A few new digital pieces--

The legend of Steve French--

Here are a couple of pieces done as I moved around famed art model Steve French in March. I'm taking a break from oil painting in order to concentrate on my gesture drawing and digital painting, but - looking at this quick study- I'm missing the feel and fun of oil already.

Another recent digital painting...

Wall Street Journal piece

I had the opportunity to illustrate a six panel comic strip for an Op-ed in the Wall Street Journal this past weekend (scroll down a bit after linking). Got the call Friday afternoon and it was in Tuesday's  paper. They did a great job with printing and lettering-- I was surprised at how good the color looked on newsprint!-
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304023504577319623333618562.html

O'Brien the Barbarian

Robert E Howard's writing always seemed to have a lot of references to the Celts and played with their misty history, so why not?!
Digital- mainly Photoshop with some Painter...

Cleaning up some loose ends

It's been a while since I've posted anything from class, so here are three oils. Two of them had been posted in earlier stages and, what's represented here, is what I consider "done" (the only painting I do outside of class is digital, so what gets done in class is all that's gonna get done). The third piece is a three hour study of model John King. I really liked the start on this and wish that I had gotten at least another 3-6 hours to work on it, but-- well-- we went and had a baby : )

Colonial corner...

Photoshop with just a bit of Painter here and there-