'Washington Square Park (SF)'

'Washington Square Park (SF)' 

digital landscape painting - done using ArtRage

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Fisherman's Wharf (SF)

digital landscape painting -- done using ArtRage

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WIP - Fall #1 (update 2)

..what I've been doing lately-- is using my digital art paintings as 'studies' (and reference art) for creating the traditional paintings on canvas. Here you can see a Fall painting that I created using Art Rage and I'm in the process of creating that on canvas, using Oil Pastels.

Not only does this give me a prior working knowledge of the subject matter, but I've already worked out the color/composition and I'm familiar with the brush strokes and other details.

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WIP - Fall #1 (update 1)

working in my studio on this rainy Seattle day.. here is very early progress (sketching phase) of a painting I'm going to work on using oil pastels -- more to come!

'Self portrait with orange baseball hat'

Here is an update on an older painting I did -- i wanted to return to this and fix some issues with color, etc.. and also wanted to add a background color/texture to it (old one was pure white background)

I'm happier with this one turned out.. :)

Digital Art -- done using Art Rage/Photoshop

'Self Portrait with orange baseball hat' 

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McMahon

Recently, I was in the mood to work on some character related art (portraits, etc) -- and take a small break from landscapes (which have been my sole focus the past 6-8 months)

This was a piece that I created a few years ago.. but always bothered me and I wanted to someday return to working on. So, I resurrected this and spent a few days reworking areas -- with re-painting certain areas to adjusted contrast/saturation/hue of various areas (background, face, etc)

I also decided to make the beard/shirt area read as a solid, dark graphic..

Here is the new artwork:

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Digital landscapes

Here is a collection of some of my digital paintings (Landscapes) -- from the past few years. I was recently contacted by the editor of Plein Air Magazine to do an interview on my work (both traditional and digital) -- very cool! 

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