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3 layer drawing

36″ X 12″, spray paint and rapidograph on 3mil double matte mylar
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5 more art night sketches

i love the paper in this book.
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11 art night sketches + 1 spankin new painting

here’s some sketches from my art night book. the last time i posted stuff from this book was back in january . so these have all been done since. i usually try to do one every sunday. they’re all done with a 7b graphite pencil and a white charcoal pencil. [...]
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31 on the job sketches

when i used to work at MCASD as a security guard it could get pretty boring. there would be stretches of up to 2 hours sometimes where there would be absolutely no one in the museum. thankfully, during those times we were allowed to sit and read. i did a lot of [...]
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new sketch book

i got a cool new sketch book at “stationers” in hillcrest the dimensions are 5.5″ X 8.25″. it’s made of butcher paper and string, with a corrugated paper cover. pretty cool. i did a few sketches in it last night at art night. here they are:
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building a chair

i know, i know, it’s been awhile. but i’ve been busy trying to build this chair: (ignore the circle design in the top left corner – it has nothing to do with the chair) i should have it finished in 2 weeks, just in time for MY NEXT SHOW i’ll post the finished product and pics from [...]
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some old colored pencil drawings and stuff

here’s some colored pencil drawings from a couple years ago: this one was done during a past art night – it’s a collaboration by myself, joeygold, and gubba: nice lounging bean by GUBBA this drawing i did for a friends (an ex art night core member, NICK) short lived ZINE: it was an art zine, and you had to [...]
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new drawings on fish paper

fellow art nighter, FRIDA, gave me some of this great paper she got while in mexico. it sat in the studio for a couple months until i finally put something down on it. i did these four drawing the same day i made my “black power” collage. here we go: on these first [...]
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new from my sketchbook

these sketches were all drawn at art night*. first lets meet my sketchbook: it says hello. the most recent one (from this past sunday) i usually draw in non-photo blue pencil but i didn’t bring any instrumentation this art night. so joeygold let me borrow a ticonderoga hb #2 (which i only had to sharpen once, and it [...]
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