"Give me all the bacon and eggs you have."

I've been wanting to do a Ron Swanson rendering/print, so tonight I tried my hand at this gentleman's likeness. I don't think this will be my "final" piece, but I thought it was a decent sketch. I spent maybe an hour and a half on this

I'm happy to have Photoshop back. I bought a new, powerful computer...my first Mac, and have been struggling with getting things set up properly. I haven't used a Mac besides computer lab time in college, so basic navigation has been a bit...hmm...difficult. funny, i guess old habits die hard.

anyhoo, glad to have my software back, and looking forward to getting some things together for my upcoming events! convention season, here i come!

thank you
PAUL

sharing is caring

as promised, here are a couple scans from a couple pieces ive finished recently

first, i call this one "Freedom", and it is painted on a kitchen cutting board...

and next, my Street Fighter piece, which is still untitled.

i plan to make a few prints of the Street Fighter piece to sell at conventions and online. 

anyway, this feels like a boring post and im not feeling all that witty. so thats it

thanks

PAULsha

Johnny Cakes & Liquor

Casey and i finished Pancakes & Booze night 2. It was a lot of fun, and I felt like i was actually able to accomplish a decent amount of work as i sat at our table. i finished off my street fighter piece, and got a few sketch cards done as well.

here is the street fighter painting in photograph form...

here is a "Slippy" (from Star Fox) sketch card...

a commissioned "Back to the Future" sketch card...

and a Ron Swanson sketch card...

and a picture of me working at the show.

as always, pancakes & booze was a good time. i will definitely consider going back next time the show is in town. i got to meet a lot of nice folks, passed out some business cards, and sold some prints. overall SUCCESS

PAUL

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