My cousin Melissa over in Maui is having a baby boy named Lio. I was pretty upset that I was not able to attend the baby shower but extremely happy about the gift my Mother and I made for them. She just got the mobile in the mail and it will be up in no time. Stoked!
Friday Night Amateurs
Beach Goth
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Summer Sucks by FNA
Into the Fields with Bo Stanley | Part 1
So stoked to be able to help some friends with a recent photoshoot and provide a creative eye and a bit of art direction. Photos by the talented Rachel Moyer from Art of Body Boudoir of plus size model and health activist Bo Stanley. Stay tuned for more.
Diamonds in the Dark by Dark Waves
Honored to create the artwork for Dark Waves new song on Spotify Diamonds in the Dark. Listen to it here or click the link below.
Subliminal Projects
Woah! I have been lagging on getting these photos up for a minute but here we are. A couple of months ago my buddy and professional artist friend Adam Mars invited me to an art show at Shepard Fairey's gallery in Echo Park called Subliminal Projects. The name and theme of the show was AGENTS PROVOCATEURS and it was such a blast from my 90's past. I loved the show and it was great to see a lot of the original decks that really transformed the skateboard graphic game.
All of a sudden, decks had become provocative manifestos. They talked about the violence of society, sex, politics, racism, drugs, religion, and international affairs. A new school of artists had taken over, and was deliberately willing to trigger something, anything, a reaction in the viewer. Skateboarding was a counter culture again. – Seb Carayol (Agents Provocateurs; Gingko Press, 2014)
Here is a bit from Shepard on the show:
Skateboarding and its culture changed my life. I grew up going to a conformist private prep school, and I had no therapeutic outlet to vent or focus my frustration until I discovered skateboarding. Skateboarding is creative and rebellious and it provided the most perfect balance of visceral and artistic rabble-rousing I could hope for. When I co-founded Subliminal in 1995 with my skateboard friends and fellow artists, Alfred Hawkins and Blaize Blouin, our goal was to put the spotlight on the artists doing the amazing skateboard graphics who had contributed significantly to the visual identity of the culture that shaped us profoundly. AGENTS PROVOCATEURS is the kind of exhibit that Subliminal Projects was founded to showcase! The vibrant, creative, fearless, culture of rebellion that is the distilled essence of skateboarding, and what drew me to it in the first place, is what AGENTS PROVOCATEURS is all about. There are a ton of killer deck graphics and fine art pieces by the same artists in the show. If you’ve ever ridden a plank with four wheels, listened to the Misfits and Public Enemy, but never to rent-a-cops, you need to be at this show! – Shepard Fairey, 2014
Crystals
Simple digital drawings of the quartz crystal that sits on my desk.
Marble Series
Really stoked to share some recent paintings I did for a project with Dark Waves. This is just a small portion of what I created but these are my favorites. Each one has such a different feeling, I love it!
Prayers | Cholo Goth
Rattlesnake Drawing
Fun little sketch I created while hanging out with VCJ in an attempt to practice working in just black and white with minimal shading. Really enjoying the pink and purple cosmic smoke that I added it at the end.
Kate Zitzer Art Logo
New logo for my talented friend Katelyn Zitzer. Check out her site and Etsy shop here.
Peregrine Concepts
When given the opportunity to concept and create professional surfer Dane Reynold's board graphic for his new Channel Island's pro model - The Peregrine, I was beyond hyped to say the very least. The culture and prestige that surrounds a professional athlete's release of a pro model and its respected graphic is industry known. The boards are actually getting made and prepared for the release of this new shape as we speak and I am stoked to say that my art work will be printed on each and every one! I submitted a couple of concepts and will hold off on showing you the final until its release but here are a couple of drawings I submitted.
For more about this surfboard model and an amazing video on Surfline that captures process and love that went into this shape - check out this awesome link!
Images via Surfline
Sunscreen Labels featured in DEEP Swim Issue
Drift Wood Crafts
Working with my hands is always a pleasant break from the computer or the drawing board. It's interesting how the creative mind needs different mediums to latch onto. Weather that is music, dancing, pottery, there are so many things to play and engage with. After a couple of solid hours of drawing or using Adobe, I often feel the need to make jewelry or engage in some type of craft. I have been collecting hawk and owl feathers for sometime and my friends have been generous with saving me their findings as well so I was pretty stoked to finally put this mobile piece together for my living room. Thank you to Vanessa Fiest for helping me attach everything and drill the holes in the drift wood.