TODAY'S FEATURED POST
a Thanksgiving story
Don’t have much art that I can show at the moment, so I thought I’d treat you to a fun thanksgiving story. This one time, years ago back when I was just starting out, a friend of mine reached out to me with a prospective illustration job. It was 1996, I was living in El Paso Texas, before I’d moved to San Francisco and gone to art school. Art jobs were scarce and you took…
YESTERDAY’S POST
less is more
September 19, 2024 - Dug a little deeper into the high key overexposed painting thing again this week. I’ve been wanting to do a portrait of Kevin, our other mastiff for a little while now. He’s such a sweet old boy. Had it in my head to do like a “night lighting” portrait of him. He’s blind, and his eyes have that cloudy look to them that i think could look cool in that lighting scenario. But then a couple days ago, I snapped a blown out photo of him sleeping, and was drawn to the abstract vignetted quality of it, so I decided to give it a shot. Here's where we're at so far. Gridded this out because I really wanted to make sure I got the shapes as close to the reference as I could. There's so…
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