Gifted Artist show preview!

More art! This time for the Gifted Artist show. Check it:

Sand Sculptors

5x5
Ink and Watercolor

Stick Boats
5x5
Ink and Watercolor

It's gonna be a really cool show. Seems like a ton of artists are going to have stuff on display and it's for one night only! All of the money is being donated to the Loma Linda Children's hospital and if a piece isn't bid on then IT gets donated to the Loma Linda hospital. It's a win/win situation as far as I'm concerned.

Hope you get a chance to check out all the sweet artwork in person, it should be awesome!

Power In Numbers at Nucleus!

This show kinda snuck up on me. Sorry for the short notice. Here's what I did:

Air Traffic
5x7
Ink and Watercolor

I looked at a lot of cool Japanese woodblock prints for inspiration on this piece. I was going to add tails to the kites until I read that Edo kite makers believed that if your kite needs a tail to fly then it wasn't made very well. Tough principals, I love it.

My goal was to somehow have the power in numbers creating a problem instead of the usual lovey-dovey-gooshy-gooey happy stuff. Lots of kites messin' with the flight path of a bird seemed to do the trick.

For all the details on the show you can check this link. Hope to see you there!

Hey You Guys!

Here is the piece I did for the Hey You Guys! art auction this Saturday, December 5th.


The doors of the Rialto Theater in South Pasadena open at 6pm. They are also going to start an online silent auction starting on Monday November 30th. I'll update this post with a link once it starts up.

UPDATE: The online auction has started! Click here for the link and then just look through the sidebar for the piece you want to bid on.

Gesture Drawing

We have a gesture class at work with two models who are actually improv actors and for an hour they just do skits. Makes for some quick sketch fun! These drawings were done in 1-3 mins.








For one class I even managed to sneak in some watercolors.


Stay tuned for some art show info coming up really soon!

Happy Halloween!

Here are the pieces I did for the Halloween micro gallery show:


Every Halloween Fred Stocks up on Candy is about 3"x3". Ink and watercolor.




Candy Bandits is about 3"x6". Again, ink and watercolor. I was trying to tell a little story with a frame that had two openings, kinda like a comic. Not sure if it's successful or not, but I had fun trying.

The show was awesome! We managed to raise a nice chunk of change and all of it is going to charity in honor of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Pretty crazy what can be done with a hallway space that would otherwise just be a dead end.

The Micro Gallery

There may be a new gallery at work.


It may have lots of cool pieces of artwork from an awesome group of artists.


And it could be really tiny.


But if you were to ever ask me about it, I wouldn't know anything.

By the way, notice anything odd with the last picture? Maybe something attached to a pillar that shouldn't be? A table? Could be leftover from a saran wrap prank? I wouldn't know.

Sendak on Sendak

There's a great show going on in San Francisco right now at the Jewish Contemporary Museum. I think it runs until next January. You can find more info here.


It's worth it for the gallery guide alone!