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Last round of iPhone paintings?

A couple more quick paintings done on the iPhone with a stylus and a painting app called Brushes. I highly recomend "Brushes" and a stylus from a company called PenGo. The advantage of the PenGo sylus is that you can screw in different tips including actual brushes. I still don't recomend working on the iPhone though. Because of the major wrist cramping that takes place the iPhone is a bit of a dangerous painting platform. Why the heck do I keep painting on it then? I'd love to get an iPad but, I'm holding out for the new model since it's rumored to have twice the resolution of the old one. I hope the rumors are true because I love painting digitally on the go, but I don't think my wrists will survive much more iPhone painting.

Cell Phone painting 2: Color studies

Abstract color studies painted on a Jail-broken I-phone with a stylus. Painting without any specific content in an attempt to isolate "pure" color, in the hopes of developing an intuitive sense of color harmony.

It's fun to paint on the go, that is on an I-phone, but as I mentioned before it is murder on your wrist...Enjoy

Cell phone painting!

Have you been looking for a quick way to develop Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? Or are you simply trying to find an activity that will push your repetitive stress disorder even further? Well friend, I have the answer you have been looking for. Have you considered trying to digitally paint on a cell phone?

Here's a bunch of characters drawn and painted from life with a stylus and an old jail broken I-phone. Painting on a phone is great because no one catches you sketching them, they just think your texting someone or playing a game, buy OY-Vey painting on that little surface gives you such a crick in the neck! (and wrist)...Anyway enjoy these phone paintings of characters inspired by real people on buses, in malls, in bars, and other every day situations.

p.s. If your from my home town, you may recognize a few folks from Bar of America. I popped in to visit a few friends and did a couple sketches there on my last trip.

Here's a strange little guy.

This dude was meant to be part of a big creature design post I made a while back, but somehow he (?) went missing. I found him recently slurking happilly in a corner of my studio. I present him here for the first time in all his tenticled glory... He's more friendly then he looks...I think.

Grimm Concept design

Here are some concept designs from a Grimm Brothers book I'm helping put the final touches on. I made all these images in a great, free digital sketching application called Alchemy. This Grimms story went in a bit of a sci-fi direction as you can guess from the sketches. More to come on this project in the days ahead...=)

See the full gallery on Posterous

Story Rough: WWI fantasy

Here's another old piece I came across. This was a quick/rough concept painting for a WW1 era sci-fi/fantasy story. The story is on the back-burner right now because three other illustrated projects cut in line in front of it. I'm also a bit scared to tackle it, as it's a rather an ambitious personal work. The project is however, still being plugged away at, in a cabinet in the back of my mind....and will be taken up again when I have the time and bravery to approach it...=)

Ink

These are a bit old, but I came across them recently and wanted to share them with you. My inks over drawings by Carlos Huante, and Travis Charest. I may have used a Winsor Newton, series 7 #2 brush on these, but I think they were made with a Japanese Caligraphy brush pen, which I personally prefer. -Thanks for Looking =)

Plein air-Big Bear.

Friends of mine: the mighty Hammer familly, have a really incredible cabin out in big bear. The Hammers have been kind enough to invite us (my wife and I) there on a number of occations. Here is a painting from the dock below thier house, which overlooks Big Bear lake . I made this painting on my first trip to Big Bear and it was created with watercolor and a pallete knife on bristol paper. =)

Way behind. Here's why.

I'm about a year behind with art posts. Just lazy? Preoccupied perhaps, with life and other "priorities"? Well maybe, but mostly I just got hit really hard in the hip by a speeding car. This is old news to many of you but, in case you didn't know I got the bumper kiss of death back in May of 2011. Since that time I have been making a slow recovery back to mostly normal heath. Wheelchairs, walkers, canes, you name it. I spent about a month in the hospital, including a very invasive surgery which implanted 3 long titanium snakes in my hip. Here's some photos including the incision, a couple X-rays of my new metallic accessories and the car I was in when I got T-boned. Incidentally the jaws of life couldn't' get my car open so the fire department had to saw off the entire roof of my cute little Toyota Cellica (see below)... Any-who it's great to be back! Thank you very kindly for all your thoughts, prayers, and encouragement during my ongoing recovery process. And...Look for new and somewhat regular art post from me for a while to come. =)