Imaginary Lands Tank Tops

You just never know who you might meet out on the lone prairie. This handsome fella looks like he’s got miles and miles to go, if his legs hold out. This image was created from a photograph of rust, primer, and old paint on a piece of equipment at the Colorado Railroad Museum. Photography + Digital Painting Effects

Way out beyond forever, a fluidly seated figure drifts endlessly through the vastness of space, past yellow moons and countless stars, steering in no particular direction, floating with the streams of consciousness and liquid memories of time. From a photograph of the leftover dribbles and splatters after a canvas acrylic paint pour in a black plastic tub. Acrylic Paint Pour + Photoshop Digital Effects

An opening appears in the topography above Wrinkled Hills Farm, peeking a view to the sky behind, and casting a beam of warm sunshine upon the rich land below. Fields of bunchy grass checkerboard between flourishing crops of veggie yum greens, beneath a wavy blue sky in the long afternoon. Pencil Drawing + Astute Graphics/Illustrator Tracing, Coloring, & Digital Effects

Mist drifting gently across the sky above a landscape of rolling hills rising smoothly up to wide luminous crests and dipping down into narrow shaded valleys, simple bands of color layering up to the top, defining the lay of the land. Illustrator Drawing + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A pair of towering buttes rises up from the canyon floor above mysterious landforms in a desert patina of copper and ghostly green. From a photograph of wood and paint peeling away from an inexorably weathering door in the old mining town of Rico, Colorado. Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

A mysterious visitor sails silently past a dreamlike landscape of slowly spinning fields. This image was created from photographs of reflections in silver mylar and raindrops on a car hood. Photography + Image Blending & Digital Effects

Long ago and far away, in the distant Galaxy of Vertigo, thousands of stars pause for a brief glimpse at the whole before tugging back into the swirling whirlpool of time. From a photograph of whorls in a wood stump. Photography + Illustrator Drawing, Photoshop Painting, & Digital Effects

Another day sets behind Strawberry Peak, leaving mackerel dapples of brilliant orange-yellow-blue all over the sky, while dark rolling clouds drift arbitrarily by. Photography + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

High mountain lake, geology sprouting all around, and a perfect summer blue sky with little fluffy clouds. Pencil Drawing + Illustrator & Photoshop Painting

A mysterious shaft of light casts a soft blue lavender glow upon a single tree on the rolling desert hills of silhouette fern forest beneath an eerily green undulating sky. Adobe Illustrator Painting

Under a light melodic swirl of pale clouds, an inundation of meandering sketchy dirt roads travel brightly around the countryside, interspersed with scribbly little ponds in the middle of the empty spaces. From a photograph of a hand-painted vinyl record. Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photoshop Painting & Digital Effects

Lyrically blue wood grain silhouettes of Ponderosa Pine trees abstractly flailing about in front of a warm sunny backdrop with large yellow and orange speckles rounding the perimeters of obscurely colored multiple suns. From photographs of a hand-painted vinyl record and dead and fallen Ponderosa Pines trees in the Jemez Mountains, northern New Mexico. Enamel Painting on Vinyl Record + Photography, Image Blending, & Digital Effects

The morning sun casts brilliant patterns of colorful light across the sky above the rolling hills of Finger Tree Forest. Handy trees wave a sweet hello above a cutaway bank that reveals a myriad of interesting rock formations held in place by a pile of large boulders near a big pink flower surrounded by multicolor pansies. In the foreground, a stone footpath follows a narrow meadow of green grass and pale blue daisies beside a cool rippling stream, so perfect to dip two toes in. Pencil Drawing + Astute Graphics/Illustrator Tracing, Coloring, & Digital Effects

A multi-colored liquid dog gathers up his most precious belongings and heads out along a dusty trail for the moon. What an adventure this will be! His long pink tongue waves gently in the spacious surroundings and his small ears poke inquiringly out from under his favorite yellow water bowl that he packed on his head for safe-keeping. Acrylic Paint Pour + Photoshop/On1 Digital Effects