The smallrus is tiniest of the seal family, not much larger (and rather similiar in shape) to the garden slug. They prefer damp areas with large amounts of water, like well-watered gardens with fish ponds, and can often be seen sporting in puddles and bird baths, making their typical call (a sort of squeaky bellow.*) Any gardener is generally delighted to see the smallrus appear, as the occasional nibble of a leaf is more than made up for by their ability to keep down the number of mosquito larvae and other small aquatic nuisances.
smallrus.jpg - 2004-09-26
This one is Gryllus's fault...she encouraged me to do something cartoony. Like most of my random stylistic musings, I'll probably do two or three before I am distracted by another shiny object. This one was more of a warm up, which is why it's the most generic blue canine thing imaginable. It's smoking because, as I was wondering what to draw, one of those obnoxious Target Market ads came on. I don't smoke, but those things annoy me so much that I want to take it up just to strike a blow for personal accountability.
smokercanid.jpg - 2003-01-12
Informed that I had woefully neglected the stately capybara in my art, I rushed out at once to correct the matter. Some friends told me that capybaras needed evil mustaches, and somehow, this was the result...(I don't know either.)
snidelybara.jpg - 2004-03-31
Many sea creatures are famed for their haunting songs, but only the marine crested snogwoggler is known for its banjo solos.
snogwoggler.jpg - 2003-06-27
Other than the fact that this catfishy beast is "Snorkus, Liberator of Goldfish," I have no idea what this painting is about.
snorkus.jpg - 2003-08-28
It wasn't that Spike was afraid of the mice, he just considered them his social inferiors.
spike.jpg - 2002-11-14
While often mistaken for some kind of heron, the storkenvane is actually a late-model descendant of the platypus. (Playing around with watercolor over sepia ink.)
storkenvane.jpg - 2003-08-07
Blud Blugsson was lost. He was willing to admit that now. Heading south had been a mistake. And he should have stopped after the first week. Two months was just pigheaded. And he should probably have asked for directions sooner, in an area where he spoke the native language. But he'd been so sure he was going the right way, until he wandered into the mangrove swamp.
swamphamster.jpg - 2004-09-13
Quick and silly little piece for Anthrocon. My grape!
thegrape.jpg - 2004-06-29
See, this is why I don't do kid's books. Every time I think "Now, I must do something KID SAFE!" my Muse develops Tourette's and goes to lunch with Clive Barker and I'm left in the gutter doodling cuddly widdle psycho animals...
thereason.jpg - 2004-10-07
This piece is about six months old--I did it for a tutorial in the book "Digital Fantasy Painting" and, since evidentally that's hit print, I figured I'd post the jpg now. It was done in a dreadful hurry, and there are parts I'm not real thrilled with, but his overall design still strikes me as kinda nifty.
thewingless.jpg - 2003-01-03
See, they're playing cards, and it's the Worm's Turn! Get it!? GET IT? (Okay, okay, my sense of humor is pretty deplorable...)
thewormturns.jpg - 2004-11-30
Been working on expanding t'old B&W portfolio, as I try to get more freelance work. This is a curve-billed brown thrasher with...err...somethin' or other, done in megascribble. Of course, he could be a curve-billed puce-and-chartreuse thrasher--it's monochrome!--so you'll have to take my word for the brown part.
thrasher.jpg - 2003-06-09
Further experiments with stylization...I had three ideas, didn't know which to use, and went ahead and did all of them. It's...err...pop art or something. With green tree kangaroos. Yeah.
threegreenroos.jpg - 2002-11-15
Another black and white Painter piece--sort've pre-emptive Valentine's day-ness, so that I don't have to draw froggy cupids. I am on some kind of creative spasm, and I have a feeling that when it gives out (in about five minutes) I'm gonna sleep for a week.
tigerraj.jpg - 2003-02-09
In most worlds, of course, mountains are formed in the normal way, by buckling crust which is then eroded by wind and rain. On one particular world, however, geology works rather differently, and mountains accrete around a seed, like a pearl around a grain of sand. In this case, we see an infant mountain forming around one dismayed tortoise.
turtlerock.jpg - 2003-08-06
Cathbad the armadillo and his vulture Hendrix, in a sort've quasi-Art Nouveau line style that I play around with occasionally as a break from realism. I can't shake the feeling that it needs a background of some sort, or the conviction that Cathbad has a pangolin cousin somewhere named Scaly Eddie.
udillo.jpg - 2002-03-19
This was a recent Furbid commission for a gentleman named Draco, of his mouse, drouse, and dragon characters. (A drouse is a dragon-mouse, I learned.) Mmm...mossy....
udrouse.jpg - 2002-03-19
Once upon a time a prince fell in love with a frog. There's a traditional Italian fairy tale that fits in here, and some fairies get involved, but the only really vital point for our purposes is that there's a point where the frog bride is racing to the church in a mini-coach drawn by roosters, and I can't pass up a scene like that.
ufrogbri.jpg - 2002-03-27
The stellar's frogjay, raucous denizen of parks and gardens, and more importantly, the Frog That Started It All--my love affair with painting amphibians. Bizarrely enough, it came to me in a dream, along with a bunch of hummingbirds marked like Holstein cows. Mmm...oughta paint them, too...
ufrogjay.jpg - 2002-03-27
Happy little blue frog shaman, in Hopi kachina gear. I love frogs. You can make them any color you like, and so long as they're frog shaped, people go "Yep, it's a frog."
ufrogkac.jpg - 2002-03-20
Generally, I avoid painting gryphons like the black plague, because they're so darn popular. This one, however, inspired by driving through the Midwest at twilight, watching fireflies on the verge, sort of demanded to be painted. I spent most of a day wandering around the house contemplating the horrors of bird lips, but it all worked out in the end.
ugryph.jpg - 2002-03-21
Egad! I've painted a unicorn that ISN'T EVIL! The end is near! Oh, well...acrylic, 24 x 24. It seemed like a good idea at the time.
unicorncard.jpg - 2004-04-27
Another image in the ongoing saga of Nurk the shrew, where he meets the large, vivid, and imposing King of Dragonflies. The King, however, knew Nurk's grandmother, Lady Surka the Warrior Shrew, and he's inclined to give our intrepid young insectivore a helping chitinous hand.
unurk2.jpg - 2002-03-27
I have no excuse for this cuddly...rhino...thing.
urhino.jpg - 2002-03-20
A commission for Francisco Anzisan, of his winged coyote character Lochnivar. (This character is copyright to him.) I was really pleased with this painting, particularly the airships, which had an interesting, steam-works kind of feel to them.
ursloch.jpg - 2002-04-15
"Atlantis Calling," an older piece with an anthro reef fish, and a painful amount of coral.
ursmer1.jpg - 2002-03-19
"Nurk" my heroic young shrew, setting sail in his homemade Snailboat. No snails were harmed in the making of this Snailboat.
ursnurk1.jpg - 2002-03-19
The tengu are amused.
urstengu.jpg - 2004-05-14
Well, for my first Yerf upload, an oldy-but-goody, a painting I did some years ago and am still rather pleased with, as an experiment in backlighting. A high-tech cougar? A feline alien? Who knows?
utauceti.jpg - 2002-03-19