Here's Monday's "Tree Week" entry. The star detail got lost when I downsized the image to upload, I probably should have made them bigger...oh well, live and learn ;)

Tropical Palm Tree

Comments/criticisms welcome :)

Ok, this week is "Tree Week"...I'm going to try to paint at least one scene with a tree as the predominant element each day this week....good practice, if nothing else, and I've had a hard time getting inspired these last couple of weeks.

Here's the first one:

Tree by Pond

So my students are starting to do what I call "debate style essays" Check this one out:

If your student number is odd, tell me why English should not be taught in Japan until Junior High School (at least 20 words.)

Elementary school students haven't known truth of studying yet. Studying is sometime Dark, and very difficult. If the teacher ( Read more... )

We did a photowalk today in Miyazaki City...and being me, I decided to shoot using something I don't normally take with me...extreme macro ( Read more... )

Well, not really, but close enough ( Read more... )

I got the idea for this one going to bed last night, and I worked on it off and on all day today..well, ok, when my school wasn't freaking out about the guy killing himself next door with poison gas (ah, another day in Japan ( Read more... )

Complete with flying saucers ;)

I find large buildings in the background really hard to make 3D looking...practice practice practice!

Warfields of Mars

Shadowmoor Swamp

(source idea was one of the new Shadowmoor MtG swamp lands, although I didn't even try to copy it directly.)

Haven't done much in color/on the computer in the last week, so I figured I'd try doing something today.

Blasted Field

The first ones are just some landscapes I was playing with

Random Landscape practice

The second ones are life sketches from the front of my schoolyard.
Schoolyard Life sketches