Yesterday morning I finally got around to applying the first color wash to the inked drawing. I decided that since I am going to be coloring the monkey gray/pink and the mountains and clouds blue, I didn’t want to wash the entire painting yellow. I think I will wash the inside a light blue or [...]
This photo was taken at Hoyt Arboretum in Portland, Oregon a few weekends ago. I didn’t realize the inside of a trillium was so squid-ish.
Technical DetailsCamera: Nikon D50Aperture Value: f/5.6Focal Length: 555 mmMetering Mode: Multi-SegmentISO: 200Shutter Speed Value: 1/60 sec
I just discovered that one of the image links on an old post on my blog had been unpleasantly changed to… well… let’s just say, something not family friendly. After experiencing shock and embarrassment, I promptly nuked the foul post. I then proceeded to check all my other posts to make sure nothing else had [...]
Not really sure what kind of monkey this guy is. I just thought he was pretty cool looking (plus he was posing for the camera). ;)This photo was taken at the Oregon Zoo last September. Man, that was the last time we went to the zoo? I think it’s time to visit it again…
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We have ink!The scan was a bit off since the drawing is quite a bit larger than my scanner… oh well. Let’s see, first I transfered the pencil sketch to a big piece of bristol (14″ x 17″). I then added a nice circle border around the entire thing. I also added some more detail [...]
This is a photo of Châteaux Haut-Koenigsbourg near Orschwiller, France. There is actually an interesting story that goes along with this castle (and why the title of this post is what it is). The castle’s documented history dates back to the 1100’s. The ownership of the castle passed hands a few times before being [...]
Getting close to the final line art drawing. As you can see a lot has been done since the first crappy sketch. I cleaned up the drawing tremendously. Pretty much everything has been fixed. I also started to add a bit of a Tibetan/Mongolian motif around the monkey. I’m going to probably add one more [...]
This past weekend we went up to the Hoyt Arboretum. It was nice out and since we hadn’t been there yet we figured we should go see what it was like. Well, as it turned out, everyone else in the Portland metro area seemed to have had the same idea. There were no parking spots [...]
Bilbo the cat sporting a lovely snood. He seemed to be enjoying the look so much that I didn’t have the heart to tell him that guys don’t typically wear snoods (at least the non-cross dressing types). Although, I have to admit, he does look pretty good in it.
You knew the crazy pet photos were [...]
Ugly messy concept sketch for my next piece. I got my inspiration from looking at Paul Kidby’s depiction of Lu Tze. I thought to myself, “groovy… cool… but wouldn’t it be better with monkeys?”
Oh yes, everything’s better with monkeys ;^)
Obviously, there is still a lot of work to do before I can get down to [...]
