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Y U NO!

Jesse — Wed, 02 May 2012 03:08:32 +0000

Gallery 1988 is having their 8th anniversary show, theme’d on internet MEMEs. I opted to do the lovely Y U No Guy. Look at all those wrinkles!

“Y U No Have Caption?”
9×12 Acrylic on Maple

The show opens on Friday, and should be totally amazing.

Pokemon Battle Royale

Jesse — Mon, 16 Apr 2012 10:15:14 +0000

My friend’s new gallery, Light Grey Art Lab, is having a Pokemon theme’d show called Pokemon Battle Royale. 151 artists’ renditions of the original 151 pokemon. There are tons of super talented artists on deck, it’s shaping up to be a pretty amazing show.

I chose Psyduck for mine, because much like Psyduck I also suffer migraines and occasional bouts of psychic power.

Here he is. So much aspirin.

This is 8″ x 8″ painted digitally.

And here is a video of Psyduck in case you want to know the joy that is him:

Look at him go!

A new Website.

Jesse — Sun, 04 Mar 2012 19:01:43 +0000

I made a new website, this is it. Everything is all combined into one big thing. If you see anything horribly wrong let me know.

Good times.

Gallery 1988 x Adult Swim

Jesse — Fri, 06 Jan 2012 04:30:37 +0000

Gallery 1988 is having a show opening January 13 with an Adult Swim theme. My favorite Adult Theme show is definitely The Venture Brothers, heck, I think it might be my favorite cartoon on right now. A fine show, full of fine characters. These are what I made (all acrylic on maple):

Hank Venture and Dean Venture, the titular characters themselves
Title: “Are You There, God? It’s Me, Dean”

Dr. Thaddeus “Rusty” Venture and Brock Samson
Title: “The Buddy System”

Henchmen 21 & 24
Title: “Tears of a Sea Cow”

Dr. Girlfriend and The Monarch
Title: “The Trial of the Monarch”

Keep an eye out for the show, the work is sure to be amazing.

Ten Paces Mix-tape

Jesse — Mon, 02 Jan 2012 17:07:45 +0000

I guess December is done, so this is not really topical anymore, but I participated in Ten Paces Mix Tape, where a few artists make an illustration inspired by a song. The song I got was PJ Harvey’s Down by the Water. This is what I made:

(Done in Painter)

Patterns?!?

Jesse — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 18:03:58 +0000

So, these are late, but a month or two ago, I did a bunch of patterns for Paper Bicycle’s Daily Pattern Project. Here they all are collected for your enjoyment:

Topic: Storm

Topic: Luxury

Topic: Myth

Topic: Wild West

Topic: Paisley

Topic: Ring

Topic: Owls

Two Paintings. Two Days.

Jesse — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 03:46:39 +0000

Over the long weekend I had a chance to head over to the Paper Bicycle studio for a couple raucous nights of art making. I made one painting each night, no plan going in to either of them, just sat down and went with it. Good times.

Night One:

Night Two:

Untimely bill murray post

Jesse — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 04:35:45 +0000

Wow, I realize I never posted anything about the Bill Murray art show I participated in at Gallery 1988 is LA. Check out the show here (I think its still up at the gallery too): Link!

Now, for my Bill Murray, I decided not to reference any specific movie, but more just the fella himself. And what do I like as much as Mr. Murray? Painting wrinkles and folds. SO, I combined these two things I like, Bill and painting wrinkles and painted Bill with lots of wrinkles.

Delightful!

10×10 Acrylic on maple

Bad Dads: Wes Anderson Tribute

Jesse — Fri, 28 Oct 2011 23:26:14 +0000

I am participating this the Second Annual Bad Dads show at Spoke Art in San Francisco.

I made three paintings depiciting Max Fischer (Jason Schwartzman) from Rushmore, decked out in various ‘extra curicular’ garb.

All three are 5×7, acrylic on maple.

“Yankee Racers”

“Rushmore Beekeepers”

“Piper Cub Club”

Quentin v. Coen Round 3

Jesse — Sat, 08 Oct 2011 22:20:27 +0000

I made some more art for Spoke Art’s Quentin V. Coen show, for an art festival in LA the other week. Here is the work I made:

Raising Arizona

No Country for Old Men

True Grit

All acrylic on basswood, 5×7.