Friday, August 2, 2024

Link List

Blogger no longer lets me upload images for some reason so I will no longer be posting here unless the problem ends up fixed at some point in the future!

A big thank you to everyone for visiting over the years!

But like I say I will probably not be posting here so here is a list of other sites where I am more active:

 

Books:

amazon.com/author/jpmorrow

 

Social Media:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/morrow_art/

Tumblr: https://jpmorrow-art.tumblr.com/

Truth Social: https://truthsocial.com/@Meanderous1

Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/tetradamallian

 

Thanks for stopping by!  :)

Friday, July 19, 2024

Wednesday, July 10, 2024

Celtic Squirrel Tree


 I was starting to get behind but now I'm almost back on schedule for designs for my next coloring book.  Actually I'm quite pleased with how its coming along.

Tuesday, July 2, 2024

Dog With A Bird On Its Head


 Remember these?  Its been a while but I'm back to creating knots.  The third coloring book is gonna be great.  Just a reminder you can still get the first two here: http://amazon.com/author/jpmorrow

Tuesday, June 25, 2024

Mythical Bookshelves

 


I finally finished this one!  I finished the line art seven years ago, way back in 2017 and just finally got around to finishing it up.  Its got lots of wonderful details although I like to think I've gotten at least a little better at drawing people since then.

Sunday, June 16, 2024

Beach With Floating Islands

 


Hmm, for some reason I never got around to posting the color version of this painting.  Maybe because the floating islands don't really have a shadow?  Anyway its good enough so here it is!  :)

Tuesday, June 11, 2024

Lake With Ruins


 
 

And here it is in color.  I just drew this from my imagination.

Sunday, June 2, 2024

Saddle Yak Is Back!

 

 

I finally finished coloring it.  I sort of took a break from this one cause I felt like I was just getting bogged down with all the tiny details, but I got back to it (or back in the saddle, heh) and finished it and I think it came out great!

And here's a link to the wonderful stock image this was based on:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bos_grunniens_at_Yundrok_Yumtso_Lake.jpg

Monday, May 27, 2024

Ruin With A View

 

Here's a nice and serene landscape with ruins.  This was a WIP from a couple years ago that I rediscovered and decided to finish up, so here it is.  I'm hoping to color it soon.

Sunday, May 5, 2024

More Poodle Doodles

 



 

I finished another page of poodle doodles based on the great works of the glorious Lothar Meggendorfer, which can be found here:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Pudel

Or here:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8027317959?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

Actually the one with the big one with the pom pom on its tail on the right is from a different source on Wikimedia Commons:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Poodle_(PSF).png

I'm sick of drawing poodles, now I'm going to take a break and draw buildings and brontosauruses and other elements that I want to brush up on for my children's book.

Monday, April 22, 2024

Another Dragon In Clouds


 Some times its nice to just sit back and watch the dragons go by.  I wish I had more time off from my other jobs.  If I had more time off there would be more art.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Poodle Doodles

 

Here are some poodle doodles I've done recently.  I've been sketching poodles cause I'm working on a children's book that has poodles in it, so I want to get better at drawing them.

Its harder than you might think to find good pictures of poodles with classic haircuts.  These are based on the ones in a German story illustrated by Lothar Meggendorfer called Der Pudel.  If you're interested you can read it for free and in color here:

https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Der_Pudel

Its also included in a collection of short stories with the same illustrator which is available on Amazon:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/8027317959?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details

It is a fascinating collection of stories although the pictures are low resolution to the point of being very pixelated and it is all in black and white.  I enjoyed looking at them very much even though I do not speak German so of course it is all unintelligible.

Anyway I'll try and keep you posted as I make further progress on my children's book.


Saturday, March 2, 2024

Clouds With Dragon

 

 

I think this acrylic painting came out pretty good.  Maybe I could spin it into a new header image for my blog.

Wednesday, February 14, 2024

Spoonflower Shenanigans

I no longer have fabric and wallpaper for sale on my Spoonflower account because they changed the rates so I wouldn't get paid very much at all and it isn't worth it.  Cutting out the artist is disrespectful to both the artist and the consumer because supporting an artist is probably a small but meaningful part of what motivates someone to buy products designed by artists in the first place.

Thank you to everybody who's bought my designs in the past, that's huge, I appreciate your support over the years and it means a lot to me!

Since yardage and merch haven't panned out, the only products I have left are coloring books on Amazon:

amazon.com/author/jpmorrow

And if you've bought any of those thank you as well!

And I've got plenty more ideas for artistic projects for the future if I have time...

Sunday, January 28, 2024

Another Knot

 

This is actually an adaptation from a design that I did for fabric and wallpaper on my spoonflower store:

https://www.spoonflower.com/profiles/jpmorrow

I would link to the individual design but spoonflower is broken today... like so many things in life.

Monday, January 15, 2024

Skull

 

 

Here's a skull drawn with a white marker on toned paper.  It was kinda fun.

Here's a link to the marker used.  I'm not sponsored but people might be curious:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08THBHN1T?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details&th=1

Also the paper for the same reason:

 https://www.amazon.com/Strathmore-412-105-Toned-Sketch-Sheets/dp/B008D2TUYO/ref=sr_1_7?keywords=toned%2Bpaper&qid=1705347673&sr=8-7&th=1

Monday, January 1, 2024

Boy With Yak

 

Here's the color version!  :)

Happy new year everybody!

And remember to vote for Trump!!

Reference Image:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Mutiger_Reiter_auf_Yak_Yama.JPG