CHILDRENS ART

This is a concept watercolor sketch for a for a story idea I have. His name is Tim.

Fwape

Some paintings can be best described as a learning experience and that's the case with this one. My original, more interesting, sketch (below left) was done in gouache on watercolor paper and was very spontaneous and textural. This one, done in acrylic, has none of that. Also I failed to get the colors and contrast right (some of that is due to scanning). Onward.

Eyelobite

My son named this one. It is acrylic, it is 18x24" and I don't know what it is exactly but I like it.

Owl Painting

This owl was painted for an upcoming charity auction to support a school arts program.
9x12"
Acrylic on canvas

Photoshoppery

WW2 CALVARY MAN

I painted this acrylic sketch for a get well card my wife gave her 92 year old uncle Rudy. He was in the U.S. Calvary in W.W. II before they transformed it into an Armored division. He's a great guy and lived through some of the best and worst times this country's seen. I used an internet photo for reference so this doesn't actually look like him.

YOB GOB

Another cartoon head with Bill Wray inspired Photoshop coloring .

Spacey

Quickly sketched and poorly proportioned space art.

More Digital Painting...

Space Jam

This started from a sketch I did when I was listening to a John Coltrane CD. He and his band were jamming and it kept building up into the stratosphere. I've done three versions of this in color. The first was in watercolor and the other two in the program Freehand. here are the other two:

(Watercolor)

(Freehand)

DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION

OOK

Revised: 5/5/07 10:24 PM

Sunfish

I painted this for a sun themed school charity auction.
My nickname for it now is "Retarded Sunfish", because I accidentally coated the front of it with an acrylic retarding agent instead of varnish. I was working on two paintings at the same time and switching back and forth between materials. Whoops! It seems to have washed off okay.

Revision: I should have probably mentioned that a retarding agent slows the drying time for acrylic paints. This allows for more blending with acrylics as they are a fast drying paint. Using it accidentally as a varnish caused the painting to be perpetually sticky, hence the need to remove it.