And on the 8th day, they fished.
(commission for Feren ;)

Finishing Touch

Here is the 2011 holiday card we painted for a pair of friends, marking this the sixth year we've had the pleasure! :]

It's safe to post now, since all of the mailed out cards should have reached their destinations!

You can see cards from the previous years under the "More Info" link!

Five Golden Rings

A holiday card design for a pair of good friends, commemorating their engagement and in the theme of the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Though...I'm not sure if a wolf and a fox can be trusted with all that poultry. ;]

Fly By

Kaialavu manasu kadal alavu kanavu.

Footie

Happy birthday to a someone!

Border collie practicing football (soccer for you colonist yanks) in the wee hours of the morning.
United! United!

Fox and the Grapes

An excellent vintage, circa 300 BC.

Large version of an icon I made recently for no one YOU'D know. ;)

FWA Safari

Another piece I guess I never uploaded (I suspect it's safe to now, as DragonCon has come and gone.)

This was commissioned back in July by the folks of FWA (http://www.furryweekend.com) for use on the interior cover adspace in DragonCon's convention book.
FWA's theme this year is Safari, so I figure... what would furries go see on safari? ;]

I was sort of hired on last minute and only had a couple of days to get the piece done. I wish I could have had a bit more time to work on it, but, I say that about most things.

Ganesha

Another small painting (about 5x7) made as a gift for someone who's now isolated from the internet in a cold and lonely land, and will not have the chance to see it online before the holidays.

Gold Bust

Now that FurtherConfusion and it's Gold Rush has passed, it's a good time to post this.


"We're drinking my friend, To the end of a brief episode, Make it one for my baby, And one more for the road."
~Johnny Mercer

Good Fortune Badge

During a dinner at RMFC this weekend, I received a remarkably convention-appropriate fortune in my fortune cookie. Last night I had to paint myself a quick badge to make good use of it. ;]

Good in Stripes

He looks good in stripes.

Good Mawnin!

Brer Rabbit gets the better of Brer Fox.

Suggested Listening: Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys - Stay All Night, Stay A Little Longer

Halfdome

I started painting this back in 2009 and it gave me weeks worth of trouble trying to make it look halfway decent. Frustrated, and contemplating burning it in the desert, I stuffed it into the dark recesses of a closet for a year.
It would resurface every four or five months, and with much gnashing of teeth and words to make a sailor blush, I would attempt to throw a few more paint strokes at it--until I'd again get frustrated and hide it somewhere new. Today, I found it again (under the air conditioner) and figured I'd do the two or three or twelve things to at least make it "whole," though it is not exactly what "I was going for."

It's nice to consider it finished and have it off my mind for 2011! ;]

Happy Christmas!

A quickie for Christmas. >;]

Hayfever

Do you believe in always,the wind
said to the rain
I am too busy with
my flowers to believe,the rain answered

~ ee cummings

Here's Looking At You

"Too much of a good thing is wonderful."
~Mae West

Hogwarts Badges

These are the free Hogwarts badges I painted before AnthroCon, for the six folks who's names I drew randomly from the contest's submissions! :]
And oddly enough, yet again no Gryffindors were chosen. Entries were largely either Hufflepuff or Ravenclaw!

(More information on the free badge give-a-way [which has now long since ended,] can be found under that More Info button.)

"My hubris is bigger then your hubris."

Human Error

Here is one of the Joker cards for the Endangered Ark. He's in your outback, eating your numbats.

Taking second place to feral house cats, the red fox is one of Australia's most problematic invasive predator. They were originally brought over in 1855 from Europe for the purpose of recreational hunting. Since then, their numbers have exploded, estimated around 7 million animals. They are responsible for the decline of many small marsupials, including the numbat. The fox is a very adaptable, elusive and prolific animal, and as such, is nearly impossible to contain or control. It continues to decimate populations of native species and there is no foreseeable solution.

Hyena Crossing

Happy Whelpday Cash! ;]

Another set of icon commissions I've done recently.

"If I was a flower growing wild and free
All I'd want is you to be my sweet honey bee.
And if I was a tree growing tall and green
All I'd want is you to shade me and be my leaves"
~Barry Louis Polisar

Ill Omens

Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
~ W.B. Yeats (excerpt from the Second Coming)

More spring cleaning! I found this tucked away in a pile of stuff. I guess I started it... yeesh, around last September. I couldn't remember why I abandoned it mid-painting, so I figured I'd put a couple more hours into it this afternoon and finish it up. The world could use some more baboons, anyway. ;]

"Even Ugly Animals Get To Be in Love"

Insatiable

A little more spring cleaning--I painted this back in March as a double-spread illustration for the upcoming HEAT Vol. 6 from Sofawolf Press. It's intended to accompany the poem, "Sated" by Frost wolf, hence lots of empty space. :]

For those unfamiliar, HEAT is an annual publication focusing on erotic comics, illustrations and short stories. Vol. 6 will be debuting at AnthroCon later this year and will be available online from the Sofawolf Press website.

Oh and, I put a detail shot of the wolf's head in my scraps folder, if anyone's interested in a closer look. :]

Invitation at a Glance

What buzzcut lion wouldn't want to follow a great dane into the sauna?
Piece for the FC artshow.

Isolation Play - Brutal Game

This is one of the interior illustrations for Kyell Gold's newest book Isolation Play. I did 11 interior illustrations for the book (plus the cover.) The interiors will be printed in greyscale, but I figured I'd still paint them since I like that kind of thing. ;]

Isolation Play - Cover

Here is the cover to Kyell Gold's long awaited sequel to his book "Out of Position" -- "Isolation Play". I painted the cover a month or so ago, along with 11 interior illustrations and 5 inked chapter heads.

Book jacket blurb:
Devlin Miski thought coming out on national TV would be the hardest part about being a gay football player. But it's when his press conference is over that the trouble really starts. The athletic tiger and his boyfriend Lee, a fox with a tongue as quick as his wit, still won't get many breaks in their fight for understanding. They'll need to deal with a stubborn reporter determined to get a story any way he can, furious parents, and hostile teammates--not to mention each other.
All's fair in love and war--and this is both.

It's A Jungle Out There!

Dance Poster for AnthroCon 2008. The theme, of course, is "It's A Jungle Out There!" ;]