Becalmed Ohmu

Ink and watercolour. Illustration from Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki.

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The Madness of Solomon Kane

A scene from “Wings in the Night” by Robert E. Howard.

WordPress.com makes it a bit of a pain to share artwork – it’s just not what this platform was built for. If you want to follow that side of my creative output, you can find me posting drawings and paintings much more frequently on DeviantArt, Instagram, and most recently, mastodon.art.

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Arctic ravens

I really enjoyed painting this one – mainly because of the ravens. They’re my favourite bird by far, and also the ones I see the most day-to-day. Process below the cut.

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Happy new year

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The Sky Roads

Despite all associated tribulations, airships will always be my first love.

Done with MyPaint.

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Three paintings from October

The other thing I’ve been up to this month, in order:

All of these are abandoned paintings or sketches – two from over a year ago – that I finally went back to and finished.

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The Scrapheap

I’ve been trying to release at least one blog post a month, but that’s proven an elusive goal in July. Two things conspired against me:

• I’m building a cabin this summer, which takes up a lot of free time.
• We’ve had a genuine heat wave this past month in the Yukon, which means I just haven’t been online all that much while I enjoy the outdoors.

So here’s a painting instead that captures my current mood:

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