Robot number one

 End of the year so I thought I'd load up some more pictures of paintings I did this year. My theme is robots doing things that only humans should do. In this case, socializing with people.

 

 

Disc Golf!

Another example of my painting. I'm a disc golf enthusiast so when I wanted to paint a nice outdoor setting, I decided to paint a disc golf basket!

 

 

 

 

 

Review: Snails With Lasers

Snails With Lasers is an independent comic book written by Stephen Hines with art and lettering by Aaron Lindeman. I picked up this comic at the always excellent SPACE convention this year. I’d like to start by quoting some dialogue on page 1: “Rebooting should be finished by the time the reader reaches the second page.” Yes! This indicates this is going to be a fun ride!

 

The general plot of the comic is about some aliens who encounter Earth and decide humanity needs some culling. So they, of course, enlarge some snails and equip them with lasers to kill all “willfully ignorant” humans. That’s quite the task if you think about it!

But the overall plot isn’t as important as getting in as many jokes as possible. Jokes about humanity. Jokes about Florida. Jokes about politics. A bunch of jokes because snails are funny and so are humans. Jokes that involve serious adult language and extreme violence. In a very funny way.

Anyway, I’m trying not to tell the jokes myself because I want people to buy the comic. The art and writing are really really good, and it’s well worth the cost for the entertainment value. You just java to be entertained by extreme jokes. Occasionally. Not all the funny stuff is too extreme. I have purchased some other works of Stephen Hines over the years, and I’m sorry I haven’t reviewed them all. So let me recommend all his stuff right now! He has a shop here!

 

 

Cityscape

 More watercolors. I used a lot of splatter and watercolor pencils with this one.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Willie Mays memorial painting

 I've never done a memorial painting, but since I'm taking a painting class right now and we lost the greatest baseball player ever this week, it seemed right to give it a go. I tried to be more expressive than realistic. Didn't turn out like I had it in my head, but I still like the result.

Pencil sketch

First washes

More washes

Finished!

Painting Pokemon

 I'm currently taking a Watercolor Painting class. It is a class for my teaching as an Art Educator, but it also is an exploration of my own artistry. For my first painting I took some suggestions of Pokemon characters. I was only going to paint one, but then I had the idea to do three in format I've been drawing characters lately (see other pages on this blog). From the suggestions, I picked the three characters I thought were most interesting visually. I also decided to paint Kirlia instead of the suggested Ralts for this reason. Here's the process and the result.