Shepard Fairey meets Margo Mullen

This Saturday was such an awesome night. Went to SF to see Shepard Fairey's Duality of Humanity at the White Wall gallery. First time i saw his work in person, totally worth a night out of the studio .












painter margo, painter andrew, and singer sunshine taking it in. Hey wheres my drink?

New Work

This past week has been very productive. I have been in great spirits and have been painting most of the nights when i get off of working on the computer all day. I have been thinking about my work non stop. Im ready for a change, a, "hey look, I'm progressing" feel. So with that said here are a few shots of the studio work. But first, here is a great shot of the pulsating xenia in my tank, with a side of Mater. The salinity in the tank has been rather high and well you will see how it effect the anemone, a water change is needed sooner than later.

o. Mater.

Ok. Here we go, down stairs to the secret layer of creation, thats not so secret anymore.


Here is one of the wax octopus, with his newly acrylic painted eyes. It works just how i want, and now it is time to start dipping him with color wax. I cant wait to start that portion of this work.

This is a jelly, a practice jelly. Although the name of this type of jelly has seemed to slip my mind, these jellies always have 12 legs no more and no less.

This above is a water color study I did prior to the piece you will see below. Get ready.








Here is the first portion of the triptych. This is a limited color palette however there in no black paint used and this rich black is a combination of three deeper hues to create interest.
Below are my sketches for the next few pieces i have created in my head. I am going to create a mini series in this style. I am also going to work in colors i don't always use. I am so in love with phthalo blue and he always shows up in my work. I am ready to venture to different color palettes, don't tell Phthalo, we are taking a break.



This piece above is a response to a San Fransisco jewelry artist i met. I am still working on the peice and im not going to explain much about it as of right now. Here is that work in progress.


I will have more later.

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In the past few days I have traveled far and wide for friends and family. There isn't much painting going on in the studio because of the 1,214 miles I have traveled since Labor Day weekend. So as a result I will be sparse with the creative photographs. I did have such an amazing time and I do miss my family and it is so awesome seeing everyone grow up.
The first round of travel was to good old Reno, where each way was different traffic. On the way up I was able to park the car, take photos, play Charles Mingus really loud while reading a Corel Painter Magazine. I was so excited that even though I left my art history books with my dad that weekend, i did find conte and a blank canvas in my car, how awesome is that? It is pretty amazing if you ask me. I always find it so interesting how people act in situations like these, thank goodness i always have some image evolving in my head.







So away i go, traffic dissipated, and i put the conte down. I will say i got a solid idea on canvas, so, that 1.5 hours in the car, was worth it.

So here is just a night shot driving through, and just to note, I am not driving...



And the motorcycles flying by, as always...away I go.

A new day is here and the travel back was horrible two hours of stop and go, no time for conte, and no time for reading, but time for random no looking shots from the Nikon. He is one of my favs.


This past weekend, back at the ranch. Here is a photograph of my parents pomegranate tree.


Now i know i haven't been as productive as i am usually, probably all the more better to take a bit of a break because there are a lot of ides brewing in my brain especially with these new books i have received and started to read. I was able to make my sister and brother cool birthday cards . My sister has this funny black Lab and she works at a rad cheese company. My bro, well he is great with computers...but as you see in the card below, he is a pc user...haha....but he does have an iphone so there, anyways, we all had a great time, ate cake, told hilarious stories and said hi to the cats we grew up with.

I have a feeling the next few days will be exciting, I'll have more on that later.