And so here we go...

I get up at 5:30 AM tomorrow, pick up my traveling buddy, and cruise to NY to be wed.
And it will be blissful.

heralding book the second... [update]

And more painting... still, as always, playing.

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in the burgeoning Blue Goblet series...

"No sooner had she done with that when she looked behind her and saw, as it shook it’s terrible horns, a great and hulking brute sitting on a dune, sobbing."

Illustration Friday: "Dance"

Two moleskine drawings from two seperate car trips.
Illinoise and Colorado, respectively.

!!achtung!!~

this is cool, I just got on a German photoshop website, http://screenz.de/ or something like that. I took two years of German in college but... oh well. Guten tag! you're it.

olaf delievers

Olaf is the hero.

drawings in the car

Click here for moleskine drawings from the ride back.

digital woodcuts

I've posted these before but it never hurt anyone to post them again [that I know of...]

Illustration Friday: "Jungle"

"Queen Julia, as adept as she was in most areas, was not so in the art of air travel and she was forced a crash landing in the woods of a small neighboring country.

This disturbed her not and she carried on."

A selection from The Blue Goblet

The REVENGE of the Cardboard Sarcophagus

After a distress signal coupled with a furious and complicated [and yet unresolved] issue of upset stomach, my iPod became vegetative.

So back into the Cardboard Sarcophagus.

the distress signal that showed on the screen...

and a bright light...

BJERK-folio

"Child" by John Bjerk

Longtime friend and all around superman and photoshop mentor, John Bjerk, has an online portfolio showcasing his amazing work in various venues. I worked with John at the BJU Press for several years during my highschool career and most of college.

This piece of his here, I can point to as changing the course of my artwork.

the 35,000

just crossed the 35,000 visitor line today-- thanks to everyone who comes, thanks to everyone who comments, and just thanks!

Illustration Friday: "Potrait"

Here's someone mostly everyone who is mostly familiar with my blog is mostly familiar with: Landon Snow.

Here's the "portrait" for book one as well as the cover.

My Portland Kitchen

A sizeable area of the Portland Studios kitchen is now under my direct influence.

A certain amount of materials have been displaced by the recent construction in the front of the studio and the kitchen space bears most of the weight of it.

My aim is to make fantasic use of this space for my work today.

Blue Mino + gouache

weird minotaur painting that suffered during the scan.