Category Archives: Art in Progress

This is a place to show off my art projects in progress and project components without having to wait until they are polished and packaged into some sort of salable item.

Nymph Interrupted

Nymph Interrupted: I was somewhere around 20 yrs old when I fell into a depression and never finished this. Just found this piece rummaging through a portfolio in storage. Somehow she has survived in her delicate papery form for about … Continue reading

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Infinite Interleaving Image Available as Prints

The leaf tile pattern posted under ‘Decorative Penrose Tiles’ is now available as a card or print. The image has been retouched and cleaned up considerably from what was posted in low resolution back in December, and is now ready … Continue reading

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Steampunk Airship 3D Model

I have created this steam driven virtual dirigible for use in my 3D art scenes. I am hoping to get a decent export of it to a generic 3D object format so it can be made more widely available. The … Continue reading

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Interlocking Sea Wyrms Rubber Stamp Pattern

The segmented sea wyrm above doesn’t look like all that much by itself.  Indeed, the poor thing looks about ready to fall apart.  However when repeated enough times at the right spacing, it interlaces with itself over and over to … Continue reading

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Kelmscott Chaucer border pattern

This leaf border is based on a pattern from the Kelmscott Chaucer and is suitable to use as a WordPress header image for most common WordPress themes. It is free to download and use anywhere.  The image above is 1024 … Continue reading

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Interlocking Hearts Knotwork Design

For my wife on Valentine’s Day, I cooked up an original graphic with Celtic style knotwork in an interlocking hearts pattern.  Hope you enjoy it. Tweet

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Tiling William Morris Wallpaper Backgrounds

I have modified images of William Morris’ public domain wallpaper designs into seamless tiling web backgrounds for a client web site under development.  Just click on a thumbnail below to see the full tiling wallpaper image.  These are being given … Continue reading

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Penrose Poinsettias

This effervescent efflorescence of poinsettias is the result of another Penrose pattern art tile design. This time, there are three tiles as shown below. Still only two geometric shapes, but single petals are substituted with the alternate leaf tile to … Continue reading

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Decorative Penrose Tiles

I’ve long been fascinated with the artistic possibilities unleashed by Penrose tiles. These are tiles that can tile forever without ever repeating exactly, and they produce intriguing patterns as they go. The slice shown below would be repeated an infinite … Continue reading

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Ouroboros Evolving

This is what the Ouroboros ring is looking like lately.  Should be quite suitable to include in my scene with just a little more touch up.  This is skinned and rendered with Vue. Tweet

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Lemurian Agate

This lovely slice of multidimensional Lemurian Agate was quarried from the heart of Mount Shasta in the same quarry that produced the stone for the marvelous  fluted spiral pillars in the east wing of the Great Hall of Telos.  The … Continue reading

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Fun with my tablet mouse

I just love my new tablet mouse! I’ve been having fun creating leaf patterns for a fantasy forest scene. These images will be fed into an automatic 3D tree generator to create a setting of wonder and intrigue.  Then I’ll … Continue reading

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Celtic Knotwork Design

I’ve been wanting to revive the Celtic chalice design I created several years back, and improve its modeling detail and exportability. One issue was the knotwork border around the top of the cup. The knotwork looks good on the smaller … Continue reading

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Fantasy Gothic Tower

This towering confection was a lot of fun to conjure up. Here it is rendered in Vue. Final assembly occurred in Vue, and now I will need to extract the parts and get them into a format suitable for wider … Continue reading

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