Halloween Watercolor Image

Tweaked in Photoshop a bit.   Happy Halloween!

Watercolor of the Misses

Completed back in late October, and I'm now just trying to update things

Water Color Still Life

Winsor Newton Watercolor on Arches Cold Press Watercolor Paper

Woman by Candlelight - 1/4/14

       Small study in color reflection on skin.  I would like to continue to do more of these.  Since this was a fast piece, I wasn't concerned so much with capturing likeness or form.  However I am liking less and less the unevenness that these block water colors give me when using I still don't feel ready to switch to tubes just yet, rather I need to develop some sense of technique

New Years - 2014

Happy New Years to all, and wishing you the most prosperous of 2014 to come. 

Among my own private personal goals, I feel that I should list some publicly, so that I can look back on these by end of next year, to be a constant drive to me to accomplish more throughout the year. 

1) Return to using my Blog to expand upon my own sharing of concepts and accomplishments.

2) Create and finish 2 Children's Books - at least one written by myself.

3) Look to add about 15 more Watercolor pieces to my Moleskine art book, and to move onto larger scale pieces thereafter.

4) Release a few limited resin cast pieces based on some of my sculpted work.

5) Participate in at least 1 art show this year.

6) Work on at least 4 large scale sculpted pieces.

7) Learn from others, share and grow. Speak with those who share similar attitudes and goals. 

8 Take a class(es) on furthering my own abilities.

9) Motivation! Participation! Success! These are the words that I carry on into 2014. Let's get going!

Mark

Sculpt based on artwork of Marta Nael's 

Steps and process in sculpting, fabricating and painting.
I need to find a better way of photographing this.  I wasn't too thrilled with the end photos. 

Surrealling Dreaming

     I had a dream last night, so vivid that I can’t shake it. I found myself with two others, painting at individual easels, when all of a sudden; a large stag came bursting through the side glass doors of the cabin that we were in. It fell to the floor, dying, with its blood slowly spilling across the wood paneling, as if its throat had been slit. Then a vendor of from my work, who is a hunter, appeared. He said that we had to honor the fallen stag, by painting with his blood. So we all reached down, dipping our fingers into its blood, and began to feverishly paint on our canvases before the beast exhausted its last breath. 

     Now at this point, the other’s paintings became some truly darker, twisted images, but oddly enough I found myself painting a playful child, representing an image of hope in my mind, all in the blood of this animal.

     Chilling dream. Very surreal. I’m taking it to mean that I should get back to painting, and just that Hannibal the TV series really had some lasting impressions on me. But that dream, it was so freaky, and there’s probably something deeper in it all.