merry christmas to all. 

flight.

(some more paint and collage action)

unexpected visitors.

bats! why’d it have to be bat? 

what does it taste like?

a couple more for my “ani-mask” series and a baby cafe.

don’t you hate, when you’re on the road, you end up behind a slow driver? 

what’s on tv?

animal mask series.

the dinos

been playing around and adding some collage to the proceedings…

i had the privilege of contributing a piece celebrating the 50th anniversary of “where the wild things are” by maurice sendak. it was a fun assignment to be a part of and you can view my piece along with the works of a multitude of talented folks here.

my thanks to betsy bird for putting this fun project together. : )

some recent pieces for fun.

jump.

the mac dad will make ya jump, jump

and a happy new year to you. i'm going to try and do something that i used to do way back when, showcase a painting in progress from start to end.

to paraphrase a line from last year's movie, prometheus- "big things start from small beginnings." 

i had an idea for an image

i wanted to play with the notion of water as the color of the paper and have a few lines showing the ripples in a pond with some bits of reeds sticking up from it. 

from there i was trying to figure out what the narrative could be. i had an image of a fish tipping his hat to a girl or a princess. so i worked on that for a while.

it was all right, but i'd done some princess-y stuff in the past and wanted a new story.

one day i was reading a comic whose story was set in japan and the idea of cherry blossoms falling on water with a girl in a kimono stuck in my head. so with a quick change and adjustment, i began work on this idea.

i was liking this direction. after transferring the image to paper, i began with painting the fish.

next, the girl.

then filling in the rest of the background. at some point, i abandoned the idea of making the water the paper color because it would mean i should paint in the sky to differentiate the two. i dropped in some blue but made it washy.

then back to the top for the finished image. 

in hindsight, i could have broken down the steps further. maybe by layers of paint in one instance. if i try a post like this again, i'll do better. i've always enjoyed seeing how elements develop whether in paint or model making or movie special effects. (yeah, i like watch the behind the scenes stuff on DVDs) so i thought i'd try my hand at some behind the scenes action. 

a friend sent me this pic which is linked to the twitter account of art director guiseppe... Read the rest of this post

summer fun time.

smile.

fish, fish, fishy, fish, fish.

working on a new personal piece. my, what’s got this pelican all hot and bothered?

reworked website coming soon…i think…fingers crossed.