Godzilla Attack

Godzilla - acrylic on illustration board - 15 x 20 inches

I've been wanting to do a Godzilla painting for quite some time. It makes it hard when you can't decide which of the many ideas to do first. A fight with Rodan and with Mothra are on the list but for this first one I wanted to loosen up with Godzilla solo and I wanted to give that thing on the top of his brow a bit more focus. I don't think it's talked about enough. What is it? Most all the detail is focused at the top portion of the painting making Godzilla larger than life and move forward in slow Toho monster motion while he methodically blast the bejebez around itself.

    

Entrance

Entrance 2080 - Feb 2012 - acrylic on board - 40.5 x 71 cm - 16 x 28 in

I like how this painting looks in b&w and in sepia  and I love this painting in different sections and orientations. It really changes the dynamics. Is this a spaceship painting or a figurative painting? 

This painting is from one of my Breath doodles of May 2006. The background was painted in August 2011. I liked it as is so I lived with it for awhile as a landscape painting. I knew sooner or later I would have to put the figures in. I see these figures as waiting at an entrance, and if I want to get more specific, you'll have to get a hold of me to tell you where it is.

So Smooth. So Clean. So Optimistic.

Breath Of Life - Nov2011 - acrylic on canvas - 12 x 16 in

     It's been awhile since I did a painting like this. So smooth, so clean looking. Takes me back to the eighties. It's not how I was expecting to paint it. But this is how it turned out and it was really quite out of my control. Maybe the other way I wanted to paint it is not really me, and this way is? One should not have to think about how one should paint a picture (in terms of style), but as an illustrator I've always exercised that option of having various ones at my disposal, so,  I do find it interesting when the painting, and this is from that first moment the paint touches canvas, that the future of the painting is already dictated sometimes irregardless of ones thoughtful projection and what one ends up with is an illustration of the heart.

    

When Giants Go Visiting

There Were Giants - aug.2011 - acrylic on illustration board - 18 x 30 inches - 46 x 76 cm

     There are 4 levels of 2 sets of beings present in this painting plus one giant onlooker, plus one carry-on. At the bottom, two figures are meeting, and so are their higher selves and so are their higher selves and so are their higher selves. Click beside the image to see a larger view.

     To find out where paintings like this come from, go to my Doodle Babel link up top right.