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A painting I’ve been working on forever, or three times a year anyway, is in its last trimester, so to speak. A bit more polish needed, but everything's there. Unless I change my mind again.
It’s intended to be a wraparound cover for the first Concrete novel, which is having an even longer gestation.
No one will ever call me “madly fecund.”
Our foxhound Annabelle fought a mink recently. I was there. Minks emit a musk which is reminiscent of, though less potent than, skunk spray. Elizabeth said I stank of it when I came in – and I never got within ten feet of the fast-moving fighters (I sought, vainly, to break it up). I felt like a witness splattered with blood, wrongly accused.
Happily, the mink escaped into the brush pile to fight another day.
I’m working on a couple of things. One is a big project for DC comics which I’ve teased here a couple of times, though I’m not supposed to announce it. Harlan Ellison is the author, and Ken and Joan Steacy are coloring it.
Another is a graphic novel for Dark Horse, in collaboration with Mike Richardson.
Here are some images. I take the blame for the limited palette color here.
I have a linear style full of accidental self-contained sub-shapes and openly-feathered shapes that is particularly hostile to the Photoshop bucket tool. My work is hell to color. Sorry, Steacys.