Wow, I recently found out that my most recent work titled "Her Little Sidekick" was chosen as art of the week on digitalart.org. This is a nice surprise.

Here is a link to the site
http://digitalart.org/

New finished painting (Her Little Sidekick)

Hey everyone, :)

Here is my latest finished painting titled "Her Little sidekick".

I am very happy with the way it turned out. I had a lot of fun working on this painting and I especially loved working with this color scheme.

The story behind this work is that she is a circus performer who is tired and stressed from a long day of work and is being cheered up and entertained by her little sidekick (a Capuchin monkey) that is offering her a snack.

This image was painted using Photoshop and Painter.

Here are a few close-ups.

Another work-in-progress (Forbidden Love)

Here is yet another work-in-progress (titled "Forbidden Love") that I thought I would post here. I had started it as an entry to an art contest but couldn't find the time to finish it by the deadline. Aside from my busy work schedule I hope to find some time in the near future to finish it. There is still quite a bit of work needed to be done on this. I want to push myself farther with this one as I try to do with every new painting.

The story behind this work is dear to my heart and relates to a big issue that the world faces today. They are a young couple who ran away together because their cultures and families won't accept them as a couple. They are both from different countries and religious backgrounds though their countries are right next to each other their families hate each other and will never let them be together.

I wanted to capture a moment with them in a state of fear and bliss savoring every last moment that they have together before or if they ever are found.

Corel Painter magazine site front page.

After all of the excitement of having my portfolio featured on the CG society portfolio front page. I discovered that one of my works titled "Opalia" was chosen as pic of the week on Corel Painter magazines site front page. I just recently created a gallery there and only have one work uploaded so far and am already receiving good feedback.

This has really been a wonderful and lucky week for me. This is definitely great motivation to keep painting.

Here is a link:
http://www.paintermagazine.co.uk/index.php

CGP front page

Just when I thought it would never happen I recently discovered that my portfolio is going to be featured on the front page of CG Society's portfolio front page. I'm still pretty unknown in the digital art world so this was a nice surprise. This really made my day. I'll be happy about this for the rest of the week. :)

Here is a link to the site: http://portfolio.cgsociety.org/

Corpse Bride Fan Art (Work-in-progress)

Recently I was watching one of my favorite movies from Tim Burton titled "Corpse Bride" and thought I would take some free time to paint this image. I was thinking to myself "I wonder what these characters would look like if they were real" so the goal for this painting was to make these characters look more realistic.

This image is still incomplete and they still don't really look that realistic yet. I couldn't work too much into this image because of other work but I may try and finish it when I can get some free time again.

New Hair Tutorial

Hey everyone,

I have had a few people ask me if I could create a hair tutorial so I finally found some time and created this basic step-by-step process for painting hair. There is also a download for the brushes that I used as well. You can view the tutorial on my site at the link below.

http://www.cellesriaart.com/Tutorials.aspx

For some other good news. Another one of my works has been placed on the front page of the It's Art mag website. The painting is an older work titled "Opalia" that I just recently worked into again.

Here is a link to the site

http://www.itsartmag.com/index.html