Ron's Art

Stone Works Part One

2011-04-13T22:03:00.000-07:00

over the past 4 years I have been building sculptures with rocks and stones.
here are some photos of those works.
These stone sculptures I built last year in my back yard.

This one is around 3 feet tall and was built over 2 days.

This is a stone wall with a round opening in it - the wall is just about a foot tall but it was still difficult to build - once the initial arch is set the rest of the wall becomes progressively easier as the weight adds to the support and strength of the arch. These photos show the stages over 2 days in the wall's construction.

My World

2011-04-11T19:38:00.000-07:00

I'm creating a solar system with photoshop to see what my old 5.0LE can do on a PC.
I had an idea for a binary system that might be able to have an Earth like planet. from what I understand current theories suggest that binary systems can not have life baring Earth like planets, because of the unstable gravitational forces and unstable orbits, prevent stable seasonal cycles
but since it worked for George Lucas, I figured I can do it.
the Gravitational center of my solar system is a white Dwarf.

the inner system consists of 3 planets that were not consumed when the star went nova therefor those planets are further out than most inner planets, probably former gas giants that either had there atmospheres blown away or condensed into a solid mass.
these planets are smaller than their original gas giant size but are larger and denser than the other typical solid planets and about less than a third of the size of the current gas giants, orbiting the second son.

the far outer system is marked by a secondary star, a Sol type sun, with its own planets, or considering it is in orbit around a denser star, its own moons.

the first 4 planets or moons orbiting the secondary star are based on our own solar system accept I took into account that such planets might have a closer orbit as an effect from the central dwarf star, and being slightly closer to the star would have different environmental conditions - so the earth like planet is the fourth one out.
with what would have been Earth a Venus like world with a denser atmosphere, that I explain as not only being close to the sun but also because the molten core froze up as it did not have a major collision in its early development to keep its core hot, like the earth did, which also produced the Earth's moon.

This is my earth like planet.
it is slightly bigger and denser than the earth. being in a binary system I guessed that the planets & suns would be slightly bigger than our own system, as something less dense would not remain intact with the additional gravitational forces pulling on them.
I hold to the theory that any life baring planet would have a moon because to sustain life the young planet would have had to collide with another planet to keep its core hot. and that would throw off an orbiting chunkthat becomes it's moon, that stabilizes the orbit and rotation creating stable seasons,
(as it was with the earth).

The outer planets of the second star are traditional gas giants I wasn't to imaginative with them either, these too are based on our own gas giants.
the theory behind these are when the primary star went nova the second star which was a super gas giant, ignited and burst into life.
The outward blast of both stars caused gasses to collide and concentrate around the former super gas giant's moons, where as the inner moons were in the direct blast of the birth of the new star and did not collect a massive atmosphere.

Graffiti Paintings in Hi Res

2010-03-07T07:08:00.000-08:00

Graffiti paint has a Hi Resolution option that allows you to see the finished work enlarged.
I've posted some hi resolution pics of them.

Still life for Gordon

Nature portrait for Leona

Still life
Birthday card and still life for my friend Su.
Still life study of the alter

More Graffiti Work

2010-02-21T04:44:00.000-08:00

Hi everyone - Had to update the blog - after I updated Firefox it cropped my Graffiti work, so I had to change my blog's layout.
just as well as I have more Graffiti paintings to show you.

This is a still life I created for Gordon.

Nature scene for Leona.

I was going to post Hi Resolution stills of the Graffiti work, but Graffiti-facebook has disabled that option.
Hopefully it will return soon.

Sumo Paint - Paintings

2010-01-01T14:46:00.000-08:00

Here are paintings I have done so far with Sumo Paint.
The link to the Sumo Paint page with my work is on the upper right of this blog.

This one was done as a Birthday E-Card for my friend and teacher, Leona.
See her artwork on the link to the right of my blog.

New Figure Drawings from this December.

2010-01-01T12:43:00.000-08:00

See all of my figure drawing posts on the Wednesday life drawing blog.

Photography

2009-07-29T10:34:00.000-07:00

Some of my Photography - older pictures but my typical work.

Art Work on Facebook

2009-07-29T10:17:00.000-07:00

Facebook has a Graffiti illustration program that allows you to create a picture and send it to a friend.
it also records your brush strokes and plays them back.
A fun and expressive tool.

Mask

the Alter

Koi Pond

Hello Everyone

2008-09-12T17:47:00.000-07:00

Welcome to my long over due art blog post.
If you are not familiar with my work, my good friend Gordon described it best when someone positively commented on it, "HE SUCKS".(yes Gordon did say that - he was joking so lay off him - so am I).
Mostly I have been working at figure drawing over the past few years, but I'm attempting to get back into computer graphics and design as well as comic books.
Here I will (Hopefully) post my artwork on a regular basis.
I am selling some of my photography and other art work on Zazzle under the gallery name "mrglowworm"
Please visit and waste your money.
Below is an example of some of my work (its old work, but I have it all ready to post).
Please visit often, and keep your giggling to yourself.