Lords and Ladies

Customizing my Lords and Ladies game with a portrait of my friend Seth.

House Fire

Trying a loose and messy technique.

Portfolio Piece

Finished this portfolio piece! Watercolor and pencil.

Payne's Gray

Taking a short break from my current illustration project. Watercolor doodle on a scrap of watercolor paper, using Payne's Gray, Alizarin Crimson and a little bit of Quinacridone Magenta. Payne's Gray is pretty much my favorite watercolor color, which is odd, considering that it's gray, but it's a very lovely blue-gray.

Work in Progress

A little bit of what I'm working on right now.

Watercolor birds experiment

Some quick watercolor birds; playing with wet on wet watercolor.

A Peek at My Picture Book Dummy

Here's another snippet from my picture book dummy.  The benefit of working on a Chinese-themed book is that I was able to sneak my last name into this image.

A little bit of what I'm working on

This is a little snippet from the picture book dummy I'm working on... done in watercolor, pencil, and colored pencil on Arches watercolor paper.

Princess painting experiment

This is a color experiment that I'm not quite sure about.  I like a lot of the elements separately, just not sure they are working well together.

Some miniature portrait paintings

I did these two little portraits recently for a friend's birthday.  They are in little metal frames that I purchased years ago somewhere in the American Southwest; they have a glass door that is open for the purposes of photographing them.

Still Tweaking

Ever trying to refine my style... I made some subtle changes to this one.  I added some shading in colored pencil and graphite to give it a little more depth and texture.  I think I like it better.  The old version is here.

Cat Burglar

Shortly thereafter... wackiness ensues.

Disgruntled Princess

Just finished this potential portfolio piece. Basically, it's just an excuse to draw people with powdered wigs. Watercolor and pencil on Arches cold press watercolor paper.

Bakery scene

Just finished a picture book dummy class, and here's one of the sample color images from it, done in watercolor and pencil.

Watercolor self portrait

It was self portrait day in watercolor class. We did a project in which we took a photograph of ourselves and gridded it off, then drew an identical grid on our watercolor paper. We had two index cards with 1" squares cut out of the center. As we painted, we put one card over one square on our photograph, and another card over the same square on our painting, and painted exactly what we saw in that square. Thus, my face is broken into 1" squares. It did come out amazingly accurate, though.

Watercolor flowers

Another assignment from my watercolor class:

Watercolor fruit

I am taking a watercolor class in order to improve my skills. Our week 2 assignment was a fruit still life. I'm fairly happy with the results. Normally painting a still life bores me to death, but I can see why it's a good exercise. And I must say, I have always read that using good paper makes a big difference, and I always sort of scoffed at that idea, but now I must admit I am a convert to Arches watercolor paper.

More pictures from Redux Show

Here's another couple of pieces from our recent show at Redux:

More mermaids

Here's another image from our show currently at Redux.

Show at Redux PDX

We have a show open at Redux in Portland starting on February 1st. The show mainly features thrift store paintings that have been re-appropriated.

811 east burnside st. suite #110
portland, or 97214

www.reduxpdx.com