AQUADUCT 1

Los Angeles is surrounded by aquaducts, and they are quite graphic.  I thought I'd paint one, but as soon as I started I realized how interesting the colors in the live and dead moss was in the shallow water. So began a long effort of stylizing and manipulating the shapes while keeping the original feel.

SAN DIEGO COMIC-CON SIGNING!

 I will be signing copies of my book PLACES at the San Diego Comic-Con on Friday, July 13th from 2-3pm at the Design Studio Press booth. Please come by and say hi, check out the book and get a signed copy.

GRAPHILICUS IMAGICUS 2

Living in Los Angeles you are surrounded by freeways, and interchanges.  Some of them are incredible, with what seems like hundreds of legs supporting the roads. If you look at the legs in this painting, they are actually quite complex shapes, and its interesting how they resolved the main leg and how it terminates at the top.  

I like the accelerated forms here, they lead your eyes into the distance.

AUTOMATON 5

This was an image I did for a tutorial that hopefully will come out in a few months.

INSTRUCTING AT THE ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN

I'm proud to say I will be instructing at the prestigious Art Center College of Design this fall on Saturdays.  The class will be Design Fundamentals 2, and will focus on avant garde ways of achieving designs, and delving into conceptual areas usually not common.

As a graduate of this school I feel privileged to return with knowledge I have gained over the last 23 years and help the next generation of designers.

GRAPHILICUS IMAGICUS

I'm working here on trying to remove information, yet keep the freshness of the image.

BLACK AND WHITES

Here are some pen and ink illustrations.  I wanted to go deep in the blacks, with gradations in the mediums to give a rather severe graphics look, without them having too much information removed. The gradations are done with washes.