Pumpkins!!!

As a special treat for my coworkers, I designed and painted 16 small pumpkins (one for each person). Each one had a note and was hidden in each co-workers office space.

Hummingbird Oil Painting

About a month ago, one of my coworkers quit to open a frozen yogurt shop.  He had worked next to me for 2 years and I really missed him leaving.  So to send him off on his new adventure properly, I painted this small oil painting for him.  I have had my fill of framing drama so this is also my first wrap around canvas painting...and I must say I love not having to frame.

Experimental Oil Painting for Flat Out Under Pressure

These were some small experimental oil on paper that I did while on vacation as a warm up to "Flat out Under Pressure" (Greenville's 24 hr. traditional art making competition).  These were very spontaneous without any prep work.  I began by throwing color on the page and letting the image evolve from there.  You can see what I ended up with for the competition and the rest of the work by clicking HERE.  I really don't know if I will do any more of these in the future or not.

Coral Captive

I have really enjoyed working on this digital painting of a mermaid and a sea monster...that is whenever I had the chance to work on it.  It's been in the works a long time. It was challenging from the moment the concept was born.  If you look back in the blog you can even find that it was once upon a time in the abandoned work pile due to serious composition problems.  These problems were solved with the use of my trusty sketchbook(....yay sketchbooks!).

Gardening like a Pro

A weekend at the gymn

New Cintiq equals new sketching

I have a Cintiq (24 hd) now and in jubilation of that I created this sketch.  I'm still getting use to some of the controls/buttons, but I am loving the overhanging the desk feature.  It's a really comfortable way to work.

New Year/End of the year

This was a quickish sketch...the last one of the year.  I haven't made all my artistic goals this year,but reading about Maslow's "Hierarchy of Needs" allows me to give myself some slack.  If you have never read about it, it basically says that one's basic needs must be met before one can attend to higher needs.  I am hoping in this next year I will be successful in meeting basic needs so that I may be free to be more creative and artistic.

Mermaid Update

Finally found some time to work on this digital painting.  It's still pretty messy at this point, but I am liking where it's heading and having fun painting it. 

Bridgman arm studies and a revision

 

Some anatomy review for this week. 

Also if you remember a few weeks back I posted about some of my abandoned work.  I had an epiphany about how to salvage one of the pieces enough to move it out of the trashed bin and into the working on bin.  Only problem is finding the time to actually dive into working on it (pun intended).  I have a few other large projects going on at the moment along with a lot of computer troubleshooting issues. Below is the extremely quick sketch revision, but once I really start working on it, it will still probably be revised even more.