New piece for a group art show tonight. Marginal Buds, first watercolor and ink work in a long time. Think spring has sprung!
Just finished up my little piece for the group parlor show at The Piranha Shop. Brutal work week, a few sketches here and there… 3 Eyed Badger, this ones for MF ED! Glad to participate and make something fun.
An early photo shoot for The Stranger for a plea to save Marginal Way Skatepark with local skate homies. Jimmy Clarke shot this nice frontside floater of Eric Greene. 2004 I think.
True tailor off of S. Jackson, great find for tailoring my 1952 suit. Check out that hand lettering!
I designed this baseball tee as a collaboration with Marginal Way Skatepark and 35th North Skate shop. When I first started volunteering down at the Marginal Way, the first day a small handful of us built this really crappy wall ride in October 2004. It was the start of the park and its super cool to see where it’s grown to now. Tony at 35th has been a big part in helping us raise money to grow the park. The whole Seattle community has had our back and I’m excited to see the next phases. Marginal Way has grown entirely through 100% donations! DIY!
I got involved with the YMCA to teach a mini workshop class on graphic design and screen printing. The concept of the class was to work with high school age students in creating screen prints with out the use of the computer to design them. Early great designers such as Art Chantry made amazing screen printed posters out of found images he would manipulate with a photocopier. I dug deep in some books I had and photocopied a TON of images and type for them to use. In the end the prints turned out great and the students got to learn a bit about graphic design and screen printing.
Electric Coffin Studio had a group art show titled, Boxes of Death this winter. Duffy, the owner and all around cool guy made 50 mini coffins for all the artist to paint on. I struggled with mine at first. I didn’t know what I was going to paint on my coffin? In the end my concept is a tribute to the DEATH of SODO area while the MASSIVE tunnel dig is in process. The busses are a mess down there and traffic is crazy. I painted this beastly bat picking the bus and shaking people out of it. I also collect transfer tickets and used some to decorate the outside of my coffin with.
It was a HUGE show and was a blast to participate in it. My piece sold to a friend so I was happy about that.
Early this year I was involved in the 2012 PUSH art action to raise money for a DIY skatepark in Bend, Oregon by the name of Division Street Skatepark. All the art that people created where to be put on skateboard decks. I have painted on skate decks in the past but wanted to try to make something different. With some help from my friend Jared and Sage we created this skateboard guitar shape. It turned out pretty cool! I even stung some guitar string through it. It can’t be tuned, but that would be next level. Surprisingly, the shape of the head of a guitar is similar to the nose and tail of a skateboard. I thought I was the first to do this, but another friend of mine told me The Surf Punks did that same thing and made it into an electric guitar!
The PUSH art action was a hit they raised over 12k and my piece sold to cool people that own a skateboard shop in Bend.
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