Goldfinch shares it's awesome space!

My good pal Aaron, front-man of the band, Goldfinch, recently won a grant by the city of Tacoma's Spaceworks program. It allows the band to occupy a unused storefront in order to work on their new album.

The coolest part is he thought it would be cool to have a visual artist there too, and let me set up my paintings.  They threw a kick-ass party to kick it off...Here are some of the work going up there.

Flower in Guache #2

Flower in Guache #1

Color Mock-ups for painting "the flower"

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Hands of Healing

Here is a chalk drawing for a local medical collective in downtown Tacoma...Nice folks with a difficult mission ahead of breaking stereotypes and gaining community acceptance.  Anyway, they wanted a positive artist-outreach thing done, and I'm into that, so this is what I free-styled!

Chevrolet - 2011

I had an old board left over from 15 years ago or so...I had chalked part of the Kweskin Jug Band on a piece of trashed theatre scrap luan.   The other day I slapped some gesso on it and cut poor Jim out of the picture...

Then I put on that old song "Chevrolet" (Though I still prefer Geoff and Maria's version)...This is the result as of today. There's still more to go, but it's fun to see it progress through the stages. Well, here's to recycling!

10-28-2011 Chalk-off - The Warhol Flower Again!

Photo by R.R. Anderson

photo by DarkainMultiMedia

After Warhol "Flower for Tacoma Dome" Mural

Idea for AfterWarhol Flower Mural

The above are taken from the original Warhol "Tacoma Dome Flower".

This is my drawing mock-ed up...

Capitol Hill Girl

10-14-2011 Frost Park Chalk-off

Photo by RR Anderson

Photo by the sponsor, Darkain Media

Photo by Kevin Frietas

Photo by Kevin Frietas

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Occupy Tacoma!

Photo by R.R. Anderson.

Photo by Joel

My love for King Kong knows no bounds...Here I try to tie in Tacoma, Occupy Tacoma, AND throw a shout out to the sponsor, Stadium Video.  I think even being occupied by a 24' tall Gorilla is better than than leaving old city hall to ruin.

Vote here!

UPDATE! I won! woo-hoo! serious prize package, yo!
1)Five free rentals!
2)$25 Gift Certificate for vinyl!
3) Three free DVD's!

American Woman at Frost Park!

I drew American Woman for the Chalk-off today.

Take That!

Here's a cartoon I did of Donald Rumsfeld in 2004. The Tacoma News Tribune ran it. Still didn't stop the war or anything.

Megan wrestles Daffy

Skin and Bones

8-12-2011 Frost Park Chalk-off

 

My Son Quinn, showing his skillz...Is this the Tacoma City Hall, or a Squid attacking a fish? Who are we to ask?

 

Valiant Van and the Goblin King

Photo by Kevin Freitas

 

Yeah, that's right I'm sporting my Dennis Rodman Jersey. Dennis got inducted into the NBA Hall of Fame today.

 

Photo by Mark Monlux.

Cubs vs Sox

AJ Pierzynski gets punched by Michael Barrett...2006 Watercolor (I gifted to my Dad)

here's the live action as it happened.

Kenny

I'm a big fan of this feedtacoma.com comic strip "Beantown". This is my fan art of Kenny from Beantown.