Bob's ART du Jour

Hi, I'm Bob Eggleton and this is my "painting blog. All paintings here, are for sale, $100 to $250 each, depending on complexity. Please contact me-zillabob@cox.net if you'd like to buy one, as I take Pay Pal. Most paintings are 8x10 or 9x12 inches,a few are 6x8 inches (all unframed unless specified).

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Name: Bob Eggleton (Zillabob)
Location: New England, United States

I am a Hugo award-winning fantasy/SF artist who works on both publishing projects and film concept work(such as Jimmy Neutron and most recently, The Ant Bully) but I have a passion for landscape work, small paintings and exploring the properties of paint. This blog will mostly showcase my "painting-for-the-day" as kind of a personal voyage. I'll also be inserting sketches,photos and ideas of projects I am working on, that I can, when I can, so look for those every so often(usually as paint is drying!)

Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Blow your mind on musical science....

Pretty cool site that never fails to inspire...music put to bits and pieces of documentary footage of Carl Sagan, Stephen Hawking, Bill Nye, Michio Kaku, Richard Dawkins and others....

http://www.symphonyofscience.com

Saturday, November 21, 2009

Getting back to some smaller paintings....

It has been one Hell of a year with emphasis on the "Hell" end of it. I can't believe the holidays are almost upon us again.

I am getting back to some smaller paintings soon. In fact one is drying and waiting to go up(it's a Mars scene, I know I seem to have a fixation with that planet but I suppose it's better than a fixation with flowers). I like these smaller planetary paintings, with a tad of romance thrown in for good measure. I mean, who wants Mars the way it looks? I painting it like I'd like it to look.

Sold a long painting just today(see previous post) and have two left. These things don't last, so if you're hedging...

Taking things a bit easy just to pull back. The effects of stress and the ensuing anxiety have only given me a taste of what could happen, so I'm altering that course now. I have too many more paintings I want to do!!!

Thursday, November 19, 2009

The LONG Views....

The Red Dust 1(oils, 6x36, $600)

The Red Dust 2(oils, 6x36 $600)

The Ice Moon(oils, 6x36m SOLD!)

Back to some art blogging....

A trinary of space art images. Alot of fun to do. The first image is highly re-worked from before and I like the misty fog in it. Mars' mist is always intriguing.

Anyway, these are $600 each(think of them as 4x the length of four of my smaller images). And if you want all three, inquire as to a special price on that!!!!

Click on any to see a larger image....




Sunday, November 15, 2009

Out with the old....

Shortly I'll be posting some photos of what happened to alot of old cover art of mine. Mostly garbage airbrush work done in the 80's and early 90's. It was attacked by mold as it was stored in a damp basement for some years. But it gives me the opportunity to start snapping these old paintings in half. Art therapy!!! Nothing really recent, but alot of the junk I did 20 or so years ago for kid's books and so on. So, fear not I continue to blog. I can't believe how terrible some of my "airbrush" work looked back in the day, it'll be good for me to see it going into dumpsters!!

Thursday, October 22, 2009

I took a break...

It's been awhile indeed it has. Got very busy with adminstrative stuff and,minor but painful back injury problems coupled with, we found, high blood pressure. All the bloodwork is fine. But stress and anxiety of this past few months have created some higher-than-usual blood pressure. All being dealt with.

More paintings and posts soon.