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Crazy Cossacks - Sunday afternoon sketching
Cossack Character Sketches - colored pencil and graphiteClockwise from upper left; Kumbilo, Lord Bunkers, Lombardi the Muscovite, Boyar Brice, and Portia. I recently finished a project with Scholastic,...
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Study of a 17th Century Polish Cavalryman
This study of Polish Cavalryman was painted on a wood panel made to look like a metallic plate. The effect was done using acrylic copper and gold paint on a tan background, with a coat of Liquitex...
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Pencil Prelim II
Just so these last two posts make some sense, this is another small pencil study done for later reference. These were drawn smaller than they are probably previewing on your monitor, which is bad in...
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Somewhat Adamant Valkyrie
I ran out of paper, so she get's a short-spear.A couple weeks ago I watched the performance from the Met of Richard Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung, or some of it anyway. It's very long, and some...
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Ending the Year
The Spyglass - oil on canvas 16" x 20"Not many posts for 2012. It was quite a busy year and I'll have to write more about it later. Some of you may remember the above painting in it's pencil stage...
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An Update? Really?!
Been trying to get a spark back in my recreational drawing. It hasn't been there these last few months it seems. Possibly because I'm expanding my studio and it's made things a mess. Maybe it's this...
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Ben Hatke
...says I don't update my blog enough... and unfortunately he's right. However this does give me an opportunity to share with you a Hatke original I purchased a few months back.I haven't framed it yet...
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Character Design for 3D Game Models
Here are a few character sketches for some generic heroes I'll be building (low polly) in the 3d program Blender. I've been playing with it the last few weeks and I've made some progress in the...
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Never Trust A Raptor
I missed the opportunity for a Saint Patrick's day post, which is just dandy. No Leprechaun or cool picture of St. Patrick as I would have liked.So here's a Raptor in a uniform. He claims to be a...
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Pencil and watercolor drawing
Above is a notebook drawing I worked on this weekend. I was studying some examples of medieval clothing and did a mix of various fashions. Hope you like it.If you're interested in purchasing the...
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Carter of Mars With A Twist
I saw the film "John Carter" a few weekends ago. It was a cool movie despite what critics say. Not long after watching it, I started to wonder what would have happened if the movie had a different...
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Keeping Busy
I'll be finishing up with a couple book projects in the next two weeks. Then I can get back to a few portraits that have been collecting dust... literally. There are about three things that I've...
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2012/2013 ARC Salon Finalist
The Spyglass - Oil on CanvasAlexandria - Oil on Gessoed BoardI'm happy to announce that two of my paintings were chosen for the figurative category in the 2012/2013 Art Renewal Salon Competition....
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I've been a zombie these past few days, just getting over a head cold and adjusting to this allergy season. I wanted to write a little something about working in the illustration field and what my...
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Sketch of a Fauness
I need to be posting more, so here is a quick sketch from yesterday.
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Studio Progress
Slow and steady. The studio has been at a standstill for a few months due to other work I had lined up. Sadly one of the projects was a large oil portrait that left me cramped in my current painting...
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