-Vertigo 11

Out of order, but this was for House of Mystery issue 11.

Oil on wood 12" x 18"..that little guy better watch out, there's stuff falling.

And here are the sketches scanned in with computer tones.


A close up.


The painting below is from 2005. My friend Autumn gave me a can of spar varnish(used for waterproofing ships and stuff) so I tested it out on this sort of abstracted image. I like the aged-yellow glaze it produced and it feels as if I should be placing drinks on it like a coaster.

This is basically what I look and feel like while getting out of bed some days.
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-Faces pt.1

A pseudo-faced zombie drawing from my sketchbook.


For a while I've been taking photos of things that look like they are faces, so that's why this is 'part one.' Here is a face from the sidewalk between N.7th and N.8th Street on Berry, Brooklyn.


Somewhere on Peralta Trail, Superstition Mountains, Arizona.


There was an owl in my Sapporo the other day.

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-Dog Days

Self Portrait, oil on paper. 1999.


I found an old tape with some stop motion animation i did while at SVA. I only took it for a semester and it was more focused on model making then animating. Here's one of the clumsy test shots I did.

More weird videos that I've done can be seen here.


Also found this logo/design which I did for a block party here in Brooklyn a few years ago. It was a music benefit for B.A.R.C and Rational Animal shelter.

I know I keep posting old stuff. Gotta stay true to the "every Monday" thing.
sorry,
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-Pieces Of My Neighborhood

Some more sketchbook pages.

George Washington by the Williamsburg Bridge. The place where washed-up people like myself go to exercise on skateboards.


Doodle of a demon and my friend Monia Lippi mac'ing at Supercore Cafe when the weather was awesome.


Elongated Andrea also at Supercore. A pre-doodle of the Powell Peralta Ripper looking over a sleeping Soybean.


2nd US President debate at Troy's with an excerpt from the youtube video by Otto, The Brooklyn Feral Cat. It touched my heart.
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-Not much to say

House of Mystery #13

This issue has a group of short stories in it, bad luck stories i expect...


And here's the rough and one of the several alternate sketch's I did.



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-Ripper

Did a teeny tiny painting for a Powell Peralta Show. Lots of Artists were involved, all doing their own rendition of the Bones Ripper dude. The show goes up online for sale today at noon at www.skateone.com. They are coming out with a book for all the art too, I think.


Lately, I feel like my sketches have been more interesting than their final painting, so maybe I should start doing some bigger drawings.

Here's a close up of the pen sketch.

Here's the info and names of other folks in the show.

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-Traveling

I've been in Arizona with family all week, so here is a quick post via my friend Joseph Oursland's computer.


Tiny 5x7 drawing I did for my friend's birthday a few months ago.
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-Photo Dump.

Here's the cover for issue 12 of House Of Mystery.

And here's the rough and final drawing with some spots of computer shading for reference.



A few changes were made to get to the final drawing.


An alternative sketch that didn't make it.

Did another local flyer too.


Since I'm going to attempt to update regularly I guess posting some event photos every once in a while can't be bad.
A couple of snapshots from Saturday.

Frank Stockton and some Asians.

Paying homage to Soybean after James and Kenichi's show.





Sneakpeek at the new line of Prada hats.
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