SILVER AND BLACK WAR

Imagine someone telling you to describe your whole life in 10 words, because that’s what I was trying to do with ISSUE 1.

I was to describe and tell a whole story with just 10 paintings.

So far I have created a home for my character to come to life, a villain who’s trying to destroy it and the RAIDER FEDERATION to protect it.

Which only leads to one thing, WAR…

But how does an artist get inspired to paint such a scene?

Part of this BLOG is for me to tell you how I get inspired and my process as an artist, when I’m trying to create something.

Being I don’t have access to the internet where I could I just could google, “War paintings from famous artists.” I’m forced to go old school and create my own file and records of references I might need down the road.

So when it came to creating the SILVER AND BLACK WAR, I dug out my personal archives and pulled out my file which read WAR SCENES.

When I pulled out my WAR SCENE file , there was a picture of a painting I had stored over 15 years ago. It was a picture of a painting called, ”The Battle Of Issus, by Albrecht Altdorfer.”

But when I checked my file, It was not there… Knowing I had this reference picture in my property someplace, I was forced to go through all my property and not only did I find my reference picture, but I also came across some old mural pictures I had thought I lost a long time ago.

The pictures I found were of an old battle scene we had painted to paid tribute to the U.S. Veterans and New Life K-9 Dog Program.

The New Life K-9 Dog Program, is a service dog program where inmates get the chance to volunteer and train dogs which then are given to Veterans as service dogs.

We were given the opportunity to paint a mural and we created a mural called the PRICE OF FREEDOM.

If you look at ”THE BATTLE OF ISSUS,” you will see how we used the destroyed building as a reference for the mural project.

When It came to creating the SILVER AND BLACK WAR, I really liked the way THE BATTLE OF ISSUS showed everything in one shot. I was amazed on all the detail and how the artist used perspective to tel a whole story.

That’s what I was trying to create with the SILVER AND BLACK WAR.

All I had to do Is throw in some UFO’S, and a bunch of crazy RAIDER aliens going to battle and now I had a story line to work with.

But what will the RAIDER FEDERATION do next to protect the BLACK HOLE and RAIDER ARMOR?

Will they find THE CHOSEN ONE in time ?