Freddie the Flatlanding Fukuisaurus

 Dinovember Day Six

Freddie the Flatlanding Fukuisaurus

27cm x 35cm (~11"x14")

Acrylic Gouache on Strathmore 400 Mixed Media Paper

July Colours

 I started experimenting with some funner colours from this Holbein Acrylic Gouache set I picked up... a while back... It's been fun. I used to paint fairly abstracted things in vibrant colours a LONG TIME AGO... and I kind of miss it. 

Yellow Rabbit on Pink Background  - 28cmx35cm (11"x14") - acrylic gouache and ink on paper

Based on a photo I took last weekend of a jackrabbit that startled me while walking in an alleyway downtown, killing time while Keiran was in a singing lesson. 

Pink Surly Karate Monkey on Blue-Green Background - 35cmx43cm (14"x17") - acrylic gouache and ink on paper

It's my Purple Surly Karate Monkey... painted in pink... mostly from memory... 

American White Pelican on the South Saskatchewan River

 

American White Pelican on the South Saskatchewan River

30cmx30cm, Acrylic Ink and Gouache on Paper

MOAR Birb - Blue Jay and Norther Flickers

 Being more or less caught up, I thought I'd paint some birds on separate pages - outside of the sketchbook this past week...

Blue Jay in a Tree - 20cmx20cm (8x8), Acrylic Ink and Gouache on Watercolour Paper 

Northern Flicker on a Rock - 20cmx20cm (8x8) - Acrylic Ink and Gouache on Watercolour Paper 

Norther Flicker in a Tree - 28cmx35cm (11x14) - Acrylic Ink and Gouache on Watercolour Paper

I'm sure there will be more... 

Cormorants and Pelicans Ready to Rumble

 

Cormorants and Pelicans Ready to Rumble - 25cmx28cm - Ink and gouache on paper

Often through the summer I will see Pelicans and Cormorants bunched together in two distinct, separate groups on the north end of the mid-river island between the University Bridge and the Weir. The stark patches of black and white on the brown-green-blue background always draws my eye. The look like two gangs ready to rumble… or… maybe herds of nerd birds about to LARP a game of chess.

Painting From the Masters - Mignola's Hellboy

 Just kind of playing around here - trying out a number of different things….

I LOOOOOOOOOOVE Mike Mignola’s art. Occasionally I do like “painting from the masters”… and I have this gouache set I picked up ages ago and have been wanting to try out (because I also LOVE Elaine Will’s gouache paintings!) … AND I always wondered what inking someone else’s pencils would be like… AND I’ve been wondering if pre-cut 8x10 Strathmore 500 series watercolour paper would go through our laser printer…. Sooooooo…. 

Mignola posts LOADS of pencil sketches on Instagram, so I screen shotted a few and tried printing them out on pre-cut Stratmore 500 Series 8x10 sheets (which worked… but I probably should have edited them first cranking the contrast and black point so there was no grey in the background…) and then I tried painting it with the gouache paints… So it was kind of a paint-by-numbers from the masters, in a sense… tracing, yes, in the same sense that all inkers are “tracers”… (Ha-ha! My favourite bit of Chasing Amy - which is 25 years old this year!?  WTF!?)

I kind of like how it turned out. I mean, how could it not, tho. I’m tracing Mike Mignola’s art!? 

No, it is not for sale. 

No, I do not do commissions based on other people's IP.