Big Blog

Wow, I haven't posted in a while and things are going very fast here....
A sampling:


Illustration for The Green Bird, Illustration Techniques. 8x10", scratchboard


Early stage of drawing for Drawing for Illustrators


Not done but mostly there.


Early stage of 3rd drawing for Drawing for Illustrators. The assignment is to do loose, unfocused markmaking (artist word! :D ) until an image starts appearing from our subconscious. Then we can start developing it.


...later on...


Done!


detail of bottom left corner


Pollockesque diptych of slouchy sad rabbit (left) and llama and bull's head (right). Not done. In the tradition of Ex Nihilo.


Experimenting with some new/old techniques. (Stuff I used to do a lot of updated with ideas from the internet).

The Vault Opens

No new photos from the studio today, although I did get some work done on Now It's Starting To Spread!, which is coming along nicely. Added some darker values and moved onto the central panel of the triptych.

From The Vault
I'm including extra Vault today to compensate for the lack of current images.


A map for my probably-never-to-be-completed children's book, Animal Kingdom 'GoodLand'.



A page form my stylebook, where I clip'n'collect images from notes I take (most of these are from high school when I drew intead of taking notes in all my classes). It's sort of a Grant Hanna version of Mucha's Documents Decoratifs. I think these are mostly from a politcal studies class I took sophomore year of college.



Here's an old scan of the top section of The Green Bird, before I solved the anatomical issues.

The Green Bird

The Green Bird, acrylic on panel, in progress, 12" x "24 (?), fall 2004 - present

From The Vault


Drawn in a Moleskin about a year ago.