Chicken's Don't Clap!

I had the honor of designing another header for music blog "Chickens Don't Clap!" this year. Derek just got around to posting his year end list so head over there and check it out.

This is a painting in our house that we got at a thrift store, and the tiles I found at SCRAP.

Oh dear, what a colorful mustache!

Here's a first pass with color. For this one I just set some values down in a burnt sienna to "set the stage" for what's to come in the future. I'm having fun with this one so far and it's nice working with a new medium. Especially one that's so hard to control. I'd still like to get looser and more spontaneous with my work. Maybe I'll do another version of this once I'm done with this one without the pen marks.

Self Portrait with Mustache

Here's the bare bones of what will become a watercolor painting I'm doing of myself. Right now I'm too tired to post any more. More to come tomorrow.

Federation of the Rings

Commander Frodo reporting to duty. I'm pretty sure he's part Vulcan.



And in color.

Doodle turned Salesman

It's been a while since I sat down without knowing what I was going to draw. I decided to try and do this more. This guy started with a doodle that turned out to be his nose and the rest was history.

Wedding Art (with Owl)

Way back in February our friends Jon and Skye got married, which was quite the joyous occasion. The night before the ceremony we went over to their house to hang out and help with some of the decorations. In lieu of helping I drew this picture of Stephanie helping. It's from an aerial perspective.

Also, there's an owl.

A Small Shade of Purple

As promised, here's that completed portrait of Mr. Smalley. It doesn't quite have the realism I was going for, but not too shabby for my first water color in a while. My main focus for this one was pushing the contrast with darker darks, and adding as much detail as I could get in there. I think I'm going to need to get a finer brush, though, so I can flesh out those details even further.



And of course I can't resist seeing what any of my drawings look like in sepia tone. It really works for this one.

Watercolor Smalley

I like watercolor a lot, but I hardly ever can bring myself to pull them out and use 'em. Well, I'm going to make a real effort folks. I'm planning on mixing them with pen and ink drawings, but I decided to start out with a pure watercolor portrait and just see how that went. This is the first stage of a portrait of my buddy Fred.

Banjo Player

While on our trip to Arcata we stopped into a cafe/hot tub establishment that had been recommended to us and we happened upon a live band playing traditional Irish and Scottish folk songs. Here's what the head guy looked like.

A Gentleman of a Dino

I've been doing Animal Portraits for a little over a year right now, and I've grown a bit tired of them. BUT, do you know what I love possibly more than regular ole' animals?

DINOSAURS



Yeah, that's right. It's a sketch of a dinosaur with muttonchops. He's got a comb-over too. What are you going to do about it?? NOTHING, BECAUSE IT'S AWESOME!!!

I have something much more grand in the works for this image. Just wait and see.