Flapjacks and Spirits

I'm sharing a table at Pancakes & Booze with my boy Casey Hirai, and wanted to share some photos from night 1. We have prints, drawings, paintings, t-shirts for sale, and passed the time drawing, painting, listening to live bands and drinking Colt 45's.

It was a good time, perhaps slower than the last time I attended. I took a wood panel with a street fighter sketch on it, and pretty much kept busy painting on it. i probably put in 3.5 - 4 hours of painting, and came close to finishing. I plan to wrap it up early night 2 and work on something smaller.

I just realized I never posted the original sketch of this one...strange but true. so anyway, here is the original pencil sketch i did a couple months ago.

alright! time to get some things together and go back out to downtown for Night 2

PAUL

freedom!

hey guys. i said HEY GUYS!

last night i entered my new painting studio to paint for the first time! well, its my new garage, but im working towards turning it into a sweet painting studio...and i did really paint in it for the first time tonite!

for whatever reason, ive always wanted to do some art on cutting boards. i love wood, first of all. but secondly, ive always been a beet fascinated with the amount of experience a used cutting board has. they take a lot of abuse, theyve been chopped on, scrubbed, stained, thrown around, dropped, moldy...theyve been through a lot, and have always been worked on very intimately by peoples' hands.

so, i pulled out a cutting board ive had in my closet for a year or so, and started sketching...

then i moved into some color and lighting study work to make painting a bit easier...

and got into paints tonite.  this first one is run through an instagram filter

and this is just regular camera-style

anyway, im close to being done. another hour or 2 of touch-ups and re-painting and i'll call it a finished piece. im liking my recent experiences of painting on wood surfaces.

EDIT: I just noticed that this painting has very similar colors and imagery as "spoons", the octopus in my blog title banner. hmmm

droppin bombs on yo moms
PAUL

where have all the merrymakers gone?

hello internet!
i havent posted in nearly a month. sadly, i havent had much time to work on my artistic endeavors. but! the good news is that i have been busy buying and moving into my first house! so, id like to say "no excuses, i need to get my act together," but i feel like that is a good excuse.

ill be posting some stuff soon
PAUL

Showtime

hello there!

i finished my "circus" themed piece for the Circus, Circus show at the Hive on June 2nd. I'm pretty happy with this one. it was my first time painting on a wood panel that I can think of, and overall i liked it. interesting to see how the paint reacts to different surfaces. on wood, the paint soaks in immediately, and doesnt 'go as far'.

anyway, here is the final product...

unfortunately, this is just a photograph. i didnt have a chance to scan it in, so ill have to wait until i get it back next month (assuming it doesnt sell haha) to get a high-res image up.

anyhoo, come check out the show if you have time next weekend.

peace and chicken grease
PAUL

started a piece for a "circus" themed show at the Hive in June

i was thinking "no big deal, wood panel, its whatevs lolololol" but then elena reminded me, ive never painted on a wood panel before.

oops

so heres the sketch

instagram style

so, i need to get cracking on this tomorrow night. should have been tonight, since i "finished" the sketch last night :/

anyhoo
enjoy
PAUL

field notes 5/14/2012

just posting a couple doodles from my Field Notes book. ive been super busy with NON-ART stuff lately, and am feeling like a slouch :/

 

but i just need to get that art motor going again.

anyway, for now, enjoy!

FIELD NOTES - May 3rd, 2012

just the latest in my Field Notes sketchbook
no big deal.

just tryin to stay limber.

thanks
PAUL

charles?

ah, its been so long hasnt it? its been so long since i put some paint on a canvas. but tonight i got my butt off the couch (metaphorically speaking) and did a little work on a canvas i started a few weeks ago. its 12" x 24" and (unfortunately) 1" deep. i have a surplus of 1" canvases that i need to use.

the initial sketch wasnt anything i was SUPER excited about, but hey...sometimes you gotta just work with what youve got. and i had this...

he looked scared to me. but what was he scared of? well, i handt figured that out yet. so i sat down and tried to sketch some more and worked my way to THIS point...

and here's a little closeup shot...

sure, why not? so i got out my paints and brushes and got started on the real stuff

don't look at me...

...im a monster!

this is about an hour and a half of painting, so im excited that the pace is decent. i dont want to go crazy on this because im feeling like i need to stay loose and actually work on volume right now. i want to produce a large amount of work in a short time, and keep things moving.

3 or 4 more hours on this and ill call it done.

thanks
PAUL

I've tried to keep up on my 'field notes' sketches...2 per day. so far, not bad. i like the idea of filling up a sketchbook for once in my life.

April 24th

april 25th

survival of the fittest

hey there
long time, no post, i know

a friend of mine at work passed out these awesome "FIELD NOTES" books, so I decided to try and make it a goal to sketch in mine a couple times a week to stay loose and sharp.

as you may notice, i have entries for april 9th and april 23rd...not exactly staying sharp but i plan to get better. since it also serves as my note-taking/time management tool at work, all of my sketches have been done during meetings

anyhoo, here are my doodles so far

i also wanted to include the cover with my drawings, to follow the wear & tear on the book, as well as any dumb stuff i might scribble there too

i actually did a couple more pages today (april 24th) so i'll throw those up here tomorrow once i have a chance to scan em

thankssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
PAUL