So this is a little after-the-fact, but Sw!pe Magazine, in which I am featured, was in the New York Times this past saturday. The article is about the wonderful gallery show we had that correlated with the launching of the magazine. It was a crazy opening, tons of people were there, tons came in off the street, which was very exciting. I met a lot of new people and got a load of compliments on the animal portraits that I had hanging. It gave me a lot more confidence to push forward with those portraits and create more of them. To everyone who doesn't own a copy please order an issue of Sw!pe Magazine at the website.
I have just finished another two paintings in my ongoing Prehistoric Creatures series. The most recent four in the series have all been mammals that lived millions of years after the dinosaurs went extinct. I plan to do seven of these mammals and then go back to dinosaurs, maybe group them into Prehistoric Creatures Series 1, Series 2, etc. They are all for sale, but they have been snatched up quick, so if anyone as inquiries on pricing, please email me at owweberillustration@gmail.com . I have been doing pencil portraits of many prehistoric animals on my instagram account, and these two have gotten the most likes, which is a great way of knowing which creature to paint next for this series. Smilodon is very well know. Along with the Woolly Mammoth, it's one of the most well known extinct creatures from the Early Pleistocene era. It was only a matter of time before I was going to paint this guy. I wanted to show it in a way that was not often depicted. We've all see
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