Dancing Sugar Skulls

My wife and I have been really getting ino the 40's & 50's rockabilly style and thought this picture grabbed it well. I saw this as a black and white sketch on pinterest and decided to paint, color and give some background to it. The elbow came out funky, but whatever!

penguins

I was asked by my wife to paint a family of penguins for our friends who love penguins and just had a baby! I found a few different penguin sketches online and mixed them together to make this custom piece.

Lighthouse

The all too popular lighthouse tattoo is everywhere these days and since i recently went to the Outter Banks with my folks. I thought it would make a great fathers day present. The Cape Hatteras lighthouse. The random black spot on the bottom right came from painting outside and the wind flipped up my paper... whatever...

Parrot

Yes, this picture is currently my pride and joy. I was looking through my buddy Dan's tattoo flash books and found this Sailor Jerry Parrot, traced it and spent 2 days painting it. It was a pencil sketched flash, All the shading and color was my own. Quite the challenge and I think it came out looking less traditional flash and more new school, but I think it is really cool. So cool I was scared to make a Border or draw flowers and palm trees like I initially intended.

Rockabilly Girl

My wife started rocking the cool Pin up/ Rockabilly look with the bandana, and since it was around mothers day, I thought I would paint her a picture. The Eyes lashes got messed up and I more than regret using the brown for her sweater, I wish I would have used blue, because it doesn't pop. The border came out sweet.

BlackBeard and OConnors

 I started drinking this amazing beer from Oconnor's Brewing Co. and since we live in Norfolk, VA and Blackbeard sailed around here, I thought it was only proper to come up with a painting and give it to the Brewery. They loved it and have it hanging right next to the taps! My lettering came out amazing, so did the banner. I typed out the font on Word and traced it. I found the banner on Google images and enlarged it to the size I wanted and traced that as well. Thanks for the inspiration OConnors!

 

Yes, I made it to fit the frame!!!

Bird on a hand

This picture was way fun to do. The background made it different, but I had to try to do something. My friend told me that painting borders does alot for flash. So I will be paining borders on my paintings from here on out!

Pin up Girl on an Anchor

Pin up girl on an anchor, didn't spend much time on it. Face got kind of messed up. I find It hard to paint a face right

Till Death

Saw this picture on pinterest. thought it would put a smile on my wife's face

Good Swords Rust

Heard this awesome quote and decided to make a little painting for it. Didn't have and ink to print the image so I traced it off the computer screen. Started doing that alot more