Some more ART and News

Hello all!

Here are last weeks newest drawings for all to enjoy.  I'll have more new stuff soon as well as a another start to finish process painting.

In other news, my family and I recently had a photo session with Stacey Woodward of Dream Photography Studio.  During the course of the session I thought I recognized here from some where and when we were leaving it dawned on me, I knew her from Phoenix Comicon!  She works with the wonderful site Lightning Octopus and did an Amazing job on our photos so I highly recommend checking out her sites and the write up she did for our Etsy studio.

http://www.dreamphotographystudio.blogspot.com/2012/11/feature-matt-goodall-at-long-dog-art.html

Have a Happy Turkey Day everyone!

ART DUMP

Hello everybody!  Not much new here, just a bunch of random paintings and commissions for some terrific people.  Enjoy!

Painting Like a Child

So here is the story on these paintings.  My daughter Amelia has always loved coloring with crayons and occasionally color pencils but she never really wanted to help me with my own work.  I've noticed recently that she has taken a great interest in watching me paint.  At first she just watched and would make comments on the color I was using.  She then started to become a little more hands on so we gave her one of my old watercolor palettes and some brushes and let her go to town.  I got to admit, I love her paintings.  So I decided to rummage through some drawings that I never finished or just had laying around on scratch paper and I decided to create some art with her.  We took some of these warm up sketches and painted over them. She was allowed free reign to color them as she saw fit. I occasionally would take the paper away and allow some of the excess water bleed around the paper... which made her very angry... I guess she didn't like my creative imput.  I then inked them with brush and crow quill and then used her favorite medium, crayon, to add some other touches.  I enjoyed the collaboration, it took boring sketches and made them interesting.  More than anything, I found the process interesting.  I've trained myself to use a certain creative process when painting and when you allow a 2 year old to do whatever she wants to do with the composition it just completely throws that process out the window.  Here is our results so far...

Amelia, adding some happy little blue tones.

Ultimate Spider Woman Painted

Just playing around with some new brushes I downloaded on Photoshop-

Dog Painting & Ultimate Spider Woman Drawings...

Hello everyone!  Here are some of the latest things I've drawn and painted-  sorry for the horrible scan of the pencils, they never seem to come through good for me.

Mason-
watercolor, india ink

original pencil version

Inked with Pitt Pens

New Etsy Shop Shameless Plug

Hello everyone, my wife an I recently started up our own little business. Please "like" my new Facebook page "Millie & Mason" if you have a moment or just visit our shop if you would like to order a painting. We are a small business that offers custom hand painted portraits (children, pets etc...). Please check out our online shop at www.millieandmason.etsy.com, and feel free to share with friends!  Also the link is on the left hand side of the home page of the blog.   

Art Dump- Batman, New Ideas, and Random stuff

Hello all, been busy for the past few weeks so sorry for the lack of posts.  I've managed to work on a few projects here and there as well as coming up with a brand new one.  Jesse James Comics was also nice enough to invite me to contribute some art for a fundraiser to benefit the victims of the Aurora CO shooting (https://www.facebook.com/events/207889002673724/).  So here is some of my basic test drawings for my new children's book that I will create soon- Amelia Blairhart, a Katniss painting for some contest that I was too late on entering, some random practice/ reference drawings and The Batman for Aurora.