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
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
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
So I made it out to the skate shop and picked me up a plain deck. Can’t wait to start painting this thing, though I am not sure what I want to put on it yet… I like so many of the designs I did, but feeling a bit indecisive, but excited to paint this thing. Either way, as I was talking with the guy behind the counter, he said something that made me realize that buying this board is no more expensive then buying a canvas. If you get a large size canvas it can range up to $30, depending on how large you want to go. Even if you stretch your own canvas, think about the materials and labor it takes to get it all stretched and gessoed and ready to be painted? So think about it, if you want a painting from me, say you want it on a skateboard? Go get one, have the guy at the shop put the grip tape on, nicely. Get at me and I will customize your board!!!
So lately I have been doing a lot of work with the computer. I still draw and sketch, but I have been finishing the work with photoshop and/or illustrator as well as playing with flash. But with the weather getting nicer, I brought the skateboards I had painted and customized – with wheels and everything – out of storage and thought about how much fun it was too paint and put it all together and make this really cool looking board. Not like the ones you see at the mall. But, I don’t skateboard, so when I was at the mall one weekend I took the two boards that I had fully customized with me – I figured it wouldn’t take long before some kid would ask about the board – to just get them out there in the world. Plus it would make some kids day. I didn’t even make it to the food court before some kids noticed and without hesitation, to their surprise their day just got a lot better. They went home with some new boards and I didn’t even go to the food court. I made their days and they saved me the calories, and with that I want to customize some more skateboards!
Posted in Misc. Works, Skateboards
Tagged Bridges, Drawing, Fine Art, Illustration, NYC, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Work in Progress
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
Here they are, finished, and fully customized with trucks and wheels, and grip tape. What we get is a one of the kind hand painted customized skateboard! I am super happy with how these turned out. Once I finished the painting, I gave it a nice protective gloss finish, which really brought up the color. It still wasn’t a complete board without the trucks and wheels. So when I went to the shop I was able to choose which trucks and wheels I wanted, to really put that nice finishing touch. I put white trucks and white wheels with green bearings on the Elephant board. The Tiger received metallic trucks and white wheels with blue bearings. I gave the wheels some tiger stripes for added coolness! I might go back to the shop for some orange wheels!
Posted in Misc. Works, Skateboards
Tagged Animals, Colors, Commission, Drawing, Elephant, Fine Art, Illustration, Painting, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Studio, Tiger, Work Space
I couldn’t help myself to do another skateboard. I really enjoyed working on the tiger board, it was a nice switch from canvas and paper. Since I sketched out so many, and I enjoyed the process of working on the board, I bought another one and at first I was going to go with a giraffe sketch I had done, but in the end more people actually wanted to see the elephant. This is actually my second go at the board, the first hit you can actually see on my facebook page. Since the elephant takes up a large part of the board, that much grey would dull the entire board. So the elephant gets color, it will still have shades of grey but with color, maybe like a bluish-grey. I might take one more past at this and then it should be finished.
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Tagged Animals, Colors, comic book illustration, Commission, Drawing, Elephant, Fine Art, Illustration, Painting, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Studio, Work in Progress, Work Space
Here is another projects I have been working on. My good buddy Matt Truiano (I only write his full name so you can check out his work, which is Awesome!), from SVA, where we met in a few illustration classes, and a few boring ones too. Here’s a sketch of him from one of our boring classes. He was probably drawing someone, or sleeping. 
Check his work out, but check out his tattoos. He does some amazing work. So he came to me a couple of months back and said that he was going to get a group show together with a theme and if I would be interested in being part of it, of course. So his first show was, Coffin shaped canvas, you can check it all out on his site. With the success of the first show his next idea was to use skateboards as the canvas. I really liked this idea and got started right away. This is my board! It might be a little hard to make out the entire board, since the board is not completely flat, when photographing the board it was with a slight angle so could get all the work. But as you can see, the tail looks squished. I used acrylics to paint this, and You can clearly see the evolution of the board, and as for the art work it self, I am happy where it is and I see it as a complete finished work. BUT! The work as a whole is not complete?! How you may wonder? Well, it’s not a skateboard without wheels! It’s not that exciting I know, but I am that excited about
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Tagged Animals, Colors, Commission, Drawing, Fine Art, Illustration, Painting, Process, Self Portrait, Skate Deck, Skateboards, Studio, Tiger, Work in Progress
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