I am not dreaming of a “White Christmas” but the holidays always makes me think of snow. I am ready for that first snowfall, and I know once it comes I will be ready for the last one as well! Due to my over-load of Christmas gifts to make this year I was unable to make the 2011 Hello! Snowman series, but, still I think all snowmen are awesome! Let it snow! Let it snow! Let it snow!
In contrast to the very joyous holidays, I still find Hellboy, as hellish as he is to be part of the Christmas spirit. Hellboy “Red” is a super cheesy comic book character but he’s got a charm about him that keeps me hanging on. Think about it, him and Jesus pretty much do the same thing, he protects our species with his passion and bad ass strength (and also a key to the dark universe that tries to destroy us #his arm). I give to you baby Jesus’s comic book companion “Hellbaby” He is so awesome he doesn’t need no darn shepherd!
Christmas. The Season for giving. In my case, the season for creating. What I love most about this season is giving what I create. Rarely do I have a list to hand of things I want. I believe a gift should only be given if it represents the relationship between the giver and receiver. It shows you sincerely know a person. It’s why silly inside joke gifts are so precious. I have been doing this since I was born for my family and friends. I love being able to capture a moment we shared and visually present it in my own way. One time I made my mother this stop motion video for x-mas. It took a long time to make but in the end, it spoke the message I wanted to send to her and on x-mas morning when I saw tears roll from her face while watching it I said to myself “this is what Christmas is all about.” My brother is in the military and recently became a new husband. I now have a sister in law. I am painting for them a moment the three of us shared last year when were were stuck in a blizzard the day after x-mas, we took silly pictures in the streets. It’s in progress, I am going to have to paint the perfect snowflake.
Art Gift Progress! UPDATES
Currently I am working on about 5 paintings at once! Today I started my mothers gift, her sweet little spoiled boston terrier whom I love named “Yoda” aka “Little Crazy” will be greeting her in a painting this Christmas! I shall finish it pretty soon. I’m painting it on wood, I can’t wait to coat it in gloss when it is finished!
I hope you all are doing special things this holiday for the ones you love! As crappy as it can be due to angry shopping cart shoppers, there is still time to personalize your items! Eff those shoppers! Make it worth smiling for.
The year 2006. I went to Paris for the first time. I fell in love with the culture, the city, the vibe, the art, the music, the food, the feeling, the…everything Paris was made of…and when I left, I think tears rolled off this cheek of mine because I did not want to leave this beautiful, magical, romantic place I call the verbal heaven. A few months ago I was just laying in my bed listening to a mix I had in iTunes and Dent May’s song “Oh Paris” began to play and that feeling came back to me, so instead of tearing up, I decided to paint to the song with my emotions leaving Paris that day in 2006. One day I know I will make it back there, even if a zombie apocalypse breaks out.
Dent May: Oh Paris!
When I think of Life Aquatic, I think of happiness. Awkward happiness. This particular painting I made not because I am a huge Bill Murray & Jeff Goldblum/ Wes Anderson fan but more for the sentimental side of me. It was a gift to my sweet sweet penis machine, a.k.a my lover boy. This was one of the first movies we watched together while eating gummie worms, awkwardly getting to know each other through semi-questionable giggles. I remember thinking to myself “if he likes Bill Murray and Jeff Goldblum as much as I do, I think he is going to last longer than a Wes Anderson related one-night stand ” and I was right, he could recite quotes from the movie and I learned not only is he awesome, but also, that I’m effing easy!
This one is simple. It went like this *phone rings* It is someone I know so I answer* “Hey what’s up sweet thang!?, Yeah… I remember you’re doing that…. wait STAR WARS?!? SEX?!?…you need a Star Wars Sex Themed piece of art by when!? A few days? Okay sure, do, let me see what I can create. Yes, hmmm. p.s. I love you”
Pen & Ink over photograph 11″ x 14″
This one followed shortly after just for fun one day. Sexy Android Love:
On rainy days, my favorite thing to do besides pucker up & get kisses from my honey, is to put on some of my favorite tunes and just doodle. I never know what will come out of it when I start, but somehow my brain will focus on a certain verse or line in a song and it will entitle my pen to just make that lyric come to life, and by life I mean become a physical vision. Music is pretty much my lifelong friend, the truth behind all of my honesty & my inspiration for every step I take in life. So before this turns into a shitty Live Journal entry let me stop now and just post what the heck I’m blabbing about! These are from 2009. Pen and Marker over images manipulated in Photoshop.
Illustrations were done with my brain Ink and Letraset Markers on bristol paper.
Oh Winter, how I love you when I’m not driving! View more Hello! Snowmen on my Flickr
I am really sad that Season 2 of Boardwalk Empire has ended already! It seems like it went by too fast! But gosh, it was AMAZING! The more I thought about the show and it’s awesomeness, the more I convinced myself to do a painting in honor of the show I love so dear. I decided to go for an erie approach, much like the opening of the show should have been. I mixed my three favorite characters together ( Nucky Thompson, Jimmy Darmody & Richard Harrow) in a ghostly setting on the Boardwalk of Atlantic City, NJ with their ghost spilling out of an old whiskey bottle.
Never forget Prohibition. How could you? No one was drinking. #badjoke
Acrylic on wood. 16″ x 22″
So, I have this friend (who will remain nameless) that loves to come to Philadelphia just to “hipster watch.” Funny thing is, he does not realize that if another guy right next to him were doing the same thing, he would be asking my friend where he bought his Joy Division T-shirt or what his latest vinyl purchase was. For X-Mas, since he is a dear friend of mine, I decided to paint him some hipstermatic art that I know he will like. ( Hmm..I wonder why??) It was quite simple actually. I introduce to you…the Hipmulester!
Merry X-Mas you filthy animal!
