10.07.2012

Zark's Cabinet of Curiosities

Zarkana Welcome Poster - 2012 (Ink & Photoshop)

This was done as the official poster design for Cirque du Soleil's internal welcome party for Zarkana, the newest resident show to move to Vegas. For the poster, I hand drew the paper banners, the cabinet itself, and the emblems of each of the Cirque du Soleil Las Vegas resident shows around the frame.

The contents IN the cabinet are most interesting - they are drawn from dozens of Cirque du Soleil employees across all resident shows here in Vegas. This gave me quite a creative pool to fill the cabinet from! I sent out templates of empty jars and shelves and collected the responses, which were scanned and hand-placed in Photoshop into place to make an interesting composition.

There are all sorts of goodies to find in the shelves (a candle with feet, a Spongebob vase, dogs doing handstands, Justin Beiber, etc.)

9.18.2012

Portrait

Charcoal on newsprint

7.27.2012

Concert

Photos from the concert/ exhibition.


Figure Paintings Summer 2012

These oil paintings were done for an exhibition at a house concert/ pool party in Las Vegas. All are for sale. I'm open to commissions with a similar pricing scale. 30% of sales from these paintings and any commissions ordered through the end of this calendar year will be donated to Safe Passage, an organization providing education and opportunities to children of the Guatemala City garbage dump.

 Casey - 48 x 72

 Detail

Self Portrait - 24 x 48 

 Looking Up - 30 x 40

 Male Torso - 24 x 36

Nude with Cloth - 24 x 36 

Morning - 18 x 24

 Crawl - 18 x 24

Crimson - 18 x 24

Rain - 18 x 24

Sitting - 18 x 24


Towers - 18 x 24

6.10.2012

Lion

Many ideas shaping up for my next series of dioramas....

5.29.2012

Figure painting updates

Quick snapshots of some of the canvases I have going. I think the main thing I'm doing with these is trying to break some of my frequent painting habits to try and expand my skillset.





5.26.2012

Girl with cloth

Preliminary layer of a third painting.

5.24.2012

Figure Paintings - new series


New series of figure paintings began today. I really liked "drawing" on the canvas with the paint, using a brush and a rag to build and suggest form. My plan is to work these (24x36 canvases) up into fully fleshed paintings, but they have an energy in this early stage that will be very difficult for me to maintain....

5.17.2012

Portrait study

One day I'll spend more than 2 hours on a painting....

Mothers day paintings

Some landscapes with beach themes for my mom. Each is 8x20, oil and acrylic on chip board.

4.15.2012

Drawing workshop

Challenging this time. So much information in the fabric that was difficult to consolidate onto the paper.

4.08.2012

3.30.2012

Sculpture update

Having fun with this one-

3.25.2012

Daily sketch

Found a cool 3 hour figure workshop, did about 2.5 drawings, here's one of them.

3.06.2012

Sculpture

Drawing got boring. Starting a new model.

3.03.2012

Chinese Poles Tricks


I started working on a project for work so that we can quickly sketch out concepts for new tricks on the Chinese Poles. Photographing myself in a bunch of positions, the figures can be cut and pasted in Illustrator to rapidly document a trick idea or concept for future reference.

2.28.2012

Daily Sketch

I did draw today, but nothing worth posting. Here's something from my anatomy sessions earlier this week.

Daily sketch

Anatomy from memory

2.25.2012

Daily sketch

I need to build this guy

2.24.2012

Daily Sketch

Daily sketch

Next project will be a new diorama series featuring these guys hopefully....

2.20.2012

Sketchbook daily posts

1 per day. For real this time.