Manipulated Photos

Photoshopped images I created to use as the background for a series of posters I am currently working on for YouthHope. November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month and these posters will be going up all over Redlands, CA to help raise awareness for these homeless young adults. Ill post up the final versions with text next week, but thought I would share these photos with you now....

Art4aCure

I just finished this piece for Art4aCure. They are a non-profit organization that sells donated artwork to raise funds for stage one cancer research. This is the cutting edge research that explores new ways to fight cancer with less harm to the patient. It is a great NPO and I wanted to contribute something to them for a while. A lot of the artwork gets hung up in Premiere Oncology, an infusion room in Los Angeles.

I designed this piece specifically to be hung up there and used cool, calming colors for it. The meaning of flower itself is calming and relaxing and you are supposed to send it to people you admire. The white spatters project purity and cleanliness (from cancer), and encourages us to clear obstacles. The blue background invokes rest and serenity. The newsprint that is barely visible stands for all the things that gets put on a back burner while one fights through this life threatening disease (at least thats how it was for me).

Quite an explanation, but hopefully this helps some of the cancer patients who go to Premiere Oncology for chemo infusion...

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Open Mic Night

I literally just finished designing this poster. It was pretty short notice so I had to get something done quickly, which means I didnt have time for fresh brand new artwork. The sketch I used was something I did a while back using photoshop and my wacom tablet. Its a kind of self portrait... really I just needed a face in that pose, and well my face was available. So there you have it. If anyone is in Redlands (or even if your not) next Friday they should definitely check this out. The whole thing benefits YouthHope, a non-profit that works to help homeless kids get off the streets. Definitely worth your time...

Dont forget that my skate deck show is this Saturday! Go to my events section for more info

Leftovers

This painting I just did yesterday. I dont like wasting excess paint, so all of the paint used here has been left overs from other projects. The purples, blues, and oranges are all from one of the first projects I posted on here (Color Assignment). All of the white was excess paint from the white wash used in upcoming pieces of my Reclaimed Series (pt.1, pt.2, pt.3, pt.4). The shapes in the smeared colors provided the "inspiration" for the cabin and forest (and what appears to be a volcano or forest fire in the background).

Moss Mountain Shanty is acrylic on paper. 8.5" x 11"

Krochet Kids Presents

A billboard I painted for the Krochet Kids concert last friday. A lot of people came because of this painting.. I guess I shouldve painted "go home" on it because then maybe, just maybe, i would have won the raffle that night... live and learn. Tempera on glass 4' x 5.5' (estimate)

This painting made it on OrangeCounty.com! It was included in a write up about Krochet Kids. Click here to check it out.

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Sans Skin

Self portrait without all that skin and hair in the way... just stripped down to the bear bones. You gotta admit, according to this picture, I have a pretty decently shaped, proportionate skull. I did however throw a few extra teeth in there to make up for all the ones I broke... Oil on Watercolor Paper. 15" x 11.25"

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