Crushing it again

This was the funnest event I've done in a long time. Free food, free ice-cream, free donuts, free churros, and I got to draw with my old school Sea World buddies Tou Vue, and Brian Morente. We just kept challenging each other and really got into crushing it toward the end.

No she wasn't happy, hit me and took off.

My favorite baby drawing

2nd favorite baby sketch

Crushed it!

When a boy becomes a man.....

....he becomes a superhero

.....maybe he fiends a lady

.....he gets himself a pair of gats and becomes a cowboy.

.....Gets drawn as picachu with his dad the lead singer of LA Guns, or was.

....graduates high school and gets his sketch drawn on a pre-drawn body.

....sucks his thumb

....make a gosh darn fool of himself

Crushing it

High school grad night that I stayed an hour extra on accident. I was supposed to leave at 3 and around 3:45 am the crew asked my what was I still doing there, and let me leave, but it was worth it.

Last hour crushing it

CRUSHED IT!

Kiddy zoo

For this event we got paid to do chalk drawings on these walls painted with chalk board paint. They gave us a limited pallete that matched the colors from their add campaign, and a bunch of symbols to use. Beau and I tackled a few walls together, while Lindsey and Steve Fishwick drew on a few more at the San Diego Kid Art Museum. 

(sorry all the pictures were taken at night, so the lighting is sucky)

On this wall I did the orange, yellow, grey, except the phone and tv.

This was my favorite. I started on the front and Beau was on the right side working his way to me when our art got close I tried to get it all to be connected in an awesome way. It was a fun collaboration. Once again all the oranges, yellows, and greys, except for the "hi"

The best shot I got of the wall. Beau took care off the middle.

Then we did caricatures!!!

Crushed-it

It was an eyebrow night

Parks, picnics, parties, and proms. Part X

This was the start of my caricature event season. I'll try to post my other events this week.

Lipking study

I recently went to the Lipking exhibit and got a big dose of inspiration. It was amazing to see his paintings upclose and examine his brush strokes and color. Court has taken a workshop with him before so it was great to get his insight on his paintings and his technique.

There was a big article about it in "American Art Collector." So when I got home after the show I painted a study from the cover while the inspiration was still fresh. Because it was getting late, I only spent 2 1/2 hours on the painting. I could have spent another 2 1/2 hours on this piece and brought it to finish. The goal was mainly to match his colors, and practice his technique, and get as much of it done before I fell asleep. I learned a huge amount from the study, even though it isn't finished.

12x16


8x11


40x18

Small studies

The model didn't show up for class, so Vanessa Lemen sat instead. I used a really small panel this time so I could get her whole portrait done in a short amount of time, 2 1/2 hours. The model usually sits for 2 classes, but she was only going to model for one class. I know that it is kinda a weird composition, but when I started, I wanted the main focus to be that shadow behind her head, but I got involved in contrasting the cools and warms in her face and etc.

5x7 2 1/2 hours





Not alot of time for this one. The background was blue so to save time I used a canvas panel that had a dark stain of prussian blue. I tried to not paint into the areas that I wanted to have cool shadows, or darks.

So not to bad for a quick little study. Maybe another hour would be enough time to fix some of the mistakes, but a great learning experience anyways.

2 1/2 hours
oil on 9X12 canvas board(panel)

Still Life

Court set up a still life for our weekly painting day. I have no interest in painting still lifes, and think they are boring as dirt. I did however give it a shot anyways.

11X14 3hours


I really found the challenge to be fun and a great learning experience. Every time I paint in oils I learn something new. Something that I'm sure I can use in painting other subjects, like figures, or landscapes. I feel like that kid that wouldn't eat green eggs and ham, and after he had a bite, he really liked it, and realized they aren't that bad.


critiques are welcome