Many of these images were taken around Oakland Cemetery in Atlanta. I also did some rubbings of some of the surfaces there to try to capture some of the weathered textures. In some of the other images, I focused on the residue from oak leaves on sidewalks after several days of yarn soaked the city.
Sightings: December
Recent Work
I’ve recently been working on a privately commissioned wallpaper inspired by Chinese paintings of water. The repeat is a 9 ft panel, which was a beast to work on, but a lot of fun. I painted the swirling shapes by hand and the textures in Photoshop. The image below is just a tiny section of the full 9 ft panel.
Sightings: October
Mostly more of the same things that I’ve seen here in Atlanta, but I also took pictures of the flowering fall weeds along the roadside in LaGrange.
Sightings: September
In September, I visited Edisto Beach, South Carolina and took a lot of photos of textures and patterns that I obviously would’t normally encounter in the Atlanta area. Seagulls went crazy for chedder bunny crackers, and I looked at patterns in the sand and waves and native plants.
New Design in The Works
I’ve recently restarted an old project about Greek mythology. Many more images of my progress to come. Until I finish, I’ll be listening to this playlist for inspiration. Here are a few images of my recent progress.
Sightings: August
Here are the latest things that have been catching my attention. Most photos were taken around the Ansley Park and Inman Park neighborhoods of Atlanta.
Sightings: July
Many of these are from a trip to Chattanooga, TN. Others were taken during my lunch breaks from work, where I would either walk around the industrial park in LaGrange, GA or Ansley Park in Atlanta.
Sightings: June
Mostly photos taken during walks to and from work in Atlanta, plus a weekend outing to Hickory Knob in South Carolina.
Sightings: May
Photos that I took during walks to work in May, 2019.
Laser
This is a drawing that I did for a pet portrait competition with Spoonflower. I decided to show my friend’s dog, Laser, fighting with his nemesis, a fly.
I started with this portrait and first did a really rough sketch in Prismacolor on Denril before diving into the full size drawing. I sketched him in pencil, then drew in the shading/ hair with Micron pens on Denril. Then I scanned this in and applied the final color in Photoshop.
Postcards Wallpaper
I designed a wallpaper recently for the Spoonflower competition based on the theme of postcards. I began by thinking about what I wanted to use the theme to convey and settled on the idea of the “Grand Tour,” of the 18th and 19th century. I wanted the imagery to not only be composed of the sites that people might have visited but to also think about the stamps and postage and other marks that give evidence to the travel and further context to the imagery.
With that in mind, I sketched out two groups of imagery: the sites and the stamps. I rendered the sites in pen and Prismacolor markers, as if they were sketches from the sites. To create the stamp images, I looked at some real examples that I found on some auction sites to get me started on the range of portraits and ornamentation and complexity of the stamp imagery, but let my self get creative with it, rather working directly from those examples.
I then scanned all of this in to create the layout and added distressing in Photoshop using different brushes to make it all look a little worn.
a sketch of a waterfall
the sphinx
