Collaborations with Jim Fitzpatrick

I first met Jim by chance just off Grafton Street in Dublin in 1992.
I am a huge fan of his work and in particular his iconic paintings for the Irish rock band Thin Lizzy.

In 1993 we began to collaborate on paintings.
The way it worked was Jim would give me maybe five black and white line drawings at a time,
I would paint these and then deliver them down to him and he would overpaint and add detail.
Below is a selection of some of them.
Please not that all paintings posted here are the copyright of © Jim Fitzpatrick.

The Book of Conquests – Dark Version 2002

Jim wanted to have a second version of his painting of King Nuada created.
He gave me the line drawing and I painted the underpainting.
As you can see from the final version he overpainted it in very dark blue tones and made a marvelous painting as good
as and maybe a little better ( in my opinion) than the original.

During the painting process I photographed it as I progressed and here are the results.

Here is the finished painting with Jim having overpainted in blue tones to darken my underpainting.

Croí na Ceiste

This one is titled ‘Croí na Ceiste’, translated as ‘The Heart of the Matter’
This is one of Jim’s Favourite designs and I love it too.

The Kiss : Beneath the sky of stars ii

I loved underpainting this one – when Jim gave it to me all he said was “just make her blonde haired ” so I did.
Of all my collaborations with Jim this is in the top five.