Ornaments for Langston and Alciedo

Here's the second ornament I scuplted and painted for my son.  It's the other character I mentioned before, Eduardo, from Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends.  These two were fun and I'll likely make at least a couple more from the show next year.

This last ornament I painted for my young friend Alciedo.  He'll be eight at the end of this month.  Alciedo is a young artist, and we regularly exchange drawings.  I'll post some of our artistic correspondence at some point, I'm sure.



Langston's 1st Canvas: Finally Finished!

I just hung it in his room today.  I've got a couple of full-canvas shots and several detailed shots of each of the characters.

Next up:  His first name, Joseph, surrounded by Hanna-Barbera characters.  I'll post some pictures of the canvas when I get started sketching, hopefully within a week or so.

Another Ornament from Last Year

I painted this ornament for my dad last Christmas.  It marries his love of baseball with my love of Charles Schultz's Peanuts.

Monkey Mural

I've been working on this mural in my dining room for quite some time.  Like most things, I don't have a lot of time to devote to it.  It's based on a painting called The Drunken Cleric by an artist known as Shag (Josh Agle).  I stumbled upon one of his art books at Half Price Books and really enjoyed his retro-50s-jazz album cover style.  When I moved into my house, there was a carved wooden sign hanging over my sink, featuring two tiki heads and the word "CERVEZA'S."  So I thought:  why not continue the theme in the dining room.  Seemed like fun at the time.  The pictures show the mural at near completion.  I just have to touch up the blue-green background.  You might notice some yellow around a few of the figures. That, unfortunately, was the original color of the wall.  Drunken monkeys and tikis are a grand improvement, I think.

Here's an image of the original painting.