rain barrel & the streets.

these past few months, i've been dabbling in some other things. here are a few of the jazz musicians that i chose to draw for the rain barrels on parade project that pittsburgh's storm works and nine mile watershed association set up through funding by american eagle outfitters. i scanned my drawings and printed them out on acetate in which i then painted on the backs of them with acrylics using mostly sponges to have a textural look. there's some gold leaf in there as well. here are the print outs prior to painting.

mary lou williams

george benson

roy eldridge

here is somewhat the final product of the rain barrel. it is currently on display at the us steel building lobby in downtown pittsburgh. it will be up for auction sometime in september.

around dahntawn.

on another side note, i played some tunes with a few friends the other week. girl can sing.

here we go magic...

here's a poster i printed right before last night's show, which was quite enjoyable; especially due to the sleep deprivation and sense of delirium that i felt. here are a few images of the experience. not my harley or my press.

albums

 this here is an album cover that i recently finished for josh verbantis' side project/faux band, the borough fields.

and this is the interior album art to pittsburgh based rapper, palermo stone's new album 'for my culture'.

new tee's

i have yet to set up shop, so contact me if you're interested in any of these and i will be sure to let you know if i have any available. otherwise, i'll jot down your name and keep you in mind if i do another round. i'm thinking ten dollar bills plus shipping. cheerio.

velociprint poster show -tucson arizona 11/12 & 11/14

this here is a print i did for a bike/art/poster exhibition out in tucson, arizona. found this show after my bad luck attempt at getting into the artcrank las vegas show. this literally came down to the last minute, but i think i'm rather happy with it, especially considering that. limited run of 30 and 9 AP's on 9.5" x 12.5" speckle toned stock (french's).

leave em outside your door, i'm your trash man.

my drawings are turning into rubbish. this was suppose to be used for the upcoming cover of bicycle times, but apparently it failed to meet expectations. whoops.

wasted.

bicycle times 011 spots.

here are two spot illustrations i did for the 011 edition of bicycle times magazine. my pictures were suppose to accompany a contributor's letter talking about how a liberal audience can discuss and join together with more conservative folk on the positive qualities that bicycling offers us as americans. i ended up scraping my original drawings for these two and busted theses out the night before and i am much happier with how they turned out.

cycle cover.

a friend of mine by the name of stephen haynes, was just recently hired as the art director for bicycle times magazine, an international magazine for the cycling enthusiast. i'm very appreciative that he asked me to do the cover for his first issue there, and this is about how it turned out. thanks, again to stephen and all the nice folk who took a moment to tell me that they liked it.

bicycle times finish?

here's where i ended up. not sure yet if they want any revision on it.

bicycle times cover progress.

i've been fortunate enough to be creating a cover for pittsburgh based magazine bicycle times. a good friend of mine that i used to work with is now the art director of the magazine and i have been working with him to get this where they need it to be. he basically left the theme up to me and i'm not quite sure why i decided to go in this direction, but it makes sense to me i guess. i like riding and it's my first cover gig, so i'm just running with that. i believe this is distributed out and about most of the world, so that's interesting. here's where i'm at thus far, i wouldn't doubt some colors being adjusted , but i'll probably keep mostly with what i have going on. the second version with the jagged background lines was nixed, which was a bummer. until then.

tee.

printed off a few shirts of a design that i threw together some time ago. thought that these would be perfect for sassy pre-teens, just like the figure modeling this one here (my sister). i'm thinking of setting up an online shop of sorts to sell these and some other things, but i still have about ten or so of these left, mostly girls cuts.

reworked poster

that last lotus poster didn't completely fly with the band, so i was asked to change some things and since the first show had sold out even before the completion of this thing, they added another date the day after. my own group that i'm involved with has a gig coming up in the next few weeks as well, so i put together a quick flyer for that from some sketches that i had around. bing!

lotus poster.

this is another poster that i recently completed for opus one productions, who represent the well-known electronic/jam band lotus. i wasn't entirely familiar with their music before this, but while i was working on my conceptual ideas for it, i began listening to them and enjoyed what i heard. so here's what happened. the idea of a philly skyline was mentioned to me along with the desire for bright colors.

posters, posters, posters...

here are a few posters that i did for opus one productions, here in pittsburgh. didn't know much about any of these guys, but i did take a liking to medeski, martin & wood. i think these turned out fairly well despite the short time i had to do them up. i'm doing working on a new one now for the band lotus. its for a new years eve show in philly. i was also recently in a group show with some of my co workers at excel sportswear. the turn out was surprisingly well the whole way through and i was fortunate enough to sell a few prints.

some stuff.

these two portraits i did for the online magazine, urchicago.com. they are both to accompany interviews with the artists. they are both quite impressive at what they do in my opinion and i surely do enjoy their music. the adulture piece i did first, but i feel that the mayer hawthorne one has a somewhat better look about it. and then i gots a preview of something i'm working on now of lil' wayne.

flyer

this is another flyer for the band meeting of important people. i think that this one actually turned out the best from the others that i have done for them in the past.

more drawrings.

drawings and some from life at the panza gallery down in millvale. one of the coolest places to engage in figure drawing for a good two hours and a few cocktails.

day of new sketches

i need to certainly start drawing more besides just at work, so i decided to just go at it by scrolling through some of my random reference that i have on my computer. and the lovely st. vincent from who i did quick sketches of turned out the best i feel. i surely did not make her as attractive as she really is, but i like the line and shapes.

bookcase for the kids.

This is a bookcase that was originally going to be auctioned off at a gala event for the Beginning With Books organization. Unfortunately, the event was cancelled, but they are planning on exhibiting these works at a venue, which is yet to be announced. I finally got around to finishing it up for them and this is the result. I was planning on writing, 'Catch the Reading Bug' along the front of the bookcase, but I ran out of time to add it before they came to pick it up. The idea was for the animals to be distracted by these bugs near them during the act of reading and storytelling, hinting the animals would catch (eat) them. I painted it in oils and had some good results. Had I worked longer on this with a few more detailed layers, I think the result would have been extraordinary for my few attempts at oils.