Crystal Blue Explosion

Paintings in the show at the LeBasse Gallery

Some news..

Art Center College of Design Grad Show
1700 Lida St.
Pasadena, CA 91103
December 11, 2009
7pm-10pm

LeBasse Projects
6023 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
My newest paintings in the Project Room
December 12, 2009
7pm-10pm

a piece for the last show of The Kids Are Alright Tour at LeBasse Projects in Culver City this saturday (10/17)

ballpoint pen + gouache on paper

things come and go
out of nowhere

feelin' foxy

2 new pieces for The Kids Are Alright Tour; these will be up at the Show and Tell Gallery in Toronto, Canada

fire and ice

a couple pieces for The Kids Are Alright show at Black Maria Gallery this coming saturday.

The Jungle Books
by Rudyard Kipling

These are a few illustrations for a project I'm working on with a friend. For a class project he's re-branding the Penguin Books logo and design. It was fun to re-read the jungle books in a perspective other than the well-known Disney version. There's a lot of heart in Kipling's words and messages that I can appreciate now reading them as an adult.

Title: Elixir
Size: 24" x 24"
Media: Acrylic + Gouache on Canvas

This is for a traveling group show that I got a chance to be a part of, The Kids Are Alright. It includes some greatly talented artists who I respect so I feel lucky to be a part of it.

This piece will be at Subtext Gallery in San Diego with the show opening next friday.

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sparkle

my time machine


drift away

moms



mom + dad once upon a time...

class: illustration for publishing
term: 5.5
summer 08

this was a series of illustrations on a childhood memory. in my elementary school days, we lived in glendale on a little street where there were lots of kids and a small park a couple blocks away. one of the best times of my life. played mini softball in front yards, barbie convertibles, peach pie in the summer, pink and white roller skates, sidewalk chalk, sonic the hedgehog, gex, dressing up cats and kittens, monster dogs, mysterious houses, log cabins, walking to the liquour store that gave us old magazines for free, bubble tape, rainbow brite, summer crushes, pinatas.. lots of memories. this series started because of a neighbor's clubhouse they had in their backyard. i've always wanted a treehouse but we never got one. my dad worked a job in wholesale so we always had a bunch of cardboard boxes in the garage that we played with. it's funny how expansive a child's imagination can go..

birth of )) Singularity

this is a lithography print + xylene transfer from printmaking class last term

we're just a little blip in the history of time, in this huge universe

"The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed"

-Albert Einsten













This was a book project for Advanced Illustration Design with David Tillinghast. We were given the topic of "mystery" and were to create a book around a "mystery" topic of our choice. I've been curious/fascinated/confused about the universe and how it came to be. There are many theories and beliefs and I wanted to take those views and mix it with how I think the world may have come to be.. but, it's always changing. Science is always changing, we are always changing, my thoughts and I are constantly changing.. but the game of (attempting to) solve mysteries is always fun.

Some projects from last term...

These 3 projects were illustrating stories we listened to in class and interpreted through images. The stories were about dystopia in America and the human condition



The Hollow Men by Thomas Wolfe



The Swimmer by John Cheever (this is only a snippet of the original)



The 548 by John Cheever

I love the energy of the city and the people. I love the interactions and random happenings and colors and smells and vibrancy