New Business Card

Been waiting to get my new business cards in the mail for a few weeks, finally got em yesterday and they're just as beautiful as I hoped they would be:

I spent a while on this design and knew I wanted to have it letter pressed so I did some research and finally found The Cotton Paperie, which I can't recommend highly enough.  Not only did they have the most reasonable pricing I was able to find for letter press jobs, they also have the most options for paper and ink colors-- not to mention the fact that they did an incredible job on my cards.

The detail is perfect and the embossing is subtle and classy. Their standard paper stock is a thick double-ply which looks and feels great in your hand.  I am going to be giving these out with extreme discretion as I don't want to part with any of them!

NO SOLICITING

Solicitors totally suck.  You know it, and I know it.  When you work in office without a receptionist to fend them off, they end up coming straight to your desk, distracting you from your work and wasting your valuable time, trying to get you to sign or buy things before you can politely tell them to get lost.  This is even more obnoxious when you have a sign on door that says 'No Soliciting' which gets completely ignored time and time again.

I thought maybe if I created my own No Soliciting sign, something more bold and beautiful than the average type, it might be noticed and actually *gasp* heeded.  You can call it somewhat of a social design experiment.  Whether or not it works is yet to be determined, but at least we now have a nicer sign on the door.

Check it out and download the pdf in a size of your choosing below to print yourself and proudly display in your own office!  Solicitors Beware!!

download - NO SOLICITING (6 x 4.25")

download - NO SOLICITING (8 x 6.5")

download - NO SOLICITING (12 x 8.5")

PRESS - Breaking Bad Art Project

The Breaking Bad Art Project is on display for one more week at Gallery 1988 Melrose in LA.  The online response to this show has been absolutely insane and I am so thrilled to have been a part of it.  Check out some of the coverage below!

A great little video made by AMC about the show

Breaking Bad Art Project on E!News

And also a few of the more notable sites that have covered the event:

SoCal Public Radio

Fast Company

LAist

Huffington Post

Flavorwire

Inside the Winnebago

And finally, here is my piece for the Breaking Bad Art Project, commemorating my favorite season of the show, and my absolute favorite meth lab set up thus far, complete with chemistry equipment stolen from J.P. Wynne High School!

"Inside the Winnebago"
Watercolor and gouache on lanaquarelle paper
13 x 19"

*The original painting has been sold, but you can now buy a print of this piece in a size of your choosing through Society 6!

**Also, check out a sweet write-up of the show with pictures of some of the works including mine via LAist!

Breaking Bad Art Project Opening Reception

Still somewhat in shock over how awesome last night was...

Me and RJ Mitte in front of my painting.  He was an incredibly nice guy.

Got to give my Walter White portrait to the man himself!

Also got Bryan to autograph the rubber gloves I used for my painting!

Me and Emily with show creator Vince Gilligan, also a really nice dude!

Gallery 1988 pulled out all the stops and absolutely KILLED it with this show.  So appreciative to those guys for the chance to participate in this show and attend the opening.  

Breaking Bad is one of my all-time favorite shows and I am so incredibly grateful and honored to have had the opportunity to contribute to its history in some small way.  So damn cool, and can't wait for the new episode tonight!

BB preview

Here's a small section of my piece for the Breaking Bad Art Project group show opening next week at G1988!

Respect the Heisenberg.

RIP VENICE ART WALLS

August is officially the last month of the Venice Art Walls so I felt I should probably head over there and do a little something.  Busted out a super quick piece this morning, not my best work but all in good fun.  Wonder if it even lasted through the day?

It's really a shame that a city like Los Angeles, whose very soul and identity are so saturated with graffiti can't find enough money in their budget to keep their only public legal walls alive.  Once these walls are gone, there will be nowhere in LA for artists to paint graffiti legally.  

Without the painting program in place, the walls and surrounding area will inevitably get covered in tags and become an eyesore to the public-- I wouldn't be surprised at all if this leads to their eventual demolition.   A place that was once such an important part of LA's graffiti, music, and skateboard scenes will be reduced to memory... Bummer.

THE BREAKING BAD ART PROJECT

This is probably the most exciting thing ever.  Still not quite sure how I managed to weasel my way into this show, but Breaking Bad is my absolute favorite series and I couldn't be more stoked on this.

  The culmination of G1988's BreakingGifs campaign, The Breaking Bad Art Project group show will showcase all of the original posters from the viral campaign as well as a handful of new artwork from new artists including yours truly.  

If you've followed the campaign at all you've seen some of the amazing things that have been created in the name of Breaking Bad.  This is going to be absolutely epic. Can't wait to show you what I painted for this one.

CRAZY 4 CULT

CRAZY 4 CULT opens tomorrow night!  Very proud to be a part of this awesome show.  In keeping with their plan of global art domination, this year Gallery 1988 has moved one of their biggest annual exhibitions to NYC.  The gallery space is an impressive two floors and the show boasts some of the best work from over 200 artists.  

Previews of people's work have been popping up all over the place and everything looks incredible so far.  **Check out a sweet write up on the show and some images from Thrillist, including a sneaky appearance from my Eraserhead piece (image #10).  

If you are a New York friend (you know who you are!) please go check out the show and support G1988!  Address and details below:

My painting for the show is admittedly weird, but perhaps not even quite as strange as the movie that inspired it.  After watching David Lynch's 'Eraserhead', I was disturbed and intrigued and knew I wanted to create a piece around it.  The movie has a lot of spermatozoa floating around in it, so I focused on the sperm image as a symbol for life and death and got real weird with it.  Hope you like the painting!

"The Endosperm"

Watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper, 16 x 20"

"The Endosperm" (close-up)