Inked Souls Show Photos

Hey everyone! My awesome sister was able to go to the Inked Souls opening last night and took some photos of the show for me:







And for those of you who weren't able to make it to the show, here are some pics of the sneakers I customized:







I hope everyone who went to the show had I great time. I wish I could have been there!

This weekend - Inked Souls Show - Arlington, VA

All you guys that live out by DC and Virginia be sure to check out a great show this weekend... I will have a painting and a custom pair of painted Tagur sneakers at the show!


(click image for a larger version of the flyer)

Inked Souls
April18th - May 9th
2450 Crystal Drive, Arlington, VA 22202

Eclectix Gallery show March 13th!!

One great show at Eclectix has ended, but a new one is on the way! March 13th -April 26th. She show is called "Eat It!" and all of the artwork has some element of food / eating in it. I will have 2 paintings in the show, so if you live in the area be sure to check it out and check out the work of all the other great artists!

Eclectix Gallery show Jan 16th!!

I will have several pieces in this show. If you are in the area be sure to check it out to see my work and the work of other great artists!

PS Happy new year to you all!

Distinction Gallery Autumn's Delight show

It's show and tell time! Distinction really is a great gallery. They have so many talented artists showing their work there. These photos are just of the main show that I was in, but there is a lot more to explore within the gallery if you go there, so if you are ever in the area and haven't been, definitely check it out sometime.
We took a lot of photos, so let's get started(and in case you didn't know you can click on any photo to enlarge it, I know these look pretty small here):


I talked with Scott Brooks a lot during the night. He was a cool guy, be sure to check out his work if you aren't familiar with it:

Here's Scott Brooks' wall:

Andy Haynes work was to the right of mine:


This is me with Christopher Blaikie, one of the artists who has a studio at Distinction. He is also the artist who painted the mural on their outside wall.



And here are just some shots of my work itself:






So, that's the show! I have most of the work from the show up on strangepuppets.com gallery now. I had been waiting for the show to put everything up. If there is anything you are interested in, or if you want more details on the work and the show, you can go to Distinction's page for it here. If you are interested in purchasing anything from the show just give them a call over at the gallery!

And now I wish you all a lovely day.

Flyer for the October Distinction show

Well hello everybody. I hope you all had a lovely summer. I myself had a crazy busy summer and actually just starting next week will things settle down. So you can expect to hear more from me over the fall and winter.
In some exciting news I just received the flyer for the October show at Distinction Gallery and wanted to share!



It should be an interesting show for sure. I hope every single person living within a 50 mile radius from Escondido will be able to make it.
Every single one

I could go blind

How is everyone doing?
I am going to tell you a small story about a tragedy that occured this weekend.
Anyone who wears contacts will already know this, but I am going to give an overview on contact lens care for those who do not.
Basically there are 2 ways you can clean your contacts. One is a solution that is gentle, you can soak your lenses in it, you can rub them off with it, and you can even put it in your eye. This is the solution I normally use. But I had asked Rog to pick me up my contact lense solution one day and he came back with the other.
The other solution is like a chemistry set. You have this test tube looking thing that you put the solution in. Then you suspend your lenses in some sort of futuristic chamber and drop them into the solution. You're not supposed to take the lenses out for at least 6 hours so the solution can "neutralize".
Well, like the genius I am... my lens was bugging me so I went and rinsed it off with the death solution and put it in my eye. I felt like my eyeball was one fire. I began frantically washing it off with water and saying to Rog (while crying) "I could go blind! I could go blind!" He in the meantime calmly read the package and it said nothing about potentially going blind so he tried to assure me I was ok.
Anyway, my eyeball looked like it was covered in blood by the time it was all done. Luckily I can still see, but my eye hurt for hours after. So now I am having to rock my glasses while my eye recovers:

Now I look like I am smart, even though I am clearly stupid. So anyway, wondering what's in this solution that would cause such pain... well I'm not sure because there is a ton of scary sounding stuff in it, but I think it might be:

Hydrogen peroxide in the eye can't be good?
Ok, well story over. Anyway, here's one of the things I am working on now:

It's called "The Rake". It will probably take forever to do. I hope it works out.

That's all for now. Have a lovely day.