The all-seeing eye box.

The all-seeing eye box. It knows all, it sees all. Something fun while of course just messing around. No filters, no unique brushes, no added distress that I usually like to do, just kept this one as simple and clean as possible. Digital with just a couple of dry brush weights.

Petals

Petals. Still life with flying insect. More Photoshop fun! Drew this bug a couple of times, clipped this one from another art piece I did. Not sure what kind of bug it is; but it has wings, so it flies.

Linear talk at the water cooler

You never know where you'll be, standing around, or at the water cooler; when suddenly, your hit with an epiphany, or life altering thought... I kept the original first rough sketch in this finished piece, or as finished as it's gonna get. I like it, adds to the texture and looseness to it. As always, I'm going to play around with it some more.

GO - ride or die, you are born to fly

GO - ride or die, you are born to fly... and other positive stuff. I think I just start scribbling, like with this skull; and I'm not sure where I want to go with it, so I just start adding stuff. Played with this one a couple time just layering elements and textures over each other. Kinda like how the "go" button in black balances all the crap on the right side. I wonder if people will try to click it? 😁

Love + Death are gumball machine toys.

Finally had a day to sit and scribble, first day in a long time. It's fast and loose, but I like how it turned out, and I had fun!

My reference was a toy squirrel; but, I think love and death are a bit more interesting. Done in Photoshop. Maybe put this on a shirt?

Ultra bunny love

Another nightly urge to make some art, no idea of what to do. Started playing with a dark background and more of a wet brush to give some wobbly loose edges. Drew a couple of things in light colors and then this pink circle, turned it into a head, and this image was born. Tried not to over think this too much, just made myself keep going and see what comes out, just having fun... and what would happen if I painted over it more and played with layer filters. Above is the outcome. Any thoughts from the world wide web?

It's in the soil

Spent a few hours the last two nights playing around with this one in Photoshop. The flower pattern was done in Illustrator and then I copied and pasted it in. Lately I have been experimenting with using clean vector graphics in contrast with very loose digitally painted elements; gonna keep messing with this as well as the distressed touches. Also playing with layer color filters, First and last photo.

100 mg dose and feeling ok.

I think the title says it all...

Mood??

Mood? I don't know what to call this? Also I'm learning and thinking more about how naming a piece of art can and may influence an audience to preconceive a feeling or thought as to what the message or meaning of the art is? I like the idea of the viewer forming their own option as to what they feel the art is saying. I had a friend look at it online and he said, "Hot and Cold". Not at all what I was thinking, but I'll buy that!

March '24 art dump

A few more random, quick & experimental pieces of this month of March. Second from the top is an old piece but I just messed with the colors and contrast a bit to see how it would play on social media.

1. "Window from a dream" Digital/Photoshop. I love how this one turned out, this was actually inspired from a dream I had as a kid. I wanna do some prints of this one. 2. "This ain't what I ordered" Hand drawn, an older work. 3. "Life plan Vol. 1" Digital/Photoshop. I like the individual elements, but don't like how it turned out overall. 4. "When I throw my sweat pants on the floor, they look at me" Digital/Photoshop. Happy with it but wish I would have used some different more contrasting colors. I saw it in my head in these colors.

Art dump...

It's been a few since I posted last, and I have done a few pieces that I have already posted to all my social media sites, hence the art dump. Lately I have been trying to just jump into starting something and work real loose. It started with the piece "why?" from the Feb. 7 post, using the oil brushes & tighter line brushes in Photoshop, and this has been the result from the last week or so. I think i'm trying to find the magic style that everyone will go "wow, great!" but, it's not happening. Putting your art on social media sucks, at least with me, where I'm at now, no response. Or if there is a response, it is completely different on different social platforms. But, truth be told, what I do know in my heart is, I will probably newer have a set "style". As stuff pops in my head to create, a way to do it forms as well; wether loose or tight, cartoonish or graphic, simple or complicated, my idea also creates the style I want to do the work in. I have to keep telling myself to do the art for "myself" and not anyone else. That's all that really matters.

Secrets in the wall

A little something different, experimenting, sketch from a long time ago. Still like the looseness of the sketch.

Why?

Digital experiments in Photoshop. No preconceived ideas, just start putting down color and see what happens. Fun to see the outcome and not worry about how it turns out.

Strange times

A digital Ipad sketch from around 2020-2021. The iPad I had even at that time was ancient. The stylus for it was the old rubber ball type tip, but it forced you to work in a simpler style with less detail unless you really wanted to work at it. I like how an artist's style can change depending on their medium. I just added the textured background to it in Photoshop before this upload.

IIIrd i

Recently have been going through a bunch of my old thumbnail sketches and doodles, I have years worth of these scribbled thoughts that I always tell myself that I will refine or do something more with. This is one little section of a sketch from about 2016 that I always liked and wanted to do more with. I don't think I have ever used purple in one of my illustrations before, but that is how it's always been seen in my head. Not sure I love it, but here it is.

Bird Dreams

More messing around in Photoshop in the middle of the night. Foreground is flat colors with simple round brush, background is flat colors using a dry flat oil brush.