Smokestack Sketch

these were painted at a derelict factory in Andover, MA.
45 min each.

Cemetary Sketch

near andover, ma. gouache.
45 min.

Tank City WIP-color

original sketch- http://mikebear.blogspot.com/2009/03/tank-city.html

one day it will be finished. i like this quote from Bob Peak.

"Now, in every assignment, there is a great deal of preparatory thought. The actual execution of a painting takes about three hours. Few of the drawings take over one hour. Really though, this is a misleading statement. A painting may take ten years..."

"... that is to say, it was ten years before I could do it."

i found it at this blog- http://todaysinspiration.blogspot.com/2010/08/bob-peak-finest-illustrators-work-with.html

War Sketches

Dreams

Tin Man WIP

Layout

Asteroid Sketch

Randoms

studies of Dice Tsutsumi and Gil Elvgren. the others are mine.

an attempt at a concept for the gardens from the film Metropolis.

Monkey King

The Woods

Yarn

Still Fishin'

Somerville

Brush Experiments

Winter Image

A little bit of sketching to cope with winter.

"Willowesque"

I like mountains.

Progression pt. 1

This is a pretty inspiring exercise. Starting out with interesting colors and making shapes. And then try to imagine something in the picture. Scott Robertson did a dvd about this. This the most finished I've taken one of these sketches. I want to keep going with it, see if I can polish it even more, play with different ways to lead your eye around. I'm very interested in rendering as a tool for where you can lead the eye.

Landscape Sketch

30 minutes.

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