Dragon Birthdays

I was fortunate to be in the prerelease testing of the new Adobe iPad apps and they are very cool. I had a lot of fun doing these paintings using Adobe Eazel. The paint engine is this sort of water-colory medium that bleeds and dries and the interface is unique using a five-finger touch. There's also a button to send the image from Eazel directly to Photoshop so you don't have to email yourself a jpeg or something. A new file appears and your painting is on a layer. Pretty nice! There's also two other apps that connect with Photoshop that are pretty exciting. I recommend checking these out when they become available. From Adobe's website... Adobe Color Lava, Adobe Eazel and Adobe Nav applications for Photoshop are also expected to be available in early May 2011, ranging in price from US$1.99-$4.99, on the iTunes App Store. One of my images made it into a promotional video for Eazel . And here's a little bit more about Eazel, Nav, and Color Lava .

After 3 years my wife and I decided upon another art collaboration. This new work is as beautiful as our first and we call her Phoebe!

I have so little free personal time these days that my need to experiment comes out in other ways. Last Sunday I made too much pancake batter and started branching out from the Mickey Mouse shaped cakes I was making for my daughter. There's some potential for quite a few variations on this theme. I've already made some pancakes that are radiating ringlets on the same cake as well as mixed in some burnt drips as texture. Hehehe. Oh and we had a fruit salad that I totally forgot to utilize! So many possibilities! This is the one that started it all... Abstract Breakfast 1 Pancake Batter and Jam 12" Dish 2011 And check out these cool pancakes!... Jim's Pancakes

Another meeting sketch.

More meeting sketches. Captive time plus listening time is a perfect creative time for me. I just returned from the New York MoMA where I saw the Abstract Expressionist New York exhibit. I soaked it in for 6 hours straight. Very inspiring.

Digital 2011 This is a little study for some ideas I've been working on.