Theseus

Pen and ink illustration. Originally a brush illustration but I reworked it with pen and like the results better for textural effects and the spontaneity of approach. Hopefully the first of many.

A Tale of Two skulls

I was prepping painting stuff and had other obligations this week so I did a little drawing of two skulls. Charcoal pencil, no stumping. It might seem I have a morbid fascination with skulls but it wasn't mean to be a "finished" drawing project per se but just a time filler and some practice drawing from life (or death, more appropriately). Skulls are just interesting to draw. Or then maybe they're my "Wilson", my made-up friend..

Head sculpture..

After finishing up my hand study I had a little extra sculpey and I had done some doodles of some random character and so i decided to model it with the rest of my clay. Nothing fancy but I may do more (and most likely more complex ones) as it's a nice break from painting .

Garlic Ying Yang

Couldn't think of an appropriate name so I called what it represents, light on dark vs. dark on light, sort of a flip flop notan thingy, if you will.

Anyway, a very similar approach to "Remnants" (see previous post). A tighter looking painitng but not rendered per se. To me rendering is simply tight application without regard to the scale of the product. So I only render if it is appropriate for the scale but in other areas where i can simulate the texture or detail while maintaining this tighter look without noodling I will do so. So the red-purple fabric has a combination of larger soft brushes and some size 0's for the right texture but the garlic on the other hand was all painted with a pretty fat filbert bristle. Scale is more important than rendering.

For me at least..

I will update the photo when I can take a more professional photo but I wanted to share this now.

Anatomic Hand Sculpture

I just got round to finishing an anatomical sculpture of the hand that I had started ages ago but only finished the bone structure. I needed to get some new sculpey and then tinker with it during the evenings. So now I have a nice 3-d hand reference. Plus it, it might serve as a halloween decoration..

Self portrait in sanguine

I haven't worked with sanguine before so I wanted to experiment with it. It has a much rougher and crumbly feel than the charcoal or chalks I have used before which forced a different handling (to me at least). From life ..i.e. my mirrored self.

Remnants

Not yet varnished, with some sinking in, so it's showing some unwanted suede effect right now. 9 by 12 " on wood panel.