It’s based on an image I saw a while back but I can’t remember where. I’ve been painted this image slowly for the past 3 months – 5 minutes here, 10 minutes there. I know I know, it’s nothing even big or complicated. It’s just that I’ve been really busy working on my other websites, but winter is coming and I’m excited – it’s my most productive time of the year…you know, how artists are. So I’m looking forward to going on some neat adventure with painting soon. And maybe even a revamp of this blog. In the mean time, this little guy needs some love!

This illustration in on sale on ImageKind here.

7″ x 10″ watercolor on 100% cotton arch

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island in the midst of black seas of infinity and it was not meant that we should voyage far. Some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality that we shall either go mad from the relevation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age. Theosophists have guessed at the awesome grandeur of the cosmic cycle wherein our world and human race form transient incidents.” –H.P Lovecraft, “Call of Cthulhu”

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This piece is a present for Doug’s birthday, as well as Illustration Friday’s topic “wrinkles.” It is The Great Old One, based on H.P Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos .

You can read more about why he loves this genre here

It’s really a reminder that everyone gets old, even the Great Old One, and that eventually when he wakes, the world will end, everyone will go mad, so we may as well enjoy life before the night comes.

How existentialistic are we? heheh

We went sailing on the Eastern Shore and stayed at a Bed & Breakfast. This is the view from our balcony

3-23-08

Our amaryllis, Fred is blooming again this year. I thought he was dead last fall and stopped watering him and almost threw him away. Lo and behold, he started growing a stalk a month ago. I felt guilty and put him back where he was, with lots of light and plenty of water.

3-24-08

Seeing more buds blooming

3-25-08

Fred blooms some more today

“In gardens, beauty is a by-product. The main business is sex and death.” ~ Sam Llewelyn

Acrylic on paper 8″x10″

I made this watercolor painting for a friend’s bday present. It is based on Joy Division’s (his favorite band ever!) single album cover “Love will tear us apart.”

I also started an oil painting of this too, but sorta hit a wall, so I changed course mid way and opted for watercolor. The medium brings out another quality that’s a bit different than the picture itself. . . a bit warmer. It is afterall, a BDAY present!