GOODBYE BLOGGER

It's been fun, but it's time for this blog to rest in peace.  Amen.

Sorry for the recent lack of activity.. I moved to Brooklyn.
I am ramping up again and starting some new projects very soon, please stay tuned.

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HELLO THERE V.3!

The 3rd and FINAL edition of my 'Hello There' zine is here!

If you wanted to buy one before, now is your last chance before they sell out forever!

24-page b/w zine with thick stock color printed cover.  Updated cover, 4 extra pages of art from the original version, and a hand-drawn melty skull in each copy!

Still only 8 bucks, are you freakin' kidding me?

pgs 6 & 7

pgs 2 & 3

BUY HERE!

IDIOT BOY

“Idiot Boy”

Spraypaint and marker on wall.

Thanks Armada Skis for letting me paint the office!  I had a lot of fun.  Got to paint next to Stink and Madsteez, who are both rad artists.  Will post pics of the whole building soon.

Also I have Instagram now, so follow me if you're into that.

BAD ROBOT

Here's my piece for "The Bad Robot Art Experience" opening this Friday, 4/26 at Gallery1988!

"Leak"

Pen and watercolor on Lanaquarelle paper, 10 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 PREVIEW

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

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"

AGGRO CRAG

Here's one of my two pieces for Gallery 27's "Are You Afraid of the Art?" group show opening this Friday, 11/2.  The show pays tribute to classic Nickelodeon shows from the 90's, and it's going to be totally awesome.  I was really excited to depict the famous Aggro Crag from Global Guts for this piece.    I wanted to climb that thing so damn bad when I was a kid.

"Aggro Crag"
Watercolor on lanaquarelle paper, 8 x 10"

Here's a preview of my 2nd piece, (can you guess which show I picked?) which I will post later this week.  Be sure to check out the show at Gallery 27 on Friday if you happen to be in Chicago!

Thanks for reading.

Are You Afraid of the Art?

Too excited for this upcoming group show at Gallery 27 Chicago.  "Are You Afraid of the Art?" celebrates the classic Nickelodeon shows of the 90's, shows like "Rocko's Modern Life" and "Aaahh!!! Real Monsters" that many of us were raised on.  I was inspired and disturbed by many classic Nick shows as a kid.

 I immediately jumped at the opportunity to create a piece for the show, but couldn't decide on just one program to illustrate.. so I will have two pieces in the show.  Stay tuned to see which ones I picked.  "Are You Afraid of the Art" opens next Friday, November 2nd at Gallery 27 Chicago.

CENTIPEDE

Here's my piece for the upcoming 'Old School Video Games: Level 2" group show at G1988 Venice. An homage to one of the best/most frustrating games from my youth: Centipede.

Really wanted to participate in this show and nearly ran out of time, but pulled something together yesterday morning at the last minute.  Definitely the quickest piece I've ever done, but pretty satisfied with how it came out.

"Centipede"

8 x 8" 

Watercolor on lanaquarelle paper

Hope to see you at the opening next Friday, Oct 26th at Gallery1988 Venice!

Love the invite image by Scott Scheidly.  So trippy man.

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)

AMERICAN HERO

"The American Hero" is a group show that opens next Saturday, July 7th at Gallery 27 in Chicago.  The show pays tribute to Americana in film and pop culture.  Artist Adam Devarney tipped me off about this new gallery, having recently moved to Chicago.  I believe this is only the second show they've done, (The first was a Wes Anderson tribute show) but I saw the title and was really inspired to do something for it.  If you are a Chicago friend or happen to be in the windy city next weekend, definitely go check this show out, it looks like its going to be really awesome.  Adam will be in it, and a bunch of other cool people too. Check out the show flyer for Gallery 27's address.

This piece took me a little over a full day to paint in total, but the fact that I left it alone after that is somewhat of a personal accomplishment as I have a tendency to want to overwork everything.  I didn't focus on a specific movie or piece of pop culture for this one either, which was nice.  Instead I thought on the much broader theme of violence, and came up with something I think is pretty cool.  Hope you like it.

"Untitled (usa)"

watercolor on lanaquarelle paper, 11 x 14"

You can't see very well in the picture but the frame has some nice red white and blue splatter on it.

