This was my first time using Sumi ink, the traditional stick form that you have to grind. I gotta say: I think I’m in love. It’s got much better flow than india ink, and the washes come out a slightly warm neutral gray. Awesome stuff.

I know I said I’d post one a day… ugh. I started a werewolf piece, after watching Dog Soldiers. The drawing got out of control, and became a painting. So I decided I’d watch a whole bunch of werewolf movies, and capture the gist of them in one piece. I feel like I should wait for a full moon to unveil it, but being in Seattle, God only knows when I’ll see the moon again.

I’ll get one horror themed drawing posted daily, until Halloween is upon us!

The next morning we woke up to gushing rain, a flooded cabin, and snow on top of Half-Dome. It’s pretty cool to know that we were the last one’s up there for the rest of the year!

But I digress from the art. Yes, I do art. I art like a crazy-person, sometimes arting until I swoon, with a genuine case of The Vapors. Here’s a portrait of my brother, John, who looks this goofy in real life, only more so. Nah I kid, he’s a handsome man. He’s gotta be, we share some of the same handsome genetics.

This was an experiment in watercolor with white gouache to create opaque lighter colors. It’s a lot harder than it sounds, as you have to compensate for the fact that Titanium Dioxide (the pigment found in most white paints nowdays, and also sunscreen) is inherently ever so slightly blue. So it not only knocks back the chroma of any color mixed with it, it has the added effect of cooling the hell out of warm colors when mixed. So anyway. I’ll let you know when I’ve finally got that doozy figured out.