Freaky City

Howdy from Pennsylvania.
Moving has forced me to really clean out some stuff and I came across an old portfolio. Here is a pair of paintings (acrylic and ink on paper) I did a few years ago with the concept of a landscape in color & the same in black and white. It's supposed to look sort of alienesque and futuristic. I thought it might be one of the first instances of my work evolving to where it is today and believe it fits in nicely with the rest of my online portfolio. It also reminded me I'd like to go back to experimenting with paint on paper more in my imagery.

Whether I'll actually add it to my website is still up for debate.

Now that I'm more settled in at my new residence, I have a lot of new projects in store and a few old ones that I'd like to resurrect and rework. Some upcoming:

1. Finishing my children's book Lizzie and the Fox (working title)
2. Playing with more hypothetical indie band paraphernalia (like posters)
3. Revisiting a fractured fairy tale I wrote a few years ago and perhaps turning that into a book
4. I'd like to redesign/update the design of my website and make it more modern looking, perhaps filter my portfolio into categories as it's getting rather big all in one clump like that.

So there you have it. Hopefully I can overcome this writer's block and think of a better ending for #1 and get moving on some color illustration spreads. I'm looking into self-publishing that one. If so, I will definitely be blogging about my experiences with self-publishing as I'm sure it will prove to be a very rewarding learning experience at least, and hopefully a successful one too. But first, to finish writing it!

Moving, Broken.

Hello one and all,
I apologize for not having updated in so long! I have been entirely involved in relocating from Richmond, VA where I have lived for 5 1/2 years, to my hometown in Pennsylvania. Hopefully I will still find people who are looking for my type of art up here!

In other news, I broke my foot not 48 hours after arriving in PA and am now getting around with a super fashionable velcro shoe and a pair of shiny new crutches. That has also put a damper on things (namely, job searches) but the plus side is I will have endless time to sit around drawing. Now where did I put the boxes with my art supplies?

More to come once I find a pen and paper.

Sketches!: Animals...

The first one's something I did while bored at work.
The second one's my first attempt at drawing Dexter from life, and this is all I got before he walked away. He's actually a terrible model. Who knew?

In-Progress (Mother Earth)

You lucky reader, you. Here's another update for today. I figure I oughta post some work-in-progress to satiate your artistic appetite. This began as an ink drawing and now I am working on coloring it in Photoshop. Final image will be up as soon as it's done, but it's taking some time what with all the winding, detailed foliage she's got going on in her skirt-leg-roots. I feel like this would be good as a poster design of some sort, maybe for some folksy indie band....anyone got a folksy indie band that needs a design?

UPDATE:



finished! Real band, fake tour. This is going on the website.

Eco-Friendly Shopping Bags!

One of my Xmas presents to the chicks in my family. This is for my sister in Spain (hence the Spanish). The rhinestones did not want to stay on, however. More bags to come.

Late-Night Drawing Time!

Acrylic, gouache, and digital on printed paper.



Here's a little late-night experimentation for you! I have had this idea in my head--well more of a loose theme-- for years now, and I'm still trying to work it out. Here's just the bare-bones beginning of it trying to push outta my head. I do NOT take credit for the underlying design--out of laziness/curiosity/convenience I painted on top of some leftover [copyrighted, I'm sure] Christmas wrapping paper that I really like. So this is more of an unusable study if anything.

I saved all these process pics of it but now I am having trouble loading them without them ending up one on top of the other, rather than in order as I write about them in this post. Oh well. I am too tired to deal with the inevitable frustration that will come of trying to figure this problem out. So enjoy just the finished piece and the mystery of how I created it, and I'm going to sleep. Good night!

Happy Holidays!

Hope everyone had a good holiday season and a happy New Year! I know I did. Now to get back to work. Images of the Christmas presents I made for family and friends will be posted soon (Hint: It involves sewing, cute animals, and eco-friendliness)!