Tag: fish

a limbless cold-blooded vertebrate animal

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Dry Ink Silas sheehy

The Grey Sketchbook: Part 3

Captain Hook sketch
The Dark and sinister man. Captain James hook.

The final third of the book. I would have had posted it sooner had I not misplaced the sketchbook. It went missing for a few days. After a good deal of stress and several fruitless searches I found it, of all places, in my drawing bag. Boy did I feel like a fool.

  • soccer sketch
    It was pouring at Silas’ football class.
  • soccer studies
    fielding the ball in my imagination.
  • peter pan sketch
    i’ve been Reading Peter Pan to my boys at night.
  • doodles
    I often get asked to draw Galaxy express stuff for my boys. Folded and drew the engineer.
  • sea dogs
    Pirates and their treasure as well as a random fellow in a suit and ear-muffs.
  • david with head
    Things that will kill you. violent bloody battles and toddlers.
  • Captain Hook sketch
    The Dark and sinister man. Captain James hook.
  • too many hats
    a bucket full of fish and a few good hats to end the book.
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Hauling in the Nets

bringing in the nets
an iPad digital oil painting made in ArtRage

bringing in the nets
an iPad digital oil painting made in ArtRage

This afternoons iPad doodle is of fishermen pulling in their catch. My dad was a fishing guide so I have lots of boat and fish imagery floating about my head. Everything in our house revolved around fishing.

I’ve been landlocked now for the last few months and Its getting on my nerves. I really miss being out in the water, especially on cold rainy days like today. Its pouring and the thermometer is hovering near 1°C. The only thing I can do at the moment is to imagine hotter weather.

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Room with a View Painting

blue light
Inside wakefield's underwater house.

room with a view
Inside wakefield’s underwater house.

I just got off a flight from Hong Kong to San Fransisco. I had the iPad, Artrage, several long hours to kill. This depiction of Wakefield’s living room was the outcome.

One problem that I’m running into while painting on the iPad is color quality. Most of the time can’t tell where I am in color space. Is it blue or is it turquoise? It’s rather impossible to tell for instance when the lamp behind you is yellow or the walls are red… that sort of thing seems to happen a lot on the iPad. When the brightness slider is adjusted making color choices really is nothing better that a wild guess. Back home I had to readjust this painting in Photoshop to more closely match what I thought I was seeing on the plane. I wonder if the ipad screen can use the camera to detect lighting conditions? That would be pretty useful when you move between different environments. These problems aside, its still pretty amazing to have a portable digital canvas.