FINE ART
These are illustrations and sketches done through the years. Some rough and some more polished. Some colored with design markers and paint pens others colored in photoshop. The ones that get colored on the computer are first drawn in pen and ink and scanned in. I never mastered actually drawing in the computer, but some are collages of photographs and are all manipulated in the computer.
These are various projects that I’ve done as commissions or that don’t fit into the categories of art making I have created. From tradeshow booths that I custom painted and designed to boom boxes that were collaged and painted. I like to make all types of things and on varied surfaces so this is where you’ll find that.
I’ve always found stained glass art to be amazing. The mixture of color and light is very powerful. I also like the thick linework and simplified and stylized imagery. The way the pieces are never the same every second of every day changing as the sun moves about the sky. The images and colors that are projected onto the walls around the pieces is also very beautiful. I taught myself the craft and began making some pieces that mixed my style of geometric art and graffiti.
Graffiti art in NYC was what first really attracted me to art. It was what I practiced as a kid and what lead to my making art my lifetime career. I still make graffiti pieces in my spare time, only now mostly with permission. The color theory, line quality, and design behind graffiti typography is a major part of my design, animation, and directorial work to this day. Here are some walls I’ve blessed over the last 10 years.
With 2 of my best friends for most of my life being 2 of the most prolific painters of our generation (Phil Frost & Doze Green) I’ve been around some amazing canvas painting in my day. Some of it rubbed off on me and I’ve made some of my own canvasses. Most of my canvasses are experiments and studies for stained glass pieces I’d like to make. When I get old and retire this is all I want to do. I’ve been in a number of group art shows throughout the years.
All this being chained to the computer bizness sucks! I prefer to burn the crap out of my hand with soldering irons and breathe molten lead fumes! Here’s my latest stained glass creation: 300 pieces and 400 watts! My good friend Alex Dervin of Network invited me to do my version of the Bus project for the Group show “blood, sweat, and tires.” I wanted to get my shine on. I’ve been working with stained glass for awhile and merging graffiti and design. This was my first 3 dimensional piece with glass.
This is the mural we created in 2.5 days for the AFI documentary film competition which we took first place in for the historical category. Painted by myself, Trixter, Ariel, and Bounce we made our version of the history of hip hop. Tracing it from the African slave trade to Jamaica and eventually to the South Bronx. Honoring Africa Bambaataa, U-Roy, and Kool Herc. This piece was behind Brooklyn Projects on Melrose and has been in countless videos and on MTVs show “Scarred”.