Paintings for my parents

These were painted for my parents for christmas. The Sailboat image was painted for my Dad. He recently sold his boat. It was called the New Dawn. I have a lot of fond memories sailing with him and my brothers on the Great Salt Lake. I thought it would be a fun way to commemorate his boat and the good times we had. The beach painting was for my Mom. She loves the beach. When I visit her in California visiting the beach is something that we always do. I put the images on some coffee mugs and gave them to my parents as Christmas gifts. I enjoyed painting them quite a bit. Thanks for taking a look.  

Abandoned Tavern Speedpaint

This was a speedpaint I did for a speedpaintgroup on DA. It was the june challenge. I started it in June but didn't finish til yesterday. Haha, this summer has been really busy. All in all I think this took 2 to 3 hours.

Original Photo: http://neverfading-stock.deviantart.com/art/Abandoned-Tavern-027-209073828

Speedpaintgroup: http://speedpaintstudies.deviantart.com/

Fisherman Paint Study

Another paint study. This one was a little more challenging. I think I have the environment stuff down fairly well. I need to work on people and characters a lot more.

RoboDog

Messing around with photoshop a bit. 

Sunken Village

Some more paint practice. Started in painter, finished it up in photoshop.

Thailand quick paint

Another quick paint done in painter. This was done from a photo of some awesome place in Thailand. 

Quick Paint from photo

This took about an hour and a half. Pretty quick and dirty. I used the smeary oil brush in painter. 

More Sketches

Warrior Sketch

I haven't posted much lately. Work has been really good at keeping me busy lately. I did this quick sketch a few weeks ago. thought I would post it up.