A young Dinosaur fan!

A young Dinosaur fan!

An elementary student from Omaha recreated a scene based on one of my Dinosaur illustrations, which in turn is based on a famous Manet painting. The student is named Avry Hermandson and is a pupil at the Nelson Mandela Elementary School. The class project was to recreate a scene from a famous painting and Avry whose fanatical about dinosaurs, found my illustration online. As well as dinosaur friends, a fruit picnic and drawings of trees can be found in his mock up!

Original illustration link.

My illustration, and the photo of Avry by his teacher.

Nasty big bad wolf pictures

Nasty big bad wolf pictures

nasty wolf and little red riding hood
Nasty fox looking for next meal
Both painted in photoshop. The little red riding hood one was done in feb 2009. I particularly enjoyed doing the expression on the girl.
The fat wolf in the field was done in july 2010. I like the contrast between the cute,innocent sheep looking on, and the wolf's sharp teeth.

from the website...
Nasty fox looking for next meal
Nasty bad wolfs are such interesting characters. It is difficult to say if the wolf is eyeing up the sheep on the hill or has already had some of the family members from the flock. The wolf was fun to do and is cartoony, whereas the sheep are painted in quite a realistic way. The wolf naturally fits in to the dark shadow cast by the tree, the eyes kept a touch lighter to add some menace in the character.
Painted in photoshop to a size of 8" x 10".

nasty wolf and little red riding hood
This illustration is based on the 'Red Riding Hood' childrens tale. The Nasty, big bad wolf is attempting to get his hands on the basket of food that was intended for the red riding hood's granny, and then later eat the girl. The girl can see through his plan and is having nothing of it. The composition is showing that the cottage is quite small and confined, with a tense situation happening inside of it. Another big bad wolf can be seen here.
This was painted in photoshop during 2009. 

spider with fly having a picnic on web

SPIDER WEB PICNIC

This was painted in 2007 and is loaded with 'dark humour'. The fly is quite happy eating his sandwich and is offering some to the spider. It is difficult to say if the spider will have some sandwiches for lunch, or have the fly for lunch. I experimented in this image of painting the background out of focus, like a photograph of a real spider on a web.

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This is perhaps a slightly frightening image to youngsters and is quite dark in its tone. The fly is having a little, sweet picnic on a spiders web. The large spider has appeared on the web and it is up to the imagination of the viewer what happens next. Does the fly get eaten or does the spider join in the picnic? I have gone for a very flat on, unrealistic perspective here, basically for styling and clarity in the image. I particularily enjoyed painting the food! The background was painted out of focus as if seen through a camera. The painting is created in photoshop to a size of 10" x 8".