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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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new drawings, non-photo blue

here’s a few art night drawings. the first 2 are from a couple weeks ago and the last is from last night. that star has a couple butts on it this one’s a little hard to see because it’s non-photo blue on chip board. i don’t usually draw like this but…i don’t know. felt [...]
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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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a guide to my painting process in 10 steps (kind of)

so, i thought i’d share a bit of my painting process, step by step (well, as many steps as i remembered to photograph). now, this will be a sort of stripped down version because the piece i’m chronicling here is only 3 colors, as opposed to the full color pieces i usually do. [...]
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more phantasmagoria

i went back on satuday, the next day after the show, to take some photos of my pieces and the space in daylight. here’s what i came up with. these 2 pieces sold: “EL” & “SUB” here’s all six cloudscrapers: (#3 & #4 sold) click to see them bigger all 12 pieces and a red bench: my name on [...]
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how was the show tonight?

first let me say thanks to kinsee and jaime for having me involved in this show. i really appreciate being asked and the praise that you both have given me. so, when i first saw the space a couple days ago i have to admit i thought it looked a little ragged (it wasn’t that [...]
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phantasmagoria

ATTENTION! dying to see some new art from me? do you live in san diego? if not, too bad, cuz you could go here on friday night and see 6 new pieces i did specifically for this show: don’t live here, can’t go? that’s ok – here’s 3 of the 6: come and [...]
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