Swedish Cabin

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Plein Air Brandywine

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Collaboration Two

Here is my start to another collaboration with my friend and fellow painter Lexi Thomas. We worked on a little painting last week and it was fun, so I decided to start this one and then pass it off to her to see where it goes! I'll keep you posted.

Robin Hood Final

Here is the final painting for the next Robin Hood novel, Robin and the White Heart, Oil, 18 x 24, the third in the series of covers I've done for Airship 27. I'll have a link to the book when its out. It occurred to me to make the bow and arrow glow red when it passed over the body of the Deer Spirit as a symbol of violence and death. In some respects I wish I had painted this one twice the size, but oh well, I wanted to get this done sooner as it had been a while coming and the publisher was getting anxious.

Collaboration

This is a collaboration between my friend and awesome painter Lexi Thomas . While waiting around this afternoon to head out to a BBQ lexi grabbed a old canvas I re-primed and then started this cool little still life of junk on my dining room table. She left it as it was on the left, using only the old paint I had left on my palette. After Lexi left I kept looking at the painting and decided to put my 2¢ into it and spent a quick hour or so busting the rest out. It was a fun collaboration and Lexi started it off with a cool design and composition. I never collaborated on a painting before, a zillion times in comics, but never like this, and it was fun! 8 x 16 Oil

Philadelphia Plein Air

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Robin Hood 3 day 1

 I am working on the third Robin Hood cover in the series of books by I.A. Watson that I have been doing for Airship 27. I started out by doing this really quick sketch to get the cover idea approved  and then went aboyt shooting my model and gathering reference. this time the cover is about Robin hunting the "Heart of the Forest". After quickly sketching down the figures and a very simple fashion I started in right away on the painting. I iod some things different this time, first this one is on canvas that I covered with an additional coat of Oil Primer to give it a better surface than the standard acrylic primer that often ends up feeling like sandpaper.

 This was all done in one day after i did my self portrait in the previous post, and I will update as  go along. I changed things from the sketch feeling the bush/tree near the deer competed with it too much, the trees in the background will now be more ghostly as well as the deer and it ethereal ligh. Its still a work in progress so many things are still open to change.