Bug Tooth

An upper molar (tooth #3 to be exact) I made at Sundance Dental. The patient requested a purple dragonfly, and that is what I gave her. I hope she liked it. I think Im going to start putting random bugs on all the teeth I make from now on, flies and cockroaches being at the top of the list, of course.

jukik,lll/i/-/

Here's a couple of stop-motions I did last year at at Tempe town lake with the help of my 5 year young one, Donovan (his is the first hand in Octopus and Apple). In the second one, The Feather, you can see people in boats in the background of a few of the shots.
Its titled jukik. lll/i/-/ because Donovan came up and started typing random keys in the title slot.

Marmal

An acrylic painting (somewheres around 9 x 12) I did around last halloween. This creepy orange guy is spending his nights under bridges, doing tricks like "the removable thumb" for no one in particular.

Sculpy frog made and sold last year. He reminds me of Nien Nunb from star wars...you know...

this guy.

Sketchy

So I mailed off my sketchbook for the sketchbook project today. Hope it gets to Brooklyn in one piece, and by that I mean I hope to learn how to speak poltergeist by midnight.

Here's a few more sketches to the tune of Science Project Gone Wrong!!

Reggie and Old Car

Here are two of my latest commission works, the car for my boss (its a xmas present for his father-in-law, who built the car) and the dog for a woman named Judy who bid on and won a certificate for one of my watercolor pet portraits at a silent auction at the youth museum in Mesa earlier this year. All proceeds went to the museum, and it felt good to do that, giving a little back and all, you know, for the kids. Its funny, it was the second miniature schnauzer I've painted on commission this year, the first one was named Archie, and this one was Reggie. like those chaps from Riverdale.The car was a bit of a challenge. I've never painted a realistic car before, not really my style at all. But I was content with what I put on the paper, gave myself a dose of realism, which everyone could use once in awhile.

Roots of the Turnip

This was painted this summer while talking on the phone for most of the night with my old pal Matt P. Its very, very deep. Very.
acrylic on canvas paper
5"x 7"

Pain...take one.

Here's a painting I did for a heavy metal band here in Tempe, but they didnt want it. It wasn't painful enough for them, apparently, or just too cartoony. I dont know, but I like it, and am glad I get to keep it. I dont normally paint in ultra-violence, but when I do its surprisingly very therapeutic, gets some of the angries out.

Seenoevil Hearnoevil @#$%noevil

This is an acrylic painting, my own little inappropriate twist on the "no evil" monkeys. It's somewheres around 4"x 9".

Sketchbook Project

Here are a few of the drawings I've put in my sketchbook for The Sketchbook Project Tour: 2011.
Heres their site:
I thank my sister-in-law Leanna for informing me of such a cool project. I just hope I can finish it by the Jan 15th deadline.Havent run out of ideas yet, so thats good. The theme I picked for my book is "science project gone wrong".

Claymation

Here's a couple of claymation tests I created to refamiliarize myself with the grand art of stop-motion. I plan to make some that are much better soon, but I still like these ones. They hold a certain amount of charm, short and sweet.

Kodamas

This is a painting I did a couple years ago for my friend Ryan. It shows kodamas (which are japanese tree spirits) playing in the moonlight. Its painted with acrylics on a canvasboard. I really liked painting this one. I learned of kodamas from the 1997 Japanese animated film Princess Mononoke, which is really great, probably my favorite japanimation ever. My kodamas look quite a bit different from the ones in the movie, and thats okay, because if I painted them to look exactly like the ones from the movie, I'd be an unoriginal jerk who deserves some type of horrendous pain. Besides, kodamas are actually from Japanese folklore, not just the cartoon, so its really open to interpretation (although my kodamas were definitely based off of the Mononoke kodamas). ps. thanks ryan for sending me the pics.

Errol and his Demon

black marker drawing (with just a hint of photoshopped highlights on the little demon fellow).

Red Ned and his turtle

a colored pencil/pen sketch found in a heap of disheveled drawings. I think the next few posts will bear the fruit of this aforementioned heap.

Brownard

This is Brownard. Depending on his mood, he may or may not try to hurt your feelings.

Hell Grub

Hell Grub
watercolor
12"x 18"
2009

Cephalopod by Moonlight

Cephalopod by Moonlight
5"x 7" acrylic on canvas paper

Rosemary and the Black Leprechauns

Rosemary and the Black Leprechauns
5.5" x 8.5" watercolor

The Early Worm Gets the Water

The Early Worm Gets the Water, a 16" x 20" acrylic I just finished the other night for Utrecht Art Supplies second annual art contest. I'm pretty happy about the way it turned out, I still might go in and add a little more shading, maybe a few more plants or bushes (with my paints and brushes), but I like it a lot. The "early" bird is allowing the "early"worm one more whistle-wetting before being killed and eaten, paying heed to that inspirational get-out-of-bed-now parable we all know and love, and wouldn't trees be so much better if they all came with drinking fountains? I like to think so.
The prizes for the contest are pretty sweet, the third prize alone is a 500 dollar gift card for their art store. Contestants could enter a painting, a sculpture, and a drawing, so I entered this one for the painting, bad mojo for the sculpture, and the sasquatch charcoal for the drawing. I'll find out Nov. 1st if I won of not, keeping my phalanges crossed for good luck.

A watercolor giraffe, enjoying a taste of the air. I like painting animals without a model or picture sometimes. It brings it all back home for me, that being the way I started. I used to never use references, thinking, "well that's not creative, your basically just copying". But soon enough I started using them, and really liked it. I realized how different the paintings really were than the pictures, how you can add so much feeling to, say, a cat portrait, and there definitely is creativity involved. I still think I like painting from my mind better, though. Its a lot more fun, not knowing whats going to come out sometimes.