above tree line

tour poster for ricochet

it has been a while

I haven't been drawing or painting that much since our summer tour with the band. I have next to nothing to share. Just may be this.
My 8 years old infant militant nephew asked me to paint an aircraft carrier as a birthday present for him. Here it is -

some updates

More than 5 hours a day I spend traveling to and from the work and I almost fall asleep each time I come home. A couple of weeks ago I was forces to get back to painting, I just had to finish that Ricochet LP artwork and layouts. Square meters of paper ruined, hours and hours without any sleep spent masking, mixing, glazing and blending and when I almost ran out of my "original green" I did it. I had to study many new technics that I have never used before. I used masking fluid for the tree trunks to keep them highlighted while working out the background in light-to-dark technics. Another totally new thing was using the sponge for the foliage. A Hell of a lot of fun after all...

Back to black and white, ink and feathers. New rico t-shirt design. I nearly died trying to fit in at least any font that would look ok with the picture.

This one goes to Yvonne (Jakov's logopedist and audiologist)

30x40. watercolor

There were next to no flights on our helipad the whole Friday. It was 18 mps windspeed and was snowing heavily. Internet was cut of so I had plenty of time with a book about Norway. My life impressions are poor all I see on a daily basis are 140 km of highway the walls of my flat. That is why I always use some reference photos to build my pictures upon, nice pics in zines and tourist guides, pictures made by my fellows travelers. There is a sketch I made from one of those nice pictures from the book about Norway, that I hope will later become a painting.

and there is a quick pastel work made out of one of Olga Lovtsyus nice pictures of Ireland -