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West County Silos

West County silos
14X18 Oil on Canvas Board Sold

Baja Sunrise

Baja Sunrise
36X24 Oil on Canvas Sold

Eucalyptus on the Graton Trail

This is a repost of the first painting I posted on this blog about a year and a half ago. I'm using it as a kind of preview for another big tree painting I hope to finish tomorrow or the day after. I really enjoyed painting this piece. It's a tough one to get the color right on in the digital file, but you can get a decent idea of the piece. I found the scene of the current painting I'm working on within a hundred yards of this spot, also on a bike ride. These things kind of reveal themselves in certain light conditions. Each spot at slightly different times of the year.

Red flora Study

Red Flora Study
9X16 Oil and Acrylic on Birch Panel $350 Framed

This Is Only A Test

This Is Only A Test ( In the case of real art you will be notified)
Ballpoint pen and Acrylic
Just a scribble to play with technique for my cartoon stuff. I will most likely keep the ballpoint part and color in the computer. Examples in the next few days.

Meldwyn's Flying Buttress Hat

Meldwyn's Flying Buttress Hat
10X5 Oil on Illustration Board $275

Just a little something Meldwyn got into on a slow Thursday.

Hilltop Vineyard

Hilltop Vineyard
24X40 Oil on Canvas Sold-Commission

A fun painting to do for a really great client. I'll post some photos of the process later.

Bow River Falls

Bow River Falls
20X30 Oil on Canvas $950 unframed

From a series of paintings I did from a trip I took with a friend to Banff, Alberta, Canada. An incredibly beautiful place with really nice people.

Long View Study

Long View Study
9X16 Oil on Canvas $190 unframed

Truman

Truman
24X18 Oil on Canvas Board

Luna

Luna
6X6 Gouache on Illustration Board $95

Banff Springs Creek

Banff Springs Creek
20X30 Oil on Canvas $950 Unframed

Breathe

Breathe
36X24 Oil on Canvas Framed $1800

A funky piece I did as a reminder to stop and smell the roses when things get stressful. Lots of great, odd feedback on this one.

River Alter

River Alter
16X20 Oil on Canvas Board On Hold

The Sentry

The Sentry
8X10 Oil on Canvas Board $295

I was sketching and taking shots at a secluded vineyard for a commission last week. I wandered up the hill and found a pond with this swan. He came to the edge of the pond and glided back and forth in front of me for about 20 minutes. I found out later that he had recently protected some eggs and then the babies and though they were now gone, he continued his protective behavior when strangers came around. I enjoyed the show.

Don Juan

Don Juan
A painting I did recently for a wine label. Unfortunately, the tasty pinot will now be called something else. It was a fun exercise though. Sorry for all of the reflection in the shot.

Plums and Cherries

Plums and Cherries
12X12 Oil on Canvas Unframed $150

Spago and Bif

Spago and Bif
My two favorite characters from "The Long Dark Knight", a childrens story I developed.
NFS

Yellow and Blue

Yellow and Blue
12X12 Oil on Canvas Unframed $150
A fun study painted with a piece of cardboard and a palette knife.

Laguna Study

Laguna Study
6X8 Oil on Canvas Board $100

Yellow Trees

Yellow Trees
20X30 Oil on Canvas Unframed $500

Bear Creek, Sonoma Coast

Bear Creek, Sonoma Coast
28X22 Oil on Canvas Unframed $950

Smith River

Smith River
20X30 Oil on Canvas $1200

Russian River: Study

Russian River: Study
8X6 Oil on Canvas Board Unframed
$100

Brookside Coffee

Brookside Coffee
9X12 Oil on Canvas unframed $250

Blue Bottles II

Blue Bottles II
28X22 Oil on Canvas $425 ( $650 for both)

Blue Bottles

Blue Bottles
28X22 Oil on Canvas unframed $425

Sonoma Coast Study

Sonoma Coast Study
8X10 Oil on Canvas $125 unframed

Bones Road

Bones Road 11X14 Oil on Canvas Board Framed
$250

John On Thomas Rd. Curve

John On Thomas Rd. Curve
48X36 Oil on Canvas Make an offer

The Wiz

A Character from "The Long Dark Knight" children's story.

