My take on an Ent from Lord of the Rings. Let me know what you think! Pencil in my Moleskine Folio, hopefully to be published. You can read a bit more about it at my blog, The Flying Trilobite.

Oil on canvas, 2009.  Sometimes as an artist, I get an image full-blown in my mind; that was the case here. Composition, lighting, hues. I needed some details for the biplanes. So I did a bit of online poking, and found the story of a true Canadian adventurer, perfect to add to my concept painting. Major William George "Billy" ...

Interesting.  May I say, is the head slightly large for the body? Could be it's just hard to tell without the legs.   I really like the crackling energy around the staff.  It has a very distinct look, and I think details like that often make the image.  Pretty cool, JMM.  

Pencil on vellum-finish bristol. The drawing I used as the concept for ScienceBlogger Shelley Batts' Retrospectacle blog banner. You can see a making of the whole thing here. 

Oil on canvas. The ammonite is more of a living nautilus shell, but it could have had similar colouration. Convergent evolution. Predator caught dead in the act.

An older oil painting of mine, it sits in an antique black box wrapped in wire...

Yeah the Hellboy is nice.  I like the use of the lights from above, gives it that underworld-hellish feel even though he's probably just in Malibu.   You can see he's pleased...

Thanks for the recommendation Egghed, and the Urisks on your CLAN pages are pretty terrific too.  Not too over the top, and I like the face on the close up one. Like he's assessing something at a distance. I wonder - does ArtRage support all of the custom brushes I've been letting gather from back issues of IFX? 

Oil on canvas. See more about this specific DNA-Candle Vanitas at my site, The Flying Trilobite. Here are some details about this series: Here is what I said in my first post about this series of images: Vanitas painting is an old tradition, especially popular in the Northern Renaissance. Usually, it is a still life, depicting perhaps a ...

Oil on shale, pencil on bristol and some digital painting with Photoshop and an Intuos 3. Copyright Glendon Mellow 2009. You can see some making of posts and this image as my 2009 blog banner at my blog, The Flying Trilobite. I also included a post about how much of the painting was digital, which you can see here. It was trundling toward ...