east blue

ok, i know i've been showing alot of close up lately. im working on 7 paintings at the same time, so its harder to show finished paintings. some new ones im working on.

100.

sarasota was amazing!
special thanks tom casmer, valerie strenk, kelly tudor, and all of ringling for making my trip so awesome.
thank you alllllll for your hospitality. I appreciate it greatly!!!!!

during my painting, i was praying the whole time that i would come out semi decent. my nerves got the best of me and won. im pretty sure everyone there could tell how nervous i was. this is my third lecture and demo and im still not use to being up on the stage. needless to say the painting was a flop:(

the model (sarah) is so awesome to work with!!!!!!!

one of the hardest thing for me was judging the ill of ill art show. there was soooo much great work and i only could accept 70. i had a hard time deciding the show and even a harder time deciding who deserved to win 1st, 2nd, and 3rd.
after a few hours i ended up picking some great stuff to be in the show. i wished i could've included more.

i picked the white border as 3rd place.

nice people.




extremely nice fellas. justin and chris.
i picked this as 1st place.
charles got some serious skills.

charles, keyla, kelly, adam.
love these 2 pieces.
i picked this for 2nd.
sarah
awesome artist and graffiti artist, peter.


so that's my trip in a nutshell. Im sorry i couldn't hang out with everyone who contacted me. there was just too much things to see and too much dinners to attend to.
again, thanks ringling!

lastly please go out and rock the vote for my good friend michael alverez.

http://www.karmaloop.com/tshirt-browse.asp?cid=197029

those evil natured robots.

this was one of my projects i did while in school. im so glad i found this while organizing. everyone and their momma got a robot. i just wanted to document random people doing there robot. the beginning starts of with a professional, my old roommate daniel ahn. then towards the end you have ordinary joe's doing mr roboto. i have a quick cameo along with jon han, ronald kurinwan, and david jien.

those evil natured robots from andrew hem on Vimeo.

also get your ol dirty bastard t-shirt from the very talented david jien.

shirrrrrrrtttttts


lastley, ill be flying out to florida tomorrow for a lecture and a demo at ringling college of art and design. if you are around sarasota you should swing by the school.

AMAZING!

I've never met tempt, but i have always been a big fan of his work. It was painful when someone told me that he would never be able to create art again. but i recently came across this video that made me soooooooooo inspired.

SE2 EP4 - Eyewriter Tempt LA from Evan Roth on Vimeo.

i cannot believe he is able to do this with his eye. i have trouble doing it with both hands.

such an amazing artist!

doodles ma noodles.

just some sketchbooks, drawings and doodles laying around my place.

my first attempt on using the t1i.

digi

trying something new. i usually just go with an idea and a quick sketch, but this time i've been trying to do matte paintings.
this is making my life soooo much easier because i hardly get stuck while in the middle of painting.



also doing a slow shutter painting, so took some slow shutter references.

acryla-gouache.

i really love the look you get from gouache. very graphic and very saturated. heres a 30 minute gouache demo i did at otis 2 weeks ago.



nathan ota swung me some acryla-gouache. i never heard of this, so i couldn't wait to give it a try. almost the same look, but with a different finish.


also, i recently released a limited edition stuff print. i have 9 left. if interested it's available at my store.



store

anniversary.

i cannot believe that i've been running this blog for 3 years now. I just want to thank everyone for their constant support and for following my blog these past 3 years. I really appreciate all the comments and love you've given me and as a way to show my appreciation i will be showing you guys love. I will be giving away  small original drawings to the 9th person who comments on this post. here are the rules. you are not allowed to comment more than once and i will not count anons.



email me your addy if you are 9th.

the winner will get this along with some other goodies. there all very small so dont expect much:)


here's another close up of what ive been working on

and here's something me and the guys did at the west coast meeting of styles. lysol, big wang, and merso on the letters and me on the carewata.

spray it, don't say it.

i painted this mural 4th of july weekend.
i did the big face mainly with house paint. i notice when you do a mural with house paint, cops drive by waving hi and giving the thumbs up. but the moment you highlight the painting with spraypaint then you become a suspect. kinda crazy.  i repainted this wall again because the colors were looking really dull.  that's what 3 years in the sun will do to you.  gonna coat this new one with u.v protection! might take a while to finish the whole wall, but here's a small portion of it.

this is the longest wall i've ever done.  i really don't know how artist in the u.k have enough energy to do 10+ stories mural.  

more crose ups.

closeup1

i've been putting in some serious hours in the workshop lately.  i just want to up my drawing and painting skill another level before i work on anything new.  i feel like im ready to start on a new body of work.  


also my friend akira gave me a mixer and im finally a dj for hire. i have all the beatles records and one temptation record. very limited. weddings, sweet 16, or art openings- holla:)

i really enjoyed reading this article. great story, and great working with director katie mathy.

 

man, i never screamed so loud watching any video! japan's dream team flew down to korea to battle gambers crew. gamblers is my favorite crew, but im going to have to give this one to japan. you might want to watch this in slow motion.

so i've always been a huge fan of publikat and stylefile. really honored to find out that they were releasing a book on illustration and asked me to be a part of it. there is some really amazing stuff on this book.  they ask 20 artist from around the world there definition of illustration  and art.  

kenichi hosine
os gemeos 
tomer hanuka

daniel schussler.  

lastly this is a sketch i did while working with 3ll last year. im going to submit to the brother sink. my friend jason alexander is starting up something really cool. everyone should submit

also, i just found out i got 5 pieces in the next communication arts:)  

moleskin 2

here are some more sketches from my moleskin.

her name is erin. the purple hair makes her look like paramore. 2 sittings.

her name is daniella. i wasn't planning on painting so i didn't bring my paint set. but when i saw the model i wanted to run to the art store and buy some paint. such a great model to work with. again 2 sittings.

quick head study.

here's my contribution to the hi fructose show at copro.

cattaragus

this is a commish for damian over at rolling stone. im hoping that they'll hang it in the center of the office, so every time they're in need of an illustrator i'll be all in there grill. this is a portrait of his girl. in every picture he sent me she was making a cat pose, so i painted her with her cat and a cat woman figurine.


aslo i found out how breakdancing made it's way to cambodia. it's great to see someone being deported able to make a positive impact elsewhere. we are 40 years late........... they should have deported kk earlier:)

ranscape

recently i've been painting quick landscapes on my spare time. I was exicted to get call for me to illustrate a landscape with no figures! I've never did something like that, but i figured all these quick landscapes studies i've been doing would help me out.


the art director told me to add some last minute changes.


in other news my friend julienne hsu got her mfa. she's the first person out of my graduating class to get her mfa. im really proud of her!

lyfer

this illustration is about new life. the art director wanted me to illustrate synthetic generation of life.
this is what i came up with.


in an unrelated story. usually when you hear about cambodians on the news it usually evolves around the starting of trg or asian boys. peap sent me this news clip of him in action. it's great to see positive stuff like this on the news. you might remember his stuff on hi fructose 7.

moley moley

these sketches from my trip to cambodia. my goal was to fill up the whole moleskin while in asia, but there was just to much things to see. sadly this is all i painted while over there.





also did a quick video. going to send it to my sis to get it souped up.

done

i had a blast in portland and seattle.
it's finally time to head back home.
special thanks goes out to kirsten
and a millllllion thanksssss to the homegirl skye hwang!!!!!!!

seattle

if anyone is around seattle tomorrow you should swing by roq la rue.



to get an idea of what this new body of work is about you can check out these interview

with amanda and arrested motion
so drop by and say hi to stella and i.


2312 2nd avenue
seattle washington, 98121
206 374 8977