Friday, December 14, 2012

Santa's surf break

My wife wanted something to match our other christmas picture and even though i had already begun another beach picture. I threw in santa an a palm tree and made it a christmas scene. I wanted to do something w the moon, but it ended up looking like a sun. The blue thing on the moon does not look like a crater! Haha

Wednesday, December 12, 2012

Tiki party



Merry christmas

My wife wanted me to make a picture for christmas to hang in the hallway so i asked her what she had in mind. This was it. Love the poinsettias and the fun lil christmas lights. She wanted it real dark. I thought about putting a santa silhouette in the moon but thought it would be too cheesy. Im really proud of how the night time came out

Sunday, November 11, 2012

Surf sunset

Well, this started off as me trying to make a surf picture with fall colors to match all the house decorations.. It ended up turning into what i call the primary color sunset. Best shack ive drawn and the palm trees came out great. Wave shading was tough because of the colors i chose. Decided at the last minute to throw a guy in the tube.. Just a silhouette

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Dream wave

Catch the stoke. Had a blast doin this piece. Started with the light blue and then went light then came back around to do the dark of the wave. Then i did the sky followed by the sand and plants last. I think from now on i will be painting in sections like that instead of all blue, all green, all red.... Because you forget what you are going for if you leave to paint another section

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Lip shack

My wife n baby took off for the day so i wanted to pump another surf piece out. Got too nervous to do detailed sea animals which i will be experimenting with soon. For some reason, i cant blend as well as drew brophy and my waves look very layered. Still look cool, but i want them to look more blended in the future. Im a pro at those cool little flowers now and tried a new sun out which looks way cool and does something totally different to the scene

Endless wave surf shack

I used posca pens but the new trick i tried was using "gesso" to base the canvas before i began painting. It let the paint stay wet longer for better blending and i will never again paint a canvas without it. I had to order some thick pens to paint this huge canvas(2ft) but it was really fun and i hope to try to get more detail in my next big piece and see what happens!

Wednesday, October 31, 2012

Remember your death

My friend dan sent me a rosary made of skulls and i came up with this cool idea. Had my wife pose in this way and found a cool skull to put over it. Made of poscas on archer paper. Remember your death

Posca on canvas

Someone has asked me to pain him 2 paintings. This one is roughly 12in across. Did not base the canvas which made it really hard to blend the colors because the pens dry so fast.

Friday, October 5, 2012

Flowers for CA

My wife always wants flowers so i thought i would do a piece on a bed frame of hawaiian flowers. Love the colors, wish i would have really wiped the wood down before i began!