been vinyl lovin'

Well, I've been rather busy. I went to San Fransisco to take a little vacation with Ana for a few days and checked out the Gallery 1988 Exhibit, which was pretty awesome. Kathie Olivas is now one of my favorite artist for sure! She does paintings on canvas as well as vinyl; i love any artist that explores Vinyl. :D While i was up there i stopped by Kid Robot in Haight and bought a few little figures. Hated them both... I decided to paint over one of them, which proved to be a rather huge pain in the ass. I'd really like to explore the art of working with vinyl but i CAN'T find any information on it online. After looking around on the internet for a while i found a few ways to do it... but don't feel like i was as successful at it as i was hoping :( Heres what came out:


(Coney in Acrylics on Vinyl Dunny)

After seeing Andrew Bell's exhibit in LA last weekend, I've REALLY wanted to get better at painting in general. I'm currently working on a painting that I'll probably post in the next few weeks, that i've been slaving over the past few days.

Anyway, as far as vinyl goes... I'm still stumped on how to produce/paint my own figures... i guess i will learn over time.

the cute kiss

I don't know about other people, but i am a huge Questionable Content fan. I've been reading this strip for about a year now and i've always really liked it. It will suck your life away if you ever read it! haha. Anyway i wanted to play around with the gradient tool on Photoshop (since i just kind of learned how to use it on the Coalition website) and since i felt rather bored of my Tim Sale background i made a few weeks ago so i made a Jeph Jacques one of Martin and Dora's first kiss. I always liked this comic particularly cos it reminds me of how ridiculously shy i can get around girls, especially when it comes to the first kiss. Marty's character sometimes reminds me of myself in that way. Also he says the wrong thing pretty much all the time. Heres a new desktop background for anyone who likes Questionable Content! :D

harvard

i want to go to Vericon. Randall Munroe, Jeph Jacques and Lois Lowry are all gonna be there! Too bad its at Harvard! >.<

tim sale

I don't know who here is a fan of Heroes (the popular network television show of which has been on hold while the writer strike continues), but i am. Since i first saw the show i've been obsessed with the way that the "future paintings" looked; the ones painted by Isaac Mendez. Well i had to find out more about the art work and after a few mins of research i stumbled across the creator. His name is Tim Sale; He's pretty damn good. After spending a few mins on his site i stumbled across a project of his called "Noir story from SOLO," i loved the art in it! I really liked the way he drew the female character...so i ended up making a Desktop background out of one of his images. I'm not sure if you see the resemblance from my last drawing, but i had "the cheerleader" in my mind when i drew it (Claire from Heroes). Anyway, here's the backgrounds: