more playing around with faces.

faces

Often when I doodle, I play around with made up faces and caricatures. It gives me a sense of how emphasizing certain features can make a character look more like an actual person. I find it more fun than actually doing caricatures of actual people.

dragon wall

Perhaps the reason of Humpty Dumpty’s fall is now apparent?

Dragons are fun to play with.

centaurs

I love the idea of centaurs. They are fascinating to me, probably because of my love of horses in general.

Poseidin’s daughter

Ok, finally finished this puppy. On  to the next…

More painting progress

As I promised, here is the latest progress on my Posidin painting. It’s coming right along but still has a way to go. I’m having fun with it though.

theatre art

I’ve never been happy with sticking to just one area of art. In 1994, I went back to college and found myself involved with the Theatre arts and pursued that course up through a graduate degree. Although illustrating is my first love, I do Theatre Design here and there. Here is an example of some preliminary sketches I did for a design of Shakespeare’s “Midsummer’s Night Dream”. I also included a shot from the actual finished set in performance.

Set Design is fun for me. It incorporates illustration, sculpture, painting along with allowing a collaboration of ideas between many different creative minds. It is draining though, the reason I don’t do it on a regular basis.

Doodling with paint

From time to time I try something different and just start painting without any preconception of an image. It’s sort of doodling with paint. I will start by laying in a background and just add images as I go.  I consider it an exercise in honing compositional skills. Sometimes it works, sometimes not. At any rate, it is my expression in it’s rawest form. This is my latest example.

Tv sketching

This is what might come about with a ball point pen and a so-so TV night.

Newest work

Here’s a work in progress on my desk now. I had to break from it for paying gigs but now time to go back to it.

I’ve been thinking of painting mermaids for a long time and finally decided to jump in. I’ll keep posting progress shots as I go as an incentive for not procrastinating.