Thanks to the blog posts, I was contacted about a previous piece being used for an educational book cover. I took the opportunity to update the picture digitally for this purpose. I added a different hat and a better version of the pistol. I have only had a few pieces be repurposed but it is always interesting to see how they are used differently. Additionally, it was fun to get the book delivery months after I had forgotten about it. My sons were the most excited though.
The books can be picked up at Capstone Publishing and Barnes And Noble.
This was an illustration for a Heilig-Meyers Annual Report through Barber Martin. I remember that the main goal was to match the look of Thomas Moran's Style of Mountains. I had never tried to emulate a style like that and at first I wasn't sure I wanted to try. Ultimately the need to eat and pay bills was enough motivation. This was one of my first payed jobs for which I used a combination of oils and acrylics. I did not feel comfortable enough to paint only in oils so they only played a part in certain areas. The rest was acrylic and colored pencil. The thing I remember most about this, was that we rented a costume for us to wear and take photos. We commonly posed for one another. Pep posed for both Lewis and Clark. I was extremely happy with the background and clouds. Okay with the figures. Coincidentally I ended up rendering another artist's (Michael Haynes) pencil drawings for sculpts of Lewis and Clark in my current job. The reference and detailing for those were great. I will post the drawings and hopefully photos of the sculpts later.
This was a painting that was done for a White House Ornament Packaging Option. It was not used and resides on my wall now. This was one of the first paintings that I did of the White House and also one of the first times I tried to paint entirely in Oils. Because of this I was sat out in the warehouse with the doors open. It was near the end of winter and wow was it cold and rainy those days I was working on it. I ended up pulling it into the computer to do some revisions as I ran out of surface to paint on and the picture needed to show more width wise. Additionally I learned a technique to add snow falling in photoshop. Great learning experience overall!
Figured I would put up and image that I am pulling into the computer to finish. Started out traditional with oils, colored pencil, paint markers and whatever I could get my hands on. Not too happy with background as of yet. Going to experiment in the computer. Will post again sometime later.
