Wet Kisses

For those romantics out there, we've all been there. Sometimes, we just use a too much tongue :) And complain, I shall not.

Enjoy the show :-*

Childhood Dreams

I don't think I've told many people this but when I was younger, I wanted to be an Astronaut. At a young age, I was wild about deep space, the final frontier, all those clichés. I was curious about what was beyond earth and how distant worlds environment would be like. I think i'm an explorer at heart...

When I was told that I needed to be a scientist and be good at math to follow my dream, my heart was shattered and I dropped all hope, quietly, of traveling to space. I still have dreams of floating in the void looking at new worlds...

For those of you who don't know, NASA shut down the manned spacecraft program not too long ago, saying that the time of the man in space is over. When I heard this, the sadness I had when I was told I couldn't be an astronaut returned, knowing that the dream was over.

Think Jetsons, who thought that by our time, we'd be living in space, not to mention the 60s where the "space age" fad or the future was ever preset in at least American culture. We all saw living in space as our future, and now that man is no being catapulted into space, it feels like that idea for the future was all just fiction. And that saddens me.

So in honor of my shattered childhood, I made this:

I hope that the show will go on, and we will all be around to enjoy it.

With my Banjo on my knee

My dad sang a song to me the other day after a deep conversation about how stupid I am for leaving my underwear underneath my girlfriends couch for her parents to find. It wasn't on ppuurrrpppoooosssseeee!!!!!

"Oh Susana, oh don't you cry for me. I've come from Alabama with a Banjo on my knee."

I was listening to a lot of Tom Waits recently as well, and somewhere in between these two moments, this image popped in my head. I had to draw it and I felt like playing in photoshop a tad more, which I haven't done in a long while.

Heres the product. Enjoy the show.

Old People

I haven't made a blog post in a while. Hu...

Well, I made this card for my Grandfather and my Uncle, who both share the same birthday (along with sharing similar opinions of each other). My grandfather liked it and then changed his mind when he realized that I didn't draw him. Perhaps I should draw myself less...

Well, either way, happy birthday. I wish my family wasn't so distant, but I am happy that they are around.

Hope you are all enjoying the summer show. 

Looking Up

Life has been strangely excellent as of late. I can't help but feel that I am jinxing it every time I say that I am happy with the way things are turning out... so I should calm down my boasting.

I felt like making a new self portrait.... so this is what it turned out to be.

Enjoy the show. 

LA Caricature

For a project that I am working on, I made this background, and it is the most complex painting i've done in photoshop to date, so I'm proud of my amatureness, and felt it was worth posting. Its a production shot:

Enjoy the show, when it comes out :)

Marie

I had some wicked insomnia last night... where I went to bed at 10 and slept for maybe 2 or three hours and  then rolled around looking for comfortable positions....

So at one point, I said, "Screw it, I have't painted in photoshop in a while, lets take advantage of the opportunity?" I said that aloud to myself as I have no one to talk to at 4 in the morning. 

This is Marie:

I'ma try to sleep now. Enjoy the show.