Totoro Forest Project

Yar! Totoro Forest Project! Put together by the one Dice Tsutsumi. You may have heard of this because there are like 200 amazing artists involved. So since i already posted my painting down there a bit (see Top Secret), ill just post another photo of Moochie because he is what my painting is based on. Anyway it's going to be an auction at Pixar, also a juried show at the Cartoon Art Museum. So its a great thing for a great cause put on by great dudes and kind of a tribute to one of the raddest guys of all time. ok thanks. hope your doing good. ps. i live in New York now. its actually summer here, something i find enjoyable.

a couple of things

So i made these 2 paintings for my new friend Olivia who runs this shop here in San Francisco called fabric 8. They are for sale at said shop. They also have a shop on the internet, they sell many cool things including original art from people like Brian Barneclo, Brett Amory, Lark Pien, David Chong Lee, among others. Olivia also said she would sell some left over Human Monkey prints for me. So if your interested in any of these things to own, you should get a hold of Olivia and let her know, I'm sure she will be happy to hear from you. OK, thanks! have a good week, till next time. love
bajel.

Group Show Tomorrow Night!

Hello everybody. There is an art show going on in the city of san francisco tomorrow night Friday June 20th at 1988 gallery. the gallery is on Sutter street @ Polk. this painting will be there as well as that painting of the little girl on the see saw down there a couple of posts back. stay sweet.

Yokai in You're Eye

Is the title of a group show that I will be participating in this weekend. The show is in Florida, and I'm telling you now (5 days early) so you can start hitch hiking over there to see my 2 paintings. Be safe. I'll post them for you here if your not into hitch hiking, but im sure you are if you read this tough blog.



































The name of the gallery is Bear and Bird gallery. Great name for a gallery imo.
thanks gang.

PS. want to know what Yokai is? like i did when i first heard that word and didn't know what it was? than check out Wikipedia! can you find the ones that i painted?

Top Secret

art show tonight! Friday may 16th 2008

So this nice girl named Nicole who runs this blog put together this little show and invited me to be in it and i accepted! and i'm happy i did. so heres the info and heres the 2 paintings i did. Sleeping Clown and See Saw!


































Event: Arthead SF presents “Balance”, an alternative space group show at Satori Yoga StudioDate: May 16th - June 13th, 2008
Location: Satori Yoga Studio, 40 1st St. #2 San Francisco, CA 94105
Artist Reception: Friday, May 16th 6-9pm

Arthead SF and Satori Yoga Studio present “Balance”, a group show featuring 3 Arthead blog participants: Nathan Stapley, Rachelle Cohen & Philippe Jestin.

Ralph Machio Blues

in Italian.

pictures of print

New pictures from Marks site of the Human Monkey prints that are now made! I want to sleep on it. Thanks Mark!

hey awesome new development on these; they are sold out. but if you reeealy want one email me through my website and we'll talk because i have a hand full of them.

A Print!

Hello there, long time no talk. So I did a print in conglomeration with a guy named Mark and his company Letter Pressed. Together they make really nice looking prints and cards and he asked me to contribute one to his line up of awesome ones. You can pre-order one from him now if you want, Here is where you do that. It depicts Human Monkey, a guy i've made comics about for some time now. Want to see a little page from the first one i made back in the year 2000? ok. you can see the whole comic in this book. And here is what the print will look like, he's hanging out in his old neighborhood. The translation is this: From the Jungle. Here's another drawing of him drinking coffee that Mark is using for another thing. sweet, ok hope you are good.

Moochie Salata (??-2008)

Yes it's true, my favorite dog ever died yesterday. Moochie, a Boston terrier and companion of best bro Jason Salata. In an effed up turn of events, a pit bull from 2 yards over got into his yard and mauled the poor little guy, super sad. Moochie lived a full life, he went through a lot of tough times, humped dogs 3 times his size, and almost lived in England. We didn't know how old he was and we weren't sure how blind he was, but each year he didn't die of old age gave us all hope, and he aged like wine, really nicely. It's just a huge bummer he had to go out like this. I haven't painted any subject as many times as I've painted Mooch, every time someone asks me to paint their dog I have to refuse because all other dogs pale in comparison. So here's a little tribute, there's other Moochie paintings out there, but these are the only ones I have scanned. So here's to Mooch, hopefully he's scratching himself raw up in that big backyard in the sky. RIP Moochie, we'll miss you.

Painting for Ray

Happy Mondays again. So here's a painting I recently finished for my friend Ray. Who owns a painting I did of a similar looking old man. Here i depicted an old lady, to go with the old man. I even put them in the same type frame.

Missing My Moleskin

Hi, everyone I left my second moleskin sketchbook on a plane this weekend. If you find it can you email me? Here's some pages from some old sketchbooks though just to keep things moving. They are of people and things sleeping.

My Game About Me

Hi, so I made a miniature game for the awesome place that i work at. R A Z made the first one, and this is my go. I came up with some of the ideas and drew the pictures, and this other awesome guy that works here named Klint Honeychurch did the rest, that guys a genius. (see below)










also R A Z composed the soundtrack. Hopefully you will have fun playing it.
This is where you go to play it; click on this word HERE

'ello

Happy Mondays. So its Monday and i'm going to show you these paintings I did for this show thats going to be in LA tomorrow night, the 8th of january 2008. at 1988 gallery, close to the world famous pinks hot dogs. It's a tribute show for Stan Lee, the guy who created all those awesome super hero's like Spider Man, The Hulk(below) and the X-men, among others. Scott really knows more about the dude than me, but I loved The Hulk TV show when i was a kid, maybe it was something about Lou Ferrigno and how massive and kind hearted he was, like that dude who squished that mouse in that one book. Anyway, here he is all pissed off and about to kick the ass of someone who picked on a nerd or something. Hope you had a good weekend.

hey 2008

heres some sketchbook things from the road trip i took in late 2007. Terra Haute, Indiana, where i got an oil change. Nathaniel Moore street, NY, NY. And the grand canyon in Arizona.

Later 2007

thank you for looking at this thing this year. don't go changing.


















after Frank Duveneck

happy holidays

hello i have been on vacation for a while but here is some stuff i've done whilst on vacation. i drove to new york to stay with my friends the berry's. it was fun and im driving back to sf today. so heres some paintings and the first page of my new comic in hickee #4 plus the cover i did for hickee #4 volume 10(or something), coming in december. also a new years drawing for THIS SHOW, happening in LA very soon. the gouache paintings on bad cardboard are mt. rushmore and a mountain in the big horn natnl. forest. ok catch you later. stay sweet.

party, mural party!?

yes, mural/housewarming party tomorrow in San Francisco. I've been painting this mural here and there since last thanksgiving. And it's done, and were gonna have a party to celebrate, also a housewarming for the people who live in the house on which the mural is painted. There will also be live music. My friends helped paint it with me, they are Brett Amory, Kellie Charlton, Francis Hsu and Stephen Brockway.

Horace alley between Fulsom and Shotwell, between 26th and 25th streets (closer to 26th) starts at 3 pm.

Here it is in its not totally finished state

selected shorts

So here's some selected paintings i have selected to show you from the show last week. thanks for coming to see it. Its up for another month also, tues-saturday 10-7.

Somewhere Out There #1

















Somewhere Out There #2

















inspired by this and this


San Francisco












vacation #2


















bear lake monster
















Crowd#2














Burning Ears

















Ken Burns series:


Fernando Valenzuela


















Civil War Guy With Beard


















Coltrane

art show tonight!

heres a sample image. its my rendition of the internet. or a self portrait of myself right at this moment.

hope to see you there.

love
bagel