Title: Parallax Travler

 

Inspired by a series I read a while back: The Neanderthal Parallax by Robert Sawyer. Parallel earth type stuff where Neanderthals evolved to become the dominant species. Their civilization is technologically advanced possessing powerful AI companions & a deep understanding of quantum computing. While experimenting with quantum systems a tunnel rips open & teleport's one of the neanderthals into our space time. Great read, highly recommend. I hope you enjoy. This original piece is for sale, if interested please contact me. Also, all comments welcome. The good, the bad & the ugly.

Medium: Pencil, Pen, Marker
Dimensions: 12X9 Inches
Time: 34 Hours
Ask: $510.00 Recommended Minimum
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Title: Tree Two

 

I think I nailed it, lol. I added a bit more color than you would typically see this time of year but ya know, I don't like depression. So even if there are no leaves on the trees, the grass is always green. Enjoy! This original piece is for sale, if interested please contact me. Also, all comments welcome. The good, the bad & the ugly.

Medium: Pencil, Watercolor, Pen
Dimensions: 8 1/2X5 1/2 Inches
Time: 3 Hours, 30 Minutes
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Title: Starry Starry Darkside

 

This piece was intended to be titled "Tree Two". The idea being that I practice drawing trees. Well, on my way home from work on a crisp & clear night I stopped briefly to snap a photo of Tree Two; This time of year the cityscape mostly looks like a desolate black n white wasteland painted in salt & charcoal. Its always dark by 5:00 PM & everything is cold, quiet & depressing... Fumbling about with my fat fingered gloves I managed to get my phone up and as I pointed it at the bridge something quite spectacular happened. Peering through screen I could see my phone lens was capturing the streetlights and scattering the rays. The result was these beautiful rainbow colored auras, orbs of starlight illuminating the bridge, the trees & my imagination. This scene unfolded before my eyes. It reminded me of Van Gogh's painting The Starry Night. And so I captured it in my own way. I hope you enjoy. This original piece is for sale, if interested please contact me. Also, all comments welcome. The good, the bad & the ugly.

Medium: Pencil, Pen, Marker

Dimensions: 9X9 Inches

Time: 19 Hours, 15 Minutes

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Title: Tree One

 

Title: Tree One

Something new. I am experimenting with some new paper. Yupo Translucent; And it is not what I expected lol. It receives pencil quite well along with black pen. Colors on it are really weird. It doesn't really ever dry and the paper surface is wipeable. So the mediums remain quite malleable, I guess you could say. I'm not sure I like it. I have fifteen sheets to experiment with. I'll experiment with different mediums as well. Markers don't seem to be the optimal choice. As for the subject matter; Its a tree. I was listening to an artist interview yesterday and the artist suggested drawing trees. Lots of them. And I just so happen to live in the City of Trees. Stay tuned, more trees to come.

On a side note; Yesterday morning wasn't exactly rosey lol. Once inna while I get upset about life. When I finished my coffee and got out the door, things improved quite a bit. While grinding away at work I took a little time to reflect on the good in my life. I have a lot of positive things going on. I have a climate controlled shelter, running water & access to other services that contribute to my overall comfort. I have access to high speed global communications . I have a job I enjoy. I have family that loves me & solid friends. I can mostly afford to engage in my hobbies. I've recently had to access the health care system and though the physical services are still behind the times, access to mental health services has improved quite a bit. I live in a province & country that is mostly peaceful. I enjoy quite a bit of freedom. Overall, life is good'ish. There is always room for improvement. And I understand it's my responsibility to put in the effort. So I flex almost everyday. I am inevitable really lol. My time will come.

Medium: Pencil, Pen, Marker
Dimensions: 5X7 Inches
Time: 2 Hours, 30 Minutes
Ask: Not for sale.
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Title: Dancing in the Dark

 

I've been progressing this piece. I really enjoy drawing the wires. I'm not sure why but it's one of my favorite things to draw. To anyone following my work you may have noticed a lot of my creations feature wire, cable or tendrils. It is unquestionably the most flow inducing type of creativity in my toolbox.

If I'm being honest, I've been embracing the flow double time these days. Any opportunity I have to disassociate & retreat into an alternate reality gets the full embrace. I am trying to embrace life but simultaneously escape it. I'm sure many of you are feeling the same day to day pressures present in my life. Inflation has completely crushed any professional/fiscal progress I've made over the years. Wages are stagnant & society seems allergic the idea of paying salaries a person can live on working full time, 35 Hours per week in my country/province. Rent & groceries are out of control. Owning a home is out of reach for most average workers. Access to health care is abysmal, people die in the 11th hour waiting to be seen. All I can do is lay flat, stay home. I detach myself from it all so I can tolerate standing upright in the shitstorm long enough to pay the government & our corporate overlords to exist.

Medium: Digital Ink
Dimensions: 1396X2471 Pixels
Time: Roughly 3 Hours.
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Title: Containment Failure

 

Title: Containment Failure

It was about 4:00am on a Thursday morning. I couldn't sleep, my head felt like it was cracking open. I was tanking a serious headache, The television blinked & crackelled silently in the haze. I could see the closed captioning skittering across the screen. Its some sorta sciency infomercial about recent advancements in fusion power. I closed my eyes tightly attempting to will away the grinding pressure in my head and, I saw the colors. I'm sure some of you reading this know what I'm talking about. I saw a dark center accompanied by streaming colors, a rainbow of bright neon light exploding outward into the void. Beautiful really but also startling. I began to lose my balance, despite laying still and in a sudden jolt it was all over. I was upright in my chair, pen in hand & this came out. I saw a containment failure. A fusion containment vessel failed before my eyes. The vessel shreds & twists as rainbow light jets out. Lovely to behold, terrifying to imagine.This original piece is for sale, if interested please contact me. Also, all comments welcome. The good, the bad & the ugly.

Medium: Pencil, Pen, Marker
Dimensions: 4.5X8.5 Inches
Time: Roughly 3 Hours.
Ask: Recommended Minimum: $45.00 / Living Wage: $80.00
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Title: Sunset City

Happy New Year! I got a little creative over the holidays.

I take a lot of photos. Often I'm just going about my daily business, I see interesting things & snap photos. The photos disappear into a digital pit of ten thousand other photos I've forgotten about over the years. Occasionally the forgotten surfaces as AI enhanced memories, courtesy of the omnipresent Google Gods. Occasionally inspiration follows. This piece is a composition of three separate elements visible in the Dartmouth & Halifax harbor area. I wanted to capture the tree, the moon & a distant spire. I brought the spire forward & improvised the attached structure. The other buildings are improvised as well. I enjoy composing memorable & iconic imagery that would normally be outside the total view of a traditional camera lens. I'm not looking to create something detached from reality, it's more like a slightly tweaked realistic dream state where what could be, exists. Each element is enhanced but not copied, I don't really "reference" the photos line by line per say. I take a brief look at each key element, put my pen to paper & let the flow engulf me. This original piece is for sale, if interested please contact me. Also, all comments welcome. The good, the bad & the ugly.

Medium: Pencil, Pen, Marker
Dimensions: 8.5X4.5 Inches
Time: Roughly 5 Hours.
Ask: Recommended Minimum: $75.00 / Living Wage: $130.00
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