NEW PIECE - YOUTH

"Youth"

Pen & Watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper, 8 x 10" 

GHOSTS & HOBOS

I painted this lovely hobo couple on the bathroom doors at Armada HQ in Costa Mesa yesterday.  We have an affinity for hobos around here since they seem to be omnipresent and completely unavoidable.  Sometimes they do funny things like bring bags of their feces into our office.  Oh hobos...

                  

"Magical Hobos"
Acrylic, spraypaint, pencil and paint pen on bathroom doors


Also, someone had a heart attack in the men's room a long time ago and now he haunts the bathroom and surrounding area.  He's a pretty lame ghost, and only seems to be able to turn the lights on and off and close the door on dogs that wander inside.  Come on ghost, step your haunting game up.

                       

NEW PAINTING

"Age"
Pen & watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper
8 x 12"

I feel like I'm really onto something with this idea/theme.
There will definitely be more of these weird mask characters in the coming weeks.

NEW PAINTING PREVIEW

New painting I've been working on is getting close to being done.  Will post it up real soon.

HENRIK HARLAUT

I had the honor of designing the graphics for Henrik Harlaut's first Armada pro model ski a few months back.  Henrik is my favorite skiier and all around cool dude, so I was stoked to get the chance to design his ski, which he rode all throughout the X-games last week.

I wanted to recap with a couple videos of his big slopestyle win at the games in case you missed it-- Henrik threw down a trick that has never been done before (Nosebutter triple cork) for his final run, and my skis got a bunch of camera time.  Even better, my friend Corey was behind the scenes and gave Tanner Hall a GoPro to film the moments before Henrik's final trick.. the result is pretty insane.  Check out the video of his final run, the behind the scenes video, and some more of Henrik shredding below.  This kid is off the chain!

J0LLYG00D Xmas Playlist

A little Holiday playlist I put together for my friends.  About half of the tunes are from this year, and the other half is just music I've discovered and been into this year. It's a pretty mellow mix of post-rock and instrumental music with some electronic, hip-hop, and a dash of R&B for good measure.  My first mix, and I think it's pretty cool.  Hope you like it.

Make sure to import the .XML playlist file in iTunes (File -> Library -> Import Playlist) to get the correct song order. Enjoy, and Happy Holidays!

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-Kyle

APATOW TRIBUTE TONIGHT!

Tonight is G1988's Judd Apatow Tribute group show, hosted by the man himself: Judd Apatow.  It's a great line up, and should be a great show.  Very excited for the opening.

My screenprint "Fogell" has been given a second chance at life and it's all thanks to Jensen and Katie at G1988.  Originally intended for a different (and significantly more disastrous) Apatow tribute show, my Superbad inspired piece will be on display at G1988 tonight and I couldn't be more stoked.

The print pays tribute to the greatest character in what may very well be my favorite Apatow movie of all time.  It is entitled "Fogell", is printed with 3 colors on cool gray Strathmore paper, and is available in an edition of only 20 prints, with the final print in the series for sale in frame.  Printed as always by yours truly, in my lovely garage.

"Fogell"

Edition of 20 prints, inspired by "Superbad"

FREESKIER

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!  My ad in Freeskier magazine dropped yesterday and I'm pretty excited about how it turned out.  Armada skis has been doing a series of artist-based ads in conjunction with their 10-year anniversary and I was given the opportunity to customize an epic photo of freeskiing legend Tanner Hall in any way I chose.  For the most part the previous ads in the series were created by artists that have contributed to the visual history of Armada over the past ten years, so I was especially honored to be selected as I am a full-time employee of Armada and I've only been with the company for a little over a year so far!

I was given a vertical black and white photo of Tanner and we thought it would be cool to orient the ad vertically over the two page spread so that you have to rotate the magazine to view the piece.  All of the ads so far have been extremely colorful so I went with a decidedly unsaturated approach and decided to limit myself to a single color and focus more on the composition and typography.

 My first magazine ad that I've ever gotten to put my name on so I am quite stoked.  Happy 10 years to Armada skis, definitely watch the sick anniversary edit we just put out for a little insight into the company.  The video, which you can view right here, was created by my good friend and coworker, Corey Stanton.  He and I have worked together pretty closely to try and create more exciting graphical content for our videos.  Hopefully there will be much more to come!

Be sure to pick up a copy of the magazine and check it out for yourself.  Thanks for reading!

POSSESSED

Here's my second piece for Gallery 27's 'Are You Afraid of the Art?' group show, opening tomorrow night at Gallery 27 Chicago.  Inspired by one of the best/most demented cartoons of my childhood, 'Rocko's Modern Life'.

"Possessed"
Watercolor on lanaquarelle paper
8 x 10.25"