Century Machines

A close friend approached my girlfriend and I to do a cd sleeve for his band's new demo cd. I originally didn't know anything about this until 2 days before he needed these done but, he was looking for something handmade and a little different from just putting the CD into a plastic case or cardboard sleeve and making some quick cover work. Christine created these amazing sleeves with a nice cut at the bottom for the cd to go in.
I had not known much about what they were looking to do until the day before these showed up on my table and ready to be painted. Because it was last minute, Mike, my friend in the band, gave me a lot of freedom to come up with something that would be a quick stencil. I definitely didn't have time to create any multi layered stencils with only 2 days to create this on my free time.  All he really told me was make something that looks organic and goes a bit with the song "Wild Wind." This is what I came up with:

The Stencil, being cut down.

All of them had to be stenciled...

Filling in.

Me working hard on painting.

Drying on my floor.

Finished Product.

The pile of finished sleeves.

The used and abused stencil.

All in all, I think this turned out to be a success and they were pleased with the finished product and are thinking about turning this into a series so I'll be able to come up with some more and possibly better ideas for stencil pieces.

Newest in the Pokemon series

this is probably the last of the pokemon stencil series i'm probably going to do for a while. It's starting to feel like i'm beating a dead horse with all of the pokemon i have done this year. I'll probably make a couple more of these ones to sell but, going to lay off and focus on my watercoloring projects and pen and ink stuff. Enjoy the Jigglypuff. This one went to Andrea, my friend's wife, who has been asking for this for over a year. I finally sat down and worked on this about a week before her birthday. She was very excited when she got this and pretty much found a spot in their living room and hung it up right away.  Always happy with my art finds a good home.

You can check out Andrea's Blog at:
http://www.unicornium.net/

Nike Commission

well i guess it's not really a commission in the sense of getting payed for commission work. Painted this up for my girlfriend. Was her choice colors and i think it turned out pretty well.

Working Hard

Figured i'd share a picture of me working hard in "the lab."

Edit: if you click on the pic, you can see some more paintings that were cropped out ;)

Nike Dunks

I have a Thing for sneakers. Love sneakers! Actually have a pretty nice stash of them going on in the corner of my bed room.



thats actually from last year and i haven't updated it.. there is about 5 more pairs to that pile, most of them are all still in boxes.
But anyway, this post is about Nike Dunks. They are classics and i felt they needed some quality art inspired by them so I did this 11x14 painting of them yesterday.



I think it turned out pretty well and I'm thinking about doing some other color schemes as well. If you have any suggestions, let me know. Maybe I can get some of these up on Etsy.

snooooooorlax

Did up some snorlax paintings a while ago. this one is up on my etsy account

I made one for my friend DJ for his birthday, doens't he looks so happy to have one?

Oops I did it again!

Yeah that's right! I Herd you liek Mudkips is back for a round 2. Back up on Etsy is the new Mudkip! This time in a nice purple and and pink! so bright!





Trying to get more of these ready since it seems like a lot of people are digging them.
need to work on my next Pokemon stencil... Bidoof!!

Solved

I have a love for making stencils. They can be so relaxing to sit and cut out.
i really like the simplicity of the Rubik's cube and thought it would make an awesome stencil. And it is!

I never got the knack doing those Rubik's cubes. I've tried everything!!!. for this painting I decided I wanted those sides to be solved so they didn't irk me anymore!.

I've added it to etsy

http://www.etsy.com/listing/45072596/rubiks-solved


Loved the colors, they just kind of flowed on to it perfectly. I made sure that the color scheme matched the original that I have so it didn't look to crazy... though it would look awesome if I Warhal'd it.

Mudkips on Etsy

hey guys, I think I finally have Etsy all straighten out. So 1st things 1st, there is mudkips! That's right, you can now have you're own awesome mudkip painting to love and hang on your wall. Now when people walk into your house, you can just be like "hey, I herd u leik these" and most people won't get the joke! AWESOME!

http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=44236216

I herd that u liek...

I'm definitely big into the internet and what is has to offer, especially when it comes to inside jokes. When writing comics in my high school and early college years, I stuck to mostly to silly inside jokes because they were always personal. they were between my friend and I and as long as they laughed i enjoyed it. When I began using the internet, i grew very fond of 4chan and the meme's because it was a source of inside jokes that my close friends understood and would have us cracking up for ours over all the silly phrases and gifs we would find. The one that has always stuck was the mudkip joke.



It made me laugh every time. So what better way to share it with friends and family then to give everyone I know mudkip paintings!!!I kind of went on a rampage of creating these things around Christmas this year but I had been working on a stencil for it for a long time... well not really... more like I worked creating the parts of the stencil and never actually printed it, cut it, of put it together. It pretty much sat on my computer for over a year until I had this fantastic idea of what to do for a christmas for allmy friends while I'm COMPLETELY BROKE(due to the economy and the millions of designs without jobs BLAH BLAH BLAH...)! the outcome of a month worth of mudkips was four 11x14 inch and one 24x36 inch paintings.



Needless to say, my friends we very excited for them.

since then i created one for my sister (she wanted one for her birthday) and one for my friend's little sister (yet another birthday girl). I'm beginning to think these things are a hit. i have another one sitting around here in my bed room that i think I'm probably going to try to sell off of etsy, just need to finish up my account and get paypal working properly. I'm defiantly going to think about making more since i have had other request for these things as well. I never knew there were so many adults into Pokemon. =)