'Love Each Day'

sketch-photoshop

A lamp in my apartment- found this painting app for my new iPhone this morning- technology floors me sometimes, and it makes me giggle-

' Baux de Provence'

If I remember correctly, it was Monique's idea to sneak in after closing hours and Mary and I were on vacation and willing accomplices,  a magical adventure indeed, thanks Monique, managed to get one quick sketch-

here's a link .Baux-de-Provence Town Village visit - by Provence Beyond

Title 'Lock'

Goodbye Bush? It's an old sketch, seems like a good day to let it go-

May we see better days with our new president-

'Montana De Birdy'

From a sketch done during a walk at Montana De Oro, central California coast. Another bird, hmm.
Finished up in Painter.

'Axis'
painter and photoshop , from a sketch

detail of "Le Pups"

This one's for Carmen

Many thanks to Carmen for generously providing me with photos of her pride and joy.
This was so much fun to work on , the background is an exercise in different materials and techniques for emulation, but mostly, these pups just make me smile.

I wrapped this up the other night, the original sketch was from May 2003.This is an image that appeared in my mind when I came out of a surgery. My interpretation is that it represents my second chakra, the area of the surgery, there was a vast dark space around the central energy- going off into infinity.

'The Writing on His Wall'

This is an image I created for a workshop in Illustration at the Art Academy in San Francisco. The topic was San Francisco History. Whenever I go to San Francisco and see the bridge, this part of it's history inevitably crosses my mind. It is so vast and dramatic to begin with. Depending on cultural influence, people have very different reactions to this subject matter. This thought is related to the title. After the pencil layout was done, which was the most time consuming part of this image, I created the digital painting in my hotel room on my powerbook using a wacom tablet. the actual photoshop painting took from 6pm to 2 am, one of my fastest renderings ever. Can't wait to get my hands on that 12" Cintique!