Library of Celsus

Randomly painted this Roman Library today while at lunch. Based on the Library of Celsus in the Turkish ruins of Ephesus.

roman ruins digital oil painting

Steps of a Roman Library. Painted with ArtRage Studio Pro.

All lost in the Supermarket

Thought I posted this one a long time ago but it seams to be missing in action. Not sure where it went. The painting itself is from my Dick and Don and the Black Lotus movie project. It depicts them chasing some thuggish art thieves through the back alley markets of Kong Kong. I’m guessing this is over near central.
It is also one of the first things I painted using ArtRage studio Pro. This was a game changer for me. Being able to paint quick and messy was a god send at the time.

I spent a few hours this the morning trying to track this painting down for a portfolio i’m currently piecing together. It is a little sad but I can’t find the original ArtRage .ptg file. My guess is that it is probably sitting on some dusty hard-drive back in Canada. I’ll just have to add it to my long “things I wish I wish I brought to Hong Kong” list.

ArtRage digital oil painting of a back alley chase in Hong Kong

Hot on the trail of the art theives

Wakefield or Bust

I have been working on a lot of technically demanding work lately and needed a messy break. Nothing does messy digital quite like ArtRage so I fired it up and got all my demons out. Love ArtRage its a great tool. Wish it did dry media half as well as it did oil but then again I never really liked chalk anyways.

This is just a quick sketch. Proportions are all wrong, eye’s crooked, flat colors, etc… Just thought I should share something since the postings lately have been rather lean.

ArtRage digital oil painting of a cartoon head

Wakefield Artrage Digital oil

A Broken Home

Wakefield and the gang seek shelter from the roaring tempest in the floating rubble of an abandoned home.

Moving into a flooded house watercolor drawing

Breaking into the Condemned Red house.

Signature cartoon

Here is a fun little optical illusion. I found that its possible to sign my name in such a way that it is also my self-portrait.

signature optical illusion reveals artist self portrait

It me in more ways than one.

Floating Down Main Street story panel

I don’t know how but this story panel got lost in the shuffle. It is from the beginning of the sketchbook I am currently working on and probably should have been included a few posts back. It is from the beginning of my Wakefield storm sequence.

man over board storyboart artwork

Man over board!

Escaping the House of Gold

Added another Wakefield water-color doodle to my sketchbook last night. I penciled in a few more panels as well but it may be a few days before I have a chance to paint them.

jumping from a window into the ocean

Wakefield and company leap to the safety of the open ocean after escaping from the house of gold.

Lost in the dusty archives

Going though my files today I found this abandoned painting. I was intending to use it as the background art for this website but it proved to be too large. It slowed the site loading time down so I ditched it. I like the cluttered space though. Worth sharing.

lost background art created for the art archive website

some lost background art created for the ‘ol website