bighead

sometimes making paintings without sketching first, is a good way for me to loosen up. This painting was made with alot of pre-mixed colors that I had left over from previous pieces. The heart shape was something I had cut out of board that I was going to use for a gallery show, but never did. So I guess you could say it was made out of recycled art projects.

above is one of the only pictures i have of a mighty mugg toy that I had painted for my solo show at trickgo in december. unfortunately the toy was stolen from the gallery the night of the opening. : (

art at work

so i usually write the specials out on the wall with sidewalk chalk at the restaurant where i work. this time an event planner had an idea where he wanted a winter scene done for a private party in march. heres some pics of the end results.

7sinscontest

I feel like I've been working on this piece forever. It is for an international art contest based on the 7 deadly sins. The topic I chose is lust. The quote is based on a Portuguese song. I hope you like it, this will probably be my last piece with hand painted type for awhile, i think it's time to explore some other ideas!

new website

Hey everyone! I feel as if I haven't been getting much art work done very recently, but alot of this was due to my new website that I posted a few weeks ago. This is the 3rd version of my illustration site. I was feeling as if the previous version was to complicated to navigate, so I tried to design it in a way to simplify it and make it more about the imagery. I had originally planned to redesign on indexhibit, but I could not figure out how to work it, so I ended up using dreamweaver again.

above: the home page (banner not shown)

below: the hand lettering section.

below: 3d section of the site.

heart show

Hey all! this is a piece i just finished for a show at jinxed gallery on Saturday Feb. 13th. There are a TON of artists participating. Jinxed is located in the Piazza in Northern Liberties. Hopefully by then it'll be a little warmer out. My design is based off the song "House of Cards" by Radiohead. The type is hand drawn and painted.

"el condor pasa"

It's strange how much music and painting can be connected sometimes. I find that I get much inspiration for my work from songs i listen to on my itunes. 

This new painting i just completed is inspired by the simon and garfunkel song "el condor pasa." here's the song below.

i like painting houses

i guess this is what south philly would look like in my world.