Finished!

I finished the illustration I've been working on, off and on for a few weeks now. I hope El Jefe likes it, being that he's planning to have it tatooed fairly large on his upper arm to be the start of sleeve. STOKED. I'm really happy with the final outcome. I don't do a lot of overly detailed illustrations anymore, so I'm happy with it.

Drawings I did instead of going out of town.

This is the general idea I came up with for a friends tattoo. He'd ask me last week if I'd draw him a whippoorwill in "my style" for his next tattoo. The next few images are what I came up with. I went through a few different looks before I was happy with it.

This was my initial illustration I did to define the over all detail over the bird and then I drew and redrew the bird until I ended up with the style and detail that I was looking for. This is how the begin most of my paintings and drawings, start with photo realism and then redefine the subject into my strange version of reality.

This is what I've come up with so far. It will stay black and white(pen and ink), but I'm still not done with it just yet and I've started a painting of the same image that will be in color. I've included a few details below.

Painting coming soon!

This picture says it all

Although this is an AWESOME invention, it sadly and clearly illustrates my feelings about NOT making the Atlanta this weekend. A lot of different shit came up at the last minute and consequently was not able to go. I missed a great show opening at a new gallery downtown(the name slips me at the moment, sorry) of a friend of mine and great artist, Tim Gassler. Congrats on the show!

There were several other shows by the likes of John Tindel, Michi and many others opened this past weekend. I did take the unexpected free weekend to do some illustrating, images to come shortly.

Back logging a little

I'm going to do a little back logging today because so much has been going on lately. I started this blog last month to show some of my work and to talk about what's happening in my daily life, but since then, I've been so busy that I haven't had time to even think about it. Now that I've added a link from my site, I'm having to do a little back logging of what's been going on.

The busy parts I mentioned above were from work (presentation for an existing client that sends us tons of work, we just needed some face time with the group as a whole to introduce ourselves to the new folks and catch up with some that we already work with), next was updating my site with new paintings (finishing a few also) and last but not least being interviewed by 105F2.com. 105F2 is a great creative forum and I was luck enough to have been chosen for this month's profile. Then of course the everyday goings on of running a creative studio.

Lastly, I'm headed back to ATL for a much needed weekend of gallery shows, bikes and as much trouble as I can fit into 3 days. Check back, I'll have a ton to update when I get back.

Meutre Hermosa 2

Meurte Hermosa 2 is a 24x24 acrylic and ink on wood panel.

I experimented with layers of wood on this one. I cut out the head and body and nailed it to the panel for depth. It worked out pretty well and will be used again.

Deep Fried Creative

Well it looks like we've own one. I illustrated and printed these promo poster for my creative studio, IDC. Long story short my business partner enter a series of 3 in the American Advertising Federation's Nashville ADDY Awards competition and we won. They're working pretty well as a promotional tool for our studio. Come by an see us sometime if your in need of any creative work or a good laugh.

18x24 one color prints on various colored paper. I also used stencils and spray paint for the first time on print made posters.

Last Night

Last Night is a 36x48 mixed media wood panel diptych. She's not quite finished but be cause I so stoked at what I coming up with, it's spawning other works. Keep an eye out.

My ATL

Atlanta is a 24x24 mixed media on canvas. The collage build up added some nice texture, even though you don't see much of it.

This is my favorite to date. It shows every element of my love/hate relationship with the city.

Meutre Hermosa

Meurte Hermosa is a 12x12 canvas that I recently finish and wanted to share.

This was my first chance I taken to use several elements and characters that have appeared in other paintings of mine all at once. There's the gold, metallic faded background, skulls I've been using a lot lately running cloud and my favorite little birdie. I really like the way this turned out.