What would film be without dialogue? Without those “wonderful lines” that Debbie Reynolds’s character in “Singing in the Rain” considered the sine qua non of true acting? Well, it would still be film; indeed, it might even be better film. The silent era had caption … Continue readingToward More Visual Storytelling
I just realized that as of today I’ve completed my personal challenge to paint at least one digital painting every day for a month. Well, not exactly every day; I did miss doing it one day over the past month, but I made multiple digital … Continue readingDaily Digital Painting for a Month: Challenge Complete!
Click for full resolution. This is my digital painting “Girls’ Night Out”, depicting two beautiful young women gazing at the sublime visage of a supermassive black hole feeding from a red nebula through Gothic-cathedral-style windows. Of all the pieces I’ve made to date “Girls’ Night … Continue readingGirls’ Night Out
Click for full resolution. This is my most recent, indeed my very first, digital painting, “Fly me to the moons”, a science-fictional twilight cloudscape set on a planet with two moons in the sky close to each other, a large rocket taking off for orbit … Continue readingFly me to the Moons
Click for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting, “Emerald Nebula”, showing a cluster of bright white stars amid a green nebula, streamers of shimmering stars and glowing gas lighting up the black sky of space in this region. Very lucky are any colonists … Continue readingEmerald Nebula
Click here for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting, showing a colorful and I think spectacularly beautiful scene of a spherical spaceship deeply ensconced within a red nebula opening up a wormhole to a brighter region of space dominated by dense star clusters … Continue readingThrough the Looking Glass
Click here for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting, depicting no place in particular but rather a burst of stars, a galaxy exploding into streams of nebulae and stars being flung out into the cosmos in all directions. The yellow is representative of … Continue readingStarburst
Click here for full resolution. This is my new graphic, and indeed my first artwork I’ve posted that isn’t (wholly) an oil painting, depicting a transit map of the solar system, like what might exist in my science fiction setting that has been host to … Continue readingTravel the Solar System at 1g
Click here for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas painting depicting a zeppelin exploring an airborne wonderland filled with floating air reefs, birds with wings like manta rays and lifestyles like whales, floating “gasbag” lifeforms, and great insectoid hives the size of skyscrapers with … Continue readingCharting the Airy Deep
Click here for full resolution. This is my new oil-on-canvas piece, depicting a spherical space habitat in low orbit around Neptune, providing a natural living space with artificial gravity for a small community of human pioneers. The habitat currently has a great view of one … Continue readingSpaceplane approaching Neptune orbital Sphere