Hey Snoopy, guess what?

Your painting is done! Now I have to finish Maria's!
I will be taking a better pic tomorrow when the sun is shining. Taking acceptable pictures under my studio lights is a lot harder than it should be.

Granny Grose's Buses 7

"Steelersbus" Justin asked me to come up with some t-shirt designs for the 7th annual Granny Grose's Buses Campout in PA.

Here are a couple quick ideas I came up with, ...Justin- feel free to say no to all of them! Obviously, these are thumbnail sketches, so fonts, details, accuracy etc, will all be refined on the final draft.



...and I was just thinking, on the "carabus" design, we could invert the curve and have the line-up of bus profiles splashing through the stream... just a thought as I post!
:D

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A snowy Wednesday progress report

Some work getting done on Snoopy's 21 window deluxe. I have a lot to do still, but its nice to see color finally coming in. I think I am going to have a pretty basic background, but we will see. I am probably going to make it @ dusk, so lots of silhouetted trees and plants and such. The colors are a little more saturated than this pic shows. Next time I will adjust the colors appropriately.



Sorry Maria, not enough progress to post right now. I will probably take tomorrow off of Snoopy's painting to work on yours (If I don't finish it today... which is the goal!)

Two projects, progress on both

So I have been working on both of these at the same time. It's interesting, because they are two very different styles and I can switch between them if I need to!

Maria's painting is being built up in layers right now. So far I am pretty pleased with it, but I will probably have to do some fine tuning once I get all the colors in there. It is best (in my opinion) to get everything down first, then adjust where you need to. I am especially happy with the composition on this painting. My reference photo is a little fuzzy, so either I will keep the shapes loose and expressive or i might use some of the other pics I have to tighten up features and such. It is too early at this point to make that call.



Snoopy's painting is a little less developed at this point, but I think I am going to work on it for most of tomorrow. His painting will have Terra (his bus) surrounded by trees and such. It is difficult to tell at this stage, but this is a fish-eye processed photo, so it will all kinda conform to the shape of the canvas. Should be pretty neat once I start in w/ the black lines and color! I gotta tuck that back bumper in a little now that I am thinking of it. :)

Snoopy and Maria

Here is some background action happening for Snoopy and Maria. Snoopy's painting is going to be of his super sano 21 window deluxe bus. The canvas is a 3' x 2' oval that has nice curvy edges. The white towards the bottom is a little repair I had to make due to my overzealous sanding. This happens once in a while, but it's good to go now! All patched up and secure. I am not sure if I will be positioning this horizontally or vertically yet. Probably horizontal...



Maria's canvas will be a portrait of herself and her late puppy dog Miranda. This canvas will be painted in this vertical orientation.

Custom duct tape wallet!

Introducing my awesome custom duct tape wallets! I have made three of these now and am taking orders. I can customize it any way you'd like! $25 in person or $28 shipped~

Old work, not posted previously

Ok, so I guess I dropped the ball on this one! I didn't post finished pictures of this project yet so here is the hearth I did in Bristol, CT a couple of months ago. The wood grain and stone chimney is all painted! Trompe L'oeil!