Red, White and Green

Red, White and Green
12X12 Oil on Canvas $175

The Knotted Gate

Another piece from The Long Dark Knight children's story. This is Prismacolor pencil on heavy tracing paper. In the interactive version the player needed to unlock this celtic inspired knot.

The Voice of the Flame Speaks to Parker

Glowing Lights in the Valley Below

Another Image from the children's story, The Long Dark Knight


Mr Scoggins, The Guardian at the Castle Gate

Painting Before Supper

Painting Before Supper
11X14 Oil on Canvas Board
$250

Flora

Flora
20X16 Framed Oil on Canvas
$750

Jack

A drawing of an idea for a kids story.

Else Study

Else Study
14X18 Oil on Canvas Board $600

Laguna de Santa Rosa

Laguna de Santa Rosa 15X30 Oil on Canvas

A new landscape painting of the laguna. This waterway lies on the plain between Sebastopol in west Sonoma County and Santa Rosa. This view is from the bridge on Occidental Road looking north. I love the color of the grasses and plant life at the creek's edge this time of year.

Quince Flower Painting

Guince Flowers 9X16 Oil on Birch Panel

I finally got back on this piece. It's more detail than I'm used to doing lately. A crazyy number of touches to finish it (at least I think it's finished). It's going to J.Howell Gallery in Healdsburg this weekend with another painting or two.

The Portal, toned drawing

This is the undrdrawing for the building our hero crashes into to reveal an alternate reality contained within....Merrily, merrily, merrily, life's a groovy dream....It's a close-up of a building from the cityscape posted earlier.

Alt Landscape, New Underpainting

A new version of an animation background design, drawn with ballpoint pen and glazed with an underpainting tone. The last ones I posted sucked. Hopefully this one, one of three pans in a sequence in an animated short, will work out as a painting. It and the subsequent pieces in process are talking to me about gags and animations that want to happen there.

Cityscape background

This is another background for an animation project I'm working on. The "straight" cityscape. It's a set-up for an alt view. It's obviously drawn loosely from New York with familer buildings but most made up in the character of the city. A fun piece to do and a fun pan ratio to work in. I'll post a new shot with less reflection soon.

New Backgrounds

Three new animation backgrounds. These will go into a promo for a little cartoon I'm working on.I'll be posting more info on it very soon.

Pink Flowers, painting in progress

Here are four shots of a painting in progress. These are flowers from a quince bush in our front yard. They just caught my eye one recent beautiful spring day. I'm painting it from some close-up photos I took. The sequence starts with a drawing on panel with thinned oil paint. I always draw everything freehand, including when I work from photos because I think that it imbues a painting with more life than transfering or projecting. Also, I just like to draw.

The following three photos show the painting's rather systematic progression. I'm one decent session from finishing the piece.

I don't often paint this tight. A painting like this starts to be all about edges and subtleties, pushes and pulls. It can be difficult to sustain focus and energy for an ADD kind of guy like me. By the end of a painting like this I tend to want to paint looser or at least something very different. In this case that means goofy animation piece is coming next. Hopefully the effort, but not the struggle shows. I hope you enjoy the post.

Stickyfooted Warblers

Sticky Footed Warblers
9X16 Oil on Panel

Here is a glimpse of three extremley rare Stickyfooted Warblers. I spotted them in a cut scene in the short animation I'm working on. Not quite Audubanesque, but essentail to the story and they are some sweet singing motherf****rs.

A Little Surreal

Emerald Passage—Crop


Emerald Passage
48X60 Oil on Canvas

A piece from a year or two ago that started it's life as a big rock painting with a waterfall. It was a made up landscape based on a much smaller rock formation I saw and quickly sketched. It was on the wall for a while and it just kept telling me it needed a big butterfly-wing sail on a floating ship. I loosely based the ship on a Minoan design from about 3000 years ago. I then cut a passage through the rocks and put in a foreground island. I'm not always sure it works but I've decided that I like it even though I sometimes feel like I need to put on Pink Floyd and smoke a bowl or something when I see it.

This piece and about 50 more available paintings of various sizes, subjects and prices will be up on an updated website next week.