Here are the three animals boards I have been working on, finished! I’ve really come to enjoy this “canvas”, it’s a nice break, and challenge from your regular rectangular canvas. I used a lot of acrylics, and a clear glossy spray for a nice shiny protective finish.
Posted in Misc. Works, Skateboards
Tagged Animals, arts, Colors, Commission, Drawing, Elephant, Fine Art, Gorilla, Illustration, Lion, Lioness, Painting, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Studio, Sun, Wild Life, Work Space
Working on some new animalistic skateboards. I really like the skateboard template, it really allows for a lot of creativity. A few more sessions and they will be ready for gloss and a professional photo op!
Posted in Misc. Works, Skateboards
Tagged Animals, Colors, Commission, Drawing, Elephant, Fine Art, Gorilla, Illustration, Lions, Painting, Pop Art, Rage, Retro Art, Roar, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Studio, Work in Progress, Work Space
I started this piece the same time as my previous one. They started as a series and I am more than thrilled that I actually got around to finishing them, as a series! I Love This City!
Posted in Bridges, Canvas', Misc. Works
Tagged 9/11, Canvas, Colors, Commission, Fine Art, HudsonRiver, Illustration, LadyLiberty, Landscapes, Liberty, LowerNYC, NYC, Painting, StatueofLiberty, Studio, TwinTowers
I started this canvas over a year ago, when I was doing a lot of paintings and drawings of New York City skylines and bridges. Like my usually ways, I started the painting and then abandoned it for a while. I had an Art showing at my place a few weeks ago with a great turn out. Met a lot of new interesting people, sold some work, and got a few commissions. This was one of the commissions, for an engineer I met, who liked my bridge works, buts most of them are black and white and they wanted something a little more vibrant.
Posted in Bridges, Canvas', Misc. Works
Tagged 9/11, Antique Frame, BK, BKBridge, Bridges, Canvas, Colors, Commission, Fine Art, Framed, Illustration, Landscapes, NYC, Painting, TwinTowers, Work in Progress
This board came to me as I was sketching out a few other boards, mainly animal themed boards, you can check them out at my FB page, this one though was speaking to me. Once I sketched it out on the board – I had to first strip it of some stickers, sand it a bit, and then put a few coats of gesso on it – I just started painting. I didn’t use many colors, but I used a lot of paint, I spent about six, seven hours painting, and I was quite happy with how much I had done by that point, and called it finished. Well of course I had to put the gloss finish! I’m looking for a few more skate decks to paint and customize!
Posted in Misc. Works, Pop Art, Skateboards
Tagged Colors, Dead, Drawing, Fine Art, Illustration, Me, Painting, Pop Art, Propaganda, Retro Art, Self Portrait, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Skull, Skulls, Smoking
With the new year under way, there are some great projects coming my way. This was a commission, for the clients husband who is finishing up chiropractor school. This was an extremely fun piece because I was given complete freedom to make it funky and make it colorful. At first I was just thinking to have the spine alone by itself, but there was still a lot of canvas to work with. That’s when I thought to add some vertebrae, and directional arrows. When it was time to paint I wasn’t really sure how it was going to turn out. I don’t usually paint this large and at first it seemed really overwhelming. After about and hour, of just throwing paint every which way, and getting some cool dripping affects going on, there was a little more direction. The hardest part about doing a painting like this, for me, is knowing when to stop painting. I stopped. Before it was too late.
Posted in Canvas', Misc. Works
Tagged Anatomy, Canvas, Colors, Commission, Fine Art, Painting
Finally Finished! Did this one for my brother-in-law, and as you can see he is a huge Halo fan. All I can say is that this was a pain in the ass to paint. I had to gesso this multiple times, and still it would chip, hence a pain in the ass to paint. Hopefully he won’t use it on the slopes, Enjoy Frankie!
Posted in Misc. Works, Skateboards
Tagged Commission, Fine Art, Halo, Illustration, Master Chief, Painting, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Snowboard
Here is a snapshot(s) of my new studio in the city. Not much space, but it has everything I need with a bathroom behind door number one, too your right. I do all my work out of this tiny little room, sometimes I don’t leave this room for days at a time, Thank you bathroom!
Posted in Misc. Works
Tagged Canvas, Colors, Fine Art, Occupy, Painting, panel structure, Studio, Work in Progress, Work Space
The tracks above, make for some great perspective. This was the first one I did before getting into the other bridges. I wanted to see how much the paper could take so I gave it some light color with acrylics. I wanted to use watercolors, but it turned out to be too transparent for the paper, and the paper isn’t really made to take a lot of water. But I gave it another pass with acrylics, and though I got the color I wanted, it warped the paper.
Posted in Bridges, Misc. Works
Tagged Bridges, Colors, Drawing, Fine Art, Illustration, Landscapes, NYC, Painting, Studio, Work Space
The Russian Bomber!
Posted in Misc. Works, Skateboards
Tagged Airplane, Colors, Commission, Drawing, Fine Art, Illustration, Painting, Pop Art, Propaganda, Retro Art, Russia, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Studio
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