Happy Holidays to all!!

painting using photographs

These are demos for my photoshop class. The idea is to use various filters to create painterly effects. Also experiment with different brushes to enhance pieces.

chinatown - sf

went to San Francisco over the weekend....here's a sketch done in chinatown

some character design

i know, i know, finally a new post!!

i'm taking a vehicle/mechs class. here's my first assignment.

skateboard deck

for an upcoming ISM art show
title: It's Okay to be Different

Italy sketchbook_journal

Italy

These are pix from my recent trip to Italy....Wow, what a beautiful country.....We visited Rome, Florence, Pompeii, Venice, and Siena......

FYI, most of these pix where taken by my brother John....

another centaur

centaur

little jimmy campground

a few sketches from angeles national forest

angeles national forest

went camping at angeles national forest......to our surprise, it was nice and cool at 8K feet elevation

tigers

tiger sketches at the zoo......left the stripes out on purpose so i can focus on the form

more mixed media portraits

big cats

focusing on big cats at the natural history museum

figure drawings

pastel portrait

Pix from Big Sur

Big Sur

I went camping/backpacking over the weekend in Big Sur. What a beautiful place. Here is a few marker sketches from the trip

a couple of pastel studies

pastel landscape

gorilla

vietnamese girl

Here is a study for a painting that I am working on

cowboy

suppose to be john wayne, but it doesn't really look like him....oh well

bob hope

elephant

more mixed media portraits

landscape digital painting

fishies

a demo i did for my beginning illustrator class

portraits

Used mixed media including existing patterns to create these pieces

another old man

experiment with a caricature approach....i really had fun with this one

horse cantering