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

Chaser- Border Collie of a thousand Words

This is a portrait of "Chaser" the dog that knows over a thousand words.  I just read a book about her written by Dr. Pilley.  It was excellent and inspiring.  I just sent Dr. Pilley a print of this and I hope he will enjoy it just as much as I enjoyed reading his book and creating this portrait.

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.

Fuller Christmas Card 2014

This is my second year creating a Christmas card for the Engineering Company I work for.  The only criteria I was given for this year was to make everyone legos.  So I was left to figure out all the rest of the particulars including the text inside the card.  And inevitably (like last year) we had some personnel changes after the card was finished resulting in last minute revisions.

(First image is exterior of card, second image is inside card & text)