CodyVBurkett

I have in my mind a few projects for the upcoming New Year. For one, of course, is the continuation of the Children's Book project, about the life of the Theotokos.  I only have about four images from the book done so far, and overall, it will probably contain in the neighborhood of 15-20, depending on the length of the book.  Which is also yet to be determined.  I'm pretty much doing this as the authors write it. As another, I recently found an image from a Byzantine manuscript of Christ creating the cosmos, that looks a LOT like a cell.  My thought on this is--why not?  So at some point, I want to write an icon of Christ "creating" a euka

The problem with being a birder and painting feathered dinosaurs is trying to figure out WHICH plumage and WHICH bird(s) you want to base your latest dinosaur on. I've gone through Summer Tanager, Spotted Towhee, and Andean Cock-of-the-Rock as ideas for this pair of courting dromaeosaurs: specifically, Dromaeosaurus albertensis, as the last of the Dinosaur Park Formation Quartet. Finally settled on something loosely based off of a mix of all three, with blue thrown in. Now I just need to start painting them... I'm going to base the plumage of the female loosely off of Spotted Towhees (I've always found them to be pretty dapper), which also h