After more than one photo shooting attempting, many de-cat hair dustings, and using nearly every light stand I have…the final is here!

It is all paper and a lot of careful gluing, with acrylic on the board and mica pigments (“glitter”) on the black wall. Some gouache was used on the guys skin because I don’t have the right paper color, so I made my own. The floor has curled paper swirls holding up frosted mylar that I coated with matte medium to take the transparency down. Evidently, glue works even better because you can tell where the papers meet.

The only process shots I have. I kept with the pink swirl, but as the piece developed the yellow wasn’t working. Her vest also met a green marker for the same reason. Luckily, all this made for minimal digital work.

A new illustration I’m starting, with not flat papercuts! I was in the sketchbook and saw a Megan Brain image on my stack of inspiration/reference. Trying my hand at it and it’s fun!

I’ve been spending the days in studio. After warming up with sketchbook pages I’ve started a papercut. Then after that I started to scan months worth of work. Now I’m even more behind in blog postings!

I had this fabulous dream that the park across the street where I grew up was full of these tiny little colorful groundcover flowers. I’m a sucker for the little gems hidden in lawns. While the evenings are cool enough I’m going out and taking my macro plant photos.

This began with a cheap made in china frame in bright metallic colors. I sprayed it a more stately black and trimmed down my stack of loose paper for the portrait.

I was trying to organize some files and was skimming through years past. I liked the gesture in this, and decided to see if I could get an idea out of it. I still think it needs something subtle before its a complete idea.