Mamita Lupita!

Who doesn't love good salsa? I recently completed this illustration for Mamita Lupita's Salsa. The logo and label design were created by SoCal WebWorx (www.socalwebworx.com).

Dinner with Picasso

This acrylic work is based on the first chapter of "Life with Picasso" a novel by Francoise Gilot (mother to 2 of Picasso's children). While I don't feel that the style necessarily fits the tone of Gilot's writing, my interest was to complete an illustration in a graphic and curvilinear retro style.

A detail of Gilot:

Across the Universe

This acrylic work is inspired by the Beatles song of the same name.

Seven Words: more than just gutter talk

The late, great George Carlin! If a picture is worth a thousand words, many of them would have to be bleeped to fully describe the man in this portrait. Carlin showed everyone who listened to understand how trite our culture's notions of profanity are. He was one of the first people allowed to swear on cable TV when HBO was new; and he swore intelligently. Censorship is highly political and hypocritical. Carlin valued language so much an we owe him so much to help liberate it. If you don't know who George Carlin is then do yourself a favor and find him on youtube or DVD.

Red Eye

Smaug again. This is an intended 3/4 head design as well as a style study for a future, full figure illustration of Smaug reclining on his treasure.

the great worm

After a great character in literature gets slapped with a design in a big budget motion picture, it gets harder to see that character in any other way. Since there is a new feature underway based on Tolkien's Hobbit (one of my favorite books), I wanted to create my own interpretation of the dragon "Smaug" before another illustrator's fully fleshed out CGI monster could alter any vision I might have had. I don't want to look back and wonder "What would I have done?" Anyhow, this is my shot at it. Hopefully there will be a body design to come in the near future.

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