Wolfinger's Wall

New Art from Two Recent Shows

2012-02-16T19:56:00.000-08:00

Here are three new pieces that are currently up in two different shows. Two are @ Intellegentsia on Colorado Blvd. in Old Town Pasadena and all three are up at Back to the Picture Gallery in downtown San Francisco. All works are either ink or graphite and colored digitally. Prints are available.

Tom Waits

2011-07-20T00:42:00.000-07:00

Also done for the 20/20 group show as a book-end to the Iggy piece. I was very happy with the outcome of this one, as I labored over the sketch quite a bit. And to top it off, this piece sold within the first 10 minutes of the show. I still have a few glicee prints left for anyone interested.

Iggy

2011-07-20T00:40:00.000-07:00

Done for the June 2011 20/20 Gallery Show in San Francisco.

WEZ!

2011-05-30T23:31:00.001-07:00

I will be attending Wasteland Weekend http://wastelandweekend.com/ again this year in Sept., but this time as a vendor and will be selling Mad Max themed art prints and possibly t-shirts. This a is a work-in-progress pencil drawing of "Wez!", Max's little mohawked nemesis of the wasteland. Check back for more updates.

Charles Bronson

2011-05-30T20:31:00.000-07:00

Did this one recently for a caricature contest. Came in 2nd out of about 50+ entrants. This is more an amalgam of the Charles Bronson movies I grew up with as a kid, like The Mechanic and the Deathwish flims. He's got such a great weathered face to draw, a face like a clenched-fist! One of the original tough guys for sure :)

Gary Sinise

2011-05-28T13:27:00.001-07:00

Not sure where this photo was taken, but he had this crazed look in his eyes that I liked. Looks a bit psychotic in my final painting. Was really happy with the skin tones and his eyes.

Paul Giamatti

2011-05-28T13:21:00.001-07:00

Here's Paul Giamatti from one of my favorite movies, Sideways. This is one of those cases where I liked both the sketch and the colored version. I opted to leave the glass out of the colored version because I didn't think it needed it, and also I think it conveys a deeper more contemplative feeling without it. I did for a moment entertain the idea of a mouse floating in the glass :)

Tommy Lee Jones

2011-02-25T18:00:00.001-08:00

Had a lot of fun with this one. He's just got this great face to draw. I chose the scene from No Country for Old Men where he is just beginning to understand what he's up against.

Some recent caricatures

2011-02-25T17:50:00.000-08:00

This last month I've been able to draw and paint some new caricatures. Have been quite please with some of them. Here we have Emily Blunt, Bridget Bardot, and Nick Cave. I've had time to experiment a little bit with these too.

Leslie Nielson, you will be missed.

2010-12-06T14:55:00.000-08:00

We lost one of the great ones last week, funny man, Leslie Nielson. He was the perfect straight man in ridiculous situations, a la, Airplane, and the bumbling idiot cop who somehow always got his man. I can't remember laughing harder at a movie than the first time I saw The Naked Gun. Call him Leslie, call him Frank, just don't ever call him Shirley. We will miss you. Thanks for all the laughs.

Liv Tyler

2010-11-22T01:54:00.000-08:00

Liv as Arwen from The Lord of the Rings.

Hulk Hogan

2010-11-22T01:43:00.000-08:00

Tracey Morgan

2010-11-22T01:42:00.000-08:00

Gérard Depardieu

2010-11-22T01:38:00.000-08:00

Megan Fox

2010-11-22T01:36:00.000-08:00

John Cleese

2010-11-22T01:34:00.000-08:00

From Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Picasso caricature

2010-06-15T15:15:00.000-07:00

So I have joined the online community, "Caricaturama Showdown 3000!" which is a weekly caricature contest just for fun. Will try to update my blog with the latest.

Illustration for the band Combichrist

2009-09-23T00:32:00.000-07:00

So this was a really fun project to do. This is a band from Atlanta Georgia that wanted some promotional art for an upcoming show out here in LA on Halloween. These guys are already pretty intense looking and then wanted to be made into zombies, so I really was able to let loose on it. The first sketch was pretty successful in capturing the feel that I wanted, but they wanted it to be a little more simplified and stylized with the heavy black lines etc.. so I went a bit more cartoon-y/rockabilly. Once they were happy with the inks, some flat tones were dropped in for some t-shirt and flyer printing. The final image is a bit more rendered out in photoshop, complete with more textures and richer tones to flesh out the forms.

Check the band out here:
http://www.myspace.com/combichrist
http://www.combichrist.com/

Sam at dementia-design.com did the logo and pre-press for the final.

Some Stylized Rides.

2009-09-22T11:51:00.001-07:00

These were a lot of fun to play around with the shapes and really exaggerate the proportions.

Some American Muscle.

2009-09-18T16:38:00.000-07:00

Here's a few of my favorite muscle cars I was able to illustrate.

More Hotwheels

2009-09-18T15:51:00.001-07:00

2009-09-18T15:47:00.000-07:00

The Corvette Grand Sport. One of my all time favs. I prefer the blue and white scheme but I think the final came out pretty good.

Starting this Blog up!

2009-09-18T13:14:00.000-07:00

So for the last year or so I have been illustrating the cars for the entire line of Mattel's Hotwheels. I did these thru Petrol Advertising along with a couple other talented guys, and even so probably painted over 100 cars. Here's some of my favorites. Hope you like them.

Greetings!

2009-02-24T09:52:00.001-08:00

My first Blog! Woo hoo...

Hopefully will have something more interesting to say soon.

Ciao.