The Poet & His Omen....

Preview of a piece I'm finishing up:

The Legendary Cowboy

Hello friends,

I have two movie poster concepts of classic movies:

First up is John Wayne's "The Cowboys":

Final:

Details:

More to come soon!

J

One crazy year its been. I'll hopefully be posting more frequently now that I've got some time on my hands. This year I've really been trying to focus on media experimentation. I wanted to try to achieve a look with mixed media solutions. Sometimes it worked other times it blew up in my face, but I always learned something to put to the next piece. With a new year coming into the mix hopefully I can continue experimenting and come up with some work worthy of showing you guys.

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La Musica Poster

mixed media 11x17

special thanks to

MonicaGonzalezRomero

for the type guidance

water based eye-wear

Editorial Piece

digital

Oil Experiments

I've been doing a lot of wet on wet painting using Clove Oil to keep my paints just the way they came out of the tube. Which in turn keeps the paintings wet as well on the surface, though hard to manage I'd rather work into a wet painting then on top of a dry one.

Hope you enjoy:

Detail:

J.

Tata Gala Sneak Peek

Well after a few extremely long nights, here is a detail shot of my entry for The Tata Gala run by Erik Jones...the show is going down this Saturday.

Enjoy!

J.

Doots

A slight update: (more to come soon)

Portrait Experiments

Here it is, day after "Hell Week" aka midterms. I feel like I can actually get things done at a normal human pace, but we'll have to see how long that lasts. But for now here are some media experiments that I enjoyed hopefully I will apply some of these techniques to future Illustration/Personal Works.

Here are some of the ones I really enjoyed:

J.

Figure Paintings

//Sketchies//

With the summer coming to an abrupt end with school starting in the next week I thought I would post the last few bits of my sketchbook. With a new school year coming in to play there should be a plethora of work popping up here. But till then, I hope these can hold you over.

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Centerfold

R2----D2

Jaffa

Starbucks 101

Tears & Ties

One time I thought I was...

Mario & friends in Real Life.

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J.D.V

Time will tell

Well, its been yet another eventful week with a few pages filled. Work has been scarce, but on the bright side of things I've had that time to work on personal work. Got a couple of larger works on the way so keep an eye out.

Sketchies:

Remember to remember to forget you forgot

This summer has been very interesting.

Work has been hard to find, but I try and make the free time worthy with working on personal work. I've got a couple of paintings in the works at the moment. I'll try and put some sneak peeks of those.

BUT for now, more Sketchbook:

Also a work in progress. just playing around with acrylic. First was a fierce warrior but slowly turning into a Bakery GOD. Muffins. Yum.

Been a While.

Yea, I feel like I've been neglecting my blog a bit. But I swear I'll be better at updating! But for now here is some sketches in the new cracked-open moleskin:

Castro

Captain Mario

Enjoy.