The light

All those fires in my paintings have gone away. Recently what I've noticed is that I'm creating that same weird warm limited light source but as if it were emanating directly from the point of view, as if I or the viewer were illuminating the scene simply by looking at it. Like my imagination is itself a light, and to prove it I only have to paint it. It's a little weird but I like it. I think I'll see where it takes me. Or what it shows me.

New slides

So I finally got some more slides done. I'm having some color issues which is weird since I'm supposed to be the color control guy at my day job (which I don't want to get into, because it is lame). When I post them they seem garish all of a sudden.
Anyway the titles here are mostly tentative.
You can click on the images to view them a little bit larger.
Enjoy. Or don't. Whatever. I'm feeling ambivalent myself.























Studio at Night
(In which I pretend that the end of the world is imminent while I'm absorbed in making my little pictures)























"Linden Tree"
(one of the trees in the park near our house after which my daughter is named)

















"Muddy Road"
(My wife and the guy who takes my slides don't like this one but I thought it came out pretty good. But then I'm rarely the best judge of my own work)

















"The Fox"
I had this one re-shot because the previous slide had some glare on the left.














"Three Blind Mice"
(More of a joke than a work of art. Maybe a nice illustration for children's rhymes)

Aaargh...

[A rant written during my last painting session back in mid-December]

The truth is I have no idea if I'm any good. I paint scenes that look good to me and then think to myself, "I have no idea what that would really look like". I use photo references when I can but mostly I'm just painting completely out of my head. If I pay special attention and try to copy the details out of a photo I think the painting usually comes out better, but I always want to make it all up anyway. What the hell am I doing?

[and now... back to work. painting tonight. wish me luck cybervoid.]

The Experiment

Here's another short animation from my college days. This one is very similar to the previous "Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hatrack"
the walking at the beginning is pretty awful but the rest came out ok I think.

Facebook test

I'm trying to figure out how to get my blog posts to automatically show up on my Facebook page.
Here goes.

Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hatrack

This is a flip book I made... ohh...25 years ago? it's only 15 seconds long. Animation is time-consuming!
I have a couple more animations from around the same time that I will eventually post as well whenever I get around to scanning them in.
Sorry the quality is not so great.

New Slides!

Just scanned in slides for my latest paintings. They came out pretty nice for the most part. I have to get 2 of them re-shot because there was too much glare. I'm including one (the fox, currently untitled). The other was just too bad.
Click on the individual images to view them larger.






















"Stars Falling down"






















"Direction"























"Commute"

















currently untitled