Kismet Arts Tangent

My printer just ran out of black ink, so I can’t print out any new reference photos. Here’s another version of the unicorn. Enjoy.

I didn’t like the background before… too mushroom art-ish. I felt this worked. Conveys a curious feeling.

I like working with yellow, more than I realized.

In Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, by Haruki Murakami has a short story regarding golden, single-horned beasts with gold fur and blue eyes.

I’m not sure I’m done with this, but I don’t want to put something lame on it. As it is, a question mark that questions itself.

Correctional fluid and Acrylic on Wood, 9.5×8.5in.

Yesterday, I saw the Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus. It was a beautiful shallow movie. Much like most of Gilliam’s work. I really enjoyed the flat stage-esque trees in the mirror world. Here’s my interpretation on that theme.

Note to self: get white bulbs.

Last night I had a dream about someone, decided to draw inspiration from him. His snake figures into this picture. I have a thing for deer recently, so I threw that in. I started the deer with pink and the rest of the scene took shape from there.

I love painting these rock climbing walls. It’s fun and color ful and makes me think about cool rocks that I’ve had to grab or would want to make for those walls. Someone’s got that job.