Captain Claw

Here is a new drawing called Captain Claw. He will be a painting very soon.

New World of Warcraft cards

It's been a busy year. Here are some new painting I produced for World of Warcraft card game. Fun characters in fantasy environments. I create a drawing first then scan it in to paint on top. The main focus of the drawing is to see the overall shape design and the breakdown of light and shadow shapes. It's not about making something look realistic but how do the shadow shapes create an interesting design. One of the most important decisions is choosing the direction of the light on the subject. Once you choose the direction of the light, the real magic happens as you design how the light falls off the form to create interesting shadow shapes.
art love

Jeff

More paintings from Mystery Case Files 13th Skull

Mystery Case Files 13th Skull is a point and click adventure hidden object game. As art director at Big Fish Games, I work with a wonderful team of artists to produce games that the whole family can play. It's like playing an interactive novel. 13th Skull is a pirate story set in the Louisiana swamp. Since I grew up in Baton Rouge, the subject matter was like stepping back into my childhood minus the fishing pole in my hand. These are a few of the paintings I created for the game. I'll post more later.

art love,

Jeff

Moving forward

This piece was done for a friend of mine. It's about being a turtle. Turtles don't go backwards but always forward. They are persistant and not in a hurry. The shape of the sculpture is an arrow which symbolizes moving forward and heaven bound. The base was made out of sculpy with inset mosaic tiles, copper metal and handmade glass beads. The center tile is from Mexico. I used leather stamping tools to get some of the details. After firing the clay I painted it with acrylic paint.

May we all be more a little more like turtles.

art love,

Jeff

New cat paintings

2 of my latest paintings. "Patron Saint of Salmons" and "Incatneato". Incatneato was created for Purrfect Pals cat rescue shelter. It's for the annual Black Cat Ball auction to raise money for the shelter. It was painted in oil on canvas.

Patron Saint of Salmons is the protector of Salmon. Somehow I think she is thinking about taking a bit.

art love,

Jeff

Knowing

Here is my latest fantasy fish sculpture.

Haynie Collaborations

Sherri and I did a series of collaborations with a fish theme. I sculpted the fantasy fish with sculpy then painted them. Sherri took the fish and designed them into a box frame with embellishments.

The frames are cigar boxes. The fish have mosaic and glass bead inlays. 

art love

Jeff