Some catching up to do...

Sorry for disappearing for a few weeks there.  I was finishing up my move and cleaning my old abode...aaaannnnd to top things off, because I didn't have nearly enough to do, I caught the flu this week.  OH JOY!   However, today my move is complete, my old abode is clean and fresh, and my flu is on the mend (although my ribs are very sore from coughing - ouchie).  Here's a little devil I concocted in penance.  Hope you like.

{Digital images manipulated in Photoshop}

The Burning

This is me trying to sort out my fiery emotions.  Kind of hard when they gang up.  My original intent was to find a release for my emotional intensity.  I was creating this piece at the time the London riots were beginning, but I had no idea they were occurring until 3 days later. 

I'm having a lot of trouble figuring this one out.  I was actually intensely angry when I was working on this piece.  Now it is almost like looking at a firepit after it has been put out.  You remember the warmth and the smoke and maybe you burned your finger or something, but now there is just a black spot and some ashes and the acrid smell that something burned here.

{Digital images manipulated in Photoshop}

The Heat

Bit of an homage here to another of my favorite artists, Bill Sienkiewicz.  His and Chris Claremont's run on New Mutants is one of my all time favorites.  It was during my formative years as a comic book collector and to say Sienkiewicz's style had an influence on my own would be a vast understatement.

This is either sfter the fire or pre fire.  Maybe both.  It looks as though there has been a fire already, like smouldering embers, but also it seems like a blaze could ignite soon.  My original thought for this was a devilish type character, but as I continued to work on the piece it became something more.  Originally is was just a portrait, but now he is wearing some kind of elaborate head piece.  I think perhaps he may be royalty in some dark dimension.  Or it could simply be that this summer's heat has finally fried my brain completely and I can't see past it.  The heat is all there is.

{Created in Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop}

HIM

I am challenged by this part of myself, yet often I find it necessary to my survival. He holds many of my needed powers and abilities, yet his very presence is a test of endurance.  The stern and exacting essence of Saturn the taskmaster.  Yet, it is not hate that he brings, just intensity.  I say JUST intensity, like intensity could ever be anything but INTENSE.  Once I realized that it was intensity and endurance, it became easier.  I understood his directness.  His message bypasses all the petty illusions we construct.  Like an arrow, his goes straight to the heart of the matter.  This is a challenge if your eyes do not want to see the truth.

{Digital Images manipulated in Photoshop.}

Caffiend

A design I created for my boyfriend. 

{Pencilled, Inked, Scanned and colored on Photoshop.}

UPDATE 091014:  This piece is now available on a tshirt or other cool paraphernalia at my Neatoshop!  Drop by and check it out!