Inaugural Tumblr octopus!
My first stab at painting on wood— and I enjoyed it immensely. Watercolor with graphite and white charcoal.
(It’s a grackle.)
A Favorite Millais Painting
In one of those internet searches that lead from here to there, we stumbled upon one of my favorite paintings. Particularly, this one:
Painted by Sir John Everett Millais in 1878, it depicts the ill-fated Princes Edward and Richard in 1483. Two of the renowned casualties of the War of the Roses, it’s been a mystery for some time exactly how and why they were murdered.
I am renouncing ever painting koi, because all I could possibly make will be an insult to this.
Seriously. 3-fiken’-D?! I’m just.. I’m done.
A thing I did for a thing (house finch with daylilies).
WIP - An oil painting I’ve been working on recently. I need to let the top portion dry before I can add more detail, but the bottom portion is going to stay negative space. For some reason, I just like the foreboding feeling all of the ground gives it.
We just added a new print to our Society6 shop: Winter Wren! It’s also available as stationery and iPhone cases and skins!
Also newly added to the stationery, skins, and cases category: What Time Is It?, Entropy, and White Forest!
Oooh…
Ahhh…
Deer!
A little afternoon PS painting I did of my lovely, talented wife, based on a recent photo I took. Now to go cuddle that handsome brute…
There’s something intensely spooky about glancing over to the screen and seeing yourself staring back. I’m intensely flattered, my wife makes me look 100x prettier.
Boy Blue of Fables - Commissioned Painting
A recent instance in which I was commissioned for a physical painting rather than a digital piece. Linework was laid out with a pen before the tones were created using sumi ink in various washes.
(As a personal, nitpicky artist’s note, I’d like to add that the lightning is a true white in reality, but since this was a larger piece, what you see is an imperfect photo rather than a scan.)
