Separate Soul Digital Sketch

This is the photoshop sketch for Separate Soul. Shout out to my graphic designer/art director for "helping me" manipulate this image. Coming next, the orginal scan.

Separate Soul, finished painting

Separate Soul

2010

34" x 28" inches

Acrylic on Wood Crate Lid

Brooklyn Navy Yard Illustrations #1

USS Arizona leaving Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1915

(after a photo, of course!)

2009

Ink on Paper

This is the first in a series of ink drawings that I did based off old pictures of the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Acting upon an idea from an unlikely source, I decided to showcase my drafting skills, drawing some realistic imagery of the history of the place where I live and work. (In ninth grade, I swore to myself that I would never copy pictures again, with the idea that I could always come up with things to create. Ten years later, here I am with this series.)

try UMPH!

try conquers umph

Opteek Mandaleek, finished painting

Opteek Mandaleek

2010

48"x 48" inches

Acrylic and Vinyl on Canvas

Born out of a desire to cover a dark, scary painting titled, Vineball, with something that would emit radiant life energy. This work is the combination of optical art patterning, sacred mandalas, a map-like contour, and a smiling dog with traces of its masters. The result is a charged concentric camouflage homage. To the square and to the boodar! More to come.

hey is that......?

Whaa? huh? Hey, is that? Are those gray's paintings back there?

Yes, they are indeed! Couple shots from an art party out in Ridgewood back in Feb. The salon style hanging wasn't my idea, but I loved how it turned out. This night was a blast, the bands were siick and what's more, they played in front of my work the whole time! Big thanks to Arkadiy and his crew.

opteek mandaleek

The digital drawing for a recent 48" x 48" inch painting canvas. (see studio shot of work in progress below) This drawing came out of a desire to cover a painting titled, "Vineball", which can be viewed by scrolling down on my spraygraphic project file: Revenge of Gaia

Image of finished painting coming soon.

why don't you?

why don't you quit bullshitting and draw something?

rattlesnakes n cute lil' field mice (in progress)

Couple pages in progress from the current sketchbook. Our cabin dweller tips in a rocker, squirrel gun trained on the mutant rattler about to swallow him whole. A gang of ratified field mice nibble on the snake and congregate.

one for the rode

"wat ta hale u no bout nuttin? i been grabbin hi-nees and flyin starz n barz since i wuz a youngan."

tryin ta learn digital drawing..........finally

two pages of a new sketchbook that went through the photochopper (ballpoint and photoshop)

canyon after thought

canyon after thought

2009

48"x 33" inches

Acrylic, Latex and Cut Canvas over Felt

This recent painting was inspired by a 2009 trip to the Grand Canyon. The departure point was a tattered canvas that I drew a topographical map of a section of the canyon in which the shadow areas were cut out revealing a black felt material beneath the surface of the canvas. I weaved an image of Rodin's "thinker" into the painting to express the insignificance of human scale and artistic achievement I felt before such a grand geologic "carving". With nods to geology, art history, sculpture, and nature, the references in this work become camouflaged into the final image.