I worked up this portrait of Ashphord, a model that I referenced from New Masters Academy website. I went back to an old familiar palette and subject matter. I don’t want to be associated from my work as a portraitist although that’s most of what you see here. I see them as merely exercises to keep my hands moving, until I get smacked over the head with a concept I want to work on
I am currently playing around with techniques that allow me the freedom of using digital devices to draw and paint not necessarily more easily but more fearlessly. My plan is to merge digital with traditional, not necessarily “embellishing” but using the digital as an underpainting and glazing color and detail on top.
I’m working with a variety of surfaces as outputted substrate, suited to the work. And using pastels (right now) and attempting to glaze with them. I’m doing this to create an original painting. I suppose it would be classified as mixed media.
Right now there aren't hundreds of works for you to have to go into page after page of archive to retrieve. I'm taking this rebuild kind of slow and I'll only be including work that I think should be here, not every little thing that I do. So if you are an early viewer you can watch this grow.
I won't push you to subscribe, though it would make it easier to keep up in the future. Since I'm not producing a work every day or even every week, I won't be "nagging" you to come visit. Just when I have done something new that I think you might be interested in. So don't worry about missing anything, you won't have to dig too deep, yet.
Gestural figure drawing done in Adobe Sketch and ported over to Tayasui Sketches for the watercolor bits. It is one of a few gestural figurative that I started drawing with my old iPad prior to 2018. I was likely using a Wacom Stylus or the old Pencil tool that I carried with me before Apple Pencil. This figure had no reference and I was testing the pen and ink with watercolor applications because that is what I use to work with long ago in traditional mediums.
Another Self Portrait that kind of reflects my mood at the time. I was a paramedic two years at this point and I’ve seen a lot of things, a lot of darkness that kind of weighs on you. I didn’t go into blindly I was an EMT for 4 years already so I knew what I was getting into. But as a medic you are responsible for the lives of the people who call on you and the staff you are working with. It gets heavy.
This illustration was a throwback to my old pre-college and college days when I wanted to illustrate for Heavy Metal Magazine. I was real big into sci-fi, H.R. Giger, Moebius, and Druillet. I dedicated a lot of time to working out wild story lines and drew up the occasional pen and ink panel but they were never to my satisfaction for consideration to be used in HM Mag, I was aware at the time that they were using mostly French/European artist at the time. I also was enthralled like everyone else in art school, with Frank Frazetta, and Kelly. And I also was big on Vargas, Elvgren, Soriyama and
My art is a journey, I hope you participate, contribute, and learn along with me.
