Behold, a finished Piggy Piggy portrait

Final wip of my "Piggy Piggy" portrait. This piece is for the upcoming Art for AIDS fundraiser that is going to be held on May 31st at Hartford's Artspace Gallery here in Connecticut. This piece will be the one I donate and the proceeds will go to the foundation. It's 12x12" oil on canvas.

Piggy Piggy 2nd wip

It's been a while since I've done an oil painting . I've almost forgotten how much fun oils are, but I did remember how I prefer to paint on gesso board rather then canvas. I still have the background, teeth, shirt, and eyes left. It's 12x12" on canvas. I'm using oils.

Piggy Piggy painting

First #wip of my "Piggy Piggy" portrait, this piece is for the upcoming Art for AIDS fundraiser that is going to be held on May 31st at Hartford's Artspace Gallery here in Connecticut. This piece will be the one I donate and the proceeds will go to the foundation. It's 12x12" on canvas. I using oils.

Mr . Filet-O-Fish

9x12 ink, watercolor and acrylic on 150 lb Bristol paper.

Later - Joe

Pandaman

9x10 ink, marker, watercolor, and acrylic on 150 lb Bristol paper.

Later - Joe

The Stitch

I did a bunch of drawings, sketches, and other things last year, that I never got a chance to put up on my blog. So in the spirit of trying to get better updating and posting more, i'll mix some oldies in with the new.

This one is 7x10.5 pencil, ink, watercolor, and acrylic on cold press watercolor paper.

Later - Joe

Bohemia Show

Here is a new painting for upcoming fund raising show coming up at Alchemy Juice Bar, in Hartford. The event is happening 1/23/10. It's a can food and clothing drive. So come check it out, because this cell phone photo doesn't do this 40"x30" painting any justice, plus it is for a great cause...the homeless!



Later, Joe

Twinkies & Robots Paintings

Here are the paintings I did for the show as promised. I'm waiting on getting the photos of my sculptures, hopefully tomorrow I should have those for you. Stay posted...

Later, Joe

Shy One Update...

It's been a while since I've posted. Mostly because I've been getting involved alot with the MAC 650 Gallery. But none the less I've still been working on side projects and gearing up for the Robots and Twinkies show coming in November. That brings me to this painting. It's the newest finished illustration for the Shy One at the Orgy project I've been working on with Adam Buldger. Adam probably wants to kill me cause I'm taking my sweet-ass time finishing this project, but believe it or not the end is near. Expect to see more!

Later,
Joe

The Salty Slug's 100th Post

Well I decided to do something special for my 100th post on the Slug. That is why I haven't blogged in a while. So above is the multi medium Illustration I did for this glorious post. It is 5"x10.5" on 100lb Stathmore Bristol paper. I used Acrylic paint, Prismacolor pencils, Bic pen, and sharpie markers to pull this baby off. It's title is,"The Slug Verses the Worm in the Battle for the Pooping Grounds". I got the idea the other night when I brought my dog out to take a dump on the small patch of grass behind my building. Believe it or not, at night the ground is covered with 4" long leopard patterned slugs and Giant earth worms. One of the slugs had a gaping wound in its side and was trying to make a run for it while little white mites crawled in and out of its wound. There were some giant earth worms in close proximity, so I'm holding them responsible for the wound.


Anyways here is what to expect in the future on the Salty Slug; The final paintings for the Shy One at The orgy story. Updates on the Twinkies and Robots show that is coming up, and the paintings I'll be doing for that show. And of course more shit I find funny. So please keep reading my little Slugglings.

Later, Joe

"The Shy One at the Orgy" Paintings

So I started to do all the spreads and illustrations for the final graphic novel. I was planing on being done with project by the end of February. Adam and I wanted it ready and printed for NY Comic Con which is the weekend, but life throw me a fucking curve ball and knocked me off course. Now I'm getting back on track and excited to finish the paintings and lay the book out.


Above is the first finished spread. I busted it out in both Oils and Acrylics.


This is the second spread. I've actualy already started painting it, but I didn't snap a shot yet. I'll get that up soon. Here are some close-ups of the spread below.





This is a single page. Nice and naughty!

More to come...
Thanks,
Joe

The Real Party Painting

I Haven't even wanted to look at a paint brush let alone do any paintings with all the heavy personal stuff I've been going through over the last couple of weeks. But the Real Party deadlines are this Friday and my sister made me sit down and do a quick painting for the show. I guess just cause my personal life really sucks now my professional life doesn't have to also. I tried to do something not related to what I'm going through but that didn't work. The little painting totally represents how I feel my life is going right now. I did the painting in Acrylics rather than oils mainly because of the time limits. I'm glad I did it but I still don't want to paint.

My Finished Circus Show Paintng and Sculptures

Sorry I thought I had posted them already. From Top to bottom: My finished painting "Over The Top Big Top", The "Clown" sculpture, The "Tight Rope Walker", and my "Shrunken Head" in a jar with out flash and with flash.

Upcoming Circus Art Show!

It is that time once again, when each year I along with my very good friend Joseph Galluccio throw a huge gallery show in downtown Hartford, CT at the ArtSpace Gallery. This year John McCormack teamed up with us to help throw the show. There will be 14 artist including the 3 of us. 14 different artist, 14 different styles, everything from paintings & Sculptures to Photos & Freaks. So on October 5th please join us for a night of guaranteed FREE kick-ass fun, food, drink and of awesome Art.

Work in progress on my painting for the upcoming Circus Show part 2

I got to work on it this weekend, so I finished the clowns head, and started on the Ringmasters head. I'm hoping to finish the painting in the next two weeks.
Here is a close up of the clowns head. Sorry about the flash, I said it before I'm not good with a camera. Later.

Work in progress on my painting for the upcoming Circus Show

So for you who may or may not know, my buddy Joseph Galluccio and I are organizing a group show for this coming October. The theme is the circus. I'll be posting all the official info on that soon, but in the mean time I thought it might be cool to do a step by step of the piece I have to do for the show. Each artist participating in the show has to produce one 3'x5' painting for the show. So here is mine

It all started with a sketch, mostly for layout purposes. I actually sketched out all the characters individually first and then I did the crewed sketch above. If anyone is interested I can post the other sketches up later.
I decided to use a piece of MDF panel to paint on. Mostly because it is like painting on glass. I ran into some problems though. I could only find 3/4" thick MDF, I wanted 1/4" thick, mostly because the shit is real heavy. So I settled for the 3/4" stuff and bought this fancy gadget to hang the damn thing. Then I primed it which is what you see above.
After the primer dried, I sketch on my creatures. I made some modifications and added a crap load more of detail. I'm sorry for the poor quality of the photos. I just can't take a good picture.
Above an below are some close ups.

Next using oils I painted the sky, clouds, and the mountains, aka the background.
Here is a close up of the mountains.
In this photo above I started the main clowns head. Also in oils. Stay posted there will be more to come in the next couple of days. Let me know what you think. Later.

Climb & Descent

Here is one of my more recent paintings.
Oil painting, 16x20 inches on panel.