Natural Classic

Check out bay area hip hop group Natural Classic!

Crystal Castles

Welcome to their kingdom.

A fun thing on clouds

Some clouds from a carny land.

MADLIB

This piece is about hip hop artist Madlib and his various influences meshed into one abstract sound! Check him out at Stonesthrow.com.

-Enjoy!

Ratchet

Check out Ratchet and their NUMB tour!

Wanee Music Festival 2011

Here is my poster design for this years Wanee Music Festival. It still needs some type done, so I will update as soon as I get the lineup on there. The Idea for this came from an idea I had about a band name. I thought "If I ever had my own band, it would be called 'Jars of Jam' and all our hit songs would be different flavors of jam." so now that Wanee fest is more like an Allman Brothers and friends fest, I thought peach jam would be perfect.

Santa Cruz Blues Festival 2011

This is my entry for the 2011 Santa Cruz Blues Festival. It's sure to be one hell of a show. I missed it last year when they had Derek and Susan play their wonderful songs of love. I'll surely be there this time around!

Bella

This pastel painting was a commission for Bella's first birthday!

Milkshake quake

Here's a piece I did about a milkshake!

- enjoy!

a few new spots for fun!

Power Line Boom

Heres an illustration for an article about hurricanes and power lines!

Once was old, now is new!

I took this old bronze series Warlock guitar I had and gave it a makeover. I reshaped the body and headstock, gave it a little paint, and put some new humbuckers on it. I swear, if I ever have the start up money and some buyers, I would strip down, repaint, and customize guitars forever.

This is What it used to be.

Rick on Rick

Heres a classy Rick Springfield playing on a bright red Rickinbacker!

Cream and The King

Here are two commissions I got after the mini series. I liked doing the whole band and I might do another series of different bands I'm into soon!

Dog Portraits

If your looking for dog portraits, go to my new blog mrlopezdog.blogspot.com

In other news, I have just relocated to Orlando FL and will soon be showing in galleries around the area.

Tails n' Trails of Rock n' Roll Images

Here are the 15 full color illustrations for Tales n' Trails of Rock n' Roll. There are still more books available for sale. If you are in Sarasota this summer, I will be having a show at Felices Cafe of these images and all of my blues musician portraits. The show will be during Rosemary Rising, July 16th 2010, so come on down and enjoy one of Felices many fine sandwiches and enjoy some live music and art!

"took a little trip to keep from going insane, spent the rest of my life on the all night train"

-Allman Brothers Band

"The sky is crying"

-S.R.V.

"Crosstown Traffic"

-Jimi Hendrix

"Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers"

-Cream

"There are just as many geese, and their flying down south,

as there are lies pouring out your mouth"

-Donovan

"Confessin The Blues"

-Rolling Stones

"Yer Blues"

-Beatles

"I got the rockin pneumonia, I need a shot of rhythm and blues"

-Chuck Berry

"Little Red Rooster"

-Willie Dixon

"Parchman Farm Blues"

-Bukka White

When they heard that louis was dead, all the people dressed in red"

-Mississippi John Hurt

"Terraplane Blues"

-Robert Johnson

"Death Letter"

-Son House

"I am the man that rolls when icicles are hanging on the trees"

-Robert Johnson

"Hellhounds on my trail"

-Robert Johnson

Tails n' Trails of Rock n' Roll

Here is the cover for my book that I have been working on for the past three months. It is a timeline of illustrated song lyrics starting with the early days of guitar pounding delta blues, up to the reverb screaming cries of distorted electricity.

The book will be on display and for sale at the Ringling Senior Illustration Thesis Show on April 30th, and may also be for sale shortly after online.

I will post the other 14 Illustrations and 16 spots after the show so stay tuned!

clouds and flowers

Some pastel drawings I've done in the past few weeks

This was a still life that started out as a silhouette but then I started adding color, and detail, and it became a pretty nice flower drawing. I think I might do more flowers like this.

This was done over spring break, I was going to get some food, and the sun beaming through the clouds looked too cool to pass up. This was a 5 minute sketch but I think because of the short time, it captured a lot of energy.
This was done the other day, I was going to draw the bridge, but thought I might try to paint the sun being blocked by a passing cloud.

Till next time,

-Matt

Gene Evaro

A little picture I made about Gene Evaro and the wonderful music he and his sisters make. You can listen to it at myspace.com/evaromusic.

winter time fun

Here's a little portrait of Keb' Mo' one night messing around with ink and gold leaf paint.



I sanded down an old guitar and repainted it. The original paint was an orange/black sunburst.

Soon, I will paint an old worlock body with an electricity design somewhat like the white stripes poster two posts down.