Thank you for the usage of your face Miguel Aguilar!

My watercolor painting of Miguel Aguilar won for "Master Caricature of the Year!" Thanks for the usage of your face Miguel! I'll ship the original to you soon! Miguel is not only a wonderful model, but also a nice guy who knows a lot about "The Doors" and he does some cool art as well!

Watercolor on 300 lb hot press.





My wall this year. I would have liked to have finished a few more paintings and drawings, but this year I spent a lot of my time talking with other artists, looking at their work as well as doing a seminar and selling my book and DVD. It was a great convention!

Edgar Allan Poe - watercolor

I painted this on Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. Typical quick turnaround like most jobs I do for The Weekly Standard, but this one was different because it was painted traditionally. It would have been nice to have more time, but for the time given as well as my frame of mind last week, I feel quite good about the final product. I'm also very happy that I was asked to do a watercolor, as watercolor is one of my favorite mediums and I hope to do much more work like this in the future. For me, painting with watercolors is more intimate than other mediums, I feel my emotions of last week were captured in the painting.




My watercolor technique takes a long time, I build and build thin layer upon thin layer, I let the watercolor do what it's supposed to do. Let it drip, let it bleed, let it wander.





I love the texture and the transparency of the medium. There's some nice bits in there.






Here's my lousy sketch.

Chris Martin Watercolor

Painted for fun.

Quick Watercolor Sketch for Business Week Magazine

Rudy for The Weekly Standard

This is a quick watercolor that I did for The Weekly Standard. They usually want my digital painting look, but for this piece they wanted to try something different. Was fun to work on.

Josh Davenport

This is a watercolor sketch that I did recently of my friend Josh for Bobby Chiu and Kei Acedera's book "Subway Sketches".

Check out Bobby and Kei's work at http://www.imaginismstudios.com

Norman Rockwell

Norman Rockwell is by far one of my favorite illustrators of all time. His work inspires a lot of what I do, he was the man. The first image above was done as a study from one of my favorite Rockwell paintings. I tried to see how close I could come to the original painting with watercolor . . . wasn't easy, but turned out decent enough.

The second image was a self portrait that I did, total Rockwell influence, and yes the guy on my right is for real! His name is Lupe, a big dude but a true sweatheart, he couldn't hurt a fly. Oh wait, that's not true, once he accidentally sat on my mother in law's parrot and squashed the life out of him. True story.