Thai Fairy Tale

Floating Village

18" x 24"

Watercolor on Arches

I created this image in one of my graduate school classes taught by Ted and Betsy Lewin. In the one week class, I created a 32 page book dummy to accompany a Thai fairy tale of how the limestone mountains were formed around Krabi. This is one of the finished spreads that would be the book opener of the floating village where the story takes place.

Memories of Potrero

Potrero Memories

watercolor on arches 

18"x27"

This is a large watercolor painting I recently completed for my longtime friend, Dave, who is a local climber in Connecticut. Dave has traveled numerous times to El Potrero Chico, a famous limestone climbing area in Mexico, numerous times with other Connecticut climbers and he requested a painting of the entrance to the canyon with soft details and a impressionistic feel. I also traveled to this area back in 2001 and remember the misty mornings and the clouds that encased the cliff sides, so I tried to recreate this dream-like effect.

Weekly Watercolor #2

Rough Drawing

Week 2

Bandit

watercolor

Here is my second weekly watercolor. For these paintings I will be recycling drawings from older projects. This character was used in a pencil test I did a while back , as well as a digital painting that I am working on . Both I have shown in previous posts:

http://danielyagminjr.blogspot.com/2011/03/gold-rush-character-pencil-test.html

http://danielyagminjr.blogspot.com/2011/11/another-wip.html

For these paintings I plan to work with a variety of subjects , and hope to keep the painting time to under 2 hours.

Weekly Watercolor???

Monkey

Watercolor

Chances are that it will not happen, but I hope to update this blog with a new watercolor each week. So here is the first of what I hope to be many.

JCL Santa images

Christmas is here and I just wanted to post some of my favorite Santa images created by one of the best illustrators ever, Joseph Christian Leyendecker. Just amazing stuff!

Nesh and Guanteen

Nesh and Guanteen

This painting served as a way to test the colors and textures that were applied to my 3 D Ganesh Creature model.I plan to post my finished Ganesh model and animations as well over the next few weeks. For now here is the painting in progress.