Chaos in Market Square

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From Peter Spit A Seed At Sue, a painting in progress: I've set the scene in Pittsburgh's Market Square.  If you look closely you'll see the location photos I shot.  I used them to help me design a setting that would be recognizable from…

Steampunk character design

Rhonda Libbey is a talented friend of mine—she's pulled my carcass out of more than one scrape by helping me paint illustrations.  Please swing by her blog to see her lovely character sketches for the Doctor Ferretstein Project.

Finishing an older post

Here are the last of the work-in-progress shots from a painting featured in What do I paint first? and What do I paint second?

Crabby Santa character design

Cute kitties

Here are sketches for a strange little project I did for Silver Editions, a textbook publisher.

Dead man’s chest o’ books

Update: Welcome, Bittersweet Harvest readers! Now that it's December, I'm wistfully recalling the first hot weekend of last Spring, the one I used as an excuse to paint outdoors.  I created some surface decoration on this wooden bookcase,…

Trilemma on 34th Street

C.S. Lewis, the Narnia author and theologian, put forth the argument that logically, Christ must have been divine.  If He weren’t divine, then He was either lying or insane.  Those are our only choices.  If you don’t believe in Christ’s…

Happy Thanksgiving!

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My friend Vince Dorse, the über-talented artist who colorized Two Bad Pilgrims, spills the secrets of his technique here. Here's hoping you enjoy a blessed Thanksgiving with family and friends.

What do I paint second?

Michael asks: Thanks so much for posting your technique, I am currently working on my first painting and have been doing exactly what you've done here. i think i did do something wrong though, a friend of mine said to do a light wash over the…

A wee spot

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Here's a fun little spot illustration I did for the Renaissance & Baroque Society of Pittsburgh, this time to promote a concert of ancient Scottish and Irish music—both sacred (church liturgy) and profane (drinking songs).  The costume…