8.31.09 L.White

This is a quick study of the bagdad. I think I'll be painting it sometime soon...

8-31-09 SKeenan

Here's stuff from my trip to the Shakespeare festival in Ashland.

8.29.09 R.Blake

This will be my last post for a bit, Im moving into a new apartment, building a loft/shelves etc. etc......

8.29.09 R.Blake

Ive been a little distracted by moving

8.29.09 HGolson

My neighbor's garden is totally like Mr. Miyagi's house.

8-27-09 Skeenan

I will be out of town for the weekend and will not be able to upload stuff. I will post my drawings when I get back on Monday.

8.27.09 L.WHite

Sorry for being so Flakey McFlakes-a-lot with my posts. David punched me and now I'm back to posting. No more missed days!

This is a quick revised sketch for the magazine cover I'm doing. Lots of painting going on right now. The compound show is next week, so I'll be back to the drawings soon...

8.26.09 DHohn

St Johns Bridge. Interesting that of all the drawing devices available I seem to be attracted to sketching with a brush.

8-26-09 SKeenan

Sketch from Deadwood

8-26-09 SKeenan

A study of Paul Lasaines comp work, and how he handles "clutter" in sketches.

8.26.09 R.Blake

the deluxe view from my room.

08.22-23.09 DHohn

Out at the zoo this weekend with my nephew. Quickest sketches I've ever had to do -- since he doesn't really like to hang around long enough for me to do much more than a brief lay-in.


A study for my landscape painting homework. Turns out I like painting trees.


Just a cool house here in Portland. For you locals it's over in the Mississippi district.

Playing with the pastel medium. Something pretty nice about this stuff -- very painterly but now so messy. Okay, it's messy, but not so toxic?

8-24-09 SKeenan

Playing with a new layout for this old western town painting. This piece has officially become the bane of my existence, a thorn in my side, the pebble in my shoe, the poo in my cereal...ok the last one went too far. Anyways , I think I'm getting closer to what it should be. Any feedback would be appreciated on the comp :)

8.25.09 HGolson

8.24.09 R.Blake

My efforts to quit "sketching" (because it builds bad habits) and draw thouroughly instead is causing my drawings to become very large. This sketchbook is 17'' x 24'' page to page

8-23-09 SKeenan

These are just some sketches exploring the little swamp stalker design further.

8-22-09 SKeenan

OK, so yeah, I've been on this creature kick lately for some reason. Anyway, here's one I did this afternoon. He's a little guy, chicken size, and I call him the swamp stalker.

8-22-09 SKeenan

going back to the drawing board on one of my paintings. Doing a full redo. These are some comp studies.

8.22.09 R.Blake

Oops, no focal point.

8.22.09 HGolson

8-21-09 SKeenan

today at the zoo

08.20.09 - 08.21.09 DHohn

Playing with media



Hanging at the doctor office. The pain threshold chart struck me as sorta' absurd.

8.21.09 L.White

Zoo sketches...

8.21.09 HGolson

this foo dog lives on some guy's wall in the neighborhood

8-19-09 SKeenan

Speed paint "value study" of Adventureland entrance at Disneyland. ..Ah the childhood memories..

8.19.09 R.Blake

Its been really hot. Location drawing has been reduced to subway stations and the view from coffe shops.

08.19.09 DHohn

It's been a pretty hectic week and I haven't posted as regularly as I've wanted to. To make up here's a slew of sketches done while I was camping earlier this week.





I got in and started working sketches like these above. Fun, nice, but a bit of been-ther-done-that.


Then I gave this guy a go. I liked it, but wanted to try pushing the mediums a bit more.




I did this second version of the evergreen tree above while channeling a chinese watercolorist named Chang (I'll find out his full name -- really talented watercolorist) Anyway I really liked it. Thought I'd made a breakthrough.



Tried the process again -- modifying slightly to try and control the medium a bit more -- and came up with this considerably more disappointing effort. And so the search continues . . .

8.19.09 part2 HGolson

My neighbor has about a hundred of these bonsai in her garden.

8-19-09 SKeenan

Sorry I keep posting paintings, but its all I've been working on, and has been taking my time. This one has been a thorn in my side for a few weeks. I finally busted it out. Still not sure how I feel about it. Its from a game project I worked on last term. The setting is the Northern California gold rush territory. This is the small western town in the mountains which part of the game takes place. This piece follows a more stylized look, which was established early on.

8.19.09 HGolson

8.18.09 L.White

Hey, here is another painting for the show and two other painting experiments. I have more sketch pages, but they aren't scanned yet. These are watercolor and oil...