Illustration Friday: "The Blues"

...and the sea rolled ashore

and consumed her.

Illustration Friday: "Wedding" (The Lady & Lord Xoc)

Acrylic & Incised Modeling Paste on Illustration Board
(click to enlarge)

This is inspired from a Maya relief at Chichen Itza of the Lord & Lady Xoc, from the 9th century I think. When a Lord & Lady married they made a sacrifice to the gods of their own blood. There are some more graphic depictions of self-blood letting but I chose to focus on this more "genteel" image, so to speak.

Illustration Friday - "Missing"

digial painting

this is an intuitive response to this week's IF theme of "Missing"

Pinky & the Blue-Freckled Butterfly

"Pinky & the Blue-Freckled Butterfly"
acrylic on canvas
6.75" x 9.25

This is cropped from a full spread I'm developing for my children's book titled "Pinky & the Blue Freckled Butterfly." I like this style of illustration, but I'm not sure if I can sustain it for the whole book. An alternative style might be watercolor. The whimsy of watercolor might better match the whimsy of the story. I am going to try one more spead in this style to see how it works. If it doesn't, I'll go to watercolor -- with some trepidation, since it is much more difficult than acrylic.

Illustration Friday - Moon

"Ixmucane"
acrylic on canvas board
(cropped)

Playing with Paint(er) - foray into digital art

I just bought Painter IX.5 and have started playing around with different digital media. It's great fun and you don't have to clean up afterwords ;).... Once unexpected result is that it re-inforced the viseral impulse to work with real/traditional media. I'd be interested in hearing other artists experience with digital media.