I feel totally blessed to have the oppertunity to give people a laugh with my work (I hope) here is my final on the Brother Tom from Australia. I wish I could do more, and I really do believe 590 of the work was in the underpainting stage which I will also show. Good night and God bless!

This is short and sweet, I am currently in the in the value stage of this gift for a brother in Australia. I share more once color is layed in. I have a head ache, good night!

This is a classic request I usually get for Caricatures. I usually try to discourage to much info because it makes the image a little cluttered. Alot of the 10 different details I used photos, and if this was not for a private use I would have copyright infringements. I painted into those photos, to change them a little. I don’t like to use photos is my art but the budget was just not there for a fully rendered detailed picture, but I still think it is strong! Here is the request from the client:

“She was an office manager, She loves FSU football, She love Elvis, She loves the pope and the Catholic church, She is organized, She is motherly, She likes Mexican food, She likes Jack Daniels, She DOESN’T like her husband’s dog – a golden retriever, She has one daughter and two grandkids – and she adores them all, She likes Snickers, She likes to bake, She is motherly, She is a non-traveler., She is bossy, She is ditzy, and She loves to dance.”

I am especially interested in non-artist related clients to receive a FREE card for there offices, homes etc. Just email me your address and e-mail and I will add you to my email and traditional mailing list! Thank You! 

Happy Valentines day! We need to show a fellow artist some love today and that is Rodney Pike has some really awsome high quality digital photo manipulated Caricature work. Check out his Blog! He has a big following and I personal respect his work, but don’t want my work to be rendered in that fashion. I just think it is the a modern day collage type Illustration work, that really works in an unique way! I knew he had disabilities, but did not know how.  I received a blog post from the wife of Lydia Pike. This what I wrote (now if you have a fobia for Christian religious over tones be aware! LOL) :

“Dear Rodney Pike

I feel so much for your pain and depression. To be honest I knew you had a disability about the way you make your work, but thought it was something with you hands!

Today is Valentines day, and I hope you understand you are loved by so many!

In my personal relations with my Jesus, God puts me thru challenges in life just to test us and that we always need to glorify him, because of what he has done for us by sacrificing

 his only son in trade of washing away our sins totally white and clean! I personally receive a real happiness in life to create my work and make a difference in someone's life,

 and your doing the same thing! So bottom line is I will be praying for you to be able to kick the depression and realize there is alot of people here for you and that God is willing

 to give you that light at the end of the tunnel we all need! Jesus is coming back to put everything straight, so stay on your path and he will show us the way!

 Now this is my personal views of how I noticed a purpose in my life and if others are reading this please do understand I mean no harm! Thank You Lydia for sharing!"

Hello and good morning!

I am every day greatful for what God as giving me, Grace of his only son dying on the cross, with my family, and the talent he has given me as an artist. I try to think of other people had how they feel about there family while I am was working on Tas. I am taking a class with Thomas Fluharty on http://www.schoolism.com and he teaching Oil Painting in the Dutch Flemish Approch! Here are some of the master to think of that painting in that way: Kramskoy, Bouguereau, Ingres, Rembrant. Those are some great references and I wanted to post it for myself to look back at and my favorite is the russian painter Kramskoy. Here is the sketch of my teachers Daughter Tas. 

Below here I have reference, sketches and the sepia tones: