Time to bring it all home.
The goal right now is to avoid killing the soft focus of this piece while also cleanly defining all the edges, surface details and minor details.
There are still areas where I'm making a few corrections, but I want to nail down the supporting bits first. Wor...
2019-03-22 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Bang! Colors!
I'm using Albert Beirstadt as the muse for this one. He's had a dozen or so paintings in my reference folder for ages, so I'm long overdue to create a painting with that iconic pastoral look to it.
Doing creative stuff is a joy. Not being musical myself I can only imagin...
2019-03-18 15:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Throwing a little sepia on top of the piece at this point always seems to make it a little extra.
When things are going smoothly, the difference between steps in my paintings feel like nothing much is changing. It's still the same drawing, it's still the same background. What's the big deal...
2019-03-14 20:08:38 +0000 UTC View Post
" In Heaven a spirit doth dwell
“Whose heart-strings are a lute”;
None sing so wildly well
As the angel Israfel,
And the giddy stars (so legends tell),
Ceasing their hymns, attend the spell
&...
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O lonely fountain, bless us mortals that dwell beneath you
Let our gratefulness abate your sadness
Let our prayers reach you, lonely Matariel
All men and beasts seek your embrace
We beg that you may stretch your hand out to us
So we may continue to praise your ...
2019-02-27 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Rocks, leaves and little water droplets. I'm scrubbing though the whole painting inch by inch and defining each tiny bit as precisely as I can. This has been such a joy that I want to keep refining smaller and smaller details, but I don't want to overwork it. My plan for finding a balance will be...
2019-02-25 16:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
I love working with earth tones. Part of me didn't want to jump into the colors on this too fast because I knew I wanted to get them just perfect. The longer I wait to add colorization to a scene, the more the underlying values contribute to their subtlety. The mixture of soft oranges in the tran...
2019-02-21 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Just a few more brush strokes and this piece has begun to emerge even further. Having a clear sense of the lighting and mood from my reference material has made this go shockingly fast. There's still a question of how rainy I want this piece to ultimately be, but that feels like the sort of thing...
2019-02-14 16:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This is a painting I've been thinking about on and off for years now. Matariel, Angel of Rain is one of my favorite designs from the series, so I've been looking for a good opportunity to paint it again. The end of the Watchers series has given me the perfect opportunity to take a swing at it. 2019-02-07 15:42:31 +0000 UTC View Post
If you are interested in owning some of the older Angelarium pieces, there are a few that recently came back from a gallery that went out of business. I had several prints hanging at Ikon Gallery in Canton, OH before they closed. The owner was nice enough to send those prints back to me and they ...
2019-02-07 15:28:40 +0000 UTC View Post
All wallpapers, works in progress, high res finals and PSDs for Sariel, The Lone Seeker are now on their respective Discord channels. Log into the Angelarium Discord channel to download them and access the complete archive.
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One of the big promises I've been making to myself is to finally get the photography equipment I need in order to properly record my traditional paintings. That way I would be able to honestly show them off for sale or auction.
I just started a 10 day auction for my largest oil painting to ...
2019-01-31 12:19:40 +0000 UTC View Post
As the Earth tugs on the Moon, the Moon tugs back on the Earth. For each force, another will always exist in perfect opposition. The lives of men and Angels are similar. Though the power of one may be greater than the other, their existence reflects each other.
When the war started, the Ang...
2019-01-30 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
As I explored this piece, I thought a lot about what I wanted to see in it. In the fiction, I think of Sariel as being someone who is constantly looking to the sky. I wanted to parallel that to my own fascination with the planets and stars. One of my great hopes for the future is that my kids get...
2019-01-24 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
My big goal for this piece was to show a scene that was lit by moonlight. In those circumstances, the colors get pressed together in an interesting way. In low light, only certain receptors in our eyes end up absorbing enough light to be perceptible. Our perception that low light is bluish comes ...
2019-01-17 16:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post
I’ve been slowing down a lot while I’m drawing. Some of my friends produce such unbelievably lovely drawings and that inspires me to invest more in my own pencil work. The extra time I’m taking to be more mindful of my marks isn’t just a practical choice, it really makes me enjoy drawing ...
2019-01-11 12:06:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons,
Starting off the new year, I'm tidying up the studio and that means clearing out all the cool stuff that I've got laying around that doesn't normally live in the store.
2019-01-06 14:58:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys,
I'm trying to do less promo these days and just focus on content, but there are a few of rare items I've got hanging around the studio and I don't know who else to tell about it.
There are a couple LE Raziel mats and a LE Chazaqiel mat that shook loose from a cleaning expedi...
2019-01-03 15:04:46 +0000 UTC View Post
All wallpapers, works in progress, high res finals and PSDs for Samyaza, King of Kings are now on their respective Discord channels. Log into the Angelarium Discord channel to download them and access the complete archive.
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When the Watchers were a chorus, they had no names. They were formless and as one. Each Angel whispered together amidst the song of the cosmos. They sang of nothing and everything. No will or thought, only light. A boundless existence.
As they sang, a single mote of something, of nothing, pas...
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I've been quietly plugging away at making a new pin design for the past year or so. Today, I got prototypes in the mail!
This is an early run and will be slightly different than the final ones that I en...
2018-12-21 17:50:37 +0000 UTC View Post
So much of what’s needed at this point is just tightening down the pattern work. Doing detailed patterns is something that I’ve never felt I was any good at, but it’s got a meditative quality that I’m drawn to. Maybe someday the repetition of this repetition will build into a genuine skill. ...
2018-12-20 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I’m trying to do something different with this one. Getting a little ahead on my art making schedule has inspired me to be a little more experimental. Some people weren’t so hot on my experiments with the last painting (Kokabiel), but each of these pieces aren’t meant to be for everyone. At th...
2018-12-13 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
The power to command is something we all recognize in the world. A force so natural, it’s almost invisible. Personally, I’ve always resisted observing authority. It’s lead to a life where I’ve easily slid into the roll myself. In most situations, people are so unwilling to assign themselves ...
2018-12-06 13:36:20 +0000 UTC View Post
All wallpapers, works in progress, high res finals and PSDs for Kokabiel, The Burning Light are now on their respective Discord channels. Log into the Angelarium Discord channel to download them and access the complete archive.
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The fair and childlike Kokabiel saw things in the stars that his brother Watcher’s did not. To him, he saw unknowable mysteries unfolding in the night sky. Men came to him, with hopes of divining some earthly meaning behind the movement of the heavenly bodies. Though he spoke with them often...
2018-11-29 16:01:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Probably the #1 question I get about my work is "Have you seen Evangelion?". Short answer; yes.
Long answer:
Around 1998, I found a small independent video store near my house that would rent tapes for $1 each. As far as I can tell, they might have had the most killer anime collection...
Piece by piece. Moment by moment. Things just click.
A lot of painting is asking the picture what it wants and doing your best to make it happy. Looking back over the earlier versions of this piece makes me nervous. I wonder if I had a plan or if I was just hoping some magic would happen late...
Adding color isn't just about figuring out which colors to use or what color things are, it's also about figuring out what doesn't have a color. I realized pretty early on in this process that I wanted to have the stars be colorful but leave everything else fairly dull. The purpose to to show that t...
2018-11-19 14:00:00 +0000 UTC View Post