WSG up for Auction

WSG what does it mean!? has been around since my days in santa cruz...or at least just after.
It's shown in SF, NYC, Chicago & now is set to be available for auction tomorrow night at Cue Art Foundation in Chelsea.
The proceeds benefit the Groundswell Community Mural group which I help out with the last two summers. Should be fun and interesting to see if anyone can stand to have Greasy Grucci Grinning from their wall even for a good cause!?

MDV Mural in progress in the Gehry NYC Tower

I got to help out for one fun day (a day off the summer DOT mural) with the talented Mark Dean Veca on a new mural he was putting up in the public school at the base of the new Frank Gehry Building in downtown NYC. The buildings funny because you can't miss it from anywhere except standing at it's base. The base of it looks like the brick buildings surrounding it, but then you look up 4 or 5 stories and you can tell that on top and set back from the base is this giant super shiny skyscraper. The mural I was working on was going up in the cafeteria of the new school at the base of the skyscraper. It was a fun project to work on and an honor to get to work with Justin and Mark (Thanks to Viktor Kerlow for the heads-up). I walked by recently and you can see it finished through the windows from the Pace University side of the tower. Pictures are of the mural in process.

Church Ave. Mural

I worked on this mural in Kensington Brooklyn with an amazing group of youth artist from Queens and Brooklyn. I was the assistant artist. The mural is a compilation of designs the youth came up with and presented to the NYCDOT on traffic safety. It turned out pretty nice and the neighborhood was a fun place to work for the summer.

subway sketches

BirdFamily

I finished this commission earlier in the summer, but luckily I've been working enough that I haven't had time to post it. Some of the idea or inspiration was from 1950's Golden Books and their tree styles, mixed with a stylized/realistic recognizable faces. The biggest challenge was working with different references of each person and then combining them into a scene and reorienting them within this new environment. Also, it's a small painting, maybe 14x18"? or something like that. The rest of the summer I was working about 60feet x 160 feet, so it's a shift.

I love Coney Island

That clown head is hand painted perfection. The picture is lucky timing, but coney island just holds that magic for me. I ended up talking to the sign owner, who happened to be passing out flyers for his parking lot and may be blessed with a sign painting job if all stars align.

Village Voice Restaurant Review Comic

I was lucky enough to get this short 9 panel comic assignment from the Village Voice recently. This was the first time I've done a comic using a script that someone else wrote. In this case, the script is a restaurant review. I think this may also be my first color comic. I tweaked the saturation up for the newsprint version so hopefully that will turn out well.
The issue of the paper that the comic appears in is coinciding with the MoCCA comics festival in NYC and the paper for that week is going to be all comics and illustration so it should be a fun one to see. I hope my comic contributes to a memorable issue. Thanks to John at the Voice for a fun assignment. I also just noticed that the website has a pretty nice slide show of the comic (panel by panel) and uses it in a couple spots on the home page this week. Check it out while it's still up Here.