it's industrialy

i enjoy painting landscapes but i decided that i should start focusing more on other types of subjects so here's my try at an industrial type setting...

it sewery

i don't normally post speed paints because i tend to obsess and go over them until they turn into something else... this one started as a sunday afternoon speedie and a few hours later...

Dusty tracks

Edit: Round 2 of Dusty Tracks above....trying to push the majestic feeling

i had the luxury of free time last week and had the chance to visit some local museums. The Met and Frick are among my favorites in New York. It was all inspiring. so here's a new painting that started as a speedy.

new piece

just a piece ive been working on and off.. i wasnt happy about the color so i desaturated everything until i sort it out.

Uprooted

more balloons

Red Balloons?

"Red Balloons".. or maybe watermelon. This painting was a process... it changed a lot from the previous sketch (see below) but as a personal painting I was still trying to find a story. i hope it has one.

bad food ! and a WIP

I've been recovering this week from food poisoning (it'll be a while before I order take out again...) but i managed to stomach some sketching this week. i'm imagining some icey castle thing... hopefully i'll be back to normal soon!

End of the Line

End of the Line

It was a rainy weekend so what better way to spend your time than to stay inside and bask in your monitor's brightness? And paint too.

I also finally put my portfolio site up. lets just say i was going for something really really simple! :)

Jacked

Jacked
16x20" Watercolor

This is another Watercolor self portrait I did when I was in artschool a few years ago -- 2004- 2006. Those years really flew by. I honestly can't remember why I even painted this, but it was later sold to a great friend of mine.

Gamer Temple Header

Here's an illustration that I created for the crew at GamerTemple -- a social networking site just for gamers. They pitched the idea of a gamers' pilgrimage, which I thought was a nice and clear concept. I did a little research and created the central structure, which was inspired by the roofing of Japanese temples - but turned on its side.

I also thought it would be nice to include the blue versus red color scheme -- traditional colors for online team games. On their site, I also designed the shiny little icons.

If you're a gamer, GamerTemple has a lot of potential so I invite you to check 'em out.

Winter

Winter

Something different from me style wise, but the frozen weather outside had me thinkin'

Miracle on the Hudson Part 2

The airliner now rests on a barge, still visible from our building. Tom got a closer look and took these photos today. The plane rests about 5 minutes walking from us.

I'm still amazed there were no fatalities in this crash, and the plane is incredibly (for the most part) intact.



Photos by Tom.

Miracle on the Hudson

View from Apartment Living Room

This is a different post by me, but I thought I'd share. On Thursday Flight 1549 crashed landed into the Hudson River. Fortunately and miraculously, no one perished aboard as the plane swooped into the icy river.

I happen to live by the Hudson River in Battery Park, and from my apartment window this is what we saw that afternoon. These photos were taken by Tom.

Battery Park has seen its share of history, including our close proximity to where the World Trade Center once stood. In fact, across from where these photos were taken is Ground Zero.

watercolors

I don't normally post these, but I figured what the heck and share some of the watercolors I've done while I was just a terrified art student in a big school.

Watercolors was a medium I took to immediately. There was something about the slippery chaos that I loved. Oils was an okay medium for me, but I knew that I drove my oil painting teachers crazy when I would thin out my paints to a watery consistency. It just felt good. Mind you, I was doing this before I ever tried watercolors so I was overjoyed to find there was a painting medium that I could naturally soak into.

They're all 18x24", and the last one is a self portrait. :-)

Dante Five

These five paintings were for a contest to illustrate an epic poem, I chose Dante's Divine Comedy. It was tough to do just five.

Frozen

Another image I'm working on (series... hopefully done this week)
Eventually will add some lost characters to this one

Also noticed a disturbing effect,my images look completely different on some websites than others. Far as I know this blog displays my work correctly but on another forum it was oversaturated and blown out. Doing a "Save for Web" In photoshop seemed to fix that. I hope!

in progress

in progress shot of a new piece.... could totally change, depending on my mood!

for UCLA

Future of Freedom

idyllic

Wanderer by Lake Vernet

14x8"

So I wanted to make something idyllic...

Be Squared

The fine folks at ArtSquared are finally releasing a book, celebrating digital artists and their paintings. The duo, Kirk Slater and Liam Murphy gathered some very fine talent for the first edition and the production looks very promising.

They also just let me know that I'll have two pieces running in ArtSquared. Super excited!!!