DS paintings this weekend...

I can't stop! Flew up to San Fransisco to visit the family and brought my DS. Here are a couple I did.. all were done in about 10min or less.

more DS paintings!

More paintings on the DS! You know how painting in the dark with real paint sucks 'cause you cannot see anything at all... it's the complete opposite with the DS... painting in the dark/ dusk is cool... painting with the sun up is an act of faith. :)

from my DS lite...

Got a new toy!... sort of... it all started when I was "forced" by Mindy to buy this card that can house this painting program on the Nintendo DS. It's sooo cool! These are my first tries... did about 5min of Photoshop clean up but not much! t's fast and easy to carry with you anywhere. Afterall, it's a DS...Enjoy!

A Ride into Town

Hidalgo Film Study

PS. It's frickin' hot here in Pasadena 107 degrees?! come on!!!!

Sherman Oaks

LA sunset on Sunset

Sheez! What's up with not going to bed without getting one painting outta my system... I just think LA is sooo beautiful especially during the sunsets. The colors are just so brilliant... well, I know it's the pollution but you gotta look at the positives in life... or so I've been told. More to come!

My Character and Icon

landscape idea

doodling late last night.. before the palm tree one below... and finished it up... it's pride rock in the winter...hehehe

I really should be sleeping

Aaaack! I tell myself every night to sleep earlier! Oh wells... when I have something on my mind it's hard to move from that idea. This time, I have Los Angeles sunsets on my mind and one of the most beautiful things here in LA are the palm trees at sunsets. I used one of my photos as ref but used my artistic sensibilty to give it a little somethin' somethin'. Laters.. now to bed.

Face Study

Hello boys and girls! It's face day... at my work right now, I've been doing mostly environment and such. So, I feel that my people skillz are getting rusty... thus, I did this R. Bison study... kind of a warm up for some unknown future project... so there you go..

(PS... I have a new display icon... it's a character of me at work!.. I might make him into something more... an alter ego or sorts... what do you think?)

monotone baby!

I forgot about this concept painting I did during some down time. Looked at some Roman ruins and got this idea on an abandoned oasis in the desert.. and the idea ran from that point. Enjoy! More posts-a-coming!

love em clouds

I did these paintings just below Art Center in Pasadena one cloudy day on site one right after other. One thing you gotta say about LA is the colors are so inspiring! More postings ahead..hehehee...

Restart!

Man! It's been a while since my last post... sorry about that... went to Italy for my honeymoon which was awesome.. even caught the Sargent in Venice show which I've been bragging to whoever I meet... 30+ Sargents in one room! Whoa! Then, I was priviledged (since the show was in Venice Italy) to see some of the places he actually painted... but enough about that.. here is a quick painting to help jump start my postings... enjoy!

Lunch Break

Sorry for the loooong time no posting... been busy planning my wedding/ honeymoon (o yeah.. I'm getting married...hehehe). But I did this quick painting during lunch. Been doing some old school paintings lately... I'll post them as soon as I get of my duff... lates! ...Off to Italy come Monday for my honeymoon! Ciao!

tree field

I tried something new... well old.. but new again... we had a copy of painter at work so I did some glow brush paintings.. I like the results that I could not wait to try it out at home... so I decided to do something fairly simple... trees in a field... so I used my version of Painter all ready for the glow brush.. instead, thanks to my alla prima and plein air training (and the swirling of painters in my head... this time it's Christensen, Sargent, and Tiemens, and Mike Hernandez)... this is what happened... eh, it's always a surprise!

fashion girl

since I've been doing some dark stuff at work... I always want to keep challenging and broadening my artistic horizons...thus this fashion /cut-up inspired piece...

Paradise Lost

Hey y'all! It's been a while since my last post... too many things going on...sorry!... but I managed to do this quick painting... enjoy!

midnight still life

I told myself I was going to sleep before midnight... then I said to myself just one QUICK painting... oh wells!... btw... that's a cool no-handle mug a bought in a hot chocolate specialty shop...mmmmm... hot chocolate.

a darker side...

as some of you may see from me stuff, I am a little varied in my artistic "style." Here is a horror art piece... different I know!

an artic day

for some reason I'm into doing these "color" pieces..huh... must be from taking up watercolour or something... o wells!

impression

morning sketch... trying to evoke the aura of the California Impressionists. what do ya think?

Kraken

a little something different... my take on the sea god's uber huge pet about to eat some explorers in a submarine... sucks to be them!

figure drawings....oh my!

these were between 5-15min poses... I hope I have time to do more of these guys... they are kinda fun to do... as some of you artists out there know :)

mountain scene

Thought I'd post this one... this was done inspired from William Wendt paintings.... so good! Man I still remember the one in LACMA... I think. :)

pop!

exit

a quick post... I was inspired from the 3 Trees and Tadahiro's workshop last week in Nucleus Gallery (which rocked!)... so here is a little sketch of a girl exiting in the less glamous side of la la land... it's my version of a happy scene with a twist of lemon. :)

lunchtime sketch

me likey this lunch painting sketchies...! (hopefully more to come)

quick sketch

Did this quick sketch of my view of Westwood from my workplace on the 18th floor... yup, that's LA colors baby! Moroever, I thought a border might be cool to show the greyness of the atmosphere...

westwood starbucks

I felt like drawing after work and I was going to draw some cool ideas for a game or something...however, the scene in front of me was too good to pass up. I drew/ painted this in my Moleskin sketchbook (forgot my watercolour one at home...oops) and I learned something new... the sketchbook series has a coating! It was like painting on wax paper...argh... but the good news is that it resulted in some cool aux naturale look... okay, I think I did enough babbling today...ciao!

stop?!

he heh hehe he!

watercolour sketches

These were my first attempts at watercolour...fast little guys...did both in about 30min...trying something new... hopefully I'll get better at these... wish me luck!

Westwood at night

I started doing watercolour for the first time last week as a way to start doing quick lunchtime paintings. But tonight I started a plein air painting in front of the famous Mann Village movie theatre with my watercolours. This was a 40min painting that I cropped and finished with photoshop. Enjoy!

bikini gal

these girlie sketches are fun! enjoy!

a girl eating her dinner...

sketchbook ideas

I'm playing around with doing a playful character design or story... dunno yet... simply doing a idea dump...hmmm...

sketchbook face

A sketch I did my one of my sketchbooks... my girlfriend says it kinda looks like a glorified younger version of me... guess it's a self portrait then... hahahha!

More Oils...

This was done in the ArtCenter campus... Man! If only the clean up and setting up and shear weight of all the oil painting gear was less...argh... (sigh)... but it's still fun! hehehe

Oils

Here's a "black and white" painting I did in oils a couple weeks back.

officeman

...yeah...hi....I need you to work on Saturday... oh and there's my stapler...OFFICE SPACE...funny movie.. I should go watch it again.

girl sketches

Quick sketches I did a couple weeks back.

nice plein air day

ahhhh... it was a nice day to paint outdoors (yeah, even digitally) not too hot, not too cold. yay! Now, it's time to take a nap.

wave paintings

I was inspired a couple weeks back on beach/ wave paintings... so here they are! The bottom one is a memory sketch of El Matador beach (with a fair amount of artistic changes).

canyon walk

a speed painting of sorts... it's a friday... I'm outta here!