Two new oils

It's been awhile since I've posted. A lot of the work I've been doing is game work, so I can't show it for awhile, and it's absorbed a lot of my free time. I've been learning a great deal, though.
I have, however, managed to make it to my studio to work a couple of new oil paintings.
These are both very much works in progress.
This one, from this digital sketch:


And this one, from this digital sketch for the "What's Your War" show at the Load of Fun Gallery.


Too much going on in the first one right now, I think.
More to follow, I promise (myself).

That's a guy in a suit, falling underwater.

This is a piece for a show I might be jumping in on.
Or it's a piece for a show I missed the deadline on.
Either way, it's a piece.

Lunch painting

Quick study done over lunch.
I've been thinking about fish a lot lately.

Some recent sketchbook grabs

Eve finished up.

This is an oil I just finished up. Now I need to make Adam.

New painting study

I know, I've still got all of those other pieces to finish!
The last few weeks have just been insane so I've not had many chances to get down to the studio. I'm playing with ideas, instead, like this one.

Here's something I've begun to notice: In my traditional work before now I always painted landscapes or figures. Now, in this new more illustrative work, I paint surreal landscapes or figures. I'm not sure why I didn't catch that before.

Lots to do with this. It has to do with letting go of wonderful things in our past and continuing on.
Or, it's how our dogs are wiser than we are.

Oils WIP

This is an oil I started this weekend for a group show this summer.

And a better picture of "Elopement" WIP.