Werewolf Papercraft

I designed this trucker werewolf based on a paper craft template conceived of by the great Mario Zavala. To see the trucker wolf's other possible accessories and to perhaps even build him for your workplace this Halloween, click here.

Unsuspecting Suspect Sketches

Here are a few sketches of unsuspecting artists who think I'm drawing the model, but I'm drawing them drawing the model. I'm so sneaky. I'll try to post again soon with more stuff.

My sk8ology board

(click here for link to charity auction)

Sk8ology Show

Shameless self-promotions are shameful...

...except when it's for charity, right?

Hello Blog friends! Some friends and I are going to be in a charity art show on Saturday August 23, 2008. Each artist was given a blank skate deck to paint on.


The show will take place at:

ISM: gallery at the Koos Art Center
540 East Broadway
Long Beach, California 90802

and then it will travel to San Diego in September for the Action Sports Retailer (ASR) Trade Show.

The purpose of the show is to "raise awareness and resources in an effort to support Now That You Know, a non-profit organization that helps to provide ambitious girls from developing countries a secure environment for learning and growth. Proceeds will also contribute to benefiting the youth of our society through the artistic enrichment of our community."

For more information visit: http://www.ismcommunity.org/sk8ology

Hope you can make it!

Here's a glimpse of part of my board.

Malibu Pier

Gouache on Illustration board 9.25" x 7.75"

I recently went landscape painting with my dad and uncle. This is my attempt. Weird how my dad's painting of the same beach has a crowd of people and mine only has a lone surfer.

Film Noir Kid

This is a concept painting for a children's book project I was working on recently. It was done in Photoshop.

Watching Jen watching AFV while looking @ bills

My wife and I love to watch America's Funniest Home Videos together after the kids have gone to bed. I must admit that as a skinny tween I watched and loved the show when it first aired in the late 80's, but gave it up in the early 90's as I realized a person could only watch so much footage of unwary fathers getting hit in the crotch by innocent little leaguers. I'm not sure when we started watching the show again, but I'm certain it was after we had our first son. One of the most appealing things about the show to me now is watching my wife literally laugh her self to tears when some tiny, unsuspecting kid gets bounced off a trampoline like a rag doll or tossed off screen by a speeding beach ball. Her all time favorite on-screen misfortune involves an often slightly overweight person who naively stands ashore, strapped into a parasailing harness only to be dragged through the water seconds later like some sports fisherman’s dream catch. I think I enjoy watching her watch the show more than the show itself.

Photoshop Class

I'm very fortunate to have been invited by Rich Tuzon to attend an intermediate Photoshop painting class that is being taught at work by one of my favorite teachers from school, Bob Kato. Basically Bob adapted his traditional painting technique as a way to paint digitally in Photoshop. This is a 2 hour master copy (caricatured a bit) of a one of Sargent's self portraits that I painted in tonight's class.