Horse Portrait

My relative and friend, Patty (aka Retro Patty) told me some sad news the other day. Her son's horse, Brandy, passed away this year. She was almost 30 years old and had been a loyal and good friend to him for a long time. So I decided to do a portrait of Brandy for him. This is a quick sketch to work out my composition.

The Latest...

From the sketchbook. A few drawings of my characters done with an HB mechanical pencil.

(The Glory of the French)

(The Russian Front "Napoleon!" )

("Put him down! He is only a drummer boy!")

(The Spoils of war!)

Historical Revamp!

I have been working on my comic lately, and have noticed that my characters were changing into something other than what they were intended to be.


I decided that the best way to fix this was to look back in history and find out what they really looked like.

Here is the rough for my next painting. I can't wait to get started on the final.

Final painting

Here's the completed painting. I am currently working on a collection of similar pieces.

Taking up the brush

This is a color rough for a painting I am working on.

I have been working on a new comic idea. Here are the main characters, a French cavalryman and his horse.



I made Sculpey models of both of them to help me draw them better.

playing around with acrylics

This weekend I pulled out my acrylic paints, and threw them on a sketch of a Lipizzaner Stallion that I had drawn. It turned out much better than I expected.

Here it is...

weekend overview

I have been really wanting to purchase a miniature horse. (NOT PONIES) but horses in miniature... I got to look at some this weekend and they are awesome!

here is a video collage of the horses that I looked at. The first one in the video is for sale. I wanted to take him home but I am not prepared at all

Also this week I managed to slip in a clay model. This is Asterix the Gaul.