There is a moth on the door.
At first we thought it was a bird, which may tell you something. It is bright, lemony yellow, and has a wingspan wider than my hand is long. Its body is unbelievably huge, thicker around than James’s thumb, and at least two inches long (I held a ruler up [...]
It must be a good summer for the birds, because there’s a somewhat haggard red-bellied woodpecker with not one, but TWO enormous, ill-mannered offspring following him around like grumpy doves in tweed jackets. Must remember to get another suet cake to make his life a little easier.
Tragedy: Several of my plants have died from overwatering.
Comedy: [...]
Here’s that gearworld painting I promised…
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9355406/
Learned a lot painting it. It’s kinda funny that despite all this time, I’d never tackled realistic skin tones in real media before. Good to do.
My brain wars between some of the gearworld sketches I’ve got, and the treacherous whisper that Billy vs. Satan would be a really fun painting…
A very quick and silly sketch, for those of you who like such things…
Billy Vs. Satan
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9342863/
Reading China Mieville’s latest, “Iron Council.” There are a handful of authors for whom I will lay out money for a hardcover, no questions asked–Pratchett, McKinley, Gaiman, Martin. Mieville, author of “Perdido Street Station,” is the most recent addition to the list. (Not to be confused with “will maybe lay out money for a hardcover [...]
Musings on Artistic Mental Laws
Woke up this morning, did the usual waking-and-checking-email-and-coffee ritual. Pulled up a blank page of Painter. Did three roughs of almost scary gearworld pieces–nude women with masks and gear tattoos, in crevices and alcoves in the concrete.
Said, “Hmm, those are kinda interesting.”
Flipped open a new page and did a sketch of the female follow-up to [...]
The last art dump!
Eh, the sketch was better…
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9283362/
Wombats and gears–two great tastes that go great together!
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/9283513/
Still in sort of creative shut down mode following the Con. I mean, I can paint, but it’s a mechanical process–this is the nuts and bolts, not the mad jag of inspiration. Painting digitally for me is not unlike driving a car now, a sort of hard-wired skill that I only need to be marginally [...]