I added a sketch of a radiator from my college sketchbook to the "Sketchbook" page. It was never completed, but I think it looks cool uncompleted.
Personnel Basket
Just posted a new piece to "Works in Progress."This is a painting I just started last week of people leaving a jack-up in a personnel basket. I'm working partially from a photo I took on my phone, and although I can't remember for sure which rig I was leaving when I took it, I think it was the Hercules 265, which is currently on fire 50 miles off of Grand Isle.
Busy weekend
I made progress on my painting of the nude woman and on the painting of the stylized deepwater drillship (both can be seen on the "Works in Progress" page), this weekend.
I also started two new pieces which I may post in the next few days (or weeks) depending on how busy I am with my real job.
Reorganization
Did some organizational stuff on the site today.
I reordered the "Works in Progress" page so that clicking through shows how the work progressed. I also added some pictures of steps where appropriate.
Some pieces in the section were not so much works in progress as they were studies. These images I moved to the "Sketchbook" page, which I thought was more appropriate.
Laughter
I finally finished another painting. This one is of a girl laughing with her head back. Like most of my pieces, it is acrylic on canvas. The image I uploaded is not quite the final painting, since I darkened the hair slightly afterwards, but the light hasn't cooperated to let me take a good picture of it. The one I put up looks more like the final product than anything I managed to take, today.
I'm not sure I'm happy with this one. I have a lot of room for improvement when it comes to painting people, I suppose.
Woman
I added a painting to the Works in Progress page that I've been working on. It is inspired by a Renaissance painting, the author of which I'm trying to locate.
Another Rig
I just uploaded a painting I'm working on of a deepwater drillship in the Gulf of Mexico. It's in the style of some of my other greek pottery-looking paintings.
Coast Guard - 28 Defiant
New painting on the home page...
I have a friend who is a boat designer. He just moved from Lafayette to Boston , so I painted him this picture of one of the boats he designed: the 28 Defiant for the USCG's Response Boat - Small program.
The image up is not actually the final painting, as I forgot to take a final picture before giving it to him. There are only a few details I adjusted after the image I put up, however.
Caffeine
New drawing in the sketchbook... it's a teabag.
I thought this was appropriate, since I've been living mostly off of caffeine for several months, now. Completely changing sleep schedules every couple of weeks is par for the course out here, though. Coffee is my staple, but I'll do tea once in a while to change it up.
I did this drawing for a class back in in college. We had to draw something with stippling.
Another Flow Bear
I added another doodle of the flow bear to the sketchbook page. He's holding chaintongs, which is the name of the website and a common tool on drilling rigs. They're used to rotate any pipes or collars by hand on the rig, especially when making up parts of the BHA (bottom hole assembly).
Flow Bear - Comics Idea
I've added a little sketch I made about a misunderstanding I had on the rig. There are a lot of strange nicknames on oil rigs, and so I didn't think much when I kept hearing one guy called "Flow Bear." Lots of things flow during the drilling of a well (drill fluid, formation fluid, cement, etc), and he was a well built guy, so bear seemed appropriate as well. He's from West Africa, and that might clue you in to what my mistake was (it didn't for me).
One day I wake up and do handover with my nighthand, and after she leaves to go to bed, I see a note she left about her day: Flaubert wanted me to email him something.
I thought it was funny, so I drew a little cartoon about what an actual Flow Bear would be. I'm pretty into comics, so I'm trying to come up with a way to make a story about it, and possibly a comic book.
Chili Pepper Charcoal Sketch
Just uploaded a sketch of a chili pepper to my sketchbook page. It's an old sketch that I made in a drawing class in college with charcoal. I've made lots of attempts with charcoal, but this is one of the few drawings I was really happy with.
Silly little sketch
I've been pretty busy on the rig and in Lafayette, so I haven't updated in a while.
To make up for it, I just put up a silly tallybook sketch I made once. You can find it on the sketchbook page. While it'd be incredibly fun to make it a real painting, I sort of doubt that I'll do it anytime soon.
More recent "Pipes" image
Uploaded a more recent image of the "Pipes" painting, in the style of the "Iron Roughneck" painting which is the first to appear on the site. It can be found on the "Works in Progress" page.
I had an image of this painting up, but it was before I coated it with orange paint. I left up the previous image for now, to show the progress, since that is the name of the page.
I've stopped including images in the posts when I add them to one of the other pages, simply because it's a lot of work with the interface I'm using. If I find a better way to put them both places, I'll go back to it.
Nudes on personnel basket
I added another offshore sketch to the sketchbook page, today. It's the original sketch for the similar painting on the works in progress page. Maybe I should do some rearranging at some point, since that painting is really more of a sketch than a work in progress. I would like to make this idea into a more serious painting, but I don't yet have the confidence to pull off the women in it.
Fire Extinguisher: More oilfield art
I added another painting to the "Work" gallery, today... This one seemed appropriate, since there was a fire drill on the drillship, today. I might end up doing a series of some sort on fire extinguishers... I think there's potential in the form.
For those not familiar with deepwater drilling, while the contractor (the guys working for the company that owns the rig) drills in putting out the fire, the operator (what most people think of as an oil company... the guys paying to drill the well) guys and the third party guys all stand at a muster point in lines and wait. Gives you a lot of time to think, especially if you were sleeping when the alarm went off.
Sphinx sketch uploaded
I just uploaded the sketch I made before starting the "Death of the Sphinx" piece I've been working on.
When I drew it, I liked it enough that I hesitated copying it onto canvas. In retrospect, it's no better than what I put down on the canvas in my first attempt.
Still needs a lot of work...
Back in the states
Spent the last month or so abroad, and wasn't able to post, but I'm back. I just put up an old sketch on the sketchbook page -- It's of the first deepwater drillship I worked on.
Mermaid logo sketch
This is a sketch I made on an envelope while coming up with ideas for a logo for a fish distributor. She's just starting and already has a logo she made of a mermaid herself.
Mermaid sketch
Detail from a new piece
Here is a detail from a piece that I have been working on for a few weeks. It depicts the story of Oedipus and the Sphinx, but after the part of the story that is usually shown in paintings.
I'm not yet happy with the figure, but I'm finding it hard to properly proportion a fictitious creature.
