APE 2011

It's been a hellish last couple of months preparing for APE but we are finally done (almost... still need to do some prints and get my website up.... and finish framing some stuff... and .... and....) I'll be sharing a booth with the amazingly talented Katherine Chiu Arree Chung and Katherine Wang at the Alternative Press Expo in San Francisco. Look for us at Booth #449 October 1 and 2 at the Concourse Exhibition Center on 8th street. I'll be selling my new book LAscapes as well as the original framed paintings featured in the book. Hope to see you there!

Coming Soon

Lack of posts .... I know. But I have a good excuse. Scrambling to make my press deadline in time for APE. More details to come. Cover just a draft.

More Landscape Painting in L.A.

Abracadabra

Just finished doing some volunteer graphic design/illustration work for the Diabetic Youth Foundation. Back to landscape painting.

UPDATE: In other news but somewhat related... I'm going to the Magic Castle in April. It's going to be awesome.

http://www.magiccastle.com/

Happy New Year

The paint is still flying here .... below are some more lunchtime landscape paintings

and my final from Jackson Sze's class - think I want to take another pass at it but it's looking pretty good. The assignment was to use our on location paintings to inform a concept piece. I fused El Matador beach with the architecture at Pasadena City Hall to create a fantasy landscape. I imagine it's a civilization that worships a landscape painting god to insure clouds don't change your lighting half way through your painting. Of course ... where would the challenge be in that?

Looking forward to working even harder this year ... I'm pretty happy at the progress I've made in 2010. Continuing with the landscape painting with the hope of making a landscape painting book for APE next October. Happy New Year!

FIGURE DRAWING AT NUCLEUS

Totoro Study

Really love the backgrounds in Totoro. Did a study of one.