Walking Dead Season 6 - See you in February 2016

Another intense mid-season Finale of Walking Dead, Season 6.

Nothing's worse than having to wait 4 months just to 

watch the second half of Walking Dead. 

I drew Carl Grimes on a Peet's Coffee cup

because I had a feeling something might happen to him during Finale.  

Carl lives another episode!!!

Friday the 13th - Red Cup Sketch

Hope everyone's having a Great FRIDAY THE 13th 😳

Here's a snapshot from my Friday Starbucks Red Cups sketch 😳☕️

Inktober 2015 - sketch #19

Here's the last of my inktober submissions 😄 Truly a fun experience and I had such a great time interacting and seeing everyone's inked sketches throughout October! 👏🏼 Already looking forward to the next one!

Plein Air Paintout from Helen Putnam Regional Park (Petaluma, Ca.) 

9" x 12" ink and watercolors.

Inktober 2015 - sketch #18

 it was a valiant effort to try Inktober this time around, I've got just one more to share...

Inktober 2015 - sketch #17

Ended the night with the idea of heading to San Francisco 😊 Drove through the Waldo tunnel only to be greeted by Traffic 😕 🚙🚕🚗🚕🚙🚗

Inktober 2015 - sketch #16

After visiting some local farms, had a wonderful Pizza Dinner with @lowercase_o 🍷🍕 here's a sketch of a beet, pepperonni pizza and vino!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #15

Got to see some really fun pumpkin carvings 🎃👍🏽 

Here's a little recap drawing with 

Inktober 2015 - sketch #14

Here's a recap of my weekend. 

Started off with really crappy latte 👎🏼

Inktober 2015 - sketch #13

Sketched Vader during a meeting.

Inktober 2015 - sketch #12

 Petaluma Farm pen sketch on waterboard. Time for some color!

Paintout from a Petaluma Farm, Small shed next to a Huge Cypress Tree!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #11

Hiking the Petaluma Hills 🗻 Little sketch of a fellow painter setting up - Ready to Paint!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #10

Little R2 sketch!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #9

One more sketch from the Tolay Fall Festival Pumpkin Patch. 

My wife and I found an oddly shaped & oddly colored pumpkin to take home!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #8

Pumpkin Patch with my wife :) It was so busy, she dared me to sketch the Wheelbarrows in 2-3 minutes... just before they were all taken!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #7

Great way to start the day... 

Brunch and an inktober sketch!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #6

Fleet Week in San Francisco! 

The Blue Angels jets will be zooming by with a crazy air show!

Inktober 2015 - Sketch #5

Not sure if the goat approves...

but he was sporting a wicked goatee!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #4

Robots are so fun to draw... 

definitely gonna draw a couple more!

Inktober 2015 - sketch #3

Quick sketch of kayakers before they headed out into the Richardson Bay (Sausalito, Ca).

Inktober 2015 - Sketch #2

Drink and Draw session @ the Elks Lodge.

Ring Mountain - Part 4 or 4

Couldn't resist leaving Ring Mountain without one last sketch,

Hiked only half way down the trail for a quick ink sketch and watercolors.

Ring Mountain - Part 3 of 4

The top of the ridge offered a great panoramic view of Mt.Tam! 

The winds got too intense, had to pack it up and head back down the trail.

Ring Mountain - Part 2 of 4

The Wind really picked up by the late afternoon! Easel kept shaking 

so I decided to just rest my watercolor board on my lap.

Ring Mountain - Part 1 of 4

Hiking up Lord of Rings Mountain... I mean, 

Ring Mountain in Corte Madera, Ca.

Made it to the top of the ridge (huffing and puffing).

Trying to start directly with inks before adding any watercolors.

Artists in Action Plein Air Competition (1st Annual) Downtown San Rafael, Ca.

Marin History Museum

"Boyd Gate House"

9"x 12" Watercolors

Plein Air event in Marin County. Hand full of painters set up, capturing historical buildings and victorian houses in Downtown San Rafael, Ca.

Here's a snap shot of my usual plein air set up: Guerrila box to hold watercolor board and paints, tripod and Easy L umbrella. If you decide to paint on location, I highly recommend setting up your easel in a safe spot...away from foot traffic and especially from cars.

Los Gatos Theater, Ca - Watercolors

Los Gatos Theater, Ca

8.5 x 11 Watercolor Sketch

Mini watercolor travel pallette

My pal at work let me borrow his travel size watercolor palette, It's the smallest I've ever worked with... but I've seen someone use an Altoids tin...Time to take this baby out for a test drive!

Classic Ant-Man

"WTF just ran across my keyboard?"

Oh... it was just a little reminder it's opening night for ANT-MAN!!! 

This is my shrinky-dink version of Classic Hank-Pym.

Calibretto (Part 2) - Final Colors

Here's a Gigantic War Golem ready for battle in a huge forest. 

What's hiding beyond those trees?!

I'm really excited creator Joe Mad! is bringing back one of my all-time favorite 

comic titles "Battle Chasers" both as a comic and a video game! 

Here's a colored version of my Calibretto sketch from my previous post.

Drawn with a Bic Pen and colored with Prisma Markers.

Check out the gray scale version:

 [HERE]

Calibretto - Part 1 (grey tones)

Calibretto! He's from one of my all-time favorite comics "Battle Chasers"!!!

Should I color this one? Usually I take a vote... but I'm gonna go ahead and say YES to coloring up this bad-boy! 

SDCC sketch

San Diego Comic Con Day-1 coverage is over! Sure wish I was there with you guys and gals! For now I'm doodling one of my favorite comic characters... I'll post more tomorrow.

Final Mt.Tam Painting - 6"x6" Acrylic on canvas

From the previous post, If you guessed 

the bottom right thumbnail.... you were right!

This one was inspired by a recent paintout of Mt. Tamalpias.

Click HERE

Back in February 2015 I had a chance to plein air paint from Corte Madera with a gorgeous view of Mt. Tamalpias in the background, aka: Mt. Tam. 

I originally wanted to set up along the wetland area but it was under restoration. In other words, it was off limits. And with the California drought, it really was not much of a wetland. So this painting was imagined with a small creek and what looks to be the famous Mt. Tam off to the distance.

Thumbs

It always starts with a Thumbnail.... next project in progress.

Can you guess which thumbnail will become a painting???

Will post final piece tomorrow!

Thumbnails are a great way to get ideas out and onto paper. And when you fill a page, you can quickly scan over multiple ideas.... that may create additional hybrid ideas!!! It could save time (save paint) and to see if your layout has a good chance of working into a bigger format.

New painting for April 2015

Setting up for a new project.....

had to blow the dust off my box of acrylic paints!

Stay tuned for more!

I Am Spock

In remembrance of Leonard Nemoy

(1931 - 2015)

Mt. Tamalpais - Corte Madera, Ca

Creekside view of Mt. Tam.

Corte Madera, Ca.

(9" x 12" gouache on watercolor board)

Plein Air - Nicasio, Ca (Finished Painting)

"Four Walls and a Roof"

Nicasio, Ca.

(7" x 10" watercolors)

Story behind this painting can be found in previous post: Click Here