50 years of Smurfiness

Saw an article in the paper saying that this year marks the 50th anniversary of the Smurfs, so I did a little tribute piece to the 80s Saturday morning cartoon.

The basic smurfs are there, along with a few that should have been there.

This is harder than it seems. Customizing each individual smurf is tedious.

Figure I'd submit something on Leap Year Day as well. It'll be another 4 years before I submit something on Feb. 29...

Getting ripped off

First, I'm getting ripped off on The Art of the Revolution They're selling canvas prints on a handful of lo-res jpegs taken from either my personal website or DA gallery. Actually they're kinda expensive, and cheaper to get on DeviantArt, really.

When I first hear this kind of news, you think "Oh wow, I'm actually a good enough artist for people to steal from!" which is immediately replaced by "WTF! I'm gonna tear these guys a new one for stealing my sh*t!" I'm not the only artist they're stealing from, so this makes the owner a multiple-douchebag. But thanks to the Deviants for alerting me to this infraction; I'm talking to some attorney friends of mine to weigh my options.

Fu¢kers.

Propaganda III Art Show

For those of you interested in propaganda art (or at least my propaganda art) and in the San Fran area, can check out the opening of Start Soma's Propaganda III traveling art show starting today in San Francisco at the Phoenix Hotel. It's only a one-day show, but it will traverse the globe, and hopefully stop at a city near you.

I, personally, have 3 pieces submitted and will be alongside more famous names in propaganda art like Shepard Fairey and Aiden Hughes (if you don't know the names you'll more than likely know their art...go ahead and google, I'll wait.)

Sure there are hundreds of other artists from around the world, but definitely a good way for me to start showing off my stuff on an international basis, and be taken as a more-or-less serious manner.

Start Soma is an up and coming art outlet whose art projects and artists have been featured in various newspapers and magazines like Juxtapoz. Check them out!

Aphrodisia II

Woohoo! I just received an advance copy of Aphrodisia 2 in the mail. And it's looks top notch. Printing is great, quality is great, it's just great all around. Walking on cloud nine here.


It should come out in Jan. 2007, and it features five of my pieces:
Reminisce,
Cherry Blossom,
Ingenue,
Desert Rose,
and Sneaky Tiki. Look out for it!