Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts
Showing posts with label steampunk. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2015

Steampunk War Horse

Original Painting - Acrylic on Canvas 16x20
Steampunk War Horse
A steam powered war horse rears up over a devastated bombed-out landscape. Steam and smoke escape from the giant mechanical creature as it stalks the ruins looking for the enemy …if any survived the clouds of poison gas.

Friday, September 26, 2014

Steampunk Vampire

Original Painting - Acrylic on Canvas 16x12

This Victorian gentleman is no gentleman, or for that matter, even human. This vampire predator prowls the foggy London streets in search of prey and his search has been successful!

Thursday, September 4, 2014

Steampunk Jack

Original Painting - Acrylic on canvas 16x12
Steampunk Jack
A tip of the top hat to Jack the ripper in this Steampunk version of London’s serial killer. Wait until he runs into the two steampunk girls in the Whitechapel alley, the outcome will be a whole lot different.
I went to the Bristol Renaissance Fair on the Steampunk weekend and saw this character in the crowd. He stood out (and above) most of the others. He gave me permission to snap a photo and my imagination supplied the rest.

Steampunk Girls

Original Painting - Acrylic on canvas 16x12
Steampunk Girls
This painting is a companion piece to Steampunk Jack. While killing prostitutes in the Whitechapel district was his specialty, Jack is about to meet his match in this East London alley. That’s not Jack in the doorway, that’s just their business manager.

Monday, August 18, 2014

Airship Armada

Original Painting - Acrylic on Canvas 24x30
Hear the raucous cries of he seagulls echo above the beach as the waves wash upon the sand. Airships sail in stately procession across the sky towards the sinking sun. A Victorian lady follows the flight of the royal warships, the flying navy of her country.

I placed the line of sight above the horizon so the viewer could feel as though they were on the deck of an airship too!

Wednesday, August 13, 2014

Wisconsin Dells Fantasy

Original Painting - Acrylic on canvas 16x20

Wisconsin Dells Fantasy
The Wisconsin Dells is a scenic area, with glacially formed gorges that feature striking sandstone formations along the banks of the Wisconsin River. In 1856, tourists began taking boat tours of the Wisconsin Dells. These tours were given using wooden rowboats until 1873 when the first steamboat was used.
I used my imagination combined with research to create a whimsical scene of a steam powered paddle boat passing between rock formations that I transformed into primitive tenements (think Flintstones). When I took the boat tour as a kid I imagined living on top of the rocks in my tent and sitting by a cozy campfire. The little ducks at the base of the main rock are a tongue-in-cheek tribute to the Wisconsin Ducks amphibian tour vehicles.

Thursday, July 17, 2014

Airship Over the Mountain

Original Painting - Acrylic on Canvas 20x16

Airship Over the Mountain
The airship, “HMS Standish” floats above the towering mountain peaks in all her Victorian splendor sailing slowly and serenely towards undiscovered lands beyond on a mission of exploration. Boldly going where no man, no, wait that’s the starship Enterprise …never mind.
Umm, did you know that HMS stands for “her or his majesty’s ship”?

Monday, July 14, 2014

Airship by Moonlight

Original painting - Acrylic on canvas 16x20

The intrepid airship “Gypsy wind” floats across the night sky catching the light of a brilliant full moon. Only the flap and sputter of the steam driven propeller breaks the silence of the night as she sails past the clock tower towards distant lands and adventures.