A few words and then an apparent massive flickr pasting.

Unfortunately my scanner seems to be still out of commission and now serves as little more than a shelf. Though I think the point and shoot camera is doing a mildly better job at not obliterating all the colours.

As somewhat usual I'm in the process of undertaking a new project, though hopefully this is a project that comes into fruition. It stands a moderately better chance as it is a multi-person ordeal. With a decent bit of luck and a lot of hard work I hope to be able to present you all with a nice little art zine come March 2009 entitled 'Cephalopod Party Quarterly.' I shall keep you updated on that as things happen, though as it comes into fruition it'll get it's own blog as well. If you're at all interested in participating/contributing to the zine just let me know.

And now the deluge of flickr paste-ness.

Start to Finish

Bird Skull on a cut out page. Gesso and watercolours.







Gesso is a new beast that is a joy to tackle. Usuaully I sketch it out, outline what I want in india ink, and slap on some watercolour. Now, I have to sketch it out, apply several layers of gesso, wait almost a day, then apply the first bit of colour. After all that some more gesso goes down and the waiting begins anew. With all that time I actually end up thinking about the end product a bit more. Who knows where that'll lead.

30 paintings, sort of.

This was a rather ambitious project I attempted to tackle last Wednesday at 10 PM before I went to sleep. That didn't happen so much, but I was able to do a large volume of paintings with in a few days time. I'm pleased with most all of them. I plan on doing the final 10 sometime this week, but I also have a large-ish research paper for an english class so it'll have to be balanced with all of that.

So, here we go. Also, as a side note of sorts. If you see these and like them and would like my services as an illustrator for most anything other than bringing about the end of world, I would love to hear from you. You can reach me email-wise at (toastman18@gmail.com)

One More Cup of Coffee

New stuff, oh yes. A children's book, written (to some extent) and illustrated (entirely), by me is very much so in the works. I'm excited.

Here they are...finally

^Cardinal Cardinal


^Holy Roman Emperor Penguin


^Sir Knightingale

The Long Awaited (by me at least) Bird Series

The first three birds in the Bird Series are all kinds of done. I tried to say that several days ago, but I think I managed to delete the post as I published it. A rare feat to be sure. Any way, here is the link type business to the album of all the birds on flickr. Yay. Okay, well the internet still hates me so for now here is the url, woo: http://flickr.com/photos/laikadreams/sets/72157600128974188/

The actual images will come at a later date, guh.