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18x24 oil on Linen.

This is a commissioned portrait I did using Jessie-Lynne as the model. The client had some pretty great but specific ideas about the painting, I really hope this meets them. Again, sorry for the bad photo will post a better scan when the paint dries.

Also with this painting I am using a medium called " Venetian Medium" from Natural Pigments, it is based off of research that 16th century Venetian painters added leaded powered glass to their paint, and I have to say I really love working with it. The pain of using it, is that you have to wear gloves the whole time as if it gets on your skin you have ground glass and lead to deal with. But when it dries is looks amazing from the light refraction, well worth the trouble. Only real problem that I have with it so far is that it dies and gets tacky a little too fast.

http://naturalpigments.com
http://www.jessie-lynne.com/

something close to virtue

Something I painted day before yesterday , the photo of it is kinda crap. Was trying something very different ... still not sure what to make of it. Trying to explore a bit more.

Will post a better image of it when it dies, which should be in a few years with all the paint on that canvas.

"something close to virtue"
30x40 oil on linen

Wishing I could post/say more...

So I have been painting and drawing like crazy lately but most of what I have been working on is a bit top secret so I have not been able to post any of the images from the projects, hopefully soon.

Here is a bad image taken with my phone of a 11x14 oil on canvas I just did a day or two ago, this image is a small part of the ideas behind my creator own book being published by IDW this year. I will post a better image of it on comics pipeline when the oil paint dries.

Many things I wish I could talk about here... just not time yet.

silent hill past life trade cover

original painting is oil on 16x20 linen canvas.

Looks like this might be the cover for the trade paper back for Silent Hill : Past Life.
I had a lot of ideas about what I wanted to do with the cover for the trade, I kinda want to do a montage of a lot of the characters from the story, but every mock up I came up with seem to take away from the story line it self, they all seemed thin somehow, it just did not seem to mix or manifest the story well. So I kinda torn it all down and started over, this is what I ended up with.
The story is really about Jeb, and he never really got his due on a cover, so I set Jeb in front of a "Memento Mori", and to me it simplified and showed the story , it just locked in for me.

wiki : Memento mori is a Latin phrase translated as "Remember you must die". It names a genre of artistic creations that vary widely from one another, but which all share the same purpose: to remind people of their own mortality and the punishment they will receive if they transgress the rules of their religion.
The phrase has a tradition in art that dates back to antiquity.

So here is a better image of the batman commission, all scanned and stuff.
2-x24 oil on panel.


Been working on the new pages for the silent hill trade paper back all day, got the new cover scanned and edited, going to do a bit more scanning and then it is back to working on the silent hill pages, till I can not stay awake anymore. ( I love my life )

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the batman...

batman commission in process , 20x24 oil on wood panel.

Again I have not really been using this thing, and I think I will start up again, I have mainly been using my profile on DeviantArt, and I have a new thing going on over at comics pipeline, which should go live today. Will be post lots of exclusive sketches and pictures of paintings in process etc.
But I really miss my blog here... really want to start remembering to post things here again.... lets see if it sticks.

http://www.comicspipeline.com

Below is a comission I have been working on, it is long from done, but I like where it is going anyway.Vascular #2, oil on panel, 24x48.

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