Paintings

My friends' wonderful dog recently died, and their toddler came up with this story for where she is now, in the moon, eating a lollypop. Who couldn't paint that?

I just finished another sketchbook! I am still using the ratty 5x7 moleskine variety. It's just less commitment. :P

These are still mostly drawn from TV, although since I moved I no longer have a Tivo, so I am having to do more DVD (which sucks on apple - they may make great software on the whole but frontrow + mac remote is THE WORST way to navigate a dvd. Seriously, Steve Jobs, IT SUCKS!).

Most of the drawings represent shows I love and watch repeatedly, but I'm just going to call out The Painted Veil as the worst bit of romantic drivel ever made. It is so incredibly bad that the Bronte sisters would have liked it.

#3 or 3

This set is drawn largely from The Perilous Gard (see Favorite Books), but I had to throw in a bit from Red Feather in the middle (and I didn't think anyone would get a reference to the gray creature in Pope's book). My hope was to get prints made of these three, but I'm not sure if that will ever work (I've had no luck with the whole painting -> print process before).

#2 of 3

This set is drawn largely from The Perilous Gard (see Favorite Books), but I had to throw in a bit from Red Feather in the middle (and I didn't think anyone would get a reference to the gray creature in Pope's book). My hope was to get prints made of these three, but I'm not sure if that will ever work (I've had no luck with the whole painting -> print process before).

#1 of 3

This set is drawn largely from The Perilous Gard (see Favorite Books), but I had to throw in a bit from Red Feather in the middle (and I didn't think anyone would get a reference to the gray creature in Pope's book). My hope was to get prints made of these three, but I'm not sure if that will ever work (I've had no luck with the whole painting -> print process before).

I was just resenting the comic this weekend for taking away all my free time and keeping me from painting. So I did a little tiny painting. Well, two of them. Because I usually screw them up, and I wanted at least *one* to work out. However, there was no screwing up and I now have two nearly identical jesters. *squeeze* Very happy. No metallic paints used - this is all texture+color effects.

This board curved a bit during painting, so this is a rotten, stretched photo. *sigh* I'll get another picture sometime once it's been flattened.

This is not at all my style, nor even what I intended. But I was so tired after Rusted Harlequin that I just wanted to finish it and move on. So here it is. Bleh.

Urgh. This painting was the bane of my existence for the last three weeks. But at least it is done. There are things I really, really hate about it. But overall I guess it's okay.

This was inspired by an opening scene in The Crow: City of Angels, where the camera moves between the smoggy lit city to the underneath the clear water. I tried two versions, using different techniques, but I think Version 1 is my favorite. Version 1

This was inspired by an opening scene in The Crow: City of Angels, where the camera moves between the smoggy lit city to the underneath the clear water. I tried two versions, using different techniques, but I think Version 1 is my favorite. Version 2