DREAMIN
Digital Image of Drawing & Photo
I’m really getting into making these faces. I love that they are simple shapes all meshed together to create something. It’s kind of how Chuck Close works. By no means am I comparing myself to Chuck. His work is simple shapes up close and then when you stand back the images appear. My drawings are not on the same scale as his are, but are similar in the way that they evolve.
OVALS
26″ x 38″ Mixed Media on Wood
This painting is one of my favorites so far. The wood was actually a box for a 24″ x 36″ brass plaque we had sent in for a customer at work. The box was going to be trashed, but I saved it and painted it up.
mijumi Peace T
Mixed Media on Fabric
This the other shirt that I sent down to Georgia for my little bro. My friend Bodley said on the right fabric, in the right store that these shirts could fetch around $100. That would be something, but I’ll leave the sales up to him. I feel like I’m getting robbed paying $12 for a t-shirt. I might buy mine for $11 though.
HAIR PIECE
16″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Canvas
If you don’t know it yet, I am obsessed with hair. Hair styles, beards, wizard beards, afros, braids, locks, cornrows, fades, etc. I had to try painting something with some big hair in it and here it is.
I KNOW I SAW 1 IN THERE
18″ x 20″ Mixed Media on Acrylic
When I look at this painting I just feel like I should be searching for something in it. Like it is a Where’s Waldo book or something. Maybe I should have hid him in there. Maybe I did… hmmm.
HOBO ALIEN MOUSE
Digital Image of Drawing & Photo
This drunk little guy is Hobo Alien Mouse. He started as a doodle (in a meeting, obviously) and then got scanned into my files. I had taken the background picture while walking around in Northampton, MA. and combined them for this picture. He may have his vices, but is in search of change… or he just happened to sit down there and was not able to get back up.
DRIFTER
Digital Image of Drawing & Photo
If you know who Rob Machado (my half brother, I think) is then this might remind you of him. It reminded me of him and that is why I call this piece Drifter. Rob starred in the movie The Drifter as himself and for a surfer playing a surfer did a great job. If you haven’t seen it it’s worth the time in my opinion. Anyways, if anyone out there knows Rob and sees this, I ask that you share it with him and let him know that I am still in search of and want to meet my half brother.
CITY TOP
8.5″ x 11″ Sharpie & Pen on Watercolor Paper
At the start of this drawing I was just scribbling some shapes down in red Sharpie and seeing where it would go. I drew a few black lines off of one of the shapes and thought it resembled a building so I ran with it and created this this little city.
RNM
20.75″ x 32″ Mixed Media on Poster
Happy Birthday to Robert Nesta Marley!
So, I find an old Bob Marley poster (pic on right) in my art studio and I’ve got no where to put it, because my office is already a Marley museum and Nicole won’t let it hang in the living room 
The most logical thing I could think to do was to draw on it. But that would be sacrilegious wouldn’t it? I turn on my ipod and get to the Reggae genre and hit shuffle. There are over 1,200 songs on my ipod in the Reggae genre, over 1,200. Which song (Marley fans) do you think pops up first? GUILTINESS by Bob Marley & The Wailers. What the??? I still couldn’t help myself and kept drawing. Thank you Mr. Marley for all the beautiful music, the fight for peace & equality and for inspiring so many people throughout the course of your short life. Your legend will endure beyond this world.
BIRCHES
12″ x 12″ Mixed Media on Canvas
I was in the Dollar Tree the other day looking for things to use as painting tools when I came across this shape. It’s a triangle with a circle cut out of it and is made of wax. They were selling it as a ring crayon for kids. You slide the ring on your finger and then you can draw with it. I’m using it here to create the trunks of trees for my small forrest.
WATERMAN
8.5″ x 11″ Marker on Watercolor Paper
It’s simple. A face on a hydrant. In my sketch pad. I don’t know what else to say.
COOTIE SHOTS
8.5″ x 10″ Mixed Media on Paper
This paper actually started out as a way for me to get the left over paint off of the tools I was using to paint something else. Then it started to look kind of cool. Then it started to look kind of boring. Now it looks kind of… like…
CROSSED OUT
24″ x 48″ Mixed Media on Acrylic
Crossed Out was just about finished drying up when I started making X shapes and mashing up the paint a little. I still wanted to add more detail to this one, but I liked the way it fades up from a mosh pit of paint into the X patterns. I guess I can always come back to it if I really want to.
HORIZON
12″ x 24″ Mixed Media on Wood
My favorite part of this painting are all of the dots that cover it. At first there were zero dots and just the reds and blues. Then I found a board with holes in it, laid it over the panel and spray painted in some light yellow dots. Still not enough. So, I covered it with a bunch of white dots and started to like it a lot more. I wanted to put more, but didn’t want to get too carried away.