Castle Wonky

Castle Wonky

Pastels, 19″ x 24″. Second page of the old pad of paper I mentioned before. I’m not sure I like this one. Again, I started with no clear direction in mind. The exercise is mostly about getting to know how the colors mix together and learning how to stay within the lines. It reminds me of my coloring book days, really. So childish. Deliberately cartoonish. No real sense of scale. I need to start doing real still life stuff, but…

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An Untitled, Unfinished, Unedited Sequel to “Season of Rain”

An Untitled, Unfinished, Unedited Sequel to “Season of Rain”

I have countless unfinished stories, things I pen and abandon more quickly than you can utter Shakespeare’s name. Too lazy to start anything anew or to complete any existing project, I discovered the following tidbit on my hard drive and decided to post it here. It is meant to be a sequel to Season of Rain. And completely unrelated … I’ve just discovered the old post has a comment from Minnie’s matron of honor. So that’s where it was. Now…

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It’s Alive!

It’s Alive!

I’ve been meaning to post more in the last couple of days, but I haven’t felt well enough to sit at the computer for very long. My eyes and head have been killing me, some weird combination of sinus headache and dehydration which strikes me when I’m vertical and which has caused me to miss seeing a meteor shower on Thursday night and attending an annual Christmas caroling party on Saturday night. I’ve been lying in bed most of the…

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Latest Work, 2007 Week 50

Latest Work, 2007 Week 50

I finally received my first royalty check from Zumaya Publications this week, so now I breathe a sigh of relief and look forward to a time I may get to add them to my little author bio on the right side of this blog. People often query me about work and ask me if I take on clients outside of my two publishers. The answer is that I do. That’s why I have the words “freelance artist and graphic designer”…

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