-Soybean.

My dog has been extra special this past week. Click on the photo to see a couple of cool shots Tom Prior took.


Also added this clip to my small Youtube account.
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And my Thinkspace Show is still underway....

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-Thinkspace pt. 2

Here's the Juxtapoz ad coming up for my show in October. Tony Philippou, who also lives in New York will be showing in the Project Room of the gallery.

Pretty nervous on what the opening will be like since we are both out-of-towners.

Finally got that ding dang Flickr account I was talking about.
http://www.flickr.com/esao <-- got my name too, Hooray!





Also did a book jacket design for a collection of villain stories, click HERE to check it out.
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-New Prints Today

Click to enter the store.


Here's the cover for House of Mystery #19..

12"x18" oil on birch.

When I started doing the painting I was going for a classic/saintly pose, even though she was being strangled. I guess it doesn't really read that way with the composition being upside down and no halo. It was fun painting either way.

And here is the pencil sketch on an 11"x14" sheet of paper.


Several sketch ideas reveal that somebody is really pissed and annoyed.

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-Mystery Statue

Next Monday I'll be updating my store with these.


Here's a close up of one.

"Untitled" 12"x18" oil on wood.

Also did up a poster for my coffee shop friend Austin Mccutchen.


There's a junk store in my neighborhood which has a huge bin of personal photographs to rummage through. I bought this photo below in the hopes that someone would recognize the statue and share the information.

Thought it might have been Rudolf Siemering, but didn't find this piece. Note the little man in the lower right. This statue is massive.
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-Farewell Avery

That is the title of my upcoming show at Thinkspace Gallery.
And here's another painting from it..

"The Intrepid Seed" 20"x 30" oil on wood.


detail.

And here is the original sketch of it.

11"x 14" pencil drawing.
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-July 13th

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-Faerie Glass

Even though I haven't really done any paintings of fairies, it seems like it was only a matter of time before it would happen. An upcoming book published by Llewellyn, titled: "Through the Faerie Glass" comes out in February.

Here was my first sketch.(This younger chipper version no longer exists, because I ended up erasing her face.


They wanted a more older-wiser and seductive fairy, so I aged her a tad.

oil on wood 9"x12"(cropped with nice font courtesy of Lisa at Llewellyn.)
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-June 29th

Some colored sketch ideas for House of Mystery 18..


..and what happened in the end.

I keep thinking,"pickles."

My wall is starting to be covered with printouts and here is a sample of that.


Also, for those of you that don't really come to this site regularly I have a humble youtube page of 3 non-painting videos.
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