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Tag: painting

May 06

New Artwork: Drippy Watercolors

This afternoon I got to play with some watercolor paints in a fun way. I was basically puddling the paint and then tilting the painting surface and blending in more. I then laid them flat with sprinkles of salt and let them dry. I then brushed off the salt and drew details and brushed on …

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Mar 28

WIP Tiki painting

This is a WIP painting. It need somethings. Any suggestions? (click for bigger image)

Mar 27

Telephone Robot

The talented artist Becky Dreistadt AKA PocketOwl, asked on Deviant Art for ideas for drawings. Mine was a 50’s Robot combined with a Telephone. Check it out HERE. Becky is also the artist on the awesome web comic Tiny Kitten Teeth. Read it on-line NOW. It’s really cool and visually striking.

Mar 18

Artist inspirations on-line.

It seems that this week there have been a lot of really good posts on comics and art on-line and as always I love to share them with you. Of course I am a huge fan of all these artist and highly recommend checking out their sites and blogs. Craig Thompson (Goodby Chunky Rice, Blankets) …

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Feb 09

Disneyland in a 1960’s ‘Ford Times’ with paintings instead of photos

I saw this over at the Vintage Disneyland Tickets blog, it’s from the “Ford Times” from September 1960. Instead of photos there are watercolor paintings of San Francisco and Disneyland that are really well done. Check out their blog post here.

Sep 22

Recent Artwork

Sketches from last Saturday kids class at the Cartoon Art Museum. There was a Totoro theme. This is a current project/exerciese to create sketch cards of orignal art. The superhero images were drawn from convention costume photos.

Aug 22

Recent artwork 8-22-08

OK folks, here is some new art I have done. These were done in watercolor, then photoshoped for cleanup and color. I have been trying to work more graphically, inspired by the work of Michael Cho. He does his inks as shading, but not outlines per-say and then uses flat color to help shape the …

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Aug 13

Recent paintings

Hey all, here are some recent paintings I did. Enjoy. The first one was inspired by the work of this artist, though it might not look like it. I started with a sketch in orange and then I did the lines on top. This watercolor painting is from the Southwest Airline magazine I got on …

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