Wednesday, March 18, 2009
How many images must one do before I can say I’m in my “green phase”? I couldn’t help myself here. But I came across this great texture from Share CG. I took it into Bryce and messed around, laying the texture on a few terrains and changing the properties until it got this nice wet, [...]
Sunday, February 22, 2009
I’ve been working on a couple digital paintings that required me to find some clothing reference for Middle Eastern dance. I came across the site of dancer Laura Selenzi. She’s got quite a gallery there, some wonderful poses, but what really struck me was one particular photo, taken by Mani Mehramooz (it’s in her “studio” [...]
Here’s something that was knocked out in two sessions, with one added quick one for a correction. It’s small, only 5″x7″, oil on canvas board. I Decided one day it was more important that I just paint something, anything at all rather than wait for the perfect subject. I set up a rock and a [...]
When you go about updating a website, there are a few things to go over. Usually one is prone to forget a few things. I’ve found a few images I forgot to add to the gallery here. Some of them are fairly recent, like the one to the left, here in this post (click on it for [...]
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Sometimes (actually, most of the time), I start working on something new and it turns out completely different. This was one of those. I was just looking to work on something new and felt particularly inspired by pulp covers from the 1950′s and ’60′s. I had the general picture in my head, but when I [...]
Tuesday, December 23, 2008
This little painting is based on a photo (not mine) that reminded me a lot of Devil’s Kitchen, a relatively small area of windswept rock in Southern Utah. It’s in the Needles district of Canyonlands National Park. You can get there by walking three miles from a parking area. An equally fun(!) way of getting there [...]
In June, my wife and I were lucky enough to afford a two week trip to Europe. We spent four days in Scotland visiting my sister close to Aberdeen (and me without my golf clubs!). Then there were three days spent tooling around Amboise, France, with the remaining six days in Paris. Trying to describe [...]
One of the things I’ve been doing for fun over the last year is some work for Liquid Silver Books, a publisher of electronic books. You may ask: romance novel covers? Or: e-books have covers? Sure, why not? Even virtual sales need something to draw the buyer. These covers aren’t very far from a lot of images I’ve done before, except [...]
Ok, not really forty-seven layers of paint, but I think I’ve gone five or six short sessions on this one by now. Yesterday I sat down and darkened up things a bit more, using the same colors- burnt sienna, burnt umber, and ultramarine. Liquin for a medium. I’ve really enjoyed the process of scrubbing the paint [...]
Wednesday, March 28, 2007
So here’s something I’ve had sitting around that needs to be carried to some kind of conclusion. Or demise. I’m not quite sure how it’s going to work out. The good news is that I think it looks ok so far. The bad news is that it looks ok so far and odds are that [...]