Cyanotypes. From the Bubble Blowers series. They were actually drawn on semi transparent paper, same type I used for the Lavanic scrolls so I printed that as well.
Below is the tranparancy for Bubble Blowers V2. you can see the detail better.
Four Lavanic scrolls. Just some more wonderful meditative brushwork. Thinking more about receding space and overlap.
I found out two of my friends had made these their lock screens on their phones independently of each other. it's so nice to have such loyal fans
Two form studies. I was thinking about proteins
three studies of wave forms that I did at the lake
Wind Studies. Left is oil, right is acrylic
study of pattern receding over a cylindrical shape.
The Sermons, acrylic on canvas
the belt from this painting was woven on an inkle loom using the double-face tablet weaving technique. To weave the whole poem it look nearly the entire length that my loom allows.
Diagram of Irony , acrylic on canvas
This is the sister piece to The Sermons, I made a video on the process.
picmix fractals
I have a skill of discovering profoundly unprofitable art forms, and this is probably the least profitable one I've taken on yet.
picmix is a website where you can put images over other images, with a social aspect to share your pictures. It's a lot like blingee, if you're familiar with that. As far as digital image manipulation it is pretty basic, but I do love a challenge. Here's a gallery of some of my favorites, forgive the watermarks and image quality, but I think it adds to the oldweb charm.
i also made a video talking more about it and showing the process
some oil paintings i've done since june, some are part of a series so I'll talk about them when i've finished a few more
six devotionals, mostly done in acrylic ink with some marker and gouache thrown in. I haven't measured them but they are approximately as tall as a yoga mat is wide because that's what I whet them on to flatten them after the paper was torn from the roll.
a more detailed, illustrative piece. I apologize for the quality of the color, it's a lot whiter and brighter in person. I'll get it scanned or photographed professionally at some point.
it's titled "A mortal perspective"
the figure is from imagination but the pose was practiced meticulously beforehand. I started with very clean line art and a perspective grid and then let everything dissolve as I moved away from the figure.
The green characters I call huihi, which are sort of like nymphs or fairies that live in the liolo or the hall of mihu.
this was sort of inspired by a conversation with my friend where we were discussing fairies, and how they can disregard human pain, sort of like a child hurting an animal they are playing with because they don't know any better.
I thought about what it would be like to be a mortal in the liolo, trying to keep your body together while everything around you is content to warp and dissolve. How to the mortal and immortal learn from each other's perspective when one can never truly experience the other?
In the same vein, this one is called "the beauty fairies love spilled blood", exploring the same theme as before, with less subtlety.