New Raven Illustrations

Three illustrations based on the Haida myth of Raven. Raven found the sun, the moon and the stars, and then found humans and let them loose on the world.

Watercolor and colored pencil.

What I've been working on

I have six pages of Rumpelstiltskin finished plus this cover and the end papers. Sketches are done for all of the pages and the story is all written.

Landscape Painting

This morning, I went out painting with my friends Candice and Trevor.
I spent the better part of my undergrad painting outside - buildings and telephone poles mostly - paintings that focused mainly on the skies.
Since graduating and going on to the Illustration Academy and studying at SCAD, I've left oil paint in the dust, opting for a slightly quicker medium that works well with what I how I want my art to look. It's nice to get my hands dirty again with oils.

Last fall, my friend Beth and I were planning on doing a pair of Bill and Ted paintings but the plan fell through when Beth got hit by a car! (she was okay though.)



This is the first time I have used soft brushes rather than bristle brushes and I kind of like the result, though it looks nothing like anything I have ever done before.

Monsters: Kraken and Ahuizotl

There is a show at SCAD sponsored by the "Society of Illustrators" club called "Monster Masquerade." I did two pieces for it in watercolor. They're incredibly small compared to the normal size I work at. The fine artist in me hates working this small.
The first image is of the Kraken, and the second is the Aztec water monster, Ahuizotl. I'm sure you know about the Kraken, but the Ahuizotl is like an aquatic monkey with hands for feet and a hand on it's tail. It drags it's unfortunate victims down into the water where it eats pieces of its prey and leaves the rest to wash up on the shore.
Pleasant huh?

Jack and the Beanstalk Illustration

I have been thinking lately that I really liked some of the illustrations that I did at the Illustration Academy last year, but as they are, they don't fit into my current portfolio. So I am starting to re-do them in watercolor and the style that I started to create at this year's Academy.

The first one that I painted is a piece from Jack and the Beanstalk.
The assignment was originally given by Robin Eley and Scott Anderson in the last week of the Academy last year.

Let's all go to space. Self portrait, watercolor.

Self portrait in watercolor and colored pencil. I've been really interested in space lately.