This illustration was inspired by Paul Watson’s on-going struggle against illegal whaling. Paul Watson was born in Toronto, Canada, and was one of the co-founders of Greenpeace.
For more information about Paul Watson and the Sea Shepherd visit www.seashepherd.org
Happy New Year Everyone! Here is the final illustration that I’ve been working on of the three ladies.
View work in progress here.
Here is the fourth sculpted illustration for the on-going “My Woodland, My Nightmare” series. It is titled “When Giants Meet”
This is the sculpted piece for the “When Giants Meet” illustration.
Here is the third illustration in the on-going ” My Woodland, My Nightmare” series, it is titled “From the Ground up”. Shown is what lurks beneath the suburbs built over the site of once tall forests, here nature finds away through the concrete slab.
Above is the sculpture made for “From the Ground up”. It was made from a combination of apoxie, polymer clay, synthetic fur and leather, foam and rocks .
A photograph of the sculpture was composited in Photoshop to create the final illustration.
“Out on a Limb” is the second illustration for the “My Woodland, My Nightmare” series. This piece continues the themes started with Burden to Bear, which I posted last month. Further works in the series are to be posted soon!
Shown above is the sculpture made for “Out on a Limb”. The owls were made from a combination of apoxie, polymer clay, synthetic fur, and the base is solid oak.
A photograph of the sculpture was then composited in Photoshop to create the final illustration. The desolate forest background is a picture from my trip to the Rockies in the summer. The picture is of Kootenay National Park in British Columbia. In the summer of 2003 lightening caused a forest fire to the already dry forest. It burned for 40 days, over an expanse of 170 square km (12% of Kootenay National Park). The area is known to have problems with the Redwood Bark Beetle, a parasite which attacks weak trees. The trees die and are then easily prone to catching fire. The area was just beginning to recover when I was there.
A few weeks ago I posted pic’s of a bear character that I was working on. Here is the final illustration for it. It’s the first in a series titled “My Woodland, My Nightmare”.
More to come!
Here’s the second illustration that I made for the show and a little story about it.
Children of the Bavarian countryside speak in whispers of the giant salamander known for devouring those who stray too far from home. The salamander wears a koala costume to disguise its true nature from its prey. The child lured from safety by the koala’s offered balloons soon joins the floating forsaken as the balloons are the captured souls of eaten children. Few know that the beast’s name is Sally.
I want to thank everyone that came out to see the show. It was a lot of fun! I hope you all enjoyed yourselves and saw some work that inspires you.
Jes
So this is one of the illustrations that I made for “Happily Never After” at Keep Six Contemporary.
Here’s a story that I wrote to go with it:
Once, long ago, three birds were caught by an evil old man who clipped their wings to keep them from flying away. Trapped in the house, they were desperate to escape. One day, when the old man was out, they slipped away through the crack in the door. Scared for their lives they walked as fast and far as they could. Unexpectedly, they found themselves in the middle of a desert. It seemed the more they walked the more the desert surrounded them. Hungry and thirsty they roamed the empty wastes when, on the brink of madness, they discovered three small blue flowers growing from the sand. The birds could hardly believe their eyes and wondered how anything could live in such a desolate land. Thinking that this was a good omen they decided to bed down for the night, never to wake again.
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