Watercolor portrait from life

I'll be at Granite State Comicon this coming weekend..

I'll be at the Granite State Comicon on September 13 & 14. Come see me at table A6 in artist alley!

Faun comission

This is a commission I did last Sunday @ Queen City Kamikaze. It's a pen & ink piece but this version has been altered in Photo Editor.  

The Smiths : Complete Old Grey Whistle Test (1985 & 1986)

I guess I'm an overly sentimental fanboy after all. The footage(@1:30) of Andy Rourke playing the bass on That Joke isn't Funny Anymore is kind of amazing.

figure drawings-ballpoint,brush pen and graphite.

"Happy" accident

 I had some leftover ink from one of my classes so I dumped it on a large sheet of paper. It ended up having an interesting drip effect. So, there was only one thing to do ...turn it into the Grim Reaper apparently. India ink, 18 x 24 inches approximately.

Some new figure drawings

Here's a few figure drawings I did recently. These were short poses.

Monotype study and B&W figure drawings

I've been meaning to do some more monotypes so I decided to do this one the other night as a study for a painting. Because the working time in monotype is limited(because the ink starts to tack up)  it forces you to work quickly and make decisions sooner than you would with other mediums. If I had a bigger press I might do the whole image as a print. I also posted a few recent figure drawings.

This image was created by inking an entire piece of thin plexi-glass with ink and then drawing into the ink and using whatever is at hand( rags,pencils, fingers, solvents etc) to "pull" out the image. When the image is completed a piece of printmaking paper is placed on the plate and it's run through a press. The second image is a "ghost" print which is obtained by a second pass through the press. 

New drawings-sketch for print

Here's a couple of new sketches. Like a lot of the things I do they are a result of simply drawing and seeing what comes of it, with a only a mood or feeling in mind. Following where the line takes me if you will.
The black angel is one I'm thinking of making into a print for Spectrum Fantastic Art Live in May. Link: http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/spectrumfantasticartlive/

Some new figure drawings and watercolors.These are relatively short poses, 30 minutes average. Thanks for looking!.

Batman.

Some figure drawings

Oil painting in progress.

Oil painting in progress. I  have one more session with the model and will post the finished painting next week. I'll be adding some highlights, working on the halftones, adding detail to her hands and basically slathering a bunch more paint on it .Of course there is always the potential of ruining it too!

Some new figure studies

New figure drawings

These are some newer figure drawings I've been doing. Most are in the 10-20 minute range. I'm using some of these for the basis of larger paintings which I will be posting studies for soon. Thanks for looking!

Sketchbook on order!

Well, I finally got my sketchbook ordered, hopefully I'll see it in a week or so baring any problems. Here is the cover and a few additional images from it.

Drawings from my forthcoming sketchbook.

These are some sketches of mine that will be in my forthcoming sketchbook. I'm pulling most of these from various drawing pads I have strewn throughout the house. I plan on having it available for the Spectrum Fantastic Art Live event in Kansas City in May. http://www.spectrumfantasticart.com/spectrumfantasticartlive/