Tiago Sousa de Oliveira and Rio de Janeiro

The boy from Brazil. May 15th 2015....memory worth having.

Portrait of Walter O'Keefe

Here is my first commissioned pet portrait for my HS friend Nancy - her dog Walter. Thanks to doing that volunteer piece for the Oakland Animal services I got a start on a new painting gig.

Home is where the Heart is...OAS

Here is Abernathy quite ready to be adopted into a loving home. I did this piece for the Oakland Animal Services for their hard-to-adopt pet event on Valentine's day. When someone adopts the pet they get to take the painting home too.

Stamping patterns

A stamp I just carved out of Speedball's Speedy Carve block. I am working a piece for the Oakland Animal Shelter and I wanted it to have a pattern as the background. It's inspired by a vintage column in Liverpool's Victoria building. My twist was incorporating a heart.

Daily sketches begin

I bought the Artist's Way over the summer and have just, in the last week, sat down to read it and go through the exercises. The one thing I am suppose to do - according to the book - is "artist's pages" which is just a brain dump first thing in the morning, 3 written pages of whatever comes to mind. A way to flush things out and clear my mind. I have also decided to put to use the nice 5.5x8 inch sketchbook my friend Guillermo gave me for Christmas to do another kind of daily log. I call the book "Day in the Life: ordinary object sketches". So that each day I also take time to draw something that happens to be around me.

This is one of my houseplants and my first "ordinary object" sketch.

Walken Situation

I was missing out on being part of an art show this year but was able to squeak by to get into this one. I was a tribute to Christopher Walken and was an awesome show to be a part of at the Pulic Works in SF on Black Friday November 28th.

This is a 16x20 piece stenciled and spray painted with a touch of gouache and cut black glitter paper for his hair.

Thinking about painting digitally

I've decided to start working on character pieces from my favorite shows on Showtime. I'm not sure if I want to paint them traditionally or digitally or both. So I took my sketch of Leiv Schreiber into Photoshop using a new brush called Stumpy Pencil that a coworker told me about. I turned it into a blue brush and threw in some sketchy marks over the top of my existing pencil sketch and I actually like the result. Now to paint it. That'll be the next step.

Foxy Mother

My mom really liked the fox I drew for the infographic image I made with the Yeti. So I thought I would take it a bit further by drawing a mother fox with her kits. Gouache and enamel on wood. 8x10

The Yeti and the Fox

I made these cute plaid bellied, wooodland creatures for an infographic presentation at work this week.

This is how Ty see Stella

Looking out for each other's backs.