Time-Traveling Salesman Catches a Breath and a Moment

August 26th, 2010

Since I am by nature not a violent person, but very much wish I was, I always keep a camera on me.  I figure that the equivalent of going on a gun-crazed, murderous rampage, would be going on a camera-crazed, photogra-phous frenzy.  I try to take pictures wherever interest lends itself.  I very much think that if I wasn’t pursuing an illustration career and had a time machine, I would have really been good as a war time photographer, preferably World War 2 era.  Alas, my calling is illustration and I am sans time machine.  I’m sure I could build one with an Arduino and some Legos, but it’s better that I focus what little attention I have on the tasks at hand.  That being said, I would like to share with everyone my other interest (outside of girls, my other, other interest). This a link to my Flickr set I call the Combat Print Top 40.  Here is a sample of time traveling stupendousness!

One last thing: If I ever do get around to building a time machine, I’m going to go back in time and teach myself how to build one sooner.  WRAP YOUR MIND AROUND THAT ONE!!!  Until next time, keep your pants up and your shoes tied.

Showing a Trick my treat, a Halloweener

August 7th, 2010

Hey all!  So I’m pretty excited about going to A.P.E. in October.  I’m usually not too good at updating my site, or just dating in general, but I’m really making an effort to stay on top! (That was dirty.) Part of my effort will be to not only post new work more frequently, but to also make new work more frequently, and also have more good ideas on a regular basis.  Look out Mensa, there is a new, bigger, more brainy, Voltrony type kid on the block called MENSOR (me, Gary Musgrave).  Anyway, back to A.P.E., here is the first of at least 4 new images for the event:

This will be a 5 layer silkscreen using what is called the Deadly Palette provided by Leslie Cabarga. I will be making this print as you see it and possibly an additional number of them as a show poster with text for my pal Ed Galvez, who hosts a stand up show in Santa Monica every week called Punk House.

Comic Con 2010!

July 28th, 2010

I’m back from Comic Con and it was awesome! I got to sell a bunch of stuff I made and I didn’t even have to trick anyone.  I learned a few things while I was there, which was pretty sweet.  1.  If you ever feel “nerdy”, the Comic Con carnies will let you see that you are in fact far from it.  It’s kinda like when you say “I’m starving to death” and somebody responds with there are starving people in Africa.  There is a standard deviation for weird on the day to day, but at special events like the Con, weird spikes dramatically.  2.  At Comic Con there are tons of gorgeous women and many are dressed in very revealing garb.  On any given day if I were to meet these women in the real world and try and pick up on one, they would probably laugh and blow me off, but the amazing thing about Comic Con is that these women who are willing to dress in such extremes are obviously not in the spectrum of sanity from which I like to date.  So at Comic Con, I get to say Nay Nay to hot women!

I was fortunate enough to share a booth with some awesome mentors/ friends.  Mark Todd and Esther Pearl Watson did a majority of the setup before I even got there and had a ton of awesome loot to pedal.  They pretty much gave me some shelter from my other two booth mates Jordan Crane and Johnny Ryan.  If I ever had an older brother, I would imagine him to be just like Jordan.  Basically Jordan teased the living hell out of me and everything that I did while Johnny Ryan stood back like an older brother’s best friend, smirking and saying “nice one”.  At one point, I was talking to a girl in front of the booth  and they all took turns sneaking up behind me and putting post-its on my back with such clever phrases such as “rape my mouth” and “I’m so gassy”.  Good times.  But guess what? You guys may be teasing me now, but I’ve been drinking milk and in a few years…. blah blah blah.  Let’s face it, in a few years they will still be teasing me.  One victory I did find is that Jordan nor Johnny liked to be hugged in private or public.  It’s their Kryptonite, so every act of bullying that I endured, no matter how miniscule, was rewarded with open affection.  Unfortunately I did not learn this skill until the end of the event.

