Hey guys, just a quick reminder that you can still get the limited edition, signed and numbered, 5 color screenprinted poster AND t-shirt I designed for Nakatomi Inc, but you need to really hurry because after midnight tonight they will no longer be available. Click on this sentance to go do some shopping. Thanks for the support!!
New Image Art Gallery is turning 15 and to celebrate they’re having the best art show on earth. If you’re in the L.A. area this saturday and want to see magic on walls you need to go to this!! Our friend Matthew Rodriguez got invited to be in this show at the last minute. I stopped by the night before he flew out to L.A. Here are some pictures of some of his work.
This is an art critic that was going to try to go check out the show on Saturday. Everytime I see this puppet he is far from sober. He told me he lost his legs in Nam.
Also he just got his etsy store up. Click here to check out his bag.
We recently created an Etsy store and we are super excited about it. We don’t have much up yet but will start adding more items very soon. Just a couple of days after we created the shop our Laser Fox tee was featured in this blog. Fun!!
Our URL is www.forwardcollective.etsy.com or you can always click on the link provided in the “Store” section of this blog.
I was pleased to find out that two of the most creative people I’ve ever been able to know and work with are in an art show this friday at T and P Fine Art Gallery in Philadelphia. I guess it’s a big deal because these two guys were such a big part of the genius behind Paul frank Industries for about 16 years combined. Working at a place like PF for that long could burn some out – you work all day creating all kinds of special amazing-ness and at the end of the day you sign somebody else’s name on your work – but not these two. They have both moved on to bigger and better things, like this art show, and also:
Flyer artwork by Benjamin Soto
Friday December 5th, 7pm
T & P Fine Art
1143 South 9th St., Philadelphia, PA. 19147
www.myspace.com/tandpfineart
email jon@tandpfineart.com
Back on Halloween I had a couple pieces in both the Houston and Austin locations of Domy Books for their “Monster Show 3.”
Here are pictures of the four pieces in the show
and here we are the night of the opening. Giselle was a Private I, Chamila was Rosie the Riveter, and I actually didn’t dress up.
The shows run through December 5th. If you’re in Austin this weekend for the East Austin Studio Tour, be sure to swing by Domy, as they are on the tour, to check out all these scary creatures up close.
Here are more Austin monsters and here are more Houston monsters.
If you’re interested in purchasing a monster piece email info@domystore.com
With gas prices climbing up so high I’ve been riding the bus more frequently to work and back. What was usually a 15 minute drive has become an hour voyage each way. But that’s okay. This gives me a lot of time to catch up on much needed reading AND I get to doodle in my mini sketch book. Here are a few recent pages from the little libro.
These guys were at the front of the bus… I just had to draw them.
These two were sitting behind me whispering loudly about somebody named Angie Phalange. They kept spraying there saliva all around. It was pretty gross.
Here’s a tree with a great falsetto.
Here we have Reginald doing his wing flappin’ jig. Also pictured are a few random dudes.
And here is a bird with a long neck. Her name is luka (with the long nuca). She lives on the second floor. This was not done on the bus. I can’t hold a smooth straight line on the bus if my life depended on it.
