Year End Round Up 2013

O.K. my friends - this is it - the closing of another calendar year. 
We have voyaged across the chasms of sky yet again, and return to give thanks. So in honor of this occasion I thought I'd post up what I've been busy with for the last bit. Mixed media for mixed Monsters. And experiments in the lab. I know we just passed through X-mas, but personally - I'm still on Halloween time I guess.
I wish everyone the best for the coming year. Happiness, clarity of mind, and sound purpose of heart. What ever it is you do and where ever you find yourself doing it, happy travels and truly all the best to You and Yours for 2014 - 

Happy New Year everyone !!!

Prosperity, wisdom, good fortune and laughter   -  James

 

 

Covers Covers Covers

Hey -  I LOVE COVERS. 
Hardy boys. Tin Tin. Eerie and Creepy magazine. Comic books (all kinds). Famous Monsters of Film land. National Geographic. Manga. Hunting magazines. Crime novels. Pornography. Farmers almanacs. Weird science fiction and romance covers. Anything from the 50's, 60's & 70's. You name it.
I just love covers.
So I did these as fun little projects. No real plan - I was doing the digital paintings already and I thought it would be fun to incorporate them into some faux covers. Playing with fonts and type is excellent good times - so this was a party for me. I 'made up' the names of authors and critics, as well the titles. So any likeness to any living thing / being / dog / cat etc - etc, is PURELY weird and should be laughed off. I hope you get some chucks from these.

Enjoy
- Jim 

 
 

Water Colors 2

      Here is the 2nd posting of water colors that I have done for the (working) outdoor season of 2013. I painted through the summer and into the fall - weather depending. It was excellent. Lots of light & wind.
I'm very happy I took the time to do these paintings. In that some of the places  - ( just a couple / few ) no longer exist - or have been changed irreparably due to development and construction. 
I have included most of the works that I have done for the season. I feel this is a thorough and honest covering of my attempts to manifest my mission statement - " how light and color work to define form. "
   
 Hope you enjoy -  J

* Here's a link to the first post :
         Water Colors 1 

 

HAPPY HALLOWEEN - 2013

       Sanguine celebrations my cannibalistic kids happy horror hipsters and gloomy shifters of shape. As the most excellent of eves approaches my pulse rises, like a dirty red moon in excitement of the glorious procession of pagan pageantry known as . . . . . . . . . . . . ALL HALLOWS EVE.
So to mark this fabulous night of foreboding - I offer to you these small tokens of my affections, sticky as they may be !!! 
Cackle your cracking calls wide, divine Children of the Night, most deplorable of creations damnation's - roll your ravenous raving out across the red carpet of the world. Run fast through silent shadows - lithe, swift and true. Stand in beatific blackness and raise your feral faces towards the ancient stars - calling from the belly of night, and give thanks . . . . .
 

 -   Safe & Merry Mongering to one and all    -   

   Your Other Worldly Friend  -  Uncle Jim

New Mix

Crunch. Crunch. Crunch.

The sounds of autumnal activities -

snacks & hikes.