Artworks
My drawings, paintings, and craft type projects.
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It Has Become Precious to Me…
I finished this display box for my One Ring from the Lord of the Rings and Hobbit fame. The box was from Micheal’s, which I got for about three dollars. I stained it a light walnut and painted the area around the glass with gold-leaf paint. I lined the bottom of the box with red…
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Entering the City
“This great city of Tenochtitlán is built on the salt lake, and no matter by what road you travel there are two leagues from the main body of the city to the mainland. There are four artificial causeways leading to it, and each is as wide as two cavalry lances. The city…
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Jupiter From Europa
This is an acrylic on canvas painting, with color pencil for outlining and scragglies on the surface ice grooves. Larger version:
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Inspace
Garcia held onto the fusion radiator assembly, looking towards the bright light of Beta Centauri. She felt at one with the cosmos, right now at this perfect moment in time. She knew-and soon the solar system of her birth would know too; humankind was not alone in the universe. The hour would come when we…
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A Novel Situation
I am currently experimenting with the layout of the graphic novel concept I am working on titled “Colloquium.” This is a sample mock up of the first page, using an original pen and ink layout drawing that has been digitally inked and processed. I used an open source font for the ‘hand’ letting in the…
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1930’s Long Beach, Colorized
I love visualizing cities as they existed during the many decades of their lives. The city of Long Beach has changed dramatically in the years since these original photos were taken. I ‘borrowed’ them from the Los Angeles Public Library’s digital archive. The photos show a semi-aerial view close to Lincoln Park and the second…
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сердцебиение/Heartbeat
Illustration of my story Heartbeat.
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Three Sisters
These are some profile drawings I did of the three German ocean liners ceded to the Allies after World War I- SS Leviathan, RMS Majestic and the RMS Berengaria. They’re done to the same scale, though I did take artistic liberties with the details (remember, I’m not a naval architect). When its all said and…
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Container Home
I designed this concept for a low-cost container home built out of four individual 60 foot shipping containers for a friend of mine here in the Pacific Northwest. The structure is designed to take advantage of the local environment and I focused on incorporating reclaimed materials such as wood siding/plastic sheeting. I also made use…
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Future Shock
Finally finished a large-scale pen and ink showing some kind of future street scene.
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Michelangelo
“The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms; and to confide in one’s self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.” -Michelangelo Buonarroti I finished this pen and ink portrait of Michelangelo recently. I was tempted to continue filling in all of the details of…
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Masters of War
I finished this drawing yesterday, the title speaks for the subject matter: Please check out http://www.wagingpeace.org/ for an outline on ridding the world of nuclear weapons.
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On the Surface
Imagine archaeology on the surface of another world. Exploring the remnants of a civilization lost to the tides of time on a world totally alien to our own.
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DOS it
The hum of the fan echoes throughout the room, the soft grinding of the disks reading bytes off platters; the green phosphorescence of the monitor shows some blocky bits of image data and allows the user to see proof that the electricity he’s Using isn’t wasted. One day, some day I’ll use one of these…
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Ziggy Stardust, etc.
I am a fan of David Bowie. Love his music, love his various looks, love his weirdness. I have a friend however, who would kill to have his babies. I created this illustration for her as a Christmas present. Its Bowie with a great mullet and the two planets he hails from, at least during…
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Apollo 11 Shadow Box
I made this shadow box over my vacation. It was a basic, dirt cheap wooden box from Michaels that I stained a deep cherry wood color. I did the bevels around the glass in copper paint and used Lamp Black for the inside. I hand painted the Earth and the Moon on small, round pieces of…
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The Wright Colors
I colorized this really awesome image of Frank Lloyd Wright, one of my artistic heroes: and the original, boring black and white image:
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Stormy Seas
My most recent drawing which I am calling “Stormy Seas” for lack of a better name. It started off as something totally different…and is now something far more atmospheric than I had originally intended.
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Discovery 2
For anyone who has read Arthur C. Clarke’s Odyssey series of books, you would know that the Americans were building a second spacecraft to rendezvous with the original Discovery 1, only to book passage with the Russians when they found out that the Discovery 1 would plow right into Io. In this drawing I am imagining…
The Numinous Cosmos 