cartoon like mood. just a quick sketch. one for the road.
Tag: stories
I am not a Chiwawa dog in Spanish
This little guy is a welsh corgi. Of course he is. Once upon a time a little girl wanted him strictly because she thought he was one of cute Mexican dogs they call a chiwawa.
He made a little ruffled bark and told her, “No, I am not a chiwawa dog.” She took him
home anyway. They lived happily ever after.
I have combined my love of fonts; this one is Dino Kids, with pencil sketching and digital ribbon and bow, drawn on my Cintique by Wacom. enjoy. purchase
Night Visitor pencil drawing
Here is another pencil drawing from my portfolio that I did a little digital editing on today to add some highlights and deepen some tones. No one has ever seen this artwork as it was buried in some old files I found.
I am posting this and I am wondering if it might be good art for a book cover. So, in a day or two I will be fabricating a book title and I will search for a font that will fit the art. The drawing will have to be simplified I think for a commercial book cover. I love working in pencil because it is so honest. I want to do more.
Here is the artwork on products in my online store:
My Sweet Chevy
Once upon a time I owned this sweet car. It was great and ran great with no problems. I had it for around 10 years. At the time, it was considered a classic but I didn’t think it was old. I sold it to 2 German guys who flew to Los Angeles looking to pick up cars for their German Classic Car Club they were starting up. This was my all purpose car and I needed it for everything, including kids and everything that comes with kids. I got really tired of people stealing parts off of it. I could not park it anywhere without coming back to find it had been stripped again. Times change, cars change. I don’t really miss it because it was a lot of fun when I had it. Hope it’s still alive and doing well in Germany.
Corn Fairy’s Nightly Run
What can I say. I am working hard trying to figure out what works and what doesn’t work in photoshop digital painting. I’m still getting layers mixed up and even though I am still scrambled eggs about it, I am so happy to have learned a new thingy in this one. I found an old abstract painting and brought it in as a background and tilted it, blew it up, changed the levels a lot until I got a nice contrast between the background and my sweet fairy. With that as a positive, the negative is that I feel I lost an opportunity to paint the corn as it should look in moonlight. The same can be said about miss fairy herself, although I like her weird hair with the red maple leaves all over it. I won’t do that again though because I don’t think it worked. When you add something and it looks added and is not inspiring, it will always be a dead issue and is better off left dead. But alas, every time I paint one of these, I get a little closer to getting the concept.
This is the old corn fairy from 2005. I like the idea but I am surely not there yet. All in all, this is the better work but I will meet the challenge of reviving it. It is always good to save your work. It is much more rewarding to revise your own stuff that to just grab something off the web. I love the corn in this and the corn colors. I also think her skin tones are pretty cool. I may try this whole thing again at some later date.
Here is the abstract big watercolor. I changed so much of it –changed the levels and saturation in photoshop. See if you can guess which little section of this I used and manipulated. The original painting is misty and washed out just as it looks here because I washed and tried to scrub out what I had painted a long time ago. Because I used Arches 140lb. cold press, I could not get it all out. Now I am so happy about that because I can use this artwork for so many digital applications now. How cool is that? The other option is that I could paint over it but I think that would ruin it. So I will leave it as it is: a hidden treasure.
Painting Mexico 
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