Pinup

Did this pinup for a client recently, waiting to hear back on details. Been wanting to do one of these for some time, fun and easy and a good excuse to bust out old 50s pinup books for reference. Sorry for the long delay in posting, I have been busy with a handful of commissions, so I have had less time for my own work, more to come soon.

Turtletribute

RIP last of the strange and gigantic Galapagos Island tortoises.

Leng wasteland

After watching a very nice video from the Feng Zhu school of design I was inspired to try their chaos painting method. So I started by just doodling a bunch of random colors and shapes and waited for the image to take form. Been a while since I did any landscape speed paintings so I was satisfied with how this one came out. Approx 2 and a half hours.

The video I was using the methods from is found here : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDPcSuLe73g

Deep in thought

First illustrative portrait I've done in a while. Rather like the way this one turned out, I even did color studies and everything. Anyway, I hope this one is worth the long absence. I will be posting another painting next week though I cannot say what day. Good to be back among the land of the artistically living!

Website is now live!

So after a leave of absence from posting here I am back and will be posing far more frequently. Much of my time recently has gone into finishing up my real honest to goodness website.

Link to it here:
www.charlesmckinnonart.com

I will be posing up new work on both the website and here on the blog. In addition here is a map as part of the concept art for a creative project I have been working on with friends. Next up on the agenda will be character and environmental designs for this world.

Next update will be on Wednesday the 23rd.