Fountain

This is the called "fountain" and it represents creativity and playfulness. It's also done on furniture. 28.5"x 11.5"

Me!

Woo hoo!!!! I'm starting to post the nice-well-defined pictures of my childhood series one by one in my blog. This piece is entitled "Me" and it's 28.5"x 11.5". Obviously this is a type of self portrait and it's painted on furniture because I wanted to keep it cozy and familiar.

Sorry about the Non Existence

I have been working really hard at just staying afloat while life happens but I promise to post weekly starting today. I hope I didn't disappoint anybody and I'm sorry if anyone thought I quit I definitely haven't and am excited to show you all the new work I've been working on.

More Paintings.

I haven't been able to enter any adventurous and artistic mazes lately but I did however work on these pieces above. Only the santa claus had guy is finished. The other I'm still working on and I intend to dig deeper on my next pieces. Visually I'm experimenting with interpretation and play of shapes. It's so weird how little or how much space has to do with the overall meaning of a face.

At the end of the Childhood road.

Great News! I was featured in an online interview of sorts at 716fineart.org. You guys should totally check out the interview as well as the website of these wisconsin-based art hunters. And the blog got mentioned too so it's like we are all famous :)

To see the interview click here!

Below is my newest piece from Childhood (the series). In this I painted the fountain character with a very heavy painterly feel and focused on vibrant rich colors that I premixed and layered on top of the surface. The surface consists of two shelves; one gray and one white, and it give a a nice minimalist background. This piece is coming along well I might sandpaper some parts of it down where the matte medium clumped but other than that it'll be this weird monochromatic piece. If you look closely there's some ebony pencil which give movement to the painterly strokes.

And below here I have the piece I was working on since last posting. It is pretty much done except I want to experiment a little bit with glazing and making colors a little more vibrant. It'll change just a tad bit and it'll be a little more colorful but the gist of it will remain the same. Just like the one above and the live painting I used ebony pencil on this one too. I fell in love with the carbon charcoal look again :)

Live Art, New Finished PAinting, and more on the horizon.

The Live Painting at the Matrix on the fifth, hosted by Ian Ross, was a success! It was my first time painting in front of people and for some reason I felt very energized and just kept the brush moving. I a bit of the performance aspect boosts creativity in a very weird way. I was also a little drunk so that might have helped.

This painting is finished, I think. I"m thinking of adding colored lights to the background but I'm not sure if I will. It's probably a good idea so this painting is not finished I lied, but very close to though.

I'm working on some new stuff on fiber glass at home. It's coming a long nice and I think this will be one of those paintings where I don't have an appearance. I noticed my characters take different meanings whenever I move forward with this series. It's like they have a lifer of their own almost.

Oh oh there was a silent auction which I was a part of in Autobody Fine Art. I'm not sure how it went but hopefully it went well :)

Live Show and Art Show!

I've gotten these ambush invitations for shows which I gladly accepted. The first one is this one at Spritzers. The show is basically a free art show with tons of different art being given away. I decided to join because giving away art is a funny concept and it is always fun to see happiness in someone's face from one of my works. The information is in the pic below. I'll be there ;)

And the pic above is my free art for this show. So the other show is not really a show but it's happening next wednesday. It's a live paint show! I'll be at the MATRIX lounge in SF (google it) painting live from my childhood sketches. Works will be sold on site and works that do not get sold MIGHT get seen in my future childhood shows. It's the first time I live paint in front of people but I'm not at all scared. I like moving the brush and creating new things instinctively. So if u wanna see me in the zone u should definately show up for this event. Don't forget! Matrix. SF. LOUNGE. NIGHT TIME!!! More details to come!

These last pics are the two pieces I'm working on. One is an installation. They are not complete and might I add the butterfly piece has changed DRASTICALLY. Either way enjoy :)