As I choose black and white older photos, the images seem to appear darker than they appear in the original photograph...kind of like it...

still with the panoramic format

signage for Astrid's business for holiday/booth events

New pieces for a possible show....

Hand painted water bottles for Oola Restaurant and Bar

shoe shine box

playing around with a vintage shoe shine box i had laying around and applied some things I learned from the workshop...

Oola Restuarant and Bar sandwich board

Working on a new avenue of art with some self taught sign painting.  A few weeks later I ended up taking a sign painting workshop at New Bohemia Signs here in San Francisco where I learned some classic techniques.  Extremely fun and educational and looking forward to new endeavors.

Recap of 2012....

Well I guess the last posting I did was back in April of last year...oops. I guess I haven't been in touch as much as I should be. Sorry. Anyway, since then I've done quite a bit dr myself and I can't believe I didn't post anything from my first NYC group show that was held back in June 7th of 2012 in Chelsea. I suppose as an artist it's the Mecca of showing. But let me say this: just because you've shown in NYC doesn't mean you are a successful artist. It just means that you've shown there that's all. That is definitely one important thing I realized for myself but it doesn't also mean that I wouldn't do it again after all I am an artist and that there are galleries and museums to be exposed to. I had fun on that trip and my brother Ramon even came out to support my endeavor there. Cool stuff. Also that summer I moved to a different studio with my friend Melissa Wagner to a different studio in the Mission called Active Space on 18th and Treat. I've been painting more since I moved in to studios rather than from home. Bothe good and bad I think for their own respective reasons. I'll post some new images somehow as I cannot do it on my iPhone currently. I know, odd right?!