The Decoy 2

Sea monster?  What sea monster?

9.75x15 inches, watercolor.  Available at Daily Paintworks.

Narrow Escape

I don't remember sea monsters being mentioned in the travel brochure.



The first version of this piece had the Squire running away from a volcano.  As it happens sometimes, it just wasn't coming together very well, and I scrapped it.  Starting over, I swapped out the volcano for a trio of tentacles, and changed the paper as well.

10x18 inches, painted in watercolor.

Deep Sea Repair

Assessing the damage after a day at the racetrack.  With a little help.

11x13.75 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available for purchase at Daily Paintworks.

Outrun The Monster

Messing around with different color schemes, and putting a damsel in harm's way while doing it.  That's art.

10.75x10.75 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available at DPW.

Do The Tentacle Hula

When hula dancers, sea monsters, and too much rum collide.

Watercolor, 12x20 inches.  Available at DPW.

Warglobe Number One

Yes, I know.  It's not so much a globe as a bell jar.  "War Bell Jar" just doesn't sound cool.  Besides, it's a prototype, to test the concept of Warglobes.  Branding accuracy comes at a later stage, after the bugs are shaken out of the design.

The top picture is the original painting.  The bottom piece is a gently tweaked version I made in photoshop, just for something to do on a lazy Sunday.

Watercolor, 12x17 inches.

Jackpot

What with all those walking monkeys surfing their cars and trucks, it's inevitable that, occasionally, one will wipeout and their ride will wind up at the bottom of the sea.  At that point, it's finders keepers.


10x14 inches, painted in watercolor.

SMACK!!!

"OW!!"

"Time was, a girl could walk on the beach without having to worry about being accosted by rude tentacled monster things."

Sometimes, it's best not to ask where ideas come from.  Just paint them and make room in your brain for more of them.

7.5x17 inches, painted in watercolor. Available on Daily Paintworks.

Warglobe #2, With Digital Tweaking

Threw this in Photoshop one night and messed around with the color using a difference layer.  I might make prints of this.

Watercolor and digital manipulation.

Tractor Weirdo #2

"Yes, you too can grow your own soul harvesting harbinger of doom.  It's just like a chia pet, with overtones of apocalyptic terror.  Call in the next ten minutes and we'll include the riding lawnmower kit for FREE!"

10x14 inches, painted in HUMAN SOULS!!   I mean watercolor.  Right, watercolor.

Available at Daily Paintworks.

Warglobe #2

You too can create your very own cybernetic submersible engine of destruction.  First, you need to find the world's biggest gumball machine...

11x14 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available soon at Daily Paintworks.

Warglobe #3

Sometimes, you look back on an idea and ask yourself, "Where the hell did THAT come from?"

11x13.75 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available for purchase at Daily Paintworks.

Aerial Weirdos #17

What's the story here.  Is this an innocent repair operation, or sinister sabotage?  Or is it just a painting of a hitchhiker who's been to the hardware store?  I just don't know.  Nice car though.

This is the third time I have painted this particular wagon, although this is the first time I've painted it airborne.  It's sort of evolved into this strange, pseudo-allegorical "good vs. evil" with a light peppering of "Don't jump to conclusions."  Can't wait to see the fourth one.


11.5x15 inches, painted in watercolor.

Bad Dog 5

They're so adorable when they're little.  Once they grow up...

I don't think Mrs. Woodhouse is going to be much help here.


10x14 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available here.

Surf Weirdos #16

I believe an artist should have at least one giant eyeball painting in their portfolio.  It rounds out one's body of work in a way that a still life can't match.

This is my 101st blog post.  My, how the time flies.  It only seems like yesterday since Blog Post Number One exploded onto the scene like an armored car through a pyramid of soup cans.  I have to find some confetti and an alcoholic beverage to celebrate.


8.75x13.75 inches, painted in watercolor.

Smile For The Camera

The sophisticated family size hybrid sea monster, with room for your whole menagerie.

14x10 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available here.

Her Majesty's Royal Flying Weirdos

Hard at work, protecting the realm from the disembodied tentacles coming in from just out of frame.

10.5x14 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available for purchase.

Friendly reminder - time is running out to get your very own issue of Traditional Rod And Kulture Illustrated #34, featuring my work.  New issue's coming out soon, get that one, too.  It's going to be awesome.

Surf Weirdos #13

Uh-oh!

It appears that while an altered wheelbase gasser with fat slicks is absolutely brilliant for a quarter mile long strip of tarmac, it's not so good for surfing.

I don't use purple much when painting cars, but it seemed appropriate here.

10x14 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available on Daily Paintworks.

The Bride Of Fishenstein

This piece started out as a small volleyball pinup sketch.  Through a series of refinements and redraws, it gradually evolved into what you see here.  How and why this happened is difficult to explain.  I suspect it has something to do with the subconscious's ability to store, sift and assemble vast amounts of useless bits of data and imagery.  Sort of a solitaire of the mind, played with a deck of a million cards.

Mr. Fishenstein there has been recast in another piece I'm working on.  It appears being decapitated hasn't kept him from getting ahead.  (Badum Bump!  Zing!!)

14x21 inches, painted in watercolor.

Beached Weirdos #5

It's funny, the stuff you find sometimes when walking along the beach. Most of it's pretty unremarkable.  Bits of agate, broken seashells, a starfish or two.  But once in a very great while, you spot something a little more... interesting.

7x20 inches, painted in watercolor.  Available at Daily Paintworks.