FOGELL

Well hello there.  I have been very busy the past few days making and screenprinting some posters for an upcoming show at Kato Gallery in San Diego.  The show is taking place July 14th and 15th at the Firehouse Gallery in San Diego, so if you happen to be in the area for Comic Con, you should definitely go check it out, its only a couple blocks away.  The show is called 'The Apatow Effect' and focuses on the films and television shows produced by Judd Apatow, the man responsible for such classics as '40 Year Old Virgin', 'Pineapple Express', 'Step Brothers', etc, etc.

My piece is based on the best character from 'Superbad', a movie that resonated with me on a very deep level when I saw it back in the day.  It is entitled, "Fogell", and is available in an edition of 20 prints.

This was actually the fastest I've ever turned out a poster as I left myself very little time to do a piece for this show.  I started sketching out the first layer Friday evening, and had the last poster printed by Tuesday night.  With such a tight deadline I tried to keep things very simple and stick to a tight schedule (Saturday: finish pencil drawing and ink first layer, Sunday: draw/ink 2nd and third layers, scan layers and print transparencies, Monday: Gather supplies, coat/expose 3 screens, Tuesday: Cut paper and print posters.) 

For the most part I was able to keep to this, although I inevitably ran into problems with my emulsion and wasted almost a full day trying over and over to get decent exposures on my only 3 screens.  Anyone that has dealt with silkscreening knows how annoying this is.  All these technical issues have made me really appreciate and yearn for the days of my art schooling where I had access to equipment that makes all of these stupid tasks very easy and fast.  Instead I have had to work with the very limited resources I do have to replicate these processes.  The two machines I miss the most are replaced by embarrassingly lower quality solutions:

So all you art school folks out there, just cherish it okay?  CHERISH IT!

Ok I'm done with that.  And the posters came out alright too, I guess:

"FOGELL"

Thanks for reading.

killaz

Freestyle spraypaint collab with Lila Ash.

Feelin' good

"Sad Dumpster"

spraypaint on dumpster

Wut up.

AVENGERS ART

Here's my piece for "Assemble", Gallery 1988's tribute art show for Marvels Avenger's movie (in theaters this Friday).

"Assemble" opens tomorrow at G1988's new Melrose location!

"Sad Iron Man"
Watercolor and gouache on Lanaquarelle paper, 8 x 10".

BUY as a PRINT here!  Contact G1988 to purchase original.


Also, "MEMES" opens this Friday, hope to see you at both shows!!

ASSEMBLE

This one is gonna be freakin' epic.  So honored to be included amongst these extremely talented art makers.

 I will post my painting very soon, for now here is a sneak peek:

MEMES

As a celebration of Gallery 1988's eight year anniversary, an incredible show based on Memes (Appropriately titled, "Memes") will take place at their Melrose gallery location on Friday, May 4th!  If you don't know what a meme is, you probably also still have a car phone and think frosted tips are cool, so lets get you up to speed here.

"ADVICE ANIMALS"
watercolor and gouache on Lanaquarelle paper
11 x 14"

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE THIS PAINTING AS A PRINT!

If you aren't familiar with the "advice animals" genre of memes, this page explains everything.

I am also very excited to post a second painting that I just finished, but the show is still under wraps, so stay tuned!!

Thanks for reading!

"Offering" (For Larry David)/IS THIS THING ON? 2

I'm really excited about the upcoming show at Gallery 1988 Melrose; firstly, because I got to pay tribute to a brilliant comedian whose work I am very fond of, and secondly, because the opening reception is going to be hosted by one of my childhood idols, Weird Al Yankovich!  The show is called "Is This Thing On" 2: The Weird Year, and it opens Friday, March 9th at 7 PM.  As always, it's got lots of great artists in it and you should definitely go check it out if you can.  You can read more about the show HERE.

I received a long list of great comedians to choose to depict for this show, and I quickly singled out Larry David, as 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' is one of my absolute favorite shows.  If you are a die-hard fan of the show like I am, you should be able to identify quite a fair amount of jokes from the show in there.  Everyone else,  I really have no idea what you'll make of this...


Stoked to show this piece to the world next friday, and to show it to you, right here, right now:

(Click the picture to view BIG.)

"The Offering"

Watercolor, pen, pencil on strathmore

16 x 20"

Hope to see you next friday.