I will have a new painting in a group show in Jersey City. More info. once I get it!

Took a few pics at the Coney Island Mermaid Day Parade last weekend.

Loved this.

Some kind of sea horse on the boardwalk?

I really have no idea, but it was the last group and they closed down the parade after them!

Right now, I’m working on commissions and and soaking in my environment. I just joined the Classic Car Club here in NYC. I want to incorporate more actual machine parts from exotic engines as a starting point for my newest batch of images.

While joining a car club sounds extreme, I figure why not enjoy the research while I’m at it? Michael (one of the founders) picked me up from Bushwick in this freshly tuned GT3 Porsche and we tooled around lower Manhattan where the HQ is. HQ is a garage full of exotic cars and engines and a lounge… Where I plan to do some “research”. I find the whole atmosphere inspiring.  After I signed up, Michael dropped me off at Last Rites and checked out my show before it comes down next week. He really liked the clown and the dog paintings. I’m sure I’ll have some cool new experiences at the car club. I leave this post with another inspirational image from Bushwick.

It was a calm day, a peaceful day. Sunny, like in some stylized happy setting in a romantic movie about the innocent first love between a boy and a girl holding hands while gazing at frogs chirping in a pond at sunset… Little did I know what lurked on the sidewalk! It was a massacre. Reds and yellows oozing everywhere. I almost wretched. Then I saw the black and blues and worst of all… brown. Sorry, I had to share.

Devastating.

It’s always sad to lose a baby blue.

It made me appreciate my own colors safe in their box in my studio.

I have a table at MOCCA Fest in the Puck building this weekend. Please stop in and say “hello”. I’ll be drawing and showing prints etc. If you are looking for a good reason to go to New York City, this is it! Obviously they aren’t holding this thing for little old me. It’s full of a lot of really talented comic artists and illustrators and fine artists. Four floors from what I hear. I hope it doesn’t out grow the Puck. The building is a work of art itself.

I might even have a bowl of candy sitting out.

Meredith, who posted the article, came to the opening as well. I finally got around to thanking her. I stink at sending thank yous!

Just received this from Last Rites. Some pictures of me painting the mural on the gallery wall and folks who came to see the show.

Here are a few reasons I’m not a model. These are some more pictures from the opening at Last Rites Gallery on April 5th.

I lost my camera, but my friend, Tex, took these shots while he checked out my show last week.

I painted the mural on the wall the day before the opening.

I planned the mural after I knew where the paintings were going.

A little review:

Warren Ellis gave a good mention.

Creep Machine and, this review.

 Juxtapoz is nice to me too.

meFeedia a little video. I’ll be the first to smash my video interview debut. People actually still talk to me. I have a girlfriend who hasn’t run away from me yet.  There is another interview floating around out there for a documentary. I’m sure that footage is equally scary (at least to me).

If you don’t know what it is, find out! It will really kill the image making field. Fine artists should be as concerned about this as if their career depended on it… because is does! No it might not be obvious how it will affect you at first, but it will. Congress will pass a bill that will pretty much shoot whatever image you make into being an orphan and subject to being used without your knowledge or any compensation. A person who works for any company, be it a restaurant, insurance agency, law firm, whatever, does so with the expectation of being paid a wage for their time and effort. Imagine they didn’t get it. They would quit, or raise hell with their bosses. Artists are stuck. We tend to do what we do even if we aren’t paid. Well some actually use this income we receive to pay our bills and live our lives. Congress is currently trying to FUCK us! Copyrites are fine as they are compared to the bullshit they are trying to pass right now.  So until the bill is passed and I’m forced to pull all my work down so it isn’t used in ways I don’t want it used, I have the start of a painting begun at New York Comic Con this year. The final is on the walls of Last Rites right now.

“Spooky’s Informant” Yes, an X-Files reference.

I posted a sketch from my Moleskine earlier for the red hand. This is only a portion. The bottom part changed a bit from the sketch. The whole thing will be at the show. I need a larger studio. I might not have made all the images I did for this show if I could have had them up on my wall as I worked. Instead, I had them up on the wall in my gallery/office/living-room area of my loft. Upon grouping them all together before the show, I seem to be channeling the X-Files. I’ve always worked late and listened to the late night talk shows. Some of which talk about conspiracies and UFOs etc. One of my favorite shows in the early 90’s was The X-Files. So I sneak things in that you might see as a UFO or shadow creature. The titles of these are, “The Red Right Hand was Left Handed” and “Spooky’s Informant”.