"Starring Brandon!"

This year Brandon's fund raising theme is "Starring Brandon", so everything has to have to do with stars. Here are a couple pictures of my painting in progress. I started it yesturday.

I was inspired by an actual barn located in Middletown, Pennsylvania, called, "The Star Barn". Link: http://www.thestarbarn.com/


I will post the final painting at some point.
This painting will be sold at Brandon's annual fall auction.

Me and Barrett!

Or sould I say, "Barrett and me!" ;)

Another painting near completion!

Detail!

Self duplicating video test!

I was messing around with Vegas and figured out how to duplicate myself in the same video clip. Here is the result. (I added a few effects to enhance it :)

How was it done?

I shot footage of myself running across the clearing a few times and then composited them together into the same shot. I then added some special effects, explosions, smoke, etc, and put an old film effect on the entire project to give an old" army footage" look. Finally I put in some sound effects (To which I added a distortion filter so that it matched the age of the film)

Starting another painting!

I finished the Horse and sleigh picture.

Here is another small painting I am working on.

I started on Saturday.

It is also clearly in the early American style.

Painting!

Here are a few pictures of my latest painting project. It is in the early american style as you can see.

At my easel!

Detail of the horse.

The Live Nativity.

Here is a picture of myself in my roman costume during the live nativity.

I got pretty sore from wearing it everywhere and trying to direct the presentation. It is pretty heavy.

Both nights of the Live Nativity went well. I think all together we had somewhere around 130 people attend.

For more pictures click this link: http://livenativity2008.blogspot.com/