Greg KapkaFine Art

Becca’s Earrings - oil on panel, 6in x 8in © 2015 ——————— I guess more words and things should probably go here to describe what this picture is, of whom it is and why the thing exists in the very first place. Email for availability. ———————  Detail: ———————

Alexandra (colour study) - oil on panel, 8in x 6in © 2015 ——————— Words and things should probably go here to describe what this picture is, of whom it is and why the thing exists in the very first place. Email me for availability. ———————  Detail: ——————— Detail 2: ———————

The Depressed Person - oil on panel, 365mm x 215mm © 2014 ——————— With paraphrasis of The Depressed Person, a short story collected in the ever trenchant David Foster Wallace‘s book Brief Interviews With Hideous Men.  Email me for availability. ———————  Dymo Study (more info): ——————— Colour Study (more info): ———————

  T.S.D.S: Superbia – oil on panel, 255mm x 155mm © 2014 (detail) ——————— I shot this timelapse before I had the proper gear to do so, so rather than a real “timelapse”, this is just a series of photographs taken when I remembered to, which happened to be whenever I started painting a new line […]

T.S.D.S: Superbia – oil on panel, 255mm x 155mm © 2014 ——————— Piece number one of a series inspired by the ever popular trope of the Seven Deadly Sins. Ideas are formed for most of the remaining six, and work has begun in earnest. I should expect they’ll come slowly but surely. As ever, click images […]

Timelapsing. Just Somebody That I Used To Know – oil on panel, 135mm x 135mm © 2014 Explanation: kapka.co.uk/?p=1001 #art #oilpainting #oilpaint #realism #stilllife #rosemarybrushes #timelapse #wip #workinprogress #5d2 A video posted by Greg Kapka (@gregkapka) on Apr 17, 2015 at 10:16am PDT   Timelapsing – cobbled together from shots taken over the few consecutive […]

Just Somebody That I Used To Know – oil on panel, 135mm x 135mm © 2014 ——————— After being caught obliterating our six year long relationship, I guess all she had left in her arsenal was spite. And she exercised it. Exercised it after I threw her out, when she came to get all of […]

Fraser - oil on panel, 200mm x 150mm © 2014 ——————— Another study, this time on dibond, mainly for a chance to mess around with painting hair. And to practise layering. And stubble, and other things of that nature. As ever, click images to embiggen Email for enquiries/availability. ——————— Process: ——————— Detail: ——————— Timelapse: Portraiting. Info: kapka.co.uk/fraser/ […]

—————— Resolution: Paint more Actually, I rather like a fair few of Woodie Guthrie’s famous list:   Especially the first four: 1) Work more and better 2) Work by a schedule 3) Wash teeth if any 4) Shave & also: 7) Drink very scant if any plus: 13) Read lots good books (sic) and finally: 17) […]

 Such Little Food For Thought – Timelapse —————— I took some photos of this piece whilst painting in the lettering. They weren’t shot at a set interval so it looks less like a timelapse and more like a jerky, stop-motion animation. The words are taken from Scroobius Pip’s song Introdiction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_Gh8TWpQE8 Email me for enquiries/availability. —————— […]

 Such Little Food For Thought – oil on panel, 170mm x 70mm © 2014 ——————— This was done as a study for a larger picture involving more Dymo text. The wording is a line taken from Scroobius Pip’s “Introdiction” which hits quite the emotional pitch, as his poetry/lyrics tend to do. Go here to see an […]

Aiden (Colour Study) – oil on panel, 200mm x 150mm © 2013 ——————— A portrait idea I’d had & wanted to do for sometime was made possible by my friend offering to pose and the weather – at just the right time – being dreadful. What resulted was some really grey, washed out colours that had […]

Old Cotswold Legbar – oil on panel, 230mm x 120mm © 2013 ——————— Eggs as a still-life is a trope almost as old as the still-life genre itself. However it seems that most modern versions of this formula use eggs unmarked by today’s standards of health & safety, which denuded eggs I’ve never seen since […]

—————— Wow! So to be honest the whole B.P. Portrait Award Private Press View and then Official Opening was amazing and busy and overwhelming and fantastic. So much so was it all four of those things that I haven’t even got around to thinking about it all let alone being able to process it or […]

Heterochrome (Fraser & His Self Portrait) – oil on panel, 230mm x 280mm © 2012 —————— Brag: When this picture was accepted into the 2013 BP Portrait Award, I was asked to write a couple of paragraphs about it for the powers that be to paraphrase it for the little info plaque that sits alongside the […]

A Lincolnshire Holiday – oil on panel, 200mm x 230mm ——————— The second of two still-lifes I had wanted to do for the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral, but which never made it because I ran out of time (see the first here). The polaroid of the cathedral was actually taken by my exhibition counterpart Fraser […]

 A Perfect Sonnet (The Lover’s Triptych) – oil on panel, 560mm x 410mm ——————— Lyrics & inspiration via Conor Oberst from his song: A Perfect Sonnet. The stunning light was provided by the early morning sun beaming into my old studio, which sunrise I was admittedly rarely there early enough to see. The painting hung as part of […]

A Patriotic Lamppost – oil on panel, 200mm x 230mm ——————— This is the first of  two more still-lifes I had wanted to do for the exhibition Fraser & I held in Lincoln Cathedral, but which I never managed to paint because I ran out of time. Whilst preparing that body of work I had purposely […]

