Elvis Costello

ACrylic on masonite.

Bruce and Clarence

Latest commission- 30 x 36" Acrylic on wood.

Mr. Byrne (David Byrne)

Acrylic on Clayboard. See it live at "Faces and Names" 159 W. 54th St. in Manhattan, NYC.

Hank Azaria

This is colored pencil and a little photoshop in the background color. These are all the Simpsons characters he voices.

Toshiro Mifune

This is charcoal and acrylic on hand made Japanese paper.
I'm selling it for $200 with all proceeds going to help aid Japan. It's 7 x 8" and comes with a mat.

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

This is Scratchboard.

Tilda Swinton

Acrylic on wood.

Tilda-WIP

Oy- It's been so long since I made an entry, so here's my Tilda Swinton painting in progress at least.
I still have to upload some photos from the last ISCA convention as well- I'll do that later.

This is acrylic, btw, and I should finish soon...

Boston Terrier commission

Acrylic on Clayboard.

Harry Shearer

This is colored pencil and some photoshop. These are all the characters that Harry Shearer voices for the Simpsons.

Hans Landa

Hans Landa from "Inglourious Basterds"- colored pencil.

Crispin Glover

This is a sketch of Crispin Glover; I've been meaning to draw him for a while now, so finally, I just did it. I'd like to paint him eventually.

John Leguizamo

This is colored pencil and acrylic.

Close ups

Latest commission

Acrylic on wood.

Lee Trevino and Fred Couples

These are 2 acrylic paintings which will be used to make puppets for a Bridgestone Golf Ball commercial. The Fred Couples (yellow shirt) has some photoshop in it for some corrections I had to do.
This is probably not how I would have caricatured him, but you have to compromise sometimes when working with 3 or 4 other people. The hands are bigger than usual per their request because they were going to use actual hands with smaller puppets.

Jina and Ichiro's Wedding

This is a photo taken by Steve and Tak (one of them) from a gig I did last month.
They were kind enough to let me use it, so check out their great photography: http://www.getstak.com/

His name is Danny Trejo- but you can call him...MACHETTE

This is colored pencil, some pastel in his machette, and photoshop background for the dark blue color.

Robin Crowley

Sorry I haven't updated in a while (whoever reads this), but blah blah blah...
Here's a quick recent one I did of Robin Crowley. Colored pencil.

I'll update some more soon.

CHINA PUG

This is for my friend's benefit for dogs in Seattle show- it's a silent auction.

It's all colored pencil.

The ERA of Ted

This was from my sketchbook- done in colored pencil and then some photoshop color for the background. I didn't feel like it was completely finished, but I lost my reference, so here it is for now anyway.

Woody

This is colored pencil.

commission

Didn't have the clearest photo for this one, but sometimes you have to make do with what you have. It's colored pencil on Illustration board.

2 Commissions

These are 2 commissions I did for a client: his 4 kids done with brush pen and colored pencil and pastel, and one of his wife in pastel.

The Boss-2

This is the new Bruce Springsteen painting I finished last week; just been really busy, so I haven't had a chance to post it until now. It was hard to get a good photo, but I think this was the closest color-wise. It's acrylic on wood, 30 x 36".

Old Bruce drawing

I did this colored pencil drawing of Bruce Springsteen back in 91 or 92 (I don't remember) for the Asbury Park Press. I'm posting now cause I never did, and I just sold it last week. Better late than never...

Ok- one more...

Just wanted to give you a sneak peek in case you actually go to my flickr page (it's worth it- trust me). So here's just a few of my friend's walls- Fred, Kage, Jason, and Tomo Tabata. Check them out from my links. There are many more friends with great work, but I can't list them all here- sorry- just go to the flickr page.
Also a photo of me and my 2 roommates, Don and Josh who were really cool. That photo was snapped before I could smile... what are you going to do?

Last ISCA post

Ok- this will be it for the ISCA Convention.
This is a drawing of Teresa Farrington referencing the movie "Dune". She liked it and wasn't offended at all; she's really cool. It's colored pencil, and unfortunately, I didn't get a good photo. The flash made everything too bright, so this is shot without a flash but with the shutter open longer- thus the blurriness.

The third one is done by Marlo Meekins and I include it here only because it really blew me away. It's a brilliant idea (it really looked like the guy) and brilliantly executed as well. Her subsequent work during the week was equally as good or even better, so check it out on her blog: http://marlomeekins.blogspot.com/
One day I will have an actual conversation with her.

I took many more photos, with many other brilliant artists, and you can see them on my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/26569636@N00/4099054369/in/photostream/

Better views

Here's my friend, Mongol Mike- from sketch to acrylic painting. The sketch was done from life and then the painting was done from the sketch and a few photos.
The one of Alison was done from life and is mainly colored pencil with some pastel in the background.
The one of Dan is the same medium as Allison, and is referencing the "Ministry of Silly Walks" from Monty Python, obviously because he resembles John Cleese.

Mt. Lar

The first sketch was done while listening to Lar's lecture "Caricature 101". Then I did the sketch of him as a mountain, and then took a better photo to get some more detail.
The last one is included to show the texture which was done with a heavy gel medium. I had to let it dry about 20 hours before applying the acrylic. (This is actually the first photo).

More ISCA (International Society of Caricature Artists) Convention

So, I'll try to include sketches where I can- like this one of Don, which I did from life, and then did most of the pastel that way as well, but took a photo reference just in case.
Here's a better view of the one I did of Ed Lilywhite with the photo ref. I used. That one was col-erase pencil on pastel paper with water. I discovered the col-erase pencils are water-soluble and had a water-color effect.