I think I will post a recap of all the Some Tiny Teeth paintings for any given month, once that month is over. So here are all the paintings I did for January. Clicking them will take you to the other blog.

So there you have it.  8 paintings for January, all 5×5 acrylic on canvas.

I painted some christmas cards this year. 4 to be exact. They were a bit late getting finished so they turned into thank you cards as well. They all look the same. Here, all 4 of them together and below and lone one bigger. Snow is harder to paint than I anticipated.

4.25″ x 5.25″ (I think) Acrylic on paper.

This year, being 2010, I am working on a side project. The project involves painting 100 paintings over the next year, at two per week, all 5″x5″. Since it is its own thing, I gave it its own blog apart from this. I call it Some Tiny Teeth: http://sometinyteeth.com *If it doesn’t load, the DNS stuff might not be all the way done, it should be totally golden by Tuesday morning at the latest

Here is a graphic to go along with it:

I’ll probably post a monthly update here covering what I did over there.

Here is a quick painting test on a maple hardwood panel, untreated, so paint directly onto the wood.

It is an interesting surface to work on.  Super absorbent, more so than paper I think.  I might use this stuff more often, time will tell.

5″x5″ acrylic on maple

Oh, and I guess this is the first thing I painted in 2010.

I don’t know if that is true or not, but that is probably irrelevant.  What is relevant is it’s time for another addition to the super awesome art challenge blog.  This month the subject was ‘Dancin’ King’.  So, I think with that said, this is reasonably self explanatory.

Painted in photoshop.

I was asked to put a small painting in a show full of lots of small paintings.  I was given a canvas and given free reign.  I’ll post info on the show when it opens later.  Anyway, this is what I made.  It has no title yet but it will.

6″ x 6″ acrylic on canvas.

Underneath the above painting was a failed start to another painting. I stopped it and started over because something about it reminded me too much of something in the old cartoon Rocko’s Modern Life. I may have just been being paranoid, but I didn’t like it. As it stands the new thing I painted, I like better than this old thing anyhow. So yeah… Here it is, the old thing before I covered it up:

6″ x 6″ acrylic on canvas.

So here is a painting that suits the holiday.  I actually started this many months ago and just no finished it.  See, I decided to buy some clayboard to see how painting on it was.  In a word, it’s not for me.  It’s too smooth.  Anyway, I decided to finish this guy anyway.  This will also work as my entry at the super awesome art challenge for this month, as it has something to do with people having boo-boos and well, having your face scraped off seems to count.

Enjoy (if that’s your thing):;

8″x8″ Acrylic on clayboard.

Oh, look, more digital painting.  I suspect this might be the last one of these for a while, but who knows.  Unlike most of these digital things, I didn’t do this all in on sitting.  No, I’ve been plugging away at this here and there for a week maybe.  This is using the bare-bones version of Painter that came with the tablet.  Its a fine little program for this sort of thing.

That’s all for today, probably.

As much as I enjoy playing around with digital painting, it doesn’t hold a candle to the real stuff.

This is just an excuse to try and paint fur.  It looks a little more like a wookie than I had planned, but that is OK.

Acrylic on Paper in the 8″ x 4″ range I’d wager.

Here is another digital painting with the ol’ Sketchbook Pro.  This one is a bit more reserved perhaps…  I think I finally made a custom brush I am happy with doing ‘doodle’ paintings with.  Here it is.

A side note on the new Wacom Intuos4 tablets:  Pretty slick with one glaring flaw.  They changed the surface of the active area, they made it slightly textured, the theory apparently being it is more like drawing on paper, which I guess some people like.  The reality for me is I wore through a nib in 2 days.  Wore it down to a weird half flat half point thing, that was noticeably scuffing up the surface..  My old timey intuos 1, one nib for 8 years of use.  So, you know what I did?  I pulled the surface off my old tablet, cut it down to size and taped it on.  Much nicer, though slightly ghetto looking.  You can but replacement nibs and surfaces via Wacom.  But they arn’t the cheapest, and I don’t feel I should have too, so a little annoyed, but them’s the breaks.  For now its perfectly functional.  Here is hoping they release a ’smooth’ surface replacement.