So at work one day a drawing was brought in for framing which reeked of a quality rarely seen in my not-exactly-London city. It turned out to be a drawing by Travis Seymour and was exquisitely rendered in that unmistakeable atelier way. The person bringing it in for framing turned out to be the equally […]

Lincolnshire Holiday & A Patriotic Lamppost – oil on panel, 200mm x 230mm ——————— These two Lincoln inspired still-lifes were painted for Spencer Coleman’s Gallery in Lincoln after an exhibition that my artist friend Fraser & I had held in Lincoln Cathedral the previous year had sold so well. As ever, click images to embiggen Email for […]

l’Aquarelle - oil on Panel, 230mm x 180mm © 2012 ——————— The rather fun little watercolour in this oil painting was of a “Burning Embers” Begonia which was covered in loads of the most vibrantly orange flowers I’d ever seen and which, under the combined might of the wind and my neglect, lasted for all of […]

Miniature (Study) – oil on dibond, 40mm x 40mm © 2012 ——————— Practising my miniature painting chops, and using dibond for the first time. The surface is amazingly smooth but I don’t know about the long term adherence of primers to it yet. As ever, click images to embiggen. Email me for availability. ——————— Framed:  ——————— […]

Back to the Blue House – 0il on Panel, 9″ x 11″ © 2012 ——————— This is one of the seventeen oils from my half of “Project Cathedral” – the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral which Fraser & I put on this year (click to embiggen!) The polaroid shows the magnificent eastern aspect of the Cathedral, which is often overlooked in favour of […]

Fraser dreaming about what to spend his proceeds on.  ——————— I managed to steal a friend’s lovely 50mm f/1.8 Super Takumar lens for the duration of Fraser‘s and my exhibition this year, and so naturally spent much of the time we were invigilating the show pointing it at him whilst he daydreamed about spending his […]

Joseph Ruston – oil, approx. 30mm tall (detail from a much larger painting) —————— This portrait of Joseph Ruston is a detail from a much larger Project: Cathedral painting, exhibited earlier this year in Lincoln Cathedral. His links to Lincolnshire are many but the more obscure  one which prompted his inclusion in one of my paintings is […]

  ——————— I use a glass palette ala Richard Schmid and his many epigones, which has the benefits of being able to have a specific colour underneath it (in my case a neutral grey) and cleaning up really easily with just a knife & a squirt of white spirit. But it was only after using one […]

Fried green tomatoes weren’t (though it could be my cooking) very much to my taste. But then I’m not a huge fan of bread-crumbed food as it is. It reminds me too much of cheap & horrible freezer food, microwaved and served as a quick “antidote” to after school hunger. Anyway, this post is just […]

Toward The Crossing – oil on Panel, 9″ x 11″ © 2012 ——————— This is one of the seventeen oils from my half of “Project Cathedral” – the exhibition in Lincoln Cathedral which Fraser & I put on this year (click to embiggen!) Anyone visiting the cathedral can’t help but be impressed by the view of the […]

Despite the sunshine, I’ve been chained to my easel working on more Project: Cathedral pictures this weekend: And after a fecund day scrutinising a polaroid of the rather impressive sculpture at Lincoln’s Drill Hall, I then spent some of my evening queuing under the thing itself whilst waiting for beer. Unfortunately it was long (the queue, not the […]

Well this Sabbath Sunday saw more Project: Cathedral procrastination I’m afraid, but with good reason. A parent of my partner had planned to cycle the 20 odd miles over to our house with a friend of his to take advantage of the good view that the wall in front of my house offers of Lincoln’s […]

For an oil painter, I am fairly well obsessed with watercolour – especially as a means to just throw some colour about without really worrying about the outcome. It’s quite relaxing really after painting so tightly all day. But anyway in a strange fit of I don’t know what I bought this piece of hideous […]

After a dark & dreary day of painting which resulted in nothing more than a few wasted hours, the best I can show you is more Project: Cathedral teasing: If you squint at it, you can just about make out the snowflake! —————— Irrelevant Editorial Aside: The saddest thing about Russell Brand’s “My Booky Wook”  – apart […]

——————— You know it’s bad when you are painting so tightly & detailed that a brush that size starts to feel too big. They are Sceptre Gold II size 0000 watercolour brushes. I’ve no idea how the daft nomenclature came about but you can be certain that anything below a size 0 is really, really tiny. So small in […]

After All One Never Knew Now Did One – oil on panel, 260mm x 560mm © 2012 —————— This year’s B.P. Portrait Award rigmarole took a back seat to Project Cathedral procrastination, and so passed by largely unnoticed. Except for the hole-in-the-wallet side effects the award induces – what with the entry fees climbing each year, […]

Or – Happy Birthday to Me! ——————— My luthier girlfriend bought me that book up there, which will probably go a long way toward frustrating me due to his general other-worldly-ability with watercolour, and probably not go anywhere near as long a way toward the improving my own water-colouring. It certainly will improve the look of my bookshelf however, which […]

Project: Cathedral Teaser – 1 of 30 (?) ——————— I think, having never painted such a chunk of work for an actual exhibition before, that the blackboard here will serve well to illustrate the chaos slowly taking over this endeavour. ———————

H -Hour & D -Day – and so it begins anew. This blog takes over the previous incarnation, from which I took a rest for over a year whilst my painting went through somewhat of a transitional stage. I still have those what nearly 5 years worth of posts, archived away and I may, in […]