Where the "magic" happens

This is what my studio looks like. Pretty swanky, I know. It is happily covered with posters, art, and the postcards/business cards of fabulously talented people (although they keep falling down and are mostly covered in the pictures...) You can see the painting I'm finishing up right now, and the final drawing for the nest one I'm working on.

A preview of things to come...

.....a detail from a painting I'm currently working on, for my show with Marika. I do love painting fabric, and I'm trying to relish it because the next painting has a lot of straight lines!

Happy Holidays

Here's a painting I made as a gift for my dad. Hope everyone enjoyed last week, and had a good year.

bird catching

Well! Right now I'm working on some personal paintings, as well as doing work for a collaborative show with Marika Mccoola. Another little thing I'm doing on the side, for fun, is a series of character designs for The Magic Flute. Or rather, The Magic Flute if it was ever turned into an RPG. It's something I started for an assignment back in school and it was pretty fun, so I thought I'd revisit it. Here's the first finished character design, my favorite character, Papageno!

Three of the other characters have already been started, but since I have so many other projects going, I can't say when they'll be ready for posting.

Art for your feet!

So, the story behind these is: I got a free pair of shoes, but they were hideously white, so I painted them. My mom liked them, so I painted her a pair. Then, since other people liked that pair, I decided to start doing them for money. These are the first three pair of shoes. I love making patterns.

Second done

Second in the series, this one for The Queen of Attolia. I'm getting more of a feeling for this new digital color process I've been trying. However, the third will probably take more time in coming than this one.

The powdered graphite drawing:

The digital sketch (less or a departure from sketch to final for this one than with the first):

Still going

Well! So many things have been going on lately that I haven't even thought about updating. No longer! Here's a new bit of art!

So this is from a series of images I'm working on inspired by Megan Whalen Turner's YA books. This is for book one, The Thief.

I decided (for reasons I'm not too sure of) to do digital finishes for the series. The plus side is, because I wasn't going to be painting, I got to use powdered graphite for the drawing, which I haven't used in ages. So, here's the drawing :

And here's the digital sketch: