Jeffrey's Digital Art Gallery

Trite but true, "..I know what I like."

When I was taking drawing a few years ago the teacher took us through the student show. He heaped praise on the abstract and heaped (light) abuse on all of the stuff I liked as "mere illustration, not art". Given the painting that he thought most highly of looked like it was down by a five year old, and would have not looked out of place if it were held up by refrigerator magnets, I finally understood why so many people hold the art community in contempt.

Elsie Russell: I don't know much about the Psyhic TV stuff other than what I read here, which leads me to believe that it's either hokum or harmless; it would have been brought to my attention before now otherwise. However I came across this page, and was impressed by the pictures.
Waterhouse: I like his stuff, but being relatively art-illiterate, I didn't realize he was classed as a Pre-Raphealite, and therefore missed my chance to visit the Tate Gallery while I was in London. a few years ago the national gallery here in D.C. had a travelling pre-raphealite exhibit which was pretty cool.
_name_goes_here_: Some finnish artist who was doing classical revival sculpture (ca. 1950?) and has a lot of stuff in the Athenium in Helsinki. They also had a cool exhibit of mail art which may or may not connect to the IdEAL ORDER stuff, hurm..
Brian Yoder's art gallery.: An amazing thing this web. It's like random strangers visiting your house and having tea. Mr. Yoder found my page, and sent me his URL saying that I might enjoy it, he was right.

Crossed cutlass icon - JPG
Crossed cutlass icon - GIF: (I'll replace this with PNG as soon as I get something that supports it, Photoshop 4 is on the shopping list primarily for that reason.)

Hey Cool!

I was rummaging around looking for some other stuff, and I found a bunch of my old jr./sr. high vintage drawings.

Most of these are technically doodles, as they were drawn on scrap paper and book covers. One of them is on an old piece of cardboard. These Range from 1975 to 1978. I scanned the color ones first, I'll add more as I get time.

To see some of my more recent stuff look at the pictures I did for my mage "Moreau" in Dave's GURPS game.

Classroom

This is drawn with red green and blue ink on a piece of cardboard that was used as a stiffener for a pack of notebook paper. You'll note at this point in time most of my pictures were titled; right smack dab in the middle.

Cornella (Atlantian Warmount)

This is watercolor and ink over pencils. over sprayed with an enamel(Testors if I recall?) clear coat. It's actually a little taller than my scanner can handle, but actually it looks better cropped like this.

I seem to remember using some pictures of horse heads from a book on DaVinci as a guide for this.

Demonic Vengence

Colored pencils.
This one is <ahem> matted (with part of a shirt box it looks like) and glued to a cardboard stand of the type you find slid into the back of a cheap picture frame.

Dragon Hunt

Crayon, and I don't mean 'conte'. Almost certainly Crayolas. Over ink it looks like. Oh yea, on all of these if I say pen or ink, I most likely mean "ballpoint pen".
The holes are because this is the "cover" sheet from a pack of notebook paper. The front side is printed with the store logo and price, but the back side was blank, no blue lines! This brand punched the front page.

The Messengers

Too Late

One of the few that doesn't have a readable title on it. I remember refering to it by both names at one time or another.
Ink & Felt pen. I remember being horrified at the felt tip results, which probably explains why halfway through I switched back to colored pencils. Cindy Long was sitting across from me in class and always had horses in her equivalent doodles, so I had here pencil in the horse for me and then I worked around it. I seem to recall her being unhappy that I made it purple.

A New Home

Pen, pencil, colored pencils.
Probably the best thing I've done outside the digital domain. The perspective on the gate is screwed up but I did that on purpose, trying to make it look unnatural/unsettling/pan-dimensional. Apparently I didn't succeed, because the first thing everyone says when they look at it "Hey, the perspective is wrong on that arch" <sigh>.
This is another front page from a paper pack. This brand didn't punch the page, but you can see where the red "200 Pages" bled through when I scanned it.

National Pasttime

Colored pencils.
Yes, Thats supposed to be a younger specimen of the same sort of creature that appears in "Demonic Vengence". I had some sort of story setting associated with many of these pictures, but being pre-word-processor days (yep, and there were dinosaurs wandering around eating school buses and stuff too) I couldn't stand to write any more than I absolutely had to to pass classes, so most of that is lost to the mists of time.

Pan

This is a 4" square of sheet aluminium, with the picture etched in using a rotary tool. It looks best in person where you can angle it to catch the light in different ways.