I made a bunch of prints, some new and some older stuff with some changes.  I’m making them available to purchase here on my site.  Take a look. I hope you enjoy.  Oh and I also plan on being at A.P.E. in San Fransisco this year to make people buy stuff from me.  If you are available, come by say hello and allow me to make you buy my loot.

“100 Artists See Satan” (He looked a lot like me painted red!)

June 29th, 2010

My pal Youtube sensation Ken Tanaka, got me involved with a fundraiser show that he was participating in called “100 Artists See Satan”. So I made my Satan piece inspired by some of the stuff that had been bullying me mentally for the last few months. I went down to Uno Letterpress and with the help of KunChe, cranked out (quite literally) an edition of 50 prints. Thanks KunChe! I turned in my piece, an 8″x10″ three color linocut letterpress and since I was doing an edition I decided to price it at 30 dollars. I initially only gave the gallery one to with the agenda to pedal my print at Comic Con, but it sold off the site before the show opened so I turned in all 50 (Yes I’m greedy).  As it turned out, there were some heavy hitters in the show, such as Todd Schorr, Robert Williams, and Paul Frank! Jesus, I mean Satan! With prices reaching the something like $10,000.00 plus for some items, it occurred to me that the average social deviant such as myself would love to contribute, but needed art that was more of a tasting menu in price. That being said, we’ll see if my every man print finds its way into the homes of the Satan worshipers everywhere.  Oh yeah, I titled it: “Foolhardy”

Still wanting to have stuff to sell at Comic Con I will be making a silkscreen of this print, larger and in a different color scheme.  It should look something like this:

Pho with Dave

April 18th, 2010

Maxwell’s Cafe

April 16th, 2010

Some Drawing…

April 15th, 2010

Warm up sketching- Ink on paper

Clowny the Clown

April 14th, 2010

Ink on paper

Gothtard

December 30th, 2009

Tis the season for a little Christmas whoring. My 15 year old sister is torn between her love for Jonas Brothers music and vampire boy toy, Robert Pattinson. Given the choice between making a portrait of either of them as a Christmas gift I chose pale and pasty Pattinson. I figure fanged freak Robert is playing a role that has pigeonholed his career similarly to his opposite Daniel Radcliffe, which I’m sure was unintenional. On the other hand, I feel that the Jonas Brothers are demonically harmonized creations from Satan himself. That being said, I am rather happy with my little sister’s beaming smile on Santa’s birthday over a portrait of the undead. I decided that it was appropriate given that Jesus returned in similar fashion. Maybe as my little sis gets older her tastes will refine to something more interesting like Wesley Snipes.

Sorry Sap and a Silver Smith

November 28th, 2009

An old friend of mine and I were catching up and he was in the dilemma of being broke and in love. He said that he wanted to propose to this woman but didn’t have the means to buy a ring. I mentioned to him that I had read about guys during the great depression that would make rings out of silver half dollars. He liked the idea and we started looking into cool silver coins. His girl was part Russian we started there.

I found two of these coins online. They are Russian “50 Kopecks”made of silver. The more decorative side reads “Workers of the World Unite!”. That seemed appropriate given they both grew up in working family households. Both coins were minted in 1922 in St. Petersburg. The total cost for the coins was about $30.00.
To my friend’s enthusiasm as well as my own I took a ball peen hammer and a piece of steel and got real old school. I pounded the hell out of the coins and used a Dremel to sand and buff the hell out of them.
Each ring took about 15 to 20 hours. This was my first ring project! I’m sure I could do them a little quicker now. I’ve been in weddings. I’ve been a wedding photographer. I’ve have preformed wedding ceremonies. Now I’ve made rings! They just look like silver bands when worn, but the inside still sports the cool Russian type which is clearly visible. To all my artist friends out there, remember, anybody with cash can buy stuff, but we have the ability to make stuff! I was very proud of this project and I hope that it says everything that my pal wants his girl to know.