M.I.A. Mike...

..sorry folks, I haven been on a show for tha last four months...so my updates have been sparse.

BUT, some good news! Cover painting of mine on october's FANGORIA magazine!
Also, the THING (which i did numerous desgin concepts for) comes out in mid-October, so it looks to be a busy month for me..
In the meanwhile, just trying to catch up on laundry and the like after not being at home for a bit.

more later

Russian space astronaut werewolf concept

....Another of my weird space werewolf ideas.
Silly, I know

Quick Work-in-progress update

Okay, so this is a re-do of an old painting i did about 5 years ago.
Before I sold the original canvas, i lit it from the back and photographed it. From that photo, I color-picked every color to try and match the feel and colors of my original (However, I re-draw her as a hotter girl),
Actually, it had a creature/monster kinda super-imposed on her in the original...but I liked it so much without it, I decided to leave it without..


It's Corel Painter with a tiny bit of Photoshop

Best werewolf idea I ever had

What, I thought, if werewolves were on the moon? then they could never turn back to human, right?! LOL!

Russian scientist were sending dogs and monkeys and animals (and humans) into space long before the U.S...

With the coming of 'Apollo 18', I thought I'd share this artwork I did some time ago...

Enjoy.

final Curse

Okay, put a little bit of time into cleaning this up, and thought I'd post it...
Re-did the hands, feets, and adding some more detailing throughout. Also a nice gloopey coat of digital clear varish to top it off..

Progress of 'Curse of the Wolfman' painting

I've finally started that 'Curse of the Wolfman' piece I've wanted to do for about four years now, Since doing the 'Phantom of the Opera' painting some time back..

And I thought I'd include some of my progress shots here.

After the first rough sketch, I scanned it in Painter and started working colors from a framegrab of the movie, building up form, etc.

This is still kinda rough, but I like the impressionistic feel of it..

Ideally, I'd lke to print it onto canvas and REALLY throw some chunky paint on that back wall behind him!

stay tuned.

Okay, thought I'd include

a partial, Close-up, detail of a work-in-progress that I noodled on a bit last night @ around 3am.

A couple of years ago, this concept came to me while I was doing those live paintings down in Hollywood, and the idea was that the deformed 'creatures' were kinda ppraying to this angel, who would be painted in Ultraviolet light.

Well, i wasn't happy with the attempt, and shelved it, until I could do it right (It really SHOULD feel very Lovecraftian, painted by Pickman) and I have quietly put a stroke here and a stroke there ever since. I even shot pictures of a model posed in the same poses, with striking side lighting to get the feel i wanted. So now it's just a matter of sitting down and doing it.