Large Scale Painting



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It’s been a summer since I’ve tackled a new postmodern impressionism project. But something about late fall/ early winter makes me reach for a large-scale stage.

Wish I had a ginormous canvas to paint on. Something not measured in inches. Feet instead.



About half the painting visable to show scale with stuff

Still it was nice to get my hands dirty again. This isn’t finished but I figured I’d blog it up while I wait for this layer of stuff to dry.

You can check out previous ian postmodern impressionist paintings here:
(The new paintings will be added below)


Pine trees
Trains
Water towers

OK, here is a cropped version of the finished painting:



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Hats

OK, this is just a crazy thought but…

My crit group, we call ourselves the ‘goalies’ cause we set goals. Of course, Stephanie Greene, the SCBWI-NC RA calls us, that roughty Raleigh group.



Still, wouldn’t it be cool if all the ‘goalies’ had hats and shirts to wear? And what better hat than a goalie mask?!



So I took the liberty of using my award winning illustration (could I be any more full of myself?) to design our new hats. But hey, it's my blog. :)

Pages 20 -21

Still working on my top-secret project. Here are pages 20 and 21.



Even though I thumb nailed out the entire thing, I really can't see the big picture till I have a completed painting.

Once in Photoshop, I have so much more freedom to move stuff around and play with the layout. I know I’m suppose to be able to do all that with the thumbnails but...



I thought maybe this one worked better with the text on the top. Whatch you think? I don't know, maybe not... No, now that i look at it, i like the other one better. OK, never mind.

When Wogs Attack: Part 2

Monster Mash



Here is my entry for the Penelope Illustration Monster Mash contest. Hope I win! Go monster!

Meanwhile Leatha Koefler, professional art critic and former gallery owner described my art in this manner, "It's like a party on paper." Could I ask for a better review??

More Zonkey


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I played around with the layout of my top-secret project some more today. Moved the text around mostly.

I also played with different color schemes. Do you like the orangey background color of the zonkey green background color? I'm leaning toward orangey.

When Wogs Attack: Part 1

Can you beleive I have another stinken cold? Well, you know the rules. Whenever I'm sick it's time to play bass.

Here's a sad little ditty called the Wog Blues...

Scared?



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Most of my stuff is less creapy then this but I was playing around with drawing people and these guys just popped out onto the paper.

Anyhow, this week's word for the Picture Bookies blog is scared so I thought that fit in just swell like.

Good Morning Chicago



My interface design made the Chicago Times. How very exciting. The interface I designed for TeleHealth Services has been installed in Northwestern’s new Prentice Women's Hospital.

The Times ran a story on the hospital and included a screenshot of my system. They squished it a little but that’s OK, I’ve never been in the Times before.