Bird Illustrations
These are some illustrations I created for a tattoo design. The first one is a pencil sketch, followed by a pentel brush illustration, then a micron pen illustration, and finally micron and watercolor illustration.
Tattoo Design
Austin HOPE Mural Wall Closing
“No Trespassing” signs and yellow barrier tape have gone up around the multicolored abandoned condo project at 11th and Baylor streets. Officially, the site is known as the Local to Global Outdoor Gallery Project, organized and curated by the HOPE campaign, a local nonprofit, with support from the property’s owners, Dick Clark Architecture and Castle Hill Partners. Until last Tuesday, however, the walls just west of Lamar were better known unofficially as a great place for artists to paste or paint to their heart’s content, rules be damned. It’s this clashing – aesthetically, artistically and spatially – that has led to the clampdown along Baylor Street and has revealed a larger change in Austin’s accepted aesthetic citywide.
End of the Road for Baylor Street Art Wall? (The Austin Chronicle)
HOPE Campaign Mural
In April 2011 I volunteered to work on a mural for the HOPE Campaign Castle Wall project in Austin, Texas. The wall space measures approximately 30 feet in length and 17 feet at it’s highest. The city of Austin has promised this wall space to the HOPE Campaign for at least 3 years.
Wall Space
Since I have a printmaking background and access to equipment, I decided to approach this project in a familiar form.
Silk Screen with Burned Images
I begun by screen printing repeatable patterns onto 19″ x 25″ white paper. The actual graphic measures 17″ x 23″, so the paper will need to be trimmed by an inch all the way around so the patterns bleed off the edge of the paper. The result is seamless tiles. This paper should also be light and thin enough to paste up. Below are some shots of the actual screen prints. Some are 2 colors and some only one.
Paper Stack
Actual images of the screenprints.
Paper Patterns
Aside from the patterns, I created this 4 foot by 6 foot portrait of a woman to adorn the right side of the mural. The process for creating her began as a small hand drawing, which I scanned and altered in Illustrator. I printed the black and white graphic out on a laser jet in four, 2 foot by 3 foot sections, and then hand painted each section to give it some color.
Process
Painting Patterns
The pasting part of the project took about 12 hours spread across 6 days. That does not including the preparation time for creating the materials used. Below are the pictures of the final work.
Day 2 Progress
HOPE Campaign Mural
Day 06
About the HOPE Campaign
The HOPE (Helping Other People Everywhere) Campaign a project of HOPE Events Inc. an energy conscious 501(c)3 non-profit focused on involving artists and their contributions in campaigns, programs and events to support existing social projects that promote education and peace around the world.
Day 06 – HOPE Wall Wrap Up
Here are the final pictures of the finished mural wall. The project took about 12 hours across 6 days, not including the preparation time for the materials used.
Day 06
Day 06
Day 06
Un grito por la igualdad
Un grito por la igualdad
Day 05 – HOPE Mural
Day 05
Day 04 – HOPE Mural
Four days at it and this is my progress so far. The summer’s brutal, hot days don’t allow me to have as much time in the daylight as I’d like. I’ve been forced to break my wall work time into two working blocks in the early morning and the late evening.
Day 04