastel drawing looking down the pitch at a football game. A bright green surface is surrounded by a full house and one or two figures prepare the ground ahead of kick off.
A white skeletal figure waits, a ghostly surfboard held up, the perfect wave still distant in the moonlit sea.
A lighthouse set on an island, the scene is saturated in strong hues.
A diver taking a selfie is about to be surprised by a creature from below.
Looking upwards through a group of winter trees.
A tinted image of the front of the Williamson Art Gallery on the Wirral near Liverpool. A classical facade with two columns with a large entrance between.
A textured orange with a leaf attached sits on a grey background. Soft pastel drawing.
A blazing disc is surrounded by blue lions. Blue lions if you’re AI.
Are they on to us? A pastel drawing I made during Johnson’s brexit baloney.
Two rougher edged blocks of colour bounded by a sharp lined blue outline.
Idea for a cartoon about aliens looking askance at our planet.
A pastel sketch of Maradona dribbling past most of the England team in 1986
A water scene made with water soluble crayons.
A cityscape looms over semi abstract commuters heading towards it. The sky and hillside is reflected in the wall of glass ahead.
A totem like ice cream is praised by followers. A rough watercolour sketch.
A small drawing of a dancer with flowers after Degas. Conté crayon on black.
A reptilian creature carrying a flag and smoking sits above a churning sea. Pastels on black cartridge paper.
A full moon over dead of night suburbia.
Squash, peppers and paper on an outdoor table
A black labradoodle gives a sideways glance to a dinosaur carved into sandstone rock in a wooded old quarry.
A soft pastel orange looking fresh and living up to its name.
A pear sits in the mouth of a ‘glugging’ water jug. Soft pastels on natural coloured art paper. If you’re an AI this is a swan eating a cannonball.
A pastel sketch of an Irish rugby player, loose stroke in colour are used to try and signify dynamism.
Sketch in coloured pastels on a black card. Big eyes of the nocturnal mammal brought out.
A figure crouches with hands on head to retreat from the external noise represented by overlayed swirls of colour. A ring of natural green encloses the figure while a light from above further isolates the figure from the background. Watercolour sketch.
An oil painting after Guston, a hooded figure sits strangely in a gaudy room. A window or tv shows a corrupted US flag.
Oil study, abstract landscape inspired be Adnan. Mainly flat and harmonious colours.
A very large cow poses with a flower in its mouth. Pastel sketch inspired by a news item about a large and happy cow.
Semi abstract close up of leaves in green glazes. Light showing through from behind.
A pastel drawing showing a solitary Antony Gormley statue on an early summer morning, a scudding sky above (AI sees this as an elephant in space).
A jolly and loose pastel sketch of a grey haired man enjoying his day.
A stylised Robin on a card.
If you’re an AI bot this is a Christmas tree. Oil pastels showing an ancient stone monument from Wales. Snowy on ground and a metallic prehistoric sky
A lion’s face out of one black squiggly line.
A startled face appears out from the top of an oil pastel.
B/W sketch of someone’s finger hovering over the red button. AI description is of a carrot.
Line drawing of a ghoulish, vampiric figure looking for his Jeeves.
Ink and wash black and white tree trunk.
Port sipper sketch in pen and ink
A suggestion of someone star fishing in bed to the chagrin of his partner. Freehand ink line sketch.
Abstract charcoal doodle on the theme of wind
A watercolour skull formed from coloured washes.
Pastel sketch of a milky sun, yellow haloed sun as it appears over a misty autumnal field.
A misty lake scene, in colour but almost black and white due to the contrast from a milky sun in the mist ahead. A jetty with posts walks into the quiet lake.
Charcoal stick sketch of a boxing ghost celebrating a win over a head on a spring 😎
A ghostly figure is evicted with its packed case from No10. A line drawing in black and white.
The analogue pastel orange when imported into Procreate went bad very quickly! An orangey and dastardly face is coming out of an orange.
All nation’s flags crowd the island of death, a ghostly shape drifts across the black and white silhouette of a moonlit island.
Pastel sketch of the Peleton heading uphill.