Drawn to Distraction

Here are a few new things from my sketch book

Persona

Retired Hippie

winged man

goin’ green

After the Fall

figures

May the Fourth (& fifth) be with you
Mos Eisley Cantina band member goes rougue and joins a mariachi band for Cinco De Mayo #maythe4th

Happy Star Wars day

Here’s something new I’m working on.

study for John the Baptist

On January 1st. I managed to do a painting in one sitting. I feel like that was/is a good way to start 2015. I took a short drive and photographed some local orange groves and tried something outside of my comfort zone. I hope this is the beginning of “fruitful” period of painting for this year.

Orange Trees – 6×6 gouache on board

I have been trying my hand at painting again and enjoying it very much. I didn’t realize how much I missed oils until I broke them out again. I also discovered this wonderful stuff called cold wax medium. It allows for some really amazing textures.

Untitled No. 1 – 10″ x 10″ oil/cold wax on wood panel

Untitled No. 2 – 11″ x 14″ oil/cold wax on wood panel

Untitled No. 3 – 10″ x 10″ oil/cold wax on wood panel

Untitled No. 4 – 8″ x 8″ oil/cold wax on wood panel

Untitled No. 5 – 10″ x 10″ oil/cold wax on wood panel

Untitled No. 6 – 8″ x 8″ mixed media on wood panel

Botanical No. 1 – 10″ x 10″ mixed media on canvas

Botanical No. 2 – 10″ x 10″ mixed media on canvas

Botanical No. 3 – 12″ x 12″ mixed media on canvas panel

I can finally post this painting now that I have given it to my friend George at Hypno Comics as a thank-you for his generosity and all around coolitude.

I put more hours in this thing than I care to admit but it feels great to be moving paint around again. Right moving on now.

4 x 4 inches, acrylic on wood panel.

So far I’ve only be able to create an ink drawing every other day so I think I will stick to that rhytym rather than play catch-up. So here are my first 3. I hope to do lots of experimenting to find what suits me best as I don’t really ink stuff that often.

Neo from the Matrix as a cartoon character. Ink w/brush. #inktober

Skull, Ballpiont pen #inktober

Birdman, ink experiment with different inks and tools. #inktober

I pretty much blew it for Inktober got too busy with work and family but here is one more I didn’t have time to post:

Man on the street, experimental ink on bristol board.

I’m working up an idea for a DareDevil portrait for my friend George as a thank you for his generosity. I haven’t decided if this will be finished in acrylics or oils yet.

DD preliminary drawing

Added the background graphic. I need to fix the horns when I transfer the sketch:

almost ready to paint

I got some good feedback so I tried one more sketch to fix some rough spots such as the slightly elongated head.

final sketch?

Okay one more, now I think I’m ready to paint. Funny how the simplest drawings give you the most trouble.

ready to get paintin’

The transfer drawing for a painting I am working on for an upcoming comic convention.

Transfer drawing

UPDATE: I’ve been having trouble finding the time to get back to this so I thought I’d show a little preview:

the process so far

Well apologies first,  I had a very bad cold and cough the last 4 weeks really slowing me down so I kinda rushed this one to make it into a group show based on the four basic elements. This is not my best work but not my worst either, The Koko the clown character has always been a favorite of mine and I thought if I ever painted him it would have to be at least as weird as the old cartoons, so there ya go. I hope I can revisit this later and paint it up right.

final painting

Here is the initial sketch:

rough sketch