Happy New Year!

This has nothing to do with the new year, but here's a little sketch that appeared in the corner while I was working on something else. Sometimes it just happens.

Speed painting from life

It's been a busy month! Here's a speed paint looking out the window of the cafeteria at Brighton ski resort.

In case you haven't been keeping up on Phil's Christmas...

Here are a few pages from Phil's Christmas. It's the reason for the lack of posts over here. For more, go here!

Phil's Christmas starts today!

For the third year in a row, my sister and I are doing a countdown to Christmas with an illustration a day (she writes them, I draw them). Check it out over at Phil's Christmas!

Here's day one:

Sketches

More studies from Life (Life the series, not "life." How confusing.):

Bedtime sketches

A couple quick sketches from the last two nights.

Night sketching

While waiting for class to start.

Painting in the park

From life. I haven't done digital painting outdoors for a while. Getting a folding chair really helped things! Why didn't I think of that before? Who knows. But I'll certainly be doing more now that it's easier than trying to find a place to sit on a bench or a rock.

Chocolate Lab! It is a blog you should probably look at!

The other BG painter and I have started a blog for us Nickelodeon folks. Ok, so far it's just the two of us, but maybe eventually there will be others. In any case, you should go check it out because the other BG painter (Fred) is an amazing painter and you can see his work over there. You'll know it because it's the ones that aren't mine. Also, they say "Fred" below the posts.

Click the image to go there.

Reference and a lost polar bear

Poor polar bear is lost.

I've been watching "Life" - amazing cinematography and generally fascinating. Watching is slow going, however, because I can't stop pausing and painting little studies.

Sheeps

Someone glued the sheep together!

Arrival and Circle Tiger

Reference studies

This morning's doodle:


Reference studies from photos today.

Doodles from today and last week

One from life and one doodle

I'll leave you to figure out which is which.