Mom circa High School Graduation

If I give away the year she'll probably kill me but this is my mother's high school graduation photo.  Edited and drawn in colored pencil and then digitally tweaked.  Working on this one has actually made me curious enough to look into Wacom tablets and the ease they provide digital rendering with....finally.

Quick Visit...

A quick 8"x10" acrylic and ink piece I decided to do... more landscapes/seascapes to come I think...

Medusa W.I.P.

Here's a work I've had to step back from for a short time... All the scales and layering involved in the shading of them takes much time and patience.  In the end I'm sure it'll be worth it, though the scales are the least of my worries.  The skin tones for the hand and face need to be more vibrant and the face needs more wear I think.  Basically everything needs more contrast and a lot more layering... Time to get back to work..

Octo

Newest piece, acrylic over oil, probably over a course of two years. 18x24.

Underwater Reflection

Not entirely happy with this image, a little rusty with acrylic.  Normally I use colored or graphite pencils best; and much more practice is needed to really get a grip on this medium.  A trip to the supply store must be made.  I need to start creating larger pieces with more detail in the future.

Storm Waves

A quick acrylic painting of some waves, painted just to pass some time.  Only about 11x14.

Jellyfish...

 

I decided to draw a jellyfish because I finally became sick of drawing self-portraits while at a loss for a model... I love marine life, and water more than anything explainable; just as much as I love art I suspect.  There's the same kind of peace and solitude in water, aquariums, and things that live in the sea as there is in drawing.  I drew the center image originally in colored pencil and then edited it digitally through Photoshop.  The other two versions are changed further using filters.  Left being "Diffused Glow" and right being "Glowing Edges", I tried others however there seems to be something about the word 'glowing' in relation to an image of a jellyfish that just appears to fit.  At this point I'm not really sure which I like best but they were fun to experiment with regardless...