Sorry about the bad scans of these paintings. I want to take some decent pictures of these soon. Just have to stop procrastinating.

Plum Tree Sketches

So a friend of mine asked me to draw a plum tree in bloom for her tattoo. Of course, I have no idea what a plum tree looks like, so I do some web searches. What I find is mainly that plum trees have always looked better in drawings than in real life; artists throughout history seem to have this knack for idealizing the gnarled, diagonal composition of anything they draw. So I decided to go with the idealized version of the plum tree, since that seems to be what my friend would most like to have as a tattoo. I mean, I know I wouldn't want a photorealistic, boring ol' plum tree tattooed on my heinie. I'd want the windswept, romantic, contorted, gnarled, Japanese-style ornamental plum tree. That's what I tried to capture in these two drawings.

Some Paintings

Monstrosity on Canvas
Water-based Oil on Canvas
c. 2003


















Untitled
Water-based Oil on Canvas
2003

















As The Sparks Fly Upward
Acrylic on Canvas
c. 2006

Two Old Drawings

Here are a couple of older drawings. Drawing # 1 is dated October 1, 2006, and is entitled Beast in Chains. It was done hastily and violently with a ballpoint pen.
















Drawing # 2 is undated, but I think it was done sometime in 2006. I like the face, but the rest of it is mediocre in my opinion.

Sorceress Sketch

New Songs

I have three new songs up on SoundClick. They are all piano-based, and one has vocals. Click here to go to my SoundClick page.

Some practice in cross-hatching. This drawing was done a couple of months ago, as far as I can remember.

Music

Check out some of my music at http://www.soundclick.com/bands/pagemusic.cfm?bandID=373588

I seem to be writing and composing music more than I am drawing these days, but I recently found a drawing I did a few months ago that could be posted. I just have to photograph it, since it is too big to scan.

I'm still drawing feverishly from time to time, but I have nothing post-worthy yet this year. Soon...

Here's a drawing I did in December. The medium is conte on paper.

I'm back!

I wasn't around for a bit because I misplaced my password, but I found it again. And it seems Blogger has shifted gears so that I can use my Google account to sign in. So that saves me from that hassle happening again.

Not that anyone cares, I don't get any comments.

Green Archer

Here's something I drew last year (2005).

This was mostly just done as enjoyable practice material. Parts I'm most proud of include: her hair, the handle of her sword, and her face and hands.