Zion Canyon

A plein air painting I did last month at Zion National Park.

Bono

Here's something to make me feel old. It has been 20 years since The Joshua Tree was released. Oh well, Bono is older than me and he's still cool. (I think)

This is for the Avalanche Blog. The theme is Rock Star.

Also this was done using ArtRage, which I just discovered. I don't know if I would use it for professional work, but it sure is fun. They have a free download and if you want the full verion it's only $20. Check it out.

The Captain

This was done for the Avalanche Blog. The topic was "Villain."

Old Tak Art

Well, it's time to get something besides my losing art contest entries up here to look at. Apologies to those who may have clicked here multiple times in the last month only to see nothing new. I haven't been able to do any personal work for a while, so I will have to resort to posting old art. Here are a couple pieces from Tak.

Losing Art Contest Entries

My former office mate Justin who now works at Blizzard talked me and a couple other guys into entering the Blizzard art contest. They posted the winners today and neither I nor anyone I know is among them. I probably didn't spend enough time on these to compete with the ones that were picked. Oh well, at least I have something to post on my blog now. I don't know if Todd and Ryan will post theirs. We may have to pressure them a little.

Seascape: Corona del Mar

I was in California a couple weekends ago and had a chance to make it down to the beach to paint. The threatening rain clouds looked really cool but made it a challenge because they kept blocking the sun. I was an hour or so into it before it started to get too dark, so I had to finish it off at home.

Her Royal Highness-ness

This is for the art challenge at work. This week's topic is royalty.

Lost Hobbit

At work we have started an unofficial, just for fun art challenge where we all do a piece based on a common theme. Last week's theme was the TV show Lost, which I have never seen. So naturally I chose the hobbit. Maybe I will take this and change him back into a hobbit and add this to my collection of Lord of the Rings fan art. Anyway, they are big into caricature here at work so I have been attempting to get better at that. And you can check out what everyone else at work did over on the Avalanche blog.

Three Dog Knight

This is an illustration I did a few years back for Dragon Magazine. I actually did quite a few illustrations for them, but as I look back at them, I don't know, I guess I am just not a fan of the subject matter. Sometimes the fantasy genre just gets a little ridiculous. Fantasy football on the other hand... Anyway, I like this guy. He looks like he could play safety for the Raiders.

Football Time

I know that there are probably not too many people who do fantasy art and like football. I am one of them. I did this image of Ricky Williams a couple years ago when he was leading my fantasy football team to the championship. That of course was before his pot-smoking sabbatical from the NFL. But the real reason for this post is to remind Ryan that he needs to sign up for fantasy football.