Revised Portrait

      The previous version of this painting turned out to look more like an illustration than a portrait. I'll continue to play with the other one because I really like the style. But I was asked that I make a more portrait-esque painting. I changed a few things like the height of the boy on the left and a few proportional issues. It's still not done. But, I thought i'd post it so that you could see the general direction that it's taking. Please comment!

Sunday Morning

     This is a portrait that I had commissioned to do of myself and my cousin Max when we were 5. I had a few old photos to work from that weren't all that great reference material. I think I could have saved at least 4 hours if the reference material was up to par. But, I have to keep in mind that I'm not going to always have professional photography at my disposal. So this was a good exercise. The back ground is all me. Well, I grabbed a few photos for reference of flowers and a chapel. But, they weren't in the original photos. (The image isn't very high quality because I have realized that there's no point in putting a 45mb jpeg on my blog when no one's screen is that big.) I think it's a fun piece. What do you think?

My new and Improved Signature

       So I've been wanting for some time to have a "signature" that was distinctly mine and that was consistent across all my paintings. In my entire Art career i've yet to paint the same signature twice. I think it's about time that all my paintings have the same one. I had played around with a few ideas including both my first and last name. But I came across Paul Lasaine's blog and I really liked his signature paullasaine.blogspot.com. He just uses his last name and it's a very powerful signature. I thought I would try something similiar and I really like how it's turned out. I think it's much more powerful than any of my full name signatures. What do you think?

Bridal Portrait

       This is a portrait of my wife Michelle in her wedding dress. A huge thanks to Jennifer Gull Photography for taking such a lovely photo. But Michelle is very photogenic. This painting was actually my mother's idea. As a side job I'm going to try to join up with photography studios to paint portraits. I'm going to show this painting along with the Gull Family Portrait to them and ideally get them to hang up some of my paintings or something of the like.  I'll have to work something out with them so that they benefit as well. We'll see how it goes. Comments welcome.

Green Woman Sketch (In Progress)

This started out as a sketch I did in class when I was bored. But I liked it so I finished it kinda. It was fun. Just trying to stretch myself.

The Conjurer (In Progress)

Before Christmas break I was scared of not doing any artwork over the break and getting rusty :) So I made sure that I at least did something over the break. This is a painting I did using my wife's brother Jared as a model. It was fun. I'm not quite finished with it but I thought I'd put it on here to let people see what I've been up to.

The Gull Family

I haven't posted in a while. This is a painting I did for my sister in law for christmas. My wife's family draws names for christmas and I drew her sister. It was a really fun project. I procrastinated it way too long though and had to take it, last minute, to kinkos to get it printed. But it turned out great!

Billybob and Cletus (In Progress)

I used ta let here cletus sleep in the bed wit me an gerty but gerty didn't take to kindly how cletus liked to nibble on her toes. I jus tell her that Cletus get reel hungry like at night. But, she made me put 'im out here in the yard. But I done come and visit cletus every day an rub his belly. He sure like it when yous rub  his belly...

The Hunt

Gym Santa

Someone has to lift the gift bag...

Hyrule Christmas Party

The assignment was "Santa". I have always been a fan of the Zelda Games series and I decided to do an illustration based on the main characters from the games. The idea is that Link and Ganondorf both showed up to the christmas party dressed as santa. I thought it would be a fun idea. I admit that it would probably be more interesting to those that actually know who these people are. But, I think it's fun either way. I'm still going to refine quite a bit, but you get the basic idea. And, i'm sure, after the in-class critique some things will probably change. Please comment!

Jeff Ward Portrait.

After the critique I completely scrapped the background and put in a "studio" environment. It's still unfinished but you can see the basic layout for the background. I'm still going to put some elements in. The newest version is on top. This is the version that I will print. Comments welcome.

Jeff Ward Portrait ( In Progress 60% Done )

The assignment was to do a portrait of one of the Art Faculty members. Our class drew names out of a hat and I drew Jeff Ward who is a fine artist who currently works drawing storyboards (if i'm not mistaken). Given that he is a "non-traditional" faculty member, he doesn't have an office on campus. So I wasn't able to get ahold of him to actually take a photo for reference. So I happened upon an image of him on the internet with a stylish beard and hair and decided to use that as reference. I just threw the frame on there as a texture for fun. Please comment!

Swine Flu Revised

Swine Flu (In Progress)

This is a preliminary sketch. I have a few other ideas that i'm throwing around so this might not be the final.