eclectic artwork & other random things
How do I spend a typical Sunday afternoon in the fall? I take a picture of my Sunday Morning Sermon Notes with the camera on my Wacom MobileStudio Pro 16, pull that picture into Photoshop CC, plop down in a recliner with the tablet on… Continue Reading “Embellishing Sermon Notes”
Here’s a “work in progress” of a tiny bit of a much larger illustration I’m working on. I start with a pencil illustration, add flat color to it and then render the image. I like to leave as much pencil work in the finished… Continue Reading “Work In Progress”
I’m not sure what’s digging holes in our backyard, but I’m pretty sure it probably looks something like this.
According to European legend, in the middle ages the crops were being destroyed by aphids so the farmers prayed to the Virgin Mary to send help. The next thing you know, little red bugs with black spots show up, eat the aphids and save… Continue Reading “European Ladybug Legend”
Bread taking a vacation in Toast-A-Rica… Cinderella wearing glass flippers… chickens getting hot wings while sunbathing on the beach… must be summertime…
The other night I was wandering aimlessly through internetland and stumbled across something called KRITA. On a whim, I downloaded it to the Surface Pro 4 tablet I was using and began experimenting with it. I was shocked with the results. First of all,… Continue Reading “Krita Is Kinda Awesome”
Summer has arrived and I’ve somehow been moved out of my nice, air conditioned studio and into the bug infested, hot outdoors to battle carpenter bees, mow the yard, trim the trees, haul mulch around, dig holes in the ground, plant stuff, seal the… Continue Reading “Frogtographer”
The NBA Finals have arrived and its time for me to start paying attention to basketball again. Are the Timberwolves still in it?
For those of you curious about the process I go through in creating digital art, I’ve boiled it down into a two minute video showing the six basic steps I go through on most jobs. I posted the video on YouTube and you will most definitely get into… Continue Reading “My Six Step Process”
Here are a few of the steps I go through on most of my illustrations. Are you kitten me!?