Happy Halloween!!

I was playin' around in photoshop and out came these 2 things:  Martian pumpkins invade Earth!  And the other a more earthly pumpkin, with a sort of wonky face.

Set painting for live theatre...

I recently did some background painting for live children's theatre.  It was a fun experience.  There was a path down a "dark forest" and one down a "light forest"- I did the "light forest".  The play also involved a princess who has a portfolio full of her "fashion illustrations"- just a few quick sketches were needed, this is one of the ones I contributed for fun...

Square Feet

I participated in The Square Foot Show, for which the opening was last night; it was packed!!  Got totally soaked in a storm on the way home, ahhhh summer.  This was the piece I showed, painted in acrylic and gouache on wooden panel.  You can check it out at Twist Gallery or check out awolgallery.com for more details.

Blocks and blocks - art brownies 2012

Just last weekend was the opening for the art brownie project 2012, where you are given a wooden block measuring 2 1/2 " x 2 1/2 " x 1 1/2 ".  These are my tiny creations...  (You can check them out at INDEXG Gallery or go to this link for more info: artbrownie.com )

driving in the rain

It was a grey rainy day out today so I suppose I was inspired to do this little number even though I was supposed to be working on something else!  I was looking for some inspiration for another project and started playing around with this based on some other artwork that I found.

Finnesto finito!

I finally put the finishing touches on this painting after leaving it for a while.  Painting is such a push and pull, give and take exercise demanding of all your attention and concentration.  But do you know what's even more difficult?  Trying to get a decent photograph of the darn thing!  It's impossible to capture all of the colours and textures and feeling of the original painting.

SHARKFIST!!

I am participating in a group art show this weekend in which everyone must design a t-shirt for a band that does not exist, based on 80's metal shirts some having fake tour dates on the back and the whole shebang.  Mine's a little more metal/hardcore/punk.  Anyhow, I always like to see the rough work, sometimes I even like the roughs better than the finished product, plus I kinda screwed it up when I inked it so here you can see both!