some new sketch paintings

did some smaller, quicker paintings. working that way and that size makes them feel more like sketches.

blue trane, 10" x 15"


reesa, 10" x 15"


eli griggs, 10" x 10"

perkins and dela cruz -finished paintings

perkins on his morning commute to work along the rizdale beach boardwalk.


dela cruz, checking surf on the north shore of the island of aliney.

both pieces are scheduled to be on exhibit at the windup gallery, june 30th - july 21st.

windup gallery - az artist exhibit

opening reception: saturday, june 30th at the windup gallery.
exhibit continues through july 21st.

126 west main st, mesa, az 85201.

perkins and dela cruz - in progress

perkins: morning commute.



dela cruz: checking surf.

first friday - may 07

first friday, i'll have some paintings up at the wet paint gallery in downtown phoenix, southwest corner of 4th street and mckinley (718 N. 4th St.) in the antispace building.

bobby deeks sketch

bobby deeks, the young up and commer, from the play 'blood on the canvas' by gus edwards.

blood on the canvas copyright 1992 by gus edwards

first friday at fate restaurant - april 6th

first friday, april 6th, at fate restaurant. 2 new pieces up; 'brayne' (pictured below) and a portrait of ?urstlove. 9 paintings total will be up.

first friday - march 2nd

new paintings on display at studeo tad during first friday, march 2nd. the gallery will also be open for the art detour on saturday and sunday, march 3rd and 4th.

the brother's freeze: ray ray and alanso

hip hop producers ray ray (left) and alanso freese, known as the brother's freeze, standing outside their recording studio, 'the freezer,' in the elvisStrip area of dektown.

view the step by step process for painting the skin tones at the crete mag blog

some sketches from the steno pad

i do most of my sketches in a smaller 6x9 steno pad. easier to carry around.

from doodle to finished sketch

two pages out of the steno pad.







to a finished pencil piece. warhol & basquait.

new site design

dektown,usa just got a much needed face lift. view the new gallery section with bios! news and exhibition sections also.

first friday at the willowhouse, january 5th

janurary 5th, willowhouse, 149 W McDowell Rd, Phoenix
southeast corner of 3rd Avenue and McDowell

first friday at the new wet paint gallery 12/01/06

downtown phoenix, 7-10pm
718 N. 4th Street, Phoenix
sw corner of 4th street and Mckinley, in the anti space community

leona up for auction

the painting of leona will be up for auction friday, november 10th for the aiga art auction with proceeds going to free arts of arizona. the event will take place from 6pm to 10pm at monorchid studio, 214 W Roosevelt, Phoenix, Arizona.

brooklyn dj tee

a t-shirt of the brooklyn dj is now for sale at cafepress for a limited time, available on several different shirt styles.

brookly dj - final piece

here's the end result. spray paint background by koleszar, dj and tables in oil paint by me. available for view at wet paint until the end of october.

collaboration

working on a collaboration piece with spraypaint stencil artist john koleszar. we selected a piece from some older pencils i had (i had started a painting for these pencils, but hadn't worked on them in over a year):



this is the background that koleszar will make his stencils from. it's set up to mimic the perspective of the pencils:



and this is how it should fit together when i begin to lay my paints down:



we'll see how it turns out. hopefully it will be up in time for the final friday show at wet paint on september 29th.

finished lebowskis

jojo

finished oils: