mural at the 4-spot.

i just completed a mural in el cajon. at a couple of friends' house. it's my biggest one to date, 60 feet long. drawing took a couple of days and the actual painting of the thing was wrapped up in a week.

it got quite hot during the week. thank goodness i was painting right next to the pool.

a lot of the head and the heart, as well as the tallest man on the earth were pumping through my headphones.

if anyone out there needs a supercool mural painted get in touch with this guy.

ummm, that would be me.

slide slide slippity slide.

the slide is a new addition to the girl's toy collection.

sippy lid.

the pattern is lifted from mary's curtains in the film mary and max. amazing film, by the way.

still not satisfied with the pattern element. i may introduce some yellow green inside parts of it.

tift merritt. rogue wave. cee-lo.

and a bit of empire strikes back.

space age.

done in three parts.

the repeated piece is part of one of the new star wars lego vehicles that the boy got for the holiday. its something from hoth in the empire strikes back.

the blaster is from the buzz lightyear ride up in disney.

the pattern is from the icon for a holiday music file that carrie downloaded on her mac. added it while watching romancing the stone. that movie brings back memories of driving to the concord mall movie theater with my family when it came out. it seemed like such a long ride. back roads and rural on the verge of suburban delaware county. it was like a 20 minute drive.

subduing the ray gun and dressing up the pattern was done with diego and the wonderpets in the background. a little tift merritt in between.

i'm not satisfied with it.

a cup of color.

warming up.

the girl's glamour glasses. the boy's spotted lizard. stars from a shrinky dink ornament on the tree.

started a few weeks ago. maybe a month. and it looked like this.

broke it back out last night after everyone was in bed. the lovely missus was in bed sick before the kiddos were tucked in at 730.

listening to a mix i made for her. 

tift merritt- mix tape

cee-lo green- old fashioned

dave rawlings- sweet tooth

leisure society- love's enormous wings

the tallest man on the earth- the dreamer

hoots and hellmouth- roll, brandywine, roll

to name a few.

finished off the evening watching box of moonlight. gotta love sam rockwell.

a staggering work of genius.

pretty much says it all.
i still have a bit of fondness for this one.

 

another wet one.

view of the jacked up back porch awning on france street.

monotype done on plexi with watersoluble pencils.
used a smidge too much water for the transfer.

it will be sunny tomorrow. at least sunnier.