WIPS // volcano (Patreon)

I’ve been thinking about creating a series where I take memories that I have, or common settings for recurring dreams, and turn them into paintings that have a dream-like feeling. I want them to convey a poetic, weightless vibe but also use them as a jumping off point to practice scenes and settings more. I struggle with making settings feel large and expansive, so that’s something I want to improve at!

Here are some thumbnails I put together, based loosely on reference pics of the Kawah Ijen volcano in Indonesia. This is a process that I use for my client work: creating 3 rough setups and then picking one to finalize. But now that I have them all together, I feel like I want to make all of them! Help me out, guys: which one is your favorite? 1, 2, or 3? And should I pick one, or finalize all three?