Three of my paintings are currently on display at D-Structure in the Lower Haight in San Francisco — two acrylic paintings (Figure on Canvas and Teal Nude) and one watercolor (Nude on a Draped Pedestal).

All three of these pieces are available for purchase, so if you happen to be in San Francisco over the next two months and you’d like to own one of these, now’s your chance. Click on this link for prices and directions to the store.

Not the first new painting of 2010, since I actually painted it in December, but the first newly posted painting. This was a Christmas gift to my brother, last seen frolicking on the surface of the moon in Oregon. Pictured above.

Also, timelapse video of said painting, for those who, in these economic times, can’t afford to go to the moon themselves, you can live vicariously through the magic of streaming web video.

New painting, a piece of Xenogears fan art, if anyone out there remembers that game.

There’s also a sort of sappy personal story behind this, if you’ll permit me.

This is a special painting for me, because it was the one that got me back into doing traditional painting. I started working on this one about a year ago, at the end of 2008. Now, since then, I’ve actually managed to finish a bunch of other traditional paintings before this one, but before I started this, pretty much all of my work was purely digital. Before this piece, the last time I’d done any traditional painting was 2005.

It didn’t occur to me how much I missed painting until I saw, of all things, a post on Penny Arcade showcasing some paintings that Gabe had started doing. The paintings themselves were pretty great, but he also wrote this in his post:

This latest piece is the first in a series I plan on doing based on my favorite games. I sat down and made a list yesterday of all the games I’ve really loved over the years and I plan on trying to do paintings based on as many of them as I can. The list has stuff like Zelda, Rez, Kingdom Hearts and Bioshock on it, plus lots more.

Strange as it seems, that’s what inspired me. Just the whole idea of painting something fun. Somehow, in the previous three years, I’d been so serious when it came to making art (anyone who’s been through art school maybe knows what I’m talking about) that it didn’t occur to me that I was allowed to have fun.

And so I started this painting. And now a year and five other paintings later, it’s finally finished.

Here’s hoping I can keep it up.

Latest painting. Was going for something like that old pulp paperback cover feel. Or something like that.

You can actually see the original thumbnail for this one way back in this post, second from the right. The pose changed along the way, that thumbnail was just for the colors. Sometimes that’s all it takes, for me to want to take something to a finish.

New painting, acrylic on canvas panel, 11″x14″.

I’m doing a bit of a fun experiment. For the last couple paintings, I’ve been shooting timelapse photos of my painting sessions, with the intention of being able to show the entire process of how I make a painting. Also so that I might look back at what I did and learn from it.

This one here is the first painting where I’ve recorded the entire process from beginning to end (I have footage for other paintings, but they all start at some point in the middle).

So hopefully I’ll be posting a timelapse video of this painting soon, provided the footage didn’t come out terrible!