Kaleidoscope

Some beginning concept designs for a public
interactive kaleidoscope piece.

Gallery of Unfinished Paintings

I have a really bad habit of starting projects, never getting to far with them, and then getting bored and moving on to something else.
Never to touch them again. Here are a few paintings I have that are a great example of what I'm talking about, would love to finish some of these, but will I...?

All of these are acrylics on wood, 24" x 24" and bigger, with the exception of the lady with the red skeleton, that one is acrylic on canvas board 18" x 24"

Speed Paint, Space Dragon

Every time I do a paint, it looks likes it was done in the 1950's...
maybe that's OK? but not what I'm going for, oh well, I'll keep trying until I'm happy.

Quality Auto

I don't know why I am posting this, I just really like it...
It's not a great sign, I guess I just see a lot of different things in the painting. This is a sign painted on the side of an old mechanic's shop in the heart of downtown Pinckney, Michigan. I have probably passed this sign as a teenager a hundred times and never noticed it, but recently was nearby and it just grabbed me. I guess just something about the combination of colors on the wall, the blue sky and the green trees makes me feel at ease...
like I'm a kid back in the 70's, with tube socks pulled up to my knees and on my Schwinn with the banana seat and sissy bars riding by while they work on a 72' Nova listening to Journey...

I need to get back to posting!

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been crazy busy
with just life in general, but I have a lot more stuff to come soon.
In the meantime here are some random sketches
from the last few months.

Patch Together

I've just submitted this design to PatchTogether.com, and need your voting support for selection to be possibly produced as a toy. Could you find it in your big hearts to sign up with PatchTogether and vote on my design and maybe even leave a friendly comment.

This particular design is for the Cutest Animal Warrior contest, but I also have the Trojan bug posted as well, you could vote for him too!

Have a look here.

The Real World

No robots or space birds in this post. Nope, just quick concept designs for a 20' x 30' trade show exhibit. Here's hoping to get the full design and build contract. The client is a manufacturer of industrial lasers and wants to see what could be done to have a wide open, clean and inviting booth space

on a ( as everyone these days) tight budget and time line.

Portrait

Kind of a side view portrait of a kinda bug shelled, cow, dragon thing...
I did a post like this back last April called "The Bug" where I wanted sort of this weird creature portrait set against this sort of beautiful back drop
and never really had gotten any further with it.
This painting started out where I was going to pick up on the bug painting but, I only ended up with just using the same shell and started changing everything else.

Aquatic Oddities

Just some more random studies in Photoshop painting with the Wacom tablet. Playing around with brush sizes and details, loose and a little tighter... some more thought out stuff coming soon!