Perplexing Ruins

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Working on one of this months Patreon pieces! has a bit to go, but several hours in. 1st of 4 pieces of art that will get dropped :)

Stoked on yesterday's painting! Wrestled with this one, in the best way! Gouache on paper

been hard at work on this one today. been going a little slow, but feeling very excited for its prospects

today;s small painting

Made a small painting today. I purchased some pretty nice paper and it was really nice to paint on! Holloway Guide Gouache on paper 5x7

Singer for the departed Watercolor on paper 5x7 In contrast to gouache, allowing these watercolors to open up a little bit, flow. Thinking of these small pieces almost like short impressionistic poems. Not masterpieces on their own but as a whole, once framed, I seem them as a greater collective.

another small watercolor from this morning.

two small watercolors from this little strange world I've been painting

productive days. i understand that much of this work isn't up to the illustrative bar, nor the tabletop art level. laughable even to most, but these are happy days of making for me. still plan to make knights, dungeons, treasure, adventurer art, but this "other" work you is closer to me :)

Small little ink drawing this morning - will be a gift to father in law

Been living with and working with my small paintings and drawings recently, that have very little to do with my "illustrative" work. This 8x10 gouache on paper is from last year.

Fjord Dream Color Pencil on paper 8x10

morning drawing underway! working with color pencils this time :)

a morning drawing! ink on paper

drawing from this morning ink on paper

sometimes i like to pull my "other art" all out of its box and see it together. A growing world. the dialog between the pieces is nice for me to see. Hoping some day for a gallery to want to show them :)

2nd drawing today Fox Friend 8x10 graphite on paper

another piece on the drawing board! decided pencils sounded like fun :)

from the morning studio session - ink on paper

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afternoon bump

Four drawings that dropped to my patrons for September. Coupled with some of the other available knight drawings and maybe a monster or two, and a sorcerer, one could illustrate an arthurian-like game zine! For as low as $2.50/mo 🤯 patreon.com/perplexingruins

The Perplexing Ruins Print Club kicks off! September's mailing is the Eternity print with sticker and letter! Each month, one random subscriber will receive an original piece. This month, will be including this small gouache painting of a knight with banner!

Ended up smaller than initially intended, but I liked all the white space - hopefully will make a nice piece of corner spot art for someone 🤷

new piece begun this morning under the grey mountain clouds. I'm a little behind on my patron art drop - sorry about that, but i think they will be cool.

another knight drawing!

working on the next knight

Last ditch swordtember: Duelist with longsword 6/8

putting together the first official Perplexing Ruins Print Club bundles for my top tier patrons! Each month, receive a signed 5x7 print, a matching sticker, and a signed letter. I had to do some restructure to my rewards for money & logistic reasons, but I think this is pretty cool for $10/mo.

Another small gouache painting! Ties to medieval miracle paintings and Excalibur folklore. in a very lose and inspired by way, not a direct dialog with those

most don't know that I make a different kind of art sometimes. Far from "old school B&W dungeon art." This is my "fine art" practice, and typically where I'm happiest and most myself! Finally finished another one of these after a hiatus Patchwork Knight (green glow) 8x10 gouache on paper

went more expressive with this one, and the pose is a little stilted, but there's some attitude that i like with this one 2 of 4 knight drawings going to my patrons

morning! the next knight drawing for patrons is underway

Finished redrawing the The Golden Knight! This is 1 of 4 that will get dropped end of month to my Patrons. You can support me on patreon and have access to numerous royalty free pieces of art

Over the next week I'll be redrawing the color paintings in B&W for my Patreon. Here's the WIP of the first drawing of 4 that will get uploaded :)

The slow accumulation of a world, a vibe, a personal style. In the past 6 mos I've been looking at lots of Amano & Suemi. Masters. Of course I happen to make with my own visual language, and it's been fun to see that growth!

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This piece (knight of dreams) is not the strongest in the batch so far, but as an addition to my sketchbook, I'm happy with him :) watercolor and some ink and pencil

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it's early but already feeling stoked on the Knight of Sleep

Redrew the Golden Knight in my sketchbook tonight - markers and posca

grizzled old knight painting

another knight painting, painted over a rough drawing from earlier this summer

thanks to Kid for filing this little process vid. Another drawing from earlier this summer getting a full treatment! Gouache.

some morning painting (gouache) over this drawing from earlier in the summer.

another one of the little things I messed around with lately. I don't think it's particularly rad, but as an art challenge, alter art is interesting. You've the assignment, the context - it's a good way to practice

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