Studio Paintings (click for more)

"The Original Why" 2013

oil on canvas 24"x48"

Live Paintings (click for more)

"Freq Out" 2012

Acrylic & pastel on wood panel

3'x4'

3D/2D Work (click for more)

Pick guard for a Fender Jaguar 6 string bass 2012

Illustration (click for more)

"Oktoberfest East Bay" 2012

Acrylic and marker on canvas

18"x24"

Portraits (click for more)

"Simple Mind"

pen and acrylic on paper

Sketchbook work and Drawings

Commission and Holidays

2012 Valentines Day cards.

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.

Sketchbook Painting!

More soon to come!

Crystal Castles

Welcome to their kingdom.

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.

Bella

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

Power Line Boom

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

fake sky

This is a painting I made about how all the amazing colors we see in the sky and clouds at sunset are the result of air pollution. Light from the sun is reflected and trapped in greenhouse gasses which form more intense colors which we all seem to love so much.

Tales n' Trails of Rock n' Roll is out, I will post the images from the book within the next week!

paintings

remington copy

figure painting

heres a quick painting from monday morning.

3 hour illustrations, 3 hour figure

Here are three 3 hour illustration from the past week and a half. I didn't finish them in exactly three hours, but pretty close. These were very fun to do and got me to think faster. They were all random articles handed out at the beginning of class (8:30 am) so it was a surprise every time, and at that time, its a little difficult to get your head thinking as creatively as you would like.

this first one is about the terminator gene that was developed to prevent plants from producing seeds. I thought of female plants cutting and tying each others fallopian tubes.

This article talked about how Rwanda is building its country's economy by weaving baskets and selling them to Macy's.
This last one is about Josef Mengele, a Nazi scientist who was on a mission to make the perfect race out of twins. He fled to a small town in Brazil where he continued his experiments on twins and now, one in every 5 pregnancies in that town, are twins.overall, I think the three hour assignments were great, tought me to think fast and cut time consuming habits out of my process.

Heres a three hour figure painting from thursday's class. I had fun.

Also, there is a student art sale coming up on the 31st which will hopefully bring in some money so I can take my girlfriend out to a decent meal for valentines day. lastly, sketchbook 25 is almost done, so ill be posting scans from that soon.

3 recent figures

heres a 3 hour painting from Custode's class. It was really fun to paint so fast. I tryed using more color than usual.
I just finished this painting this morning, it was a 5 hour painting dont all with a knife.
this painting was done the day before on frosted mylar.

fresh plein air

some new ones from this past weekend. had a lot of fun with all these, i started using a brush again and completly changed my palette =D !

i did two sunset ish paintings at these fun little trails i found at lido beach, they both started fun, then ended more fun as i couldnt see what colors i was mixing up because it was too dark, and my fingers were freezing.


teal and i go fishing here and i always thought the boat's masts in front of the backlit trees look pretty cool, so i painted them.
this one was really fun, i was scared to drive that morning as i couldnt see 10 feet in front of me. but when i got to the site, it was worth it, it stayed pretty foggy throughout the whole painting so that was good.
this one was a place i found by mistake. i was looking to get into this park with a lake, but the gate was closed because i was there too early, so i turned around and found a dirt road that took me to this scene. i started painting it, and then this huge fun cloud came storming over the trees, and i painted it quickly as it was only there for 20 to 30 seconds.