Detail from an hourglass piece I’m working on.
december 9, 2013
Here’s the story that goes with my new painting, The Black Horizon.
december 7, 2013
Here are two beginnings that I hope to finish in the next two weeks. Both are 16″x20″. The cabin is going to be one of four panels that are arranged side by side to form a panoramic woodland scene. The hourglass is standalone.
november 22, 2013
This is finished and I’m pretty pleased with it. I firmed up the bridge today, decayed it, and then made the sheep bigger. And yes, that does mean the trees on the left are giant.
november 20, 2013
This one’s nearly done. I’ve spent the evening painting tiny trees and tiny sheep and I began to build a bridge.
november 15, 2013
A quick perusal of my paintings will tell you that I don’t often work with bold and bright colors in the sky – I usually prefer variants of dark blue or green or gray. But I’m kind of liking how this is turning out. That sky looks like lava!
november 13, 2013
This is a portion of a commission I’m working on. I’ve sketched in the basic elements and applied the initial layer of paint. I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that this will take me about a week.
I really enjoy this stage of painting – the images have begun to emerge from the canvas and I can go in and begin to pull out the details.
november 11, 2013
Here’s the story that goes with The Tower and the Bird.
The sea was green and blue and sparkled in the evening light. She stood at the window in the tower and watched as the sun slowly slipped toward the golden waves…
november 4, 2013
Today I uploaded a story. It’s under the stories tab if you’re wondering, and it goes with The Fiercer the Better, the first painting you’ll find under the portfolio tab. Check it out!
october 22, 2013
So I picked up where I left off on this ever so long ago and worked a bit on the sea and the sky as seen through Correine’s window. And I aged her front door and walls too. I think there need to be some birds circling in the sky. It is the sea after all, and the story is set in October, so there’s no excuse to not have any birds.
october 19, 2013
I have some blanks sitting around and so I’m beginning a painting. I’ll be working on this one as well as Correine Knows. I also have an enormous blank spot on my living room wall so I’ll be working on ideas for that as well.
In other creative news, for the past few months I’ve been working on my as-of-yet unnamed novel about a mysterious island and a guy named James Bacon and a girl named Jo Wickham. I’ll get some portions of it up on the website at some point.
january 1, 2013
More work on The Unraveling. A glimpse out the window at Brye and the sea.