Happy Holidays

Seasons Greetings and Happy Holidays to all my viewers!

For the coming year, I'll be trying to expand my repertoire of art styles, and I hope to work more on fantasy and conceptual art. I think I need to work on my composition, color and making my fantasy art more believable. If I could turn back time, I would really like to study as an apprentice under the shadows of past masters. As it is, I'm a self-taught artist. I find it easier to work digitally than using traditional methods though I've not completely given up on traditional (I still do pencil art) However, I find I'm able to experiment more on digital canvas, especially with the 'undo' command. The workflow is cleaner, and I don't have to take photographs or scan and adjust the color/contrast as I would if I were to do traditional art.

As the year is drawing to a close soon, I hope you will all continue to work on whatever you have been striving to do, keep reaching out to the stars and most importantly, have confidence and believe in yourself!

Horse Study

Took me about half a day to complete. This is dedicated to all horse lovers.
Thank You for watching.

City in the sky

Another work inspired by Avatar's floating islands.
Full view would look better.

Climate change

This is just a response to the fluctuating weather changes that is going on around the globe which could get rapidly worse. I don't have anything to offer as a solution for it...except maybe we could established base on moon, which will be used for further exploration and colonization, in particular Mars. We could ask people like Bill Gates to donate half his fortune to fund extra-terrestrial farming, for example. Just a thought.

Beautiful Japanese Artwork

Shu Mizoguchi is a truly talented and unique artist. I lost the link to his site a few years ago but I'm thankful to have found his site again. There's such a celebration of colors and nature in his paintings. Although my painting style is more towards Western classical semi-realism, I find his paintings very inspiring each time I look at them.

Michael Jackson Tribute

Pencil drawing.
My tribute to MJ whose birthday falls on Aug 29th.

What fascinates me is his passion to use his songs to harmonize the world and highlight the plight of suffering children. His music really brought healing to many people around the world.

Cleopatra's Dream

I've always wanted to paint this to show how connected we are to this universe which to me is both a beautiful and dangerous place to be. A place where time has no beginning and no end.
The recent discoveries by the Kepler space telescope of abundant earth sized planets in the universe will push us further toward space exploration and perhaps make contact with intelligent beings - if they ever exist.
Whatever it is, there's no escaping the fact that we are all made from stardust....we may even share atoms with some legendary historical figures, and we may not even know it!

Model reference: Jasmin OK (used with her permission)