Hallo-Kitty

Hey everyone, Its been a while since my last update. Here is the Halloween Illustration I created for the Fool's Mansion Art show In downtown Salem,MA for the Halloween season.

Self Promo for my Perseus children's book

Well here is the finish done in the Greek red figure style.

Self Promo

Working on a more finished and developed painting to advertise my children's book in the Greek red figure style of a more accurate telling of the story of Perseus. I'm using some of my new techniques, like I have been with the cat illustrations. This time I did the pencil drawing at about 11x17 first, then scanned it into photoshop and cleaned up the line work, I then printed it out on my watercolor paper and painted in all the solid black sections with acrylic gouache, which is the second image you see. Now I'm in the process of painting the color sections in watercolor. I will post it when its finished.

Color study update!

Here are some color studies I have been working on lately. I have been experimenting with printing out sketches I posted earlier onto watercolor paper and playing with the style and colors. So far I pretty happy with the results, the printer I'm using for this is working well, the inks don't really run when I hit them down with washes of watercolor as long as I don't start off to heavy and I don't print the lines too dark. I think I have found a nice balance so far. Also I wanted to play with what the final color of the cat would be. Its a black cat, but like the real life animal he was never completely black, rather shades of brown to make a rich black color. I may play around with him more but for now it works for me.

Vote for my Design!

Hey Everyone, Please vote for my Threadless design so I can get printed! I need enough votes by the end of the 7 days!

http://www.threadless.com/submission/359566/Cat_thulhu

Cat-thuluh

Oops, well been busy for a while there with other projects and vacation and all. Well..I do have something to show now. Here is the project I did for the Fool's Mansion Art show in Salem. The theme was H.P. Lovecraft, and I did a fun little experiment with scanning my line drawing and tweeking it in Photoshop and printing it on my watercolor paper so I could paint and keep my original drawing. It worked out pretty well, the ink from the printer did smudge a little bit at first, but once I had enough layers of paint on that stopped. I think I'm going to try playing with this method more, I still need to find the right balance.

Weekly Sketch update!

More Character designs, More cats!..this time of the main character

Weekly sketches up date

Ok, so I did do some urban sketching with Pete again this past week..but there not very good this week. Mostly I think because I was really excited about the character designs I was working of for the new children's book dummy I'm working on based off a story April is writing that involves our favorite thing...Cats! So enjoy!