Superman

This is a painting I did on the wall of my sons room. I wish I could tell you he insisted on this painting, but he was a baby when I started this, it was all me and his Mom. The tough part of this project was my wife. She is a big Superman fan and I was required to do several sketches before she finally approved this one. Over all this piece went pretty smoothly. I do everything free hand so one never knows. I did misjudge the size and space slightly (as you can see by the hand cut off at the window) but not bad overall. Just for the record my son does like it but now wants Spider-man, rest of the Justice League and the Avengers on his wall. Also a little talk that Daddy paints on the walls...ONLY DADDY.

Hero Headquarters

These are the two set pieces I did for Vaction Bible school for our church this summer. The theme for this year had been a super hero story. For some reason one of the orginizers asked me to paint the sets. My initial vision had been for something a little more abstract. However the initial drawings I did to demonstrate that I could do a cityscape were detailed pen and ink drawings ... and so this is what got painted. The sets were 12' long by 8 ' high. I have never painted on such a large scale and learned what not to do in the process. This project had a deadline and the whole family ended up getting involved to help complete it. My youngest daughter and son helped with the initial priming and the sky blue color. My oldest daughter painted some lines on the buildings after I drew them. My wife also did lines and a lot of color on the buldings. I was working on this on some Sundays when people were at the church and some weeknights as well. Around T-ball and softball. Finally it was the last Saturday and the sets had to be ready by Sunday. We started at 11:00 Saturday morning (after a T-ball game) and finished at 04:00 AM Sunday morning. Like a lot of art projects I was not entirly satisfied and felt I sacrificed too much detail and quality, but the key to a job well done is that the job is done.