Archive For The “Illustrations” Category
Oil on Canvas 2011, Painted from live model in a class taught by an amazing painter named Zin Lim. oil on canvas 2011 Oil on Canvas, 2011 “Ray Hernandez”, Oil on Canvas 2011 “Ray Hernandez 2″, oil on canvas 2011 I changed this 2nd painting of Ray again after 2 months of looking [...]
“Tiger Eats World”, 2010 Watercolor, Pencil, Digital This is a preliminary page for a book I’m illustrating. Recently this piece made it into the society of illustrators “student scholarship competition”. It’s great to be shown with such a fantastic group of artists!
“Hansel and Gretel” Watercolor, colored pencil, digital, 11″x9″ Visual development for Hansel and Gretel City scene This is the scene where Dad loses his job after the factory moves overseas and he isn’t able to feed his children, so he has to take his kids to stay with a cousin who owns a cupcake bakery [...]
This is a promotional piece I worked up for a friends band Lariat’s of Fire. It’s a pencil drawing I scanned and then painted digitally.
This series of illustrations was done using an under painting of gouache then rendered with colored pencils for a company (Eques inc.) who wholesales imagery to zoos and aquariums nationwide in the form of tee-shirts, mugs, etc. It was my first illustration job (2008) and though I was a very underpaid “for hire” artist, it [...]
Acrylic on Wood panel, 48″x24″ 2007 This is a commissioned painting for a rock climber and Pit Bull Terrier Owner (his dogs are in the foreground of the painting). The mountain range up front is called “Clark Mountain” on the California/Nevada border, a really scenic place, for people who like to go rock climbing.
Here are several images of what my art looked like from 2004-2007 while living in a quiet, misty, redwood forested, Northern California coastal town. I did a lot of painting, hiking, and landscaping work which influenced the contents of my brain and art. I painted so many images with birds in this time period I [...]