This is part three of Creating Characters for a Children’s Book. If you’ve missed parts one and two here’s a quick recap. I’ve been working on the characters for a new children’s book. One of the characters is done, another is in the color stage and one still needs a little bit of work. Last [...]
Had a great time at Jerry’s yesterday. As usual I met a bunch of great folks and had a lot of fun painting. The theme for the day was Bats so I chose to paint one of my favorite super heroes. I was using the Matisse Primary set of acrylic paints. I’d never used this [...]
I will be at Jerry’s Artarama in Raleigh on Saturday March 27th from 1:00pm until 4:00pm. Please stop by and say hello if you are in the area. I’ll be working with acrylic paints on a large canvass. I haven’t quite figured out what I’ll be painting just yet but I know it’ll be big [...]
I’ve been having a lot of fun with these mini canvases lately. Here’s one I did with my Jerry’s class. These things are great. Our theme for the last class was Under the Sea (I thought it would be fun to do a snail). We used acrylic paint, sharpie markers, clear gel medium, sand and [...]
I just received my latest trading card from Cyn Narcisi. You may be familiar with Cyn from her work with Lucasfilm, The TOPPS Company, Inkworks Trading cards, and Titan Magazines. Cyn sent me a note last week letting me know she’d like to make a trade. I checked out here site and she has some [...]
I’ve really been having some fun with the artist trading cards over the last couple of months. I was introduced to them while shooting the Jerry’s vids and was hooked right away. Since then I’ve been noticing them all over the place. There are tons of artists doing them. You can find them on line, [...]