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It's So Hard to Say Goodbye...And Hello Again!

After more than a year of using my website's native blog feature, I regret that it just doesn't work for me.  :-(  There are many ...

December 25, 2011

August 30, 2011

Thor?






I found some nice color combinations in an illustration I saw and thought I'd apply them to something more to my aesthetics.  This was some experimentation in my sketchbook that I thought was interesting. Funny how it just reminds me of Thor now though, which wasn't really my intention, if he was a golden model. Haha.

July 10, 2011

Owls Owls Owls!




There have been quite a few owl commissions. The top is a sketch in watercolor and was a little too serious for the patron, and so the bottom 2 were made on wood panels, stained, and painted with acrylic. There is a 3rd in the set I was unable to take a picture of, of 2 owls, hopefully I can get one soon. 

March 30, 2011

Dogs Of Law





Commission in watercolor 17"x30" for my friend Alex. Models: Sandwich, Pickles, Phoenix. This was a real pleasure to do, animals don't often make it into my work, but there will be more soon!

January 13, 2011

Website


I've made some updates to the website. Some minor, but one major change being the addition of the portfolio page. At this time there are only 9 images and a link to my Dripbook porfolio which houses the majority of my works for viewing. After reading what others thought and deciding to make this change I feel its important to have at least some works to view on my website. The ultimate goal of course being to completely house my portfolio on the site instead of having a redirect at all. It make take some time to fully transition, but I think I can have it done by the summer. I'm sure I will have to dust off my Flash skills.

Unfortunately until then I will only have thumbnail views on the website. It was frustrating at times getting the template to work with me but I eventually found alternatives to my ideas of the layout. I decided to go with a simple grid as opposed to putting a functional scrolling widget from the Dripbook site for the simple reasons of quicker upload. I'm all about quicker upload. Not to mention I wouldn't have to integrate the look of the widget to my site, as I like to keep it simple.

January 9, 2011

Commission - Dogs of Law (thumbnail)

I recently got commissioned to do an animal piece depicting the pets of a friend. I don't often do pieces consisting of animals since humans are where I feel more comfortable but I love exploring animal shapes and textures. Here is the progression of the thumbnail from this upcoming piece. This is about 2"x3".




I hope to accomplish more works delving into other creatures and/or creations. I have a few sketches I'll post soon on elephants, inspired by a friend's nightmare. I thought it would be nice to reconcile the two and perhaps they wouldn't scare him so much :)

January 2, 2011

A New Year

Here's to the new year, may it bring lots of work! I'm excited about doing some new commissions, and some new changes the new year is bringing. All I can say is its about time!  Cheers.