At Lunar Boy Gallery in Astoria, Oregon (where The Goonies was filmed) opening this Friday, June 5th, 4-7p.

A cut-away into the set of the old restaurant, worked into some of the details of the painting are glasses of murky water, a blender, some ‘funny money’, a rat trap, bats, a rake (i couldn’t paint the fish head and get it to read), a map, an empty fruit plate, a skeleton, Chunk, Data, Mikey, and Sloth.

“Hey, that’s a summer place, what’s it doing open in the fall?” – Chunk

The two were never meant to be together, but it didn’t stop them from meeting somewhere over the old factory.

Gallery Nucleus is having a show, CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER: INSPIRED BY ‘ALICE IN WONDERLAND’ opening on Feb. 27, 2010!  I’ve committed to a few other projects this month and reluctantly had to decline participation in the show, but it sounds like the show is going to be pretty amazing with the cast of artists they have participating!  I tried to see if I could quickly work on a painting for the show but came to the realization that I don’t paint enough in real media to crank something out.  Here are the thumbnails for some of the ideas I had.

From Vicki Saulls, who is organizing this art auction:

Two colleagues at Blue Sky Studios, David LaMattina and Chad Walker, have created a feature-length documentary about a pen pal program between a group of at-risk sixth graders living in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn and orphans from the war living in Freetown, Sierra Leone. This Postcard Art project is an extension of the their film “Brownstones To Red Dirt” which features children from both schools. The kids in both places have inspired us all to want to do more and so we’re putting together an art auction of original postcards based around the same central theme of the film in a fundraising effort to build a school for the orphans in Freetown, Sierra Leone and create a library for the youth at their school in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn.

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The first study for a children’s story that I am working on.  None of the designs have really been resolved, it was a moment I wanted to paint.

The only request for the painting was that it have a boy and a red umbrella in it.  I haven’t painted with real media in a while, and it was a lot of fun to get the paints out. I’ve included the digital thumb I did and the digital color study.  The final ended up having a lot of things that I was trying to do in the studies, digitally I find myself manufacturing a lot of the ‘happy accidents’ that occur naturally with actual paint!  I hope to paint more in the months to come!  Thanks, Rich!

It’s been a long time since the last post.  Here is a piece from a Street Fighter group show at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California.  The idea came from a friend, who is much more familiar with the Street Fighter world than I am.  The painting is ink and wash with charcoal.

This is an unfinished digital painting I did a while ago, I still like some of the colors and textures but there are several things off about the drawing I should have figured out before I started painting it, thought I’d post it since i probably won’t ever finish it.