Beau's First Hunt

This is a drawing that I did from a photograph of Beau's first hunt for my daughter's boyfriend for Christmas.

More Christmas

Here is a sign that I did for my daughter's boyfriend's mother to give to her father. Fun sign and painting of a rainbow trout.

Busy Christmas

I had to wait until after Christmas to post a couple of pieces that I completed. This is Dover. I have used another pooch from this customer for a long time—Normandy, the black lab. I also did another dog—Beau—for my daughter's boyfriend. I will post that later as I don't have the picture downloaded yet.

I also did a house drawing, but had to do it so quickly that I wasn't able to get a scan. Bummer.

I've been working on an illustration for a book, but I will have to see if anyone will be bothered by my posting the illustration before the pitch.

So, very busy, just not able to share much visually. I will be firing up the painting effort with my new easle! (Christmas goodie from my girlfriend of 31 years) I have a commission first, then start working on paintings for next year's BFA.

IF: Prehistoric

I haven't done Illustration Friday in a while, although I follow it in lurker pretty regularly. I had the need to do a little drawing, so here are some beasties following the kill by some prehistoric hunters. Its good to draw--even badly.

Long Time No Post

It's been a long time since I posted. I finished the Marine Corps Marathon run and did some hiking in the Adirondacks this past month. I haven't been painting because I've been replacing my windows (almost done). It's time for our company holiday card and the illustration I created is here.

What's been taking up my time

Ok, hopefully none of your screens broke when you opened this post. I have been a little behind in creating any artwork because I have been focusing on my sentinal event for my 50th year--training for the Marine Corps Marathon on Oct 31 in DC. That's my chunky butt in the middle of my 23 mile training abuse last weekend. I don't know why I feel obligated to put that here, but I do. Perhaps someone will take pity on me and give me artwork to do rather than allowing me to be out on the street looking like this!

The group that I am training with, Marathon Rocks, is a part of Easton ROCKS, which raises money via marathon for after-school activities for kids in our area. We raised $25,000 for the YMCA to put toward construction of an after school facility. A drop in the bucket, but a knoble effort none the less. So, two more training runs and then the big event. I am dressing up as a scary, hairy, marathoner for Halloween. BEWARE if you are in DC!

Chesapeake College Art Show and Sale

I dropped off the Grazing Belties yesterday afternoon for the 33rd Annual Chesapeake College Art Show and Sale. They were beginning to get the 131 pieces of art together and hang the show, so I breezed around seeing what was there.

There were a couple of interesting paintings in the oil/acrylic category. Two that caught my eye were a painting of an outcropping of river rocks and a painting of a sand dune. Both were very colorful representations of very monochromatic subjects. Both artists embued the images with lots of purples, greens, blues, and reds while maintaining a sense of the greyness. Pretty cool.

I enjoyed seeing some of the watercolors and photographs as well.

The show has a category for computer generated art. I should have entered something in that category, but I was unclear as to what was included. I talked with the event promoter about the criteria, because it seemed that it was about Photoshopping photographs.

She said they really didn't have any criteria, just that it was original and was generated by a computer. She showed me an image that was some bouys that had been run through the watercolor filter. It was ok, but still had very little art applied to a pretty nice photograph.

She invited me to help define criteria for next year's event. I will have to think about that. I told her that my very talented friend Greg would be a good person to discuss this with as well. He is accomplished at both traditional and electronic creation of art.

I look forward to the show. I hope the cows sell, but I would enjoy having them around as well.