Old Pieces, New Photography

I started these pieces last year and reworked them incorporating techniques I have developed in the past year as a result of these pieces. What started out as an experiment has developed a concrete process that I utilize with every piece, now. All as a result of experimentation. I've even standardized my post-painting process; photographing them and posting them on my blog. As per usual, mad props to my buddy Josh Verduzco" for the help with the photography. We swap photos for haircuts. Never underestimate the power of bartering your skills!


Moving Forward


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I have other old pieces that are photographed better, now available to view on my Flickr site, but these were the only ones I reworked. Moving Forward is now available for purchase at the Austin Art Garage, located on South Lamar. I'm pretty excited, it's a really rad, lowbrow gallery.

On that note, my other photographer buddy Evan Prince recently took a few photos of me, The Fox, and Shirley.


The Fox behind me, and my other mode of transportation even further behind me (the Focus is a road warrior. Ten more years!)


Me and Shirley. She's a beast.


Just me, thinking about my bikes.

You can see more on his tumblr. He makes me look good.

And since we're going balls-deep with the images here, I'll go ahead and toss in some recent graphic design freelance I just completed:


Any excuse to use neon is a good one.

I hope I crashed your computer with all that overwhelming amount of amazing content I just dumped on you. Ya welcome, internet.

Kitty + Deer

Full resolution available here.

It's an art show!

So Studio Zen, where I work, is hosting an art show in February, and will be a part of the monthly Second Friday Art Walk. I just finished making the fliers for the event:


[Sorry if it's huge]

I'm very excited about this event! Me and a few of the participating artists are going to start painting at 7, and at 9:30 we are going to auction off our paintings. I observed a live paint at Standing Buffalo, a Native American gallery on Main Street and it was so much fun! That's actually where I met Micah, one of our participating artists. He does amazing work, I can see his work being featured in Juxtapoz. Here is a small sample of his work:







I love his paintings on vinyl. You can check out his website here.

Another artist, Olivia Cuenca, was my roommate in Savannah, Georgia for two years. She was a fibers major and does incredible tactile works with creepy tentacles:







Creepy cool. You can check her out here.

And last but not least, from the KND we've got Mr. Haveldids and Nots, a terribly talented artist:







I think I might need to steal the sloth painting, I'm so in love with it. Maybe we can do a trade, hmm? You can check out Mr. Haveldids and the KND here.


So yes! Everybody mark your calendars, this is going to be a ton of fun. There will be wine, cheese, live music, beautiful (and maybe a little creepy) artwork, a live paint and an auction at the end of the night! It's going to be awesome!