I decided to do a little test today and check several things off my to do list at once:

-- Need a new handful of paintings for a show in December
-- Wanted to start experimenting with a new style for stencils that I want to use on some big figure pieces soon
-- Needed a painting for my bathroom that would fit into kind of a strangely shaped area.

So made some coffee and while the pot was brewing cut out the stencil. It went faster than I expected. Drank some coffee and then sprayed the layers over the next hour. This is what I painted:



It's one of the types of pelicans native to the Bay. I'm going to do a holiday series of some of the animals around SF. Should be fun. Let me know if you guys have any suggestions. Right now, I can name off the top of my head pigeon and the mouse that used to live in my old house. I need to do some research

I was sitting at my desk today and couldn't concentrate so made a quick sketch. It's something I've been thinking about for a painting, but I have no idea when I'll actually be able to paint it. So here's the sketch:



As soon as all the new signage is installed in the Little Chihuahua, I'll take pictures and post them here.

Carved pumpkins with my girlfriend the other night and made this:



Her genius hipster o'lantern with spooky mix-tape unfortunately fell to a premature mold so I wasn't able to get a picture. Just believe me when I tell you that it was awesome.

I'm making some more custom signs for the Little Chihuahua Mexican restaurant. They're designed to match the concrete a-frame I made for them around a year ago, but this time spray paint on pine. I'm also doing some spray painting on the recycling unit and some on the wall. Should look pretty damn cool.

Here's one of the stencils:




And one of the finished signs:

Group Show at Lower Deck Gallery

Cool news. I'm going to have my "Decay Diptych" up at the Familial Ghosts show at Lower Deck Gallery in the hip Dogpatch district of San Francisco. And yes, I'm aware that calling a neighborhood hip makes it sound less hip. But if I was going to describe Pac Heights, I'd call it upscale, if I was going to describe the Mission, I'd call it "lively," if I was going to describe the Marina, I'd call it the cultural gutter of San Francisco, and as for the Dogpatch, there really is no other way to describe it other than hip. Have you been there? It's freaking hip. All the brick buildings, the edgy yet relevant graffiti on construction tarps, all the live/work lofts... it's like a damn Josh Hartnett movie.

But anyway.

Lower Deck Gallery. Really cool place, brand new gallery, and from what I've seen so far, some really awesome work. Like people who's work I really admired in galleries last year are going to be in this show.

Opening is next Thursday, October 22 from 6-9pm. The show is up till November 19th. Lower Deck Gallery is at 2295 3rd St (at 20th), below Sundance Coffee. The entrance is on 20th Street.

In other news, I moved and am building a shelf to go under my drafting table. Didn't want to spend any money on it, so I'm making it out of scrap plywood and strips of walnut that I found around my shop. Here's a picture so far. I really want to add some metal elements into it, because there's almost nothing I love more than the look of wood and metal together. Well, maybe Rick Astley's opus, but it's a tough call.

Not really in the art vein, but thought I'd share... I've officially made it. I have a listing on IMDB. I acted in my friend's short movie and he put it up there. It's called "Banat" and you can check out the IMDB listing here, and there's also a short trailer up that you can watch here.

It's actually a really cool movie. His newest movie, a short called "The New You" is one of the official selections at the Saturday Fantasy Film Festival on October 24th. It's at the Rec Center Studio, 1161 Logan Street, in Los Angeles. It's about a guy obsessed with self help tapes. If you're in LA, go check it out.

Anyway, artwise, I've been doing a bunch of design and video production for 3Prong Power, working on the website redesign for Hollywood Fringe, and am designing and fabricating a few more signs for the Little Chihuahua. Busy busy.

She Pushes a Mad Whip

Thanks to Juana, the writer of "She Pushes a Mad Whip" for the awesome feature of my work.

Everyone check out her blog. She posts some beautiful stuff on there, and does it regularly and consistently.

http://shepushesamadwhip.blogspot.com/