Progress on the ship

I've been working on this one for a while now, life has been pretty hectic but I've done what I can when ever I've gotten the chance. This started as a tattoo design for my wife and found its way onto canvas. I'm hoping to finish it soon. 

Circles

Here are some of my latest illustrations that I have been working on for a friend

. I'm still not done but it's been a lot of fun.

Adventure is out there

My wife and I just recently had our first child. She said that he is our greatest adventure and that she wanted to get a tattoo for him. This is what came of that
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Never finished, just abandoned

"Art is never finished, just abandoned." - Leonardo da Vinci

I heard this quote recently and it definitely resonates with me. I never truly feel like I finish a piece but sometimes to move on to something else I just have to abandon it for a while. Sometimes I don't find my way back, but there are a few ideas that I can't help but go back to. This is one of them; Psalm 42:1 is what I want, sometimes I fall short but that's what I want for my life. I want my heart to yearn for God.

“As a deer pants for flowing streams, so pants my soul for you, O God.”
Psalms 42:1 ESV



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Taking it slow but not giving up

I find myself up late yet again bent over my drawing desk searching for that inspiration I let slip away. I'm going slow on this one but I think that's a good thing. I find myself ruining drawings or paintings because I feel this need to finish it. Instead of taking a break, or thinking it through, I push when I should let go.

So after another late night I've got some of it colored. Now I just need to figure out how I'm going to wrap up the background. But so far I'm liking what I see.

Missed it by that much

So the other night I was having a conversation with my wife, her aunt and her aunts friend when all of a sudden Wham! I have this great idea for another painting, and not only do I have the idea but I have this vivid image in my mind. I wanted so badly to run to my room and grab a sketchbook so I could try to catch this piece of inspiration before it got away, sadly I'm much too polite for that. So instead I continue conversing with them until they leave, all the while holding onto that image as tight as I can as it slowly slips through my fingers. But alas by the time they left all that I had was a shadow of what I had seen. I ended up staying up till 3am that night. This is what came of that. So moral of the story don't let inspiration slip away.

Family name

For some reason I've been drawing anchors a lot recently, and they keep coming up. For example during worship last night there was a line in one of the songs that said " my anchor holds within the veil " and it was relevant in my walk with Christ. It reminded me that Christ is my anchor and as long as I hold fast he will keep me safe through any storm.

Anyway I drew this anchor a couple days ago, and finished the color during some down time at work.