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Redwood Paintings

forest landscape
Overlooking an imaginary gully
redwood dry lake

I was on the road this last week. While waiting for delayed flights, meetings to begin, and hangovers to pass I was free to work on some new iPad paintings. They are both from my head as I couldn’t have been further from the wild.

Just being in California during in the summer was enough to have me dreaming of camping. I think my brain is permanently etched with details about pine, redwood bark and the smells of the Sierras. It’s a theme that winds its way though out my work and this point I think its is fair to say that I owe a debt to my parents for all of the vacations we spent in the mountains.

forest landscape
Overlooking an imaginary gully

The painting above is the later of the two but I think the most successful. Both were painted in ArtRage and took about two or three hours to paint.

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Father’s Day Backyard Painting

my parents years
My parents newly landscaped back yard.

my parents years
My parents newly landscaped back yard.

Made the long drive up to Cloverdale today to have a father’s day BBQ with my folks. We picnicked in their newly landscaped backyard which was a huge improvement to the dead grass and clay which once resided there. My dad had put in a pond which he was proudly showing off to us.

Between bites of chicken and BBQ’d corn I documented the virgin landscape with a quick iPad painting. Oh man was it hot and dry though. I struggled to paint with all the glare on the tablets screen. The whole landscape bled together in washed out grey tones, faded by the hot sun. My eyes strained just to look at it all. The space is quite nice but after about an hour we all opted out to go swimming.

It was a pretty fantastic father’s day.

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Healdsburg Plaza Painting

downtown healdsburg california
A lazy sumer afternoon on the Healdsburg Plaza.

downtown healdsburg california
A lazy sumer afternoon on the Healdsburg Plaza.

This afternoon I found myself with the rare bit of free time on my hands and decided to make the most of it by making this little painting.   My toddler had fallen asleep in his bike seat while we were ridding around the Healdsburg plaza so I sat down on a shady bench with my iPad.  It was a lovely warm summers day and the plaza was full of tourists up for the weekend wine tastings.  A trio of local kids were jamming blues riffs on their guitars and kids were playing in the fountain.  I couldn’t be happier, it was a really nice day.  Silas and I got ice cream after he woke up and then rode the long way back home through the vineyards.

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Camera projection tests

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projection mapping

A maya projection mapping test. Trying to hybrid 2d and 3d.

Recently I have been working on and off on camera projection tests.  Trying to find a way of making blendable 2d/3d environments.  One of the struggles is finding ways to eliminate hard edged. This is a work in progress.

The same maya projection mapping test.

This time with fern elements to test overlapping.

This time in anaglyphic stereo and with some random spears to test how the steroscopic effect works on a 2d/3d camera projection.