Diamonds in the Dark by Dark Waves

Honored to create the artwork for Dark Waves new song on Spotify Diamonds in the Dark. Listen to it here or click the link below.

Subliminal Projects

Woah! I have been lagging on getting these photos up for a minute but here we are. A couple of months ago my buddy and professional artist friend Adam Mars invited me to an art show at Shepard Fairey's gallery in Echo Park called Subliminal Projects. The name and theme of the show was AGENTS PROVOCATEURS and it was such a blast from my 90's past. I loved the show and it was great to see a lot of the original decks that really transformed the skateboard graphic game.

All of a sudden, decks had become provocative manifestos. They talked about the violence of society, sex, politics, racism, drugs, religion, and international affairs. A new school of artists had taken over, and was deliberately willing to trigger something, anything, a reaction in the viewer. Skateboarding was a counter culture again. – Seb Carayol (Agents Provocateurs; Gingko Press, 2014)

Here is a bit from Shepard on the show:

Skateboarding and its culture changed my life. I grew up going to a conformist private prep school, and I had no therapeutic outlet to vent or focus my frustration until I discovered skateboarding. Skateboarding is creative and rebellious and it provided the most perfect balance of visceral and artistic rabble-rousing I could hope for. When I co-founded Subliminal in 1995 with my skateboard friends and fellow artists, Alfred Hawkins and Blaize Blouin, our goal was to put the spotlight on the artists doing the amazing skateboard graphics who had contributed significantly to the visual identity of the culture that shaped us profoundly. AGENTS PROVOCATEURS is the kind of exhibit that Subliminal Projects was founded to showcase! The vibrant, creative, fearless, culture of rebellion that is the distilled essence of skateboarding, and what drew me to it in the first place, is what AGENTS PROVOCATEURS is all about. There are a ton of killer deck graphics and fine art pieces by the same artists in the show. If you’ve ever ridden a plank with four wheels, listened to the Misfits and Public Enemy, but never to rent-a-cops, you need to be at this show! – Shepard Fairey, 2014

Crystals

Simple digital drawings of the quartz crystal that sits on my desk.

Marble Series

Really stoked to share some recent paintings I did for a project with Dark Waves. This is just a small portion of what I created but these are my favorites. Each one has such a different feeling, I love it!

Prayers | Cholo Goth

Love watching Vice and learning about all the sub cultures out there.

Rattlesnake Drawing

Fun little sketch I created while hanging out with VCJ in an attempt to practice working in just black and white with minimal shading. Really enjoying the pink and purple cosmic smoke that I added it at the end.

Kate Zitzer Art Logo

New logo for my talented friend Katelyn Zitzer. Check out her site and Etsy shop here.

Peregrine Concepts

When given the opportunity to concept and create professional surfer Dane Reynold's board graphic for his new Channel Island's pro model - The Peregrine, I was beyond hyped to say the very least. The culture and prestige that surrounds a professional athlete's release of a pro model and its respected graphic is industry known. The boards are actually getting made and prepared for the release of this new shape as we speak and I am stoked to say that my art work will be printed on each and every one! I submitted a couple of concepts and will hold off on showing you the final until its release but here are a couple of drawings I submitted.

For more about this surfboard model and an amazing video on Surfline that captures process and love that went into this shape - check out this awesome link!

Images via Surfline

Sunscreen Labels featured in DEEP Swim Issue

Stoked to have a previous project featured in the 2015 DEEP Magazine Swim Issue. Make sure to check out the feature here and for more on Live Free Go Organic products, please check the Our Spirit Earth site here.

Drift Wood Crafts

Working with my hands is always a pleasant break from the computer or the drawing board. It's interesting how the creative mind needs different mediums to latch onto. Weather that is music, dancing, pottery, there are so many things to play and engage with. After a couple of solid hours of drawing or using Adobe, I often feel the need to make jewelry or engage in some type of craft. I have been collecting hawk and owl feathers for sometime and my friends have been generous with saving me their findings as well so I was pretty stoked to finally put this mobile piece together for my living room. Thank you to Vanessa Fiest for helping me attach everything and drill the holes in the drift wood.

Dark Waves

Been working with my friend Nick Long on some graphic design projects for his band Dark Waves. Stoked to crank out some concert fliers for him and support his art in anyway that I can. We are working on some branding right now and I am excited to share our progress here on my blog.

Tiger Spirit

Fun drawing I did of my tiger spirit while inspired by hanging out with the talented Calen Blake.

Ranch Days

Spent the weekend at my friend Kyle's ranch a bit ago to celebrate his Wife Ashley and his 30th birthdays.... I had such a lovely time and enjoyed taking these photos that I am sharing with you!