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I didn’t renew dazhoney.com a few months ago for various reasons and figured it would end up as a spam site as other domain names I had once owned ended up as. Surprisingly I found it was available today with no penalty whee, I know it’s not a ‘valuable domain name’ but there are several [...]

What do you think of latest blog banner? Blue and white are great colors with a scandalous hint of gold! I’m done with the gold/violet/green series for a while here’s the last of it for now.

pond<FISH = the future of the internet Here’s the evolution of an idea, the seed and perhaps what the idea will blossom into. I’ve noticed that people who are "big fish" tend to be very proud and motivated to promote their little pond, like there’s a guy I follow on twitter who talks mostly about Toulu.com and [...]

  This is acrylic paints on canvas then sprayed gold then oil paints! It’s getting done, slowly.. I’m trying to capture the feeling of ‘gloriousness’ hehe, is that a real word? But that’s the word that comes to mind. I love combining realism with more abstract motifs and I love have multiple light sources as it [...]

Pruconas, there, now the word is in Google. Unbelievable, I was just thinking that ma.gnolia was pretty silly for creating a ’short name’ that was longer than the actual name (see the screen grab below) but what it did was create something completely unique! Pruconas has no sites (at the time of this writing except [...]

This oil painting is getting nice and deep with the oil glazes. When it’s done the light will be almost spotlighting  the girl and her brave steed, leaving the rest of the painting in smoky shadow as they fight the embodiment of negativity! The idea is to increase the drama of the narrative. I fight against [...]

  I’m on a creative streak, this one is part of my violet on gold series, it is activated by the light in the room hitting it and it will always look slightly different as you pass by it. I’m not sure what the next phase of this one is but it will happen!      Acrylic on canvas [...]

I finally got to work on this big oil painting, it’s been sitting on my wall for a while, waiting for me to develop enough skill to wrangle the paints to my taste. I love the skewed composition as I was thinking of  that feeling you get when you feel like you’re falling when you are [...]

Angels aren’t pious or solemn they have fun and dress glamourously but their duty is their Raison d’être. Angels aren’t religious as they already know the truth, they don’t have to trust faith and because they don’t have a core of uncertaintanty, they have confidence. Which makes them good models for paintings, even if I [...]

  here the oil painting from the previous post has been photographed outside and then enhanced with the color and saturation tools in Photoshop. I then added some dodge and burn (which darkens and lightens certain areas). In some ways the picture loses the old fashioned sepia charm of the previous one and becomes far more busy. Looking [...]