I am proud to announce that my first book is now available to the public!  The book measures in at 10 by 8 inches and is filled with 74 pages of full color glossy images.  It shows off the various styles and subjects I like to play with.  Makes a great holiday gift for the art enthusiast or pop culture geek.

Check it out at Blurb.com

Here it is folks. A preview of the big project I’ve been hinting at for months.   I’ve been wanting to do something like this for years and I finally got serious about this earlier this year.

So for the last several months I’ve been working on new art, retouching some older art, designing the layouts, choosing fonts, organizing, selecting and then revising, revising and even more revising!

It was a thrill to come home from the office last night and see this sitting on the table waiting for me!   Just a couple more weeks and my book will be available online.   It’s 10″ x 8″ and has 74 pages in full color on glossy paper!

It only took me a year but I finally finished this tattoo design for my old friend Don Molumby.

He wanted the  Greco-Roman Lady Justice (Dike / Justice)  portrayed in a Hindu-style.  I chose to make her of the celestial race of Nagas making it a more striking design.

I’m close to revealing my big project to the world so Stay tuned for more info –  and as usual,

 this and more of my work can be seen in my gallery.

After several weeks of struggling with this piece I managed to finish this yesterday.

This is yet another piece for my ongoing project. A few more weeks and all will be revealed!

Stay tuned for more info and as usual,   this and more of my work can be seen in my gallery.

So here it is, my latest painting.  Full of old-school original Star Trek goodness!

My crazy-big-secret project is in its final stages, and this is actually a part of it.

Stay tuned for more info and as usual,  this and more of my work can be seen in my gallery.

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digital over pencil, 2011

George was my Dutch rabbit and best friend for almost 10 years. This t-shirt design is a tribute to him. This is the latest evolution of the design which has been a work in progress since 1999.

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Judy Meets the Landing Party

Digital over pencil, 2011

 This is a sample from a big project I’m working on right now.

Stay tuned for more info…

ps. and as usual this and more art can be seen in my gallery =)

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Gikantikal: Angry Space

This is a reworking of a piece I originally did back in 2005.

I’m a huge sci-fi fan and wanted to have some fun.  Can you identify all the ships?

She and other works  can be seen in my gallery of course.

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After 3 nights of messing around in Illustrator and Photoshop this pin-up is finished.  I originally sketched her back in 2006.  I was going through a bunch of my old sketchbooks recently and decided to see if I could turn it into a finished piece. Additionally, I tried out a bunch of techniques to see if I could speed up my workflow.  Overall I’m happy with the results as well as the things I learned through this exercise.

She and other works  can be seen in my gallery of course.

I’ve got a lot of stuff I’m working on right now… so stay tuned for a big announcement soon.

*photo by Rez Graham

Here it is, my latest tattoo of the Hindu Goddess Saraswati.  She is the goddess of knowledge, music and art.

A few months ago, I finally drew a design I was happy with:

The most important part of the story though, is that the phenomenal Angelique Sanders of Maryland was spending some time in San Francisco. She was a guest artist at my favorite tattoo shop: One Shot Tattoo which conveniently is located a mere 4 blocks from my home!  So after trading emails for 6 months we finally met.  She took my original artwork and did her magic!  I was lucky enough to get a day she didn’t have any appointments…really just a few before she was leaving San Francisco.

I spent 6 hours chatting with Angel as she worked on my arm.  She did it all in one sitting.   This is my fourth tattoo and the first by a female tattoo artist.  It was an awesome experience.   Most of the time I could barely feel the needle.  However, I also finally learned first-hand, that getting inked over bone is not pleasant at all.   This is the first time I’ve had a needle work over the wrist-bone as well as near the elbow.  Not fun…though now that I’ve been through it – I know I could endure it on my other arm. Not only did she have the magic touch, but the healing process was much quicker this time.   It was all healed up about a week later. Usually my tattoos have taken closer to 14or 17  days to completely heal.

I continue to work on the designs for my sleeves and can’t wait to get worked on again by Angel!  She’s got a great sense of humor. She’s an amazing painter and tattoo artist. I’m looking forward to her next California trip.

* “Desi”  (sounds kinda like “they see”)  in several Indian languages   refers to people or things from India.  It can roughly be translated also as “native”.

Saraswati is the Hindu goddess of  knowledge, art, music and creativity.

Stay tuned to see where this goes from here…

Here’s another 2 hour deal in photoshop.  Based off of a photo of Cyd Charisse from the 1950s.

Here’s 2 more speed paintings…

Red Warrior

photoshop

time: 1 hour & 20 mins.

sketched & painted in photoshop

time spent: 3 hours

Yep, I’ve got some new tattoos to show off.

Click to enlarge *photo by Rez Graham

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My latest tattoo is  of Ganesh, the Hindu God of success, lord of beginnings and the remover of obstacles. Ganesh is to be honored first before the other Gods and Goddesses, so I felt it was appropriate to sacrifice my flesh to him first before my planned tattoos of other Hindu dieties.

It took 2 sessions, roughly 5 hours total to get this finished.  Doug Fortin at One Shot Tattoo did a great job. He took my original artwork (on the right) and added his magic touch.

I also  had some more work done to this piece with the Lion Capital of Emperor Ashoka (which is over 2300 years old and is the national emblem of India).  I went back to One Shot Tattoo back in September and met the owner Dave Bobrick.   Though the original artist I worked with no longer works at the shop, Dave offered to take over and he colored in the design in orange, yellow and red as per the artwork I brought in a year earlier when I first got this piece.  Dave is a fantastic artist, runs an excellent shop and pleasure to speak with.  The colors are very subtle, and often seem to change dramatically depending on lighting conditions.

What does the title of this post mean?

“Desi”  (sounds kinda like “they see”)  in several Indian languages   refers to people or things from India.  It can roughly be translated also as “native”.

More new artwork… this is the fourth in my series of Victorian-era inspired heroic animal heraldry.

New artwork: this is the third piece in this series.

This is the second in this series. More to come…

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Yep. New art work.

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