Fake Flowers

Bit of a warm up before I go back into the Hyena painting.

Senior Series Preview

Thought I'd throw up a shot of what this piece looks like framed and with a second coat of varnish. The frame is one I had floating around, I think it works fairly well. I might try to darken it with a stain or something. Thoughts?

sketchbook experiment

Drew a fuax-bronzed bust by Steven Wang shown at the Chet Zar curated Conjoined in 3D show.
Acrylic primed, ballpoint pen (almost half the ink in one), metallic color pencils and sharpie.
The sketchbook didn't take kindly to all that abuse, thus the glare from the paper warping even though I was trying to force it flat against the scanner.

Bearded Jess

So this is what I made for our print swap in Silkscreen class at the end of the year.  The theme was "Circus".  I was super rushed and used the wrong print out for my first layer with a misspelling, didn't notice until I had pulled almost all of them.  I just have to accept that there's so many things that can go wrong in silkscreening that it's almost impossible to get something through without errors.  C'est la vie.

More Colored Pencil Adventures

Still occasionally fooling around in the recycled brown paper sketchbook, colored pencils and solvents.  Now I just can't bring this within ten feet of an open flame.

New Sketchpad!

Been breaking in the new sketchpad and pen I got as a gift from Jill Weber.  Great stuff from muji.net

Easter Seals Wine Expo entry

Still Life with Lemons 16" x 20"

Spread 3!

Third and final. Same process as the others. A fraction of the time.

Second Spread for Jack and the Beanstalk

Start to final in three sittings! 5B Pencil on bristol, colored in Photoshop. Pages 8 and 9 directly follow the previous spread I posted. Next up is the scene where Jack is running from the giant with the harp.

Edit: changed the light out the window to better match the light on the mom.

First Jack and the Bean Stalk Spread

Here's my first of three spreads for my Jack and the Beanstalk illustrations. I included the cleaned-up line work done on Strathmore bristol as well. Colored digitally with Photoshop and applied a few watercolor textures and gradients. I also did the text. Wish I had put in the background market scene that I wanted but I'm spread a bit thin between all my projects. Any feedback is welcome.