First and foremost I’m an artist- and I hope you’ll agree. Although most of my time will always be dedicated to Surreal Orange I do have a giant folder of unfinished art that I’d love to finish off. So this will be where those occasional bits find their way into the world, along with any doodles or artistic side projects and the like.

The Gift

"The Gift" is my first venture into the magical world of watercolors, and more specifically watercolor pens. I'm really getting

Haunted Cats – FUQIT Cat

Haunted Cats #2 - FUQIT Cat. I wanted a screaming black cat playing guitar but didn't want a tiny toy

Haunted Cats – Death to Yarn

Here we go! Its CATS!!! And there will be more. I've decided to let me love of cats guide my

Tangled

I kept forgetting to upload this. Hard to believe this was 6 years ago. Oh, how our world has changed.

Storytime 1 – The Burning of Elm Terrace

Here we have another kinda doodle / video experiment / me reading the first chapter of my novel The Burning

Cyberpunk Dreads Doodle Video

And here's another doodle for you- this time with me rambling a bit. Talking about my process for doodling and

Boheme Opera NJ Hansel & Gretel Demo Reel

I'm so glad that things have opened up and we can enjoy live performance again! Here's the demo reel for

New Doodle Video Dec 17, 2022

Pretty self explanatory. I do love free style doodling. I think I'm gonna do lots of these 🙂 Obviously it

J Matthew Root – VLOG #004

Welcome to a little walk through tour of my sketchbook from 1996 to 2006 covering my time at art school

Lucy’s Drum Kit

Oh- and there's also a band that most of them are in. Did I forget to mention that? Just finishing

Orange Piano with a lost doodle video

Orange Piano is written and performed by J Matthew Root. Available everywhere now in the album Piano Abstracts 1. On

D’Ryl Manifest

Just burning off a bit of negative energy. And also this might make an appearance in a dream sequence at

J Matthew Root – VLOG #001

Introductions and Updates. For anyone who doesn't know me here's the short version of my back story and then updates

Scarab in the Dark

Dusting off some old renders and exploring long forgotten backups and I discovered some early dark renders of the scarab

Old Man on the Mountain

Another oldie! 🙂 Chill. This is my happy warm safe place. OOOOoooooooommmmm.... I don't know why he's bald. I'm not

Mr. Toad

Is he kinda creepy? I mean- I guess it all depends on what his magic hand does. I'll ask him

Out of the Gutter

My first little clip from way back in 2003 when I was teaching myself 3d Studio MAX.

At the Train Station

(I looked to my left.) Dream inspired. Like- right out of the dream. I saw this.

Crystal Scarab

Feed Your Head

Watcher II

A combination of dream inspired and mood piece. What does the watcher see?

Gargoyle

There's a bit of me that's always up there. Watching. Wondering.

Truth

Kind of a visual poem about truth. I ran with it.

The Imagine Wind

More and more I find myself shifting towards the surreal. It seems the limits of believability are not conducive to

Lucid

Another visionary piece. As always with these, I've got as good an idea what it means as you do- but

Escape

As with most of my work this was an image that simply popped into my head, but this one is

Opium

It might very well be a trap, but if you enjoy the ride, does it matter? Good question. I prefer

Horizon Dream

Another image that just popped into my head and demanded being brought into the world.

Sorceress III

I find that certain combinations of genre work perfectly- fantasy and post-apocalyptic is definitely one of them. But who knows-

Huntress

Its a particularly hot wasteland. But in the fantasy world, does a huntress really need a reason to go hunting

D’Ryl 4

My alter ego- or at least one of them. He's an angry fellow and doesn't speak much. When his lower

Faeries!

And yes- We can't leave out the faeries!!! Dawn comes and the faeries get tired. Same thing happens to me.

Tiny Dragons!!!

Need I say more? They're cute and deadly! Whats not to love?

Dream II

This image came to me in a dream after playing way too much MYST. But I'm not complaining at all.

Future?

Wandering through the aftermath... This basically started off as an excuse to paint that skull. I picked it up in

In the beginning: Fantasy Paintings

This is where it all started for me. When I went to college my goal was to become a fantasy