Fantasy Landscapes - Now with 100% More Gouache!

 

 

I thought I would give gouache another go. Both of these sketches are about 4"x6", and were completed in about 20 mins. Not the best things in the world, but they did make me want to play around with the medium a bit more, so there's always that.

Look ma, no eyes!

Too tired paint. Still want draw. Nap draw. Shut eyes. Dream. Move Hand. Make thingies.

I haven't done any blind drawing in a long time. I'm much better at it then I was the last time I tried, but most of these are still real awful.

 totally click it to make it bigger

My favs:

 

These are probably the best skull and T-Rex drawings I've ever made.

PAINT!

warning: this one has the swears.

      Sometimes I do things so tremendously stupid that I stare back at them slack-jawed as a thin trail of foamy spittle makes a trail down my chin. For instance, not painting for months. Months. The last time I slung mud was the end of this past December. I've been living in an apartment best described as small. This has limited my opportunity to paint to, um, no opportunities. Unless, of course, I didn't mind a bit of asphyxiation (not even the erotic kind). I finally had enough though, and said, "Well, fuck you brain cells, I don't need you," tossed open my tiny window, and busted out the pallet.

      Goddamn, it feels so good. Orgasmic. I forgot how much I love this thing I do. I went for about five hours without stopping. It was sweet.

(feel free to take that last paragraph out of context)

      Anyway, here are the goods. One is the first couple of passes at a copy of the portrait of Cornelius Van der Geest by Anthony Van Dyck. The other one is the first coat of a picture of a awesome old photo I found online. Nothing says 'Merica like a nine-year-old girl with Old Glory and a Glock. Don't worry, her legs aren't as freakishly stunted as they look in the photo.

Here's the setup:

Palindrome!

Made this during some down time at work. Panama!

reboot infinately.

My computer has taken to crashing a good 10-or-so times a day. It especially enjoys doing this while performing such grueling tasks as, opening an email, or saving a text document. It does not do so when I have both Photoshop and Illustrator running. I don't understand, but I have made for it this visual ode:

click for adorable animated version

New computer is on the way, but man, my hard-reboot finger is getting tired.