December 29th Daily Warm-up. Woooshoo!!

 

WoooShoo!

A new day—a new daily warm-up.

I hope everyone had a nice Christmas holiday.I had to work a bit of it, but I enjoy being in the studio.

I’m finally getting caught up on work left behind by recent events. I’m setting to work on a cover assignment this week.  I can’t wait to get started!

I’m giving thought to new year resolutions as I work. I have lots of goals playing at my mind for 2010 and I am considering ways to realize them in the new year.

Perhaps I’ll share a few of them shortly in the pages of this blog.

In the meantime, I have a deadline to meet!

December 21st Daily Warm-up. Not sent from my iPhone…

Everyone one thought Herbert was just old-fashioned in his dislike for texting. It turns out he just hated little keyboards….

Onwards to the day’s efforts. I am muscling through my contract work at the moment and have much to do, but I am enjoying the results so far and I am very nearly free of back pain. Yay!

Back to work!

December 18th Daily Warm-up! Stalker.

 

Stalker

Well, I woke up this morning with a fresh kink in my neck… on the opposite side from my initial injury! Aaargh!

Nature has quite a sense of humor.

Still, it’s not quite as bad as the first problem I had. I can still work and am hard at it.

I am really enjoying the latest project on my drawing board. It is teaching me things I can apply to another project I’ve been chipping away at.

I have re-discovered how much fun watercolors are .

A weekend of hard work awaits and I have much to get done before the holidays.

Time to put my head down and get to it.

December 17th Daily Warm-up. Wind in one’s hair…

Mighty cold outside today. I can hear the wind rattling the windows of my back porch studio yet I remain warm enough.

I am at work on some half-page illustrations and am so far pleased with the pencil stage.

Can’t wait to get painting! I’m breaking out the watercolors today just as soon as the drawing is complete.

I have a photo shoot to attend this evening as we at the New Hampshire Creative Club prepare materials for the Annual Show. That’ll be fun. We’re re-creating a classic photograph, but with a modern twist that we think the members will really enjoy.

It turns out that we didn’t have to meet to record a session for the Ninja Mountain Podcast as several of our members have already prepared a terrific panel discussion for release this week. 

I look forward to hearing it as a member of the audience this time.

Well, back to the toil.

See you tomorrow!

December 16th Daily Warm-up. Visit the Red Sea!

 

A Red Head in the Red Sea.

 

Today was just  a mermaid kinda’ day I guess.

Makes me want to ditch the studio and go fishin’.

We’ll be recording episode 45 of the Ninja Mountain Podcast today.  

It should be great fun as always. 

Tonight I bring my sketch group back together for drawing and coffee which I am really looking forward to. I’ll probably bring my current assignments with me and work on those as I sit with friends. 

If you are not part of a sketch group, create one! Get a few like-minded friends together  and pick a date to dirty up a few sketchbook pages. You’ll love it!

December 15th Daily Warm-up! Greeny

I just found myself gravitating toward a big slobbery green monster today.

My wife thinks he’s adorable…but I think he’s about to eat that friggin’ little bird!

Bwahahahaha!!

Ahem.

Daily Warm-up for December 14th. Brainius Rex!

 

Brainy

 

Another Monday is upon us. I don’t know why Garfield hates this day so much.

For me it is another good reason to be in the studio!

Today a dinosaur with a brain in a jar attached to its noggin.

Tomorrow…who knows?

Onwards to the day’s art tasks.

December 11th Daily Warm-up!

I’m back!

Yesterday was a crazy day, but now I am back in the studio and at work.

I’m going to the chiropractor once again this morning, but I’m feeling much better.

So much work to get caught up on! Time to get cracking on the work instead of my back.

See y’all next week!

The Daily warm-up for December 9th.

 

Wintry Cup

The shoulder is feeling better. Just in time for a blizzard where I will have to risk my shoulder and back shoveling the white stuff. Ugh. Take it slow…

Enjoy another cup of coffee and stay warm in the studio. Don’t think about the massing army of white flakes that are building up just outside my studio door and preparing their siege of the castle.

Today we record the next episode of Ninja Mountain which is always fun.

I sat down to the drawing board in earnest yesterday and am pleased so far with the results of the watercolor techniques I’ve been employing in my current work.

It’s been exciting. I’ve been trying out the mixed media with the smaller assignments of my current batch of work, but I am now starting to feel confident enough to take it into my half-page jobs and a cover gig.

Hard work ahead, but I am nearly strong enough to settle in and work without worry.

Onwards!

December 8th Daily Warm-up.

Today’s warm-up! 

Late in coming , but finally here.

Onto today’s deadlines. Things are moving slowly in the studio. I must work gingerly otherwise I set my shoulder on self-destruct, but progress will  be made.

A blizzard looms over New England and I am now wondering how I will set about removing the large volume of snow that will bury our driveway in the hours ahead.

Still, I have the drawing board to keep me warm.

I’m looking at re-designing my website, but am still trying to figure out a simple Wysiwyg tool to use in that effort. Rapid Weaver looks like an attractive option. Simple to use. Drag-and-drop design and supposedly it creates nice clean code.

Might be nice to not have to muscle my way through the learning curve associated with Xhtml and CSS. 

I’ve tried setting up the WordPress option available to me through my website host, but am not happy with the various templates and functionality. 

I want a simple portfolio site with the capacity for easy updating and perhaps an in-line frame for my blog to reside in. A nice mix of dynamic content and easy to navigate portfolio pages.

Hmmm. The research continues…