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Electric Kali: Progress. Also, Tim Knight is a Great Guy.

By Jim | Published: April 23, 2011
Making progress, slowly but surely. I’ve spent less time with this painting lately because I’m working on a new webcomic project, and Portal 2 came out. Seriously, buy this game. It’s excellent. More on the webcomic later, once the project is a little farther along. Here’s the final sketch for the painting. You can see [...]
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John Lee Hooker: Badass

By Jim | Published: April 5, 2011
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Queen of the Beasts

By Jim | Published: March 12, 2011
Here’s a painting I made for my wife late last year, for her birthday. Godzilla, you done got knocked the #*@$ out! The white marks scattered across her head are from paper left atop the painting before the varnish had completely cured. The paper stuck to the varnish enough to rough it’s smooth surface when [...]
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Electric Kali sketch fragment

By Jim | Published: March 8, 2011
“Woman, in the picture language of mythology… is the guide to the sublime acme of sensuous adventure. By deficient eyes she is reduced to inferior states; by the evil eye she is spellbound to banality and ugliness. But she is redeemed by the eyes of understanding. The hero who can take her as she is, [...]
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Studies – Electric Kali

By Jim | Published: March 3, 2011
I’m working on another painting of Kali.  Below are some studies.  Kali’s grimace is a challenging expression to illustrate– it may not really exist in reality.  Each of these faces has an element I want in the painting, but none of them are exactly what I want.  This is often the way of using reference– [...]
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Pele Demands a Sacrifice!

By Jim | Published: December 13, 2009
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Zombies!

By Jim | Published: August 31, 2009
The Walking Dead are the classic movie monsters I was most frightened of as a child. Ever since the nightmares I had after studying pictures of Tutankhamun’s dessicated mug when I was 7, I’ve been fascinated by zombies. You may have noticed that shamblers are experiencing a sort of renaissance in pop culture. Really, they [...]
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Drought

By Jim | Published: July 23, 2009
We have cats. Have had ‘em for about a year now. Cats have hair. Lots of hair. It gets everywhere. Particularly into my paintings, sticking to acrylics and oils, anything that stays sticky for at least 30 seconds. I’ve tried vacuuming (the house and the cats), different ventilation/filtration approaches. Just like entropy, cat hair is [...]
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Pure Voodoo: Normandy Guitars

By Jim | Published: January 30, 2009
Guitarists are a notoriously conservative lot. Innovative ideas in guitar design generally don’t meet a warm reception. The most popular guitars are styled after 40-year old designs, and materials haven’t changed much. So a new company like Normandy Guitars has an uphill battle. Normandy’s necks are still wood, but the bodies are made from aircraft-grade [...]
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How Does Your Garden Grow?

By Jim | Published: October 8, 2008
This one I made last spring, for my sister’s birthday. She’s been cultivating a garden that has become quite impressive. I’m considering the same, we’ve got some space here in the yard that might be useful for vegetable production. This is a pencil drawing colored in the GIMP, which I’ve been experimenting with quite a [...]
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