A New World Order

It's done! I still have a little touch up, painting around the edges and varnishing the whole thing which will take a while but the image is done where I can put it online to sell Fine Art Prints on my website. 

A New Order

While I was painting I  also got a couple other digital pieces done and am starting on a couple commission pieces I haven't had time for. Read on after the break to see what else I have completed.

New Woodies

I recently processed several wood images from a trip to Rock Park on the Truckee River into new Woodies. This was a very productive trip, I got quite a few cool woody images.

Here are some of the most recent.

Quan the Satyr

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Check out more woodies from this trip after the break.

New Painting Work in Progress Inspired by Woody 107

The weather has been getting better and with our new puppy I have been out taking her for walks with my camera. As a result I haven't been painting at all lately. I have had an idea of doing paintings using my Woodies as inspiration. There are over 200 creatures I have created and I thought I would start doing paintings inspired by the weirdest ones. So today I started a new painting, acrylic on canvas 18" x 24" using Woody 107 as a subject and we'll see how it goes.

Woody 107

This is what the painting looks like on my easel right now.

To see step by step photos of the painting being created and some of the twisted reasons 

why I do things read on after the break. 

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Rider of the Purple Sage -Work In Progress 3

This one is going to take a while to get done. I am not in a hurry though as I'm starting to like how it's looking again. Here it is this afternoon on my easel.

I did a few changes to the background and started working on the horse and rider in a little more detail. I think the horse will be done in mostly red, purple, blue and yellow. I'm starting to get the proportions right on the horse and rider and then it will be a lot of pointillism style painting from there. Meanwhile since I had a little time today I made a video of some of my Woodies.

 

 

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New Wood Art and a Few Ramblings

After completing "Joie de Vivre" I am trying to think what I want to do next artistically and haven't come up with one idea I really want to pursue yet. 

However I have been getting quite a bit of inspiration.

Joelcy Kay from Edge of Humanity Magazine  contacted me by email saying she was interested in featuring 10 of my Woodies in the magazine. I sent her the ones she was interested in and she said they would be published in the next 60 days, so stay tuned and I will post a link when it happens. 

As I was browsing the magazine I loved the work of Kevin Grass. 

He has a style I am very much interested in pursuing with my painting. Check out his site, he does beautiful work. There are many other artists and photographers featured in the magazine and I plan on checking them out as well. 

Since I can't seem to sit still when I'm not working on a painting, I created a couple new Woodies. Digital art is so convenient to work on and I have all the parts for woodies ready on the computer since I shoot trees and people whenever I have the chance. I am also amazed at how different the same wood source picture can inspire me on different days.

Woody 221

 This is Woody 221 and the source wood image was captured in Fernley, NV a while back.   It has my cat Noels' nose, my eyes and some car parts I photographed at Pick and Pull for brains.

Woody 222

This is Woody 222 and has a definite "Wood Wizard" look to it. The wood source image was also captured the same day in Fernley, NV. Maybe it belongs in the Wood Spirits section instead. 

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Wood Spirit Series

I've been busy making wood spirits from some of the portraits I already have for my new Wood Spirits series. I need to get out the paint and start doing some paintings as well. Here are my latest including a self portrait.

Ricky kodama-sama

Ricky kodama-sama (self portrait)

Kodama are spirits in Japanese folklore that inhabit trees, similar to the dryads of Greek mythology. The term is also used to denote a tree in which a kodama supposedly resides. The phenomenon known as yamabiko, when sounds make a delayed echoing effect in mountains and valleys, is sometimes attributed to this kind of spirit, and may also be referred to as "kodama".

These spirits are considered to nimbly bustle about mountains at will. A kodama's outer appearance is very much like an ordinary tree, but if one attempts to cut it down, one would become cursed etc., and it is thus considered to have some kind of mysterious supernatural power. The knowledge of those trees that have kodama living in them is passed down by the elderly of that area over successive generations and they are protected, and it is also said that trees that have a kodama living in them are of certain species. There is also a theory that when old trees are cut, blood could come forth from them.

Wally Woodfury

I created the first of my new series of Woody today, Wally Woodfury.

Wally Woodfury

Wally Woodyfury is a woodwose or "wildman of the woods". He is a mythical figure that appears in the artwork and literature of medieval Europe, comparable to the satyr or faun type in classical mythology and to Silvanus, the Roman god of the woodlands.

The defining characteristic of the figure is its "wildness"; from the 12th century they were consistently depicted as being covered with hair. Images of wild men appear in the carved and painted roof bosses where intersecting ogee vaults meet in the Canterbury Cathedral, in positions where one is also likely to encounter the vegetal Green Man. The image of the wild man survived to appear as supporter for heraldic coats-of-arms, especially in Germany, well into the 16th century. Renaissance engravers in Germany and Italy were particularly fond of wild men.

Wood Art

I went on a creative burst today making Woodies from older photographs that I haven't gotten around to yet. I had a great time today and think I made some pretty cool Woodies. Some of them even made me laugh, who knows maybe someday I'll start giving some of them names instead of numbers.

Woody 214

Woody 214 is my favorite, at least for today. I always enjoy when one comes out a little different from all his friends. I like the sticks that make it look like he is a grumpy old man shrugging at us. Maybe that is how I feel today too so I identify with him.

The Creation of Woody 200

Woody 200

 I have been making woodies for many years now but digitally only 2 or 3 years now. It is a bit of a celebration to have created 200 woodies in that time. I recently went through them all and still love every one of them. They are so much fun to make and it is really fun to hear what others think they are.