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"Oktoberfest East Bay" 2012

Acrylic and marker on canvas

18"x24"

Chocolate and Beer Fest and Vday 2012!

Here is this years poster for the Chocolate and Beer Festival! This years Fest was a blast! loaded with some of the bay areas best craft brewers, chocolatiers, and jazz swing salsafunk fusion bands.

At this years festival, I was set up creating custom Valentines Day cards with your name in the shape of a heart! Unfortunately, I did not get any scans of the 8 I created that day, but here are some I created for an art show VDay contest thing at Tandoori Restaurant.

Natural Classic

Check out bay area hip hop group Natural Classic!

Crystal Castles

Welcome to their kingdom.

Chocolate and Beer Festival 2011

Come out to the Chocolate and Beer Festival this Saturday for great chocolate, beer, and music!

Ratchet will be the headliner!!

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!

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!

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!

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.

Cream

I've been listening to Cream a lot lately so I mashed up a few lyrics and ideas of theirs into this image.

The White Stripes

Did a little poster for the white stripes. I tried as best as I could to stick to red black and white, but I couldn't help give it some color.

The Strat King

Here is Jimi sitting in his guitar throne getting down with the spirits and the sounds of his soul.
Up next is some Cream art.

Taj Majal, Guitar Shorty and Keith Richards

Here is the last three of the blues guitarists.

Taj Majal looking for hope in the sky,

Guitar Shorty on his fire burst strat,

and Keith Richards on the tele.

Derek Trucks

Here is one of the last blues portraits, Derek Trucks. Keith Richards is up next.