Hey you guys!

My friend Josh Pruett has asked me to be in his charity art show this year. Last year I did a piece from the movie Big that inspired me and this year it's a poster for one of my favorites the Never Ending story.

Art Show time!

I've been lucky to be chosen to submit work for an upcoming show at the Nucleus gallery based on Harajuku culture and dress. I'm super humbled to be part of such a fun show and to have work on the walls with other great artists and some of my colleagues. The show isn't until August so I got these done pretty early but I couldn't wait! I based them on puns on the word Fruits (from the book about Harajuku culture) so here we have paintings done on the puns " Canned Fruits", "Rotten Fruits" and "Fruits Tray". Come check out the show if you are in town! I'll have more updates as we get closer to the date of the actual show.

Girly....

This is a color comp I did the other day for a piece I'm thinking about doing..... Hope you like.

This might be becoming a problem....

So another room! Man I love doing these! So much fun. I was kinda inspired by my friend Elizabeth Ito's place on this one. So in tribute to her I painted up one of her awesome sketches and made it look like me! Thanks for the inspiration Elizabeth!

Room One

So lately as an exercise I've been making room collages. It all started when I was day dreaming about redecorating my living room and decided to find some pieces of art and furniture etc. that I've loved and mash them all together in a photoshop collage to see how they look all together. I had so much fun doing a room for myself I've decided to make other room collages either inspired by photographs,art, songs or based on characters from movies. I don't pretend to be an interior decorator or designer by any standard but I've had so much fun doing these I thought I'd share them with you all. The first one is of the room that I designed for myself and the second one is a room that I designed inspired by the movie Annie Hall and Diane Keaton's character in that movie.

A Blurry I phone picture says it all....

I had the luck to be asked to participate in another art show this year! This time for a Children's Charity. The theme was movies from the 80's that inspire you. I've always been a fan of Big. I used to watch that movie over and over while I was sick at home.So that's what inspired me to do this piece. It's the moment before Tom Hanks ( as a kid mind you) puts the money into the Zoltar machine at the fair and wishes to be...well... Big.
Here is a link to the blog where you can find out all the information about the show and the artist's involved. Hope to see you all there!
http://ttgcharity.blogspot.com/

Painting some boats....

I had the great fortune to paint these awesome boats!! So much fun...the red one was done in 20 minutes or less...pure energy and panic!
A little addition to this post...for some reason I can't get the second boat painting to post properly...it's actually much more saturated and happy than what you see here...so i guess you'll have to use your imagination!