Mysterious Aircraft carrier in lake seen near Shanghai via The RegisterGiant HeliCarrier as Illustrated within China Military Report
Still, these are not as impressive or elegant as the airborne aircraft carriers of history, such as the USS Macon or her sister ship the USS Akron, which, sadly, crashed off the coast of New Jersey on April 4th 1933, killing 73 crew and passengers.
Macon over ManhattanUSS Macon mockup presented as web advertising for the National Geographic Special: Flying Aircraft Carrier – Image copyright National Geographic Online.
It is a little known fact that a line of Popes dating back to the Middle Ages have secretly indulged in Steampunk. The Vatican’s favourite pets are mad scientists, kept inventing in a basement. This hush-hush hobby of the Popes of times past and present has led to an astonishing Steampunk museum in the darkest corners of the Vatican. The Pope wears the only key for the museum under his robes, to be passed on to the next hat in line. This large crucifix from the museum has been attributed to the Knights Templar.
New for summer is an extensive collection of engravings as limited edition giclees on Hahnemuhle fine-art rag paper format.
Each giclee has rough straight-torn edges and a border of 2.5 to 3 inches of this beautiful rag paper, making for an additional 5 to 6 inches in each direction – meaning more wall coverage.
Each these bold limited edition giclees are enlargements of the original highly detailed engravings, showcasing the fine linework and detail within each piece, and making for a wonderful block-print appearance.
Cute Thulhu Against Shiny Gold Stars
To go straight to the prints from engravings, simply choose prints(engravings) in the catalogue listing (right), or click here.
*Also: for those who like to collect mini prints and small prints for scrapbooking purposes, those are next to come… an entire line of every artwork from this site (and some not yet here) will all be available in sizes of 5×7 or smaller.
There are many items now added to the now-better-organized store, and many more items to follow. Please continue to check in this next 7 days.
This is a work in progress – oil on wood panel. You can see a closeup of the airship here: here
The airship within is done from an earlier engraving; I wanted to see how “the Sabiku” would look in something other than straight lineart, and I am glad I decided to do so. I have come to really like this piece.
It has taken me a while to do; An extended winter (and the resulting lack of ventilation), made me lean on the acrylics for quite a while, and I found that when I returned to oil panting I had developed a lot of habits and methods that were not oil-friendly.
Not that I am nearing the finish line, everything is finally coming together, I think I have at least some of my technique back.
If you have seen my art over the past year, you might say to yourself: “Wow – he really loves airships”…
Though I do love working in this strange fiction/science fiction/fantasy vein, and though the airships do make for a good mode by which to explore these worlds and a decent centerpiece – it was not my intention at first to do so many of them.
I often realized that my subject matter, styles, media and the like were all over the place: I might work digital one day, paints another, an engraving on another day, a sculpture, a wooden box, some brass trinket – one week would be horror pieces, another would be figurative art, another would be monsters, another devices – and my styles varied in more ways than media or subject matter.
This may sound interesting to some… but galleries however like unified themes when it comes to shows, and so do publishers.
Most anyone who saw a collection of my past work, had none of it been signed, would think it was a collection from at least twenty different artists… which I suppose, in some fashion or another I am… though I am not nearly as fragmented as I was several years ago.
And since I had a number of people writing me, wondering if I could do a commissioned painting of an airship in similar style to the one that started this all off, I decided, spur of the moment, that selling those commissions would be a good way to make it home for a family emergency – they all sold within an hour or two of putting them up, and I have been working on them ever since.
Having an anticipated collection and theme laid out for me is nice, because forces me to stay somewhat on target, but it also forces me to use my imagination and improvise in ways other than technique, media, style, theme, message…
It has been interesting – but I’ll be glad when the last of these are done.
BTW – If you like this one as it is, I made 10 prints, because Beth likes this one as it is. There will only be 10 – I suppose that makes them very limited. The rest will be based on the finished piece. I don’t want them around by the time the piece is finished, so I am also pricing these 10×10 signed metallic prints at $22 – and to add, their shipping is free with the purchase of any other item in our store.
A beautiful 6 minute film about a scarecrow (many more like this available at the distributors site: Premium-Films.com)
I love how they put the projector together, because it is nice to see artists putting thought and creativity into every element.
One should not simply think of the elements within a work as building blocks within the work of art itself. Every stone, every wave, every cloud, every everyday thing offers an opportunity to imagine something new, and most importantly: to have fun with one’s creation…
This second video is by a band called “Doves”, and I am posting it because it has some stunning visuals of biplanes and zeppelins. The music, is something that neither stands out as fantastic or terrible, in my opinion. The video is worth watching either way…
