Guest artist series

Rainy Mountains is a demonstration of a production environment sketch that quickly communicates the overall mood without spending excessive time rendering details. The main goal is to show basic lighting, some architecture and human point of view for scale purposes. Many images like this would be produced before moving onto a final design for a location. The concept is based on a combination of wonderful castle structures the artist has recently explored near the German-Austrian border in the alps. The lighting, rain, and mountains in the image are a study from looking out the artist's studio window.

Arrival shows the process of creating a concept without an idea or image in mind to begin with. The idea must be found in the shapes and colors used while painting. The result ends up being a truly spontaneous and unique piece of work

Red Fields was created as an exercise in digital painting techniques, color theory, and style. The objective was to depict a calm, "slice of life"-type scene in an otherworldly setting by taking familiar, everyday situations and tweaking specific elements to create a heightened, fantastical image. Strong complementary colors, heavy saturation, and whimsical shape language all contribute to an overarching feeling of carefree nostalgia. Inspiration for this piece ranges from late-70's science fiction illustration, modernist architecture, and French graphic novels.

It was probably an old construction building once, but long since has been used as housing in this very cold, Antarctic environment. At the end of the day, the men eagerly return to the comforts of home after a hard day’s work.