portrait commission

4' x 6'

acrylic on panel

2012

this is a portrait of a gentlemans son that i bartered for a flat file.  turn around time for a work like this is about 3 months depending on the size and complexity of the work.

San Francisco Civic Center

San Francisco Civic Center

isometric doodles

i have been really drawn to isometric perspective drawings lately, i think it reminds me of the type of drawings i would do when i was little.

new dooodles

animation test, lets see if it works

edit:

didn't work so i threw it up on utube

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBwcM_a7Kes

doodles

i would like to turn these into prints soon.

new little prints

most of these are a mix of watercolor block prints and soy based printing ink.

solvent transfer drawings

drawings done by using volatile solvents to transfer printer toner from one piece of paper to another.

crope

this is the Crope. it was composed of a combination of crow and a pope hat. i really enjoy working with cardboard and i think i get good results with it. hopefully this summer i can find a place to get a 4' x 8' pallet of cardboard so i can really play around with it.

ostensible

these are the pieces that were in the process 13 group show.

Ostensible

1 : intended for display : open to view

2 : being such in appearance : plausible rather than demonstrably true or real ostensible purpose for the trip>

Merriam-Webster dictionary

I chose the word ostensible because of the definition up top. In practice it means little more than the word appearances but the phrasing of the definition suggests so much more. These prints too are little more than impressions but they also allude to more.

Relief printmaking is all about surface. For this suite I took one piece of plywood and removed each layer. After a layer was removed I printed the block 5 times. This process was repeated until there was one ply that was the thickness of a penny. Each layer I removed the block surprised me time and time again with a rich variety of textures and internal narratives.

monoprint

monolith0print I + II

trace monotype

2008

about 9" x 24"

old carmen pictures

carmen portrait

acrylic on canvas

2008

4' x 6'

internal architecture

woodbock print

2008

19" x 25"

tea party

charcoal and acrylic on toned canvas

about 3' 6" x 7'

the things we cary

drawing / painting

charcoal, chalk, acrylic, and watercolor on panel

36 x 48

here is the road trip update long overdue. i wanted to automate the process by hiring api developers to make the frames auto center and advance automatically but the two people i hired bailed out on me so i am back to animating all these frames by hand.

google road trip

my google road trip is underway, more info coming soon...

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self portrait

this one was for advanced life painting. there is content but not too much, its mostly a technical exercise.

house for unwritten thoughts

digital projector

i got a digital projector a little while back and i have been playing around with it off and on for a bit. these clips are like sketches for what i may do in the future with it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G1ILgyqZ5O8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5TDl1rZ0GA

doodle

i haven't doodled for myself in awhile, it was a welcome experience

antonio frasconi

i have been trying to remember his name for about 3 years. i had seen a book of his work and read it cover to cover but for some reason the name never stuck in my head. luckily i stumbled upon his work today.

http://www.davidsongalleries.com/artists/frasconi/frasconi.php

sidewalk arts fatestival

woo! i won a prize at sidewalk arts festival for this drawing.  this is a re interpretation of the fates in very poor quality sidewalk chalk.  i used allot of water in this piece to wash away bits and reform them.  i am not entirely satisfied with this piece, the tone changed and the duality between executioner and someone who will be executed is lost here and replaced with a wholey menacing tone.  

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