Good things are coming

I'll be in a couple of upcoming shows here in the LBC, one at Phone Booth Gallery in celebration of David Lynch, and at Cal State Long Beach, in honor of and tribute to the life of an incredible artist and good friend Lisa Nguyen. The art at both of these events will be absolutely jaw-dropping, so don't miss either if you're in town.

PBG Live Paint II

Phone Booth Gallery has done it again; another Live Paint event, this time with raffle tickets to give away the eight (individually worked) finished paintings at the end of the night!





It was great to work next to some of my favorite fellow artists again, and we had a hellava turnout, the place was PACKED all night!





Mr. Moses Avila (I think I spelled that right) won my painting in the art raffle finale! Hooray to you, and to all the winners of eight AWESOME art pieces. This event set the bar really high for next time!

van Bommel odds n' ends/ Zombies' last gasp

Tried to post this on Facebook just now... terrible.





Also, if you haven't been by yet, my good friend Mr. Jason Liwag's Zombie show has been extended, but only for a little while longer, so go check it out at Yojie's (501 w. Olympic Avenue, Los Angeles)!



Wonderful work by a great group of artists, don't miss it!

They Live... on 4th Street.

I only have a few pictures from the other night, but MAN it was fun. So many good costumes, so many great people, and way too many recipes for fake blood!





I'm a pretty lazy photographer, so if you wanna see way more (and better) pictures, visit Pink Cow Photography's Zombie Walk Photoset.
And if you're looking to buy a t-shirt from the event, check out the MondoCelluloid store HERE.



Also there is this:

Zombiewalkthrough

Here follows an intoxicatingly detailed rundown of how this year's LB Zombie Walk poster was born...

The back of my receipt from dinner at the Taqueria on 4th, where Garry pitched me the idea and we started sketching...
(If you've never had their Lengua burrito, check it out; pretty messy, but damn good!)

Out of the billions of reference photos I took, only a couple ended up being useful. Had to come back a few times to get all the angles and details I wanted.

More photo reference, ended up straining muscles in my palm I didn't even know I had!

Final approved sketch...

...Taken into photoshop and massaged into a workable value study...

...Blown up and transferred to midtone charcoal paper.

And the fun begins...



Throwing in some tasty sinew and gristle action on the pelvis, ribcage, and so on. Some light touch-ups and texturing in photoshop, a TON of typework brilliantly executed by the fine people of Phone Booth Gallery, and...

BAM. ZombieWalk poster.

More info about the event here.

PBG Live Paint

This video was taken at Phone Booth Gallery, right down the street from my apartment. 10+ artists, two 4' x 8' panels, 5 hours to rock some sweet art together. Had a great time, great people, awesome atmosphere and AMAZING turnout! I've heard rumors of a second one in the works, I'll post info here if you wanna come see it.

Also, one of the coolest remasterings of "Ziggy Stardst" I've ever heard. Great soundtrack, Garry!

Off the Hook III Opening Video

Some really great OTH III footage shot and edited by my creative comrade-in-arms Mr. Jeremy Eichenbaum. Show hosted by Fix coffee in Echo Park, orchestrated and hung by the good folks at Phone Booth Gallery. For those of you who missed it, you have my pity and my unwavering scorn. Enjoy!

Interlude, with overpasses

Title-less so far, but I'll think of something...

I don't usually do a lot of inorganic stuff, and definitely had to put my impulsive, "who's gonna know if there's no structure? it looks good!" mentality on the shelf for a bit. Tried to, anyway.

I always planned to cram as much ballpoint drawing into this as I could get away with. Had to rediscover a lot of stuff I'd learned about painting, overall a REALLY fun project to work on.