Be Mused Art

And here we have my latest mercat painting. I really like how velvety the night sky turned out in this one. And of course that tail is shiny.

This week Illustration Friday is supporting the Ripple Project. This is my first submission. I might have to make more, just because being able to make a bit of art to help out with the crisis that is affecting out Gulf Coast, helps me not feel so helpless.
Being a Texan and [...]

This is what I worked on between panels (and during panels) at A-Kon this weekend. I am so very happy with the results. I did a lot more detail than is usual for me and lots of layers of colors to get them to be so very vibrant. It was [...]

Still adjusting to this whole Linux thing. I think I like it, but some of my existing hardware doesn’t. Poor James is having to walk me through scanning every time, cause it doesn’t always recognize the scanner. And considering I want to scan things at 1am, it isn’t making for [...]

These are just a couple of the paintings I have finished in the last couple of days. Beach play is an 8×10″ watercolor painting and is the largest of the things I have finished. All the others, just like the cookie thief here, are artist trading card size painting.
I have been listing [...]

I was busy over the weekend. I felt like I was mostly running around and putting out fires. Probably because Saturday featured going to visit my grandfather and trying to get his computer up and running and then drilling my college age son about having all necessary school supplies and keeping organized. [...]

I finished it! I am not real thrilled with the digital scan of this painting since the cat is really more of a purple and the color variations are more obvious in the original painting than this shows. The tail is a dark purple and blue with a slight shimmer. The yellow [...]

I am so pleased with how the submarine turned out in this painting. I have never done machinery with paint before, so this was something completely new to me. But here we have the cutest little mercat with a steampunk style submarine. He is such a large mercat, that I suspect he [...]

Okay this is the rough sketch of the mercat with the crashed steampunk style submarine. I really enjoyed designing the sub. Next time I will need to design the full thing, but it will just be fun.
As you can see, when it got inked I made a few minor changes, which usually happens. [...]

He is done!
I really like the depth in this one. The background was especially fun. Notice the bubbles? I created bubbles in 2 different ways. While the background was still wet, I used a brush to drop on rubbing alcohol and then after it dried I used white watercolor paint to [...]