I thought I’d share a little bit of technique I used as part of my Water Elemental repaint project. The original image was made by drawing out the image in pencil on vellum, scanning that in, and then painting it digitally. Inspired by a suggestion from a friend, I...
Sep112019
Water Elemental Palette Knife String Technique
Apr42018
Tiny Dragon Process 4 – Painting
Part 4 – Rainy Day Dragon Painting The Making of a (Not so) Tiny Dragon This is part 4 and the final process post for the Rainy Day Dragon picture. If you’d like to see the steps I took to get to this point, here are links to the...
Mar282018
Tiny Dragon Process 3 – Drawing Continued
Part 3 – Rainy Day Dragon Drawing Continued This is part 3 in a series of posts sharing much of the creation process for my Rainy Day Dragon. The final drawing was jurried into the Not So Tiny Dragons book for ArtOrder, LLC’s TIny Dragon Art Project Kickstarter. In the...
Mar212018
Tiny Dragon Process Part 2 – Drawing
Part 2 – Drawing the Dragon This is part 2 in a series of posts sharing much of the creation process for my Rainy Day Dragon. My previous post was about the brainstorming phase. I’m excited to share this with you as this drawing was jurried into the Tiny Dragons Art...
Mar142018
Tiny Dragon Process – Brainstorming
The Kickstarter for “Tiny Dragons Art Book” is live! You have the opportunity to own three 3″x3″ choc full of amazing dragon art by artists from around the world. This is an art book project by Jon Schindehette and Art Order, LLC. Check out the Kickstarter Campaign here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/artorder/tiny-dragons-art-project?ref=454099&token=09f48aaf...
Jul262017
Wyvern Hunting Process
Lunch or dinner? I finished this piece back in May. Wyvern Hunting is now varnished, framed, and ready for display at Gen Con. Loose prints area available through my online store, and I will have both loose and matted prints with me for sale at Gen Con. Read on...
Feb42017
New Art on Dura-Lar Part 2
Drawing on the polyester film was like running my hands across a length of satin fabric. This was the first time I’ve used it. For the most part I was able to build up fairly rich values, and erase back to a pretty clean surface. However I did manage...
Jan272017
New Art on Dura-Lar
For my most recent project I’ve been drawing on Dura-Lar. It was suggested by another artist who has had excellent results with the stuff. I’m using the .005 matte film. Like with the vellum I used for previous projects, I drew my lines on one side and am building...
Dec212016
Book Review – “A Technique for Producing Ideas”, by James Webb Young
In continuing to follow my curiosity about creativity, I read “A Technique for Producing Ideas” by James Webb Young, published by The McGraw-Hill Companies, 2003. It’s a very thin book but he gets to the point rather quickly: how to create ideas. His thoughts on the process of creating seems...
Dec142016
Water Elemental Reference
I couldn’t find reference for the low angle view of the coral and other underwater objects. Flexible thinking was required. I asked myself, what else do I have access to that would have an approximate shape and structure of the things I wanted to draw? Oyster mushrooms! I lit...