Red Panda in Space

Cosmico

watercolor 13"x19"

Down the Line

Down the Line

13"x19"

Watercolor on Arches

Lil Dragon

Lil Dragon

Watercolor 5"x9"

I have been working on some larger paintings, but they are still a ways off from being finished. In the meantime I have been trying to do some smaller paintings to keep the tools sharpened!

Shark Stanley Art #2

Great White Character

Watercolor 8"x10"

Island Hopping

Watercolor 10"x16"

Here is a few more from the Adventures of Shark Stanley and Friends.

The return of Shark Stanley

Shark Stanley

Cover image for the Adventures of Shark Stanley and Friends

Over the past several months I have been working on a series of illustrations for the Adventures of Shark Stanley and Friends, a book that was released on April 9th, by the folks at Pew Charitable Trusts.  For additional information about the Shark Stanley project and how you can get involved  visit the Shark Defenders website.

Kip

Kip

10"x10"

watercolor on arches 

Sid the Fennec Space Fox

Sid 

Watercolor 8"x11"

TOTORO PAINTING

TOTORO

13"X19"

WATERCOLOR ON ARCHES

The Alchemist #4

The Alchemist

13"x19"

Watercolor on Sanford

Value Study

Color Study

Falcon 

This is another from the Alchemist series that I have been working on.  Above I have included the final painting, along with some images of the different steps that I  take on my way to arriving at a finished painting. The Falcon was painted separately and was later added to the finished painting using Photoshop. The value study shown above is when I will decide where the lights and darks will be within the painting and where the shadows will fall upon the figures. The color study, although much more abstract than the finished painting, helps provide me with some insight to how I want to lay in my washes and allows for experimentation with potential color palettes .

Feats of Strength 9 poster Art

Feats of Strength 9

Watercolor on Sanford 13"x16"

This is the art work for the upcoming Feats of Strength bouldering competition poster.

Euro Cyclist

Euro Cyclist

Acrylic on panel

24"x36"

 Since completing my thesis at the Hartford Art School in 2009 I have not had the opportunity to work with acrylic paint all that much. This painting was a lot of fun to do as it offered a chance to re-visit the medium.  Included in a previous post was  the preliminary drawing in which this painting was based upon. 

Ganesh watercolor

Ganesh Character Study

Pen and Ink &Watercolor

6"x9"

This is just a little watercolor that I did for fun. I have also built a 3D model based on this character in which I hope to someday animate.  

Groundhog day

Gantu the Groundhog

Watercolor

6"x9"

Gantu the Groundhog is going to appear in a larger acrylic panel that I am working on. In the meantime I felt like doing a quick watercolor study of him. So here he is...

The Chieftans

 The Chieftans 

13"x19"

watercolor and acrylic

Here  is a nearly finished version of one of the paintings from the Alchemist series that I have been working on. This piece along with a number of other watercolor, acrylic, and digital paintings will be on display at the Seven Arts Gallery in Ridgefield, CT, as a part the "Big Characters" show. The opening is this saturday April 6th, from 6-8 pm. 

Cyclist rough

Old School Euro Cyclist Climber

Lately I have been posting a lot of rough drawings for paintings that I am working on. Quite a few of them have entered the painting phase and I hope to post some images of them in progress as soon as I can. For now here is another that I am working.

Alchemist rough layout 2

The Magic Sycamore 

This is the second layout drawing for a series of paintings I am working on based on the Alchemist by Paulo Coelho. This is image depicts the opening scene where the young shepherd and his flock spend the night in the ruins of an old church that has sprouted a gigantic sycamore tree from within its walls.

 As always there are a few things I will go back and refine in this drawing. As time goes by, and the more and more I work on creating illustrations, I realize how important it is to push the design phase as far as you can. In most cases a composition can always be better, a character better designed, a hand better drawn, etc.  This composition was very much influenced by the Sagrada Familia in Spain, as well as the amazing Sycamore trees found growing in the temples of Angkor Wat.

Weekly Watercolor 4

Angry Dog

Watercolor

 Here is number 4 of my (not so)weekly watercolors.

Guard Painting

Guard

Photoshop

Another character painting that I am finishing up today.

Shaman Painting

Here is the final painting based on the drawing in which I posted earlier. 

Orc Shaman

Photoshop

Chaski

Chaski Runner

Watercolor

This is a piece I did for Trail Runner issue number 80. The article is about running the Qhapac Nan and the chaski relay system in the ancient Incan Empire.