sharks!!! Mixed media on paper
“Lake Merritt invasion”: ink, pencil, acrylic, paper, computerTwo of my paintings will be included in the Fall 2011 publication of Creative Quarterly, an art magazine and online journal. It hit’s the stands in September but you can view the previous issues, check out the featured artists and see what they’re all about now. I got a winning entry for this painting:
I’m also featured as a “runner-up” in the online publication for this painting:
Oil on Wood 4′x3′
Jason on his iphone…(oil on canvas)
This one is still in progress, I need to make adjustments to a few areas (acrylic and oil on wood).
Detail of the painting above (Oil and acrylic on wood)
This group of paintings was completed for a class at AAU called “quick studies”; they were all 25-40 min paintings, timed by the instructor with him walking around the room encouraging us to paint as fast and accurately as possible. In 15 weeks I completed over 80 paintings for this class. This was one of the harder painting classes I’ve had; the instructor called it “art boot camp”. 
Oil on Canvas 2011, Painted from live model in a class taught by an amazing painter named Zin Lim.
oil on canvas 2011
Oil on Canvas, 2011
“Ray Hernandez”, Oil on Canvas 2011
“Ray Hernandez 2″, oil on canvas 2011
I changed this 2nd painting of Ray again after 2 months of looking at it and not feeling quite satisfied with it overall. So now it’s more like “guy caught in a radiation haze”?. Radiant.radiate…rad.
“Tiger Eats World”, 2010
Watercolor, Pencil, Digital
This is a preliminary page for a book I’m illustrating. Recently this piece made it into the society of illustrators “student scholarship competition”. It’s great to be shown with such a fantastic group of artists!
“Hansel and Gretel” Watercolor, colored pencil, digital, 11″x9″
Visual development for Hansel and Gretel City scene
This is the scene where Dad loses his job after the factory moves overseas and he isn’t able to feed his children, so he has to take his kids to stay with a cousin who owns a cupcake bakery called “kidcakes”.
“Kidcakes” Pencil, watercolor, digital
The rest is a nightmare of eating and murderous threats, the cousin was of course a child eating witch who ends up getting cooked by gretel in her own oven; hansel and gretel take all her money and run back to their dad who opens his own factory (then loses it in a risky off shores investment deal but that’s another story).