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Okay, so I set up a background and a header and I have the blog pretty much how I want it. I decided not to get encumbered by the look of the blog, tweaking everything to perfection and getting caught up in that endless loop of some unattainable goal - the goal of which I don't even know. Anyway, I thought I would put up a couple of my recent works to get the ball rolling. So, here we go...

Up first is this flying fish guy that used to always bust my balls. He's from Super Mario Bros. and as far as I can gather, his name is Cheap Cheap. This piece is 18x18 inches. It is acrylic on gessoed panel. I realized, after taking these photos and cropping them that they have some problems, the photos I mean. This is a work in progress and I hope to learn a few things about shooting images of artwork.

This piece is Bullet Bill from Super Mario Bros. (see the theme going on here?). Bullet Bill is 18x18 inches, acrylic on gessoed panel. This photo looks pretty good to me except for the distortion of the image. In actuality, the painting is not skewed.

This last piece is of one of the most irritating SMB characters of all time. I looked him up and learned his name is Blooper. He is that squid thingy found in the water levels. Blooper here is 18x30 inches, acrylic on gessoed panel.

Alright. So, there is my first real post with some of what I hope to feature on this blog. I love doing these paintings (although they require a good deal of time and attention to detail and I find it relaxing). My big concern was to try and get the lines as straight as possible so that they look like pixels. That's why, after playing with various surfaces, I opted for this smooth faux wood paneling (I'll figure out the specific name and post it later) because it lets me get a smooth finish without the paint falling into the tiny divots of traditional canvas. That being said, I want these pieces to be paintings, not flat pixel art. So you can see brush strokes (although not in the picture) and texture which is unlike a digital pixel. Its a crossover I guess. What I find funny, and this may be my lack of knowledge/practice with a camera, is that these painting look much better in actuality than they do in the photos. Later I'll post some pics of things hanging on my walls.