I noticed that I've been particularly lax about posting here. Even during slow periods I try to put up a monthy update. When I get busy with various projects, my websites tend to be the ones to suffer the most. It's not that I don't check in. It's more a case of priorities-of-the-moment
Some images stick in your head from the moment you see them. One of these for me was seeing the awesome power of the burning fuel exiting the engines of a Saturn V rocket during lift-off.
Finished work on the latest hunk of art. With "Four Ristras", the underpainting was done with acrylics and a "hairy stick" while most of the refinement was done by shooting acrylics with an airbrush. I'd actually started out
The current work, Arachne Reborn, is now finished and signed (when I sign a work, I consider it done). Right now it's in the process of getting its coats of varnish. Once that is done, [...]
I was working on "Arachne Reborn" in my studio. The door was open. A hummingbird flew in and hovered near my head. It seemed to look at my painting. It then chattered for a bit before flying back outside. Everyone's a critic!
As I mentioned in Once Again With Cameron, I wasn't exactly thrilled with the final product. It was definitely a good effort for the first real art being committed with intent for over a year, [...]
