"An accident is a simple accident that we can always build off of."

newest piece for tonight.

"John Lennon"

Reposting these images from a short time back.

These are a couple of my old window paintings I have done along with a few window advertisements I painted for my job at Trader Joe's.

Here are a few new post of works I have been doing on a few of the influential people in my life. There are many more of these to come...

In order to create these I begin by laying down what ever colors or textures onto whatever object I plan on working with. From here I dry the objects either quickly or slowly to play with their textures. You can achieve this with blowdryers or even placing things in your oven. (cautious about the temps because you don't want to burn anything unless that is what you're going for. Then I place a stencil which I create and cut out to my liking. This is an old technique which is great because you can reuse the same image over and over again. Then once this dries glaze it to seal in the colors and the paints.

Einstein prints: This series of prints is dedicated to the genius of Albert Einstein. In order to create these pieces I first needed to create a stencil. From here it was a piece of cake. to create the images you first need to lay down either a flat color or a design of some sort. From there you place the stencil over the color or image you created. Every time is going to be different. Sometimes the paint runs, smears or doesn't come through the stencil properly. Once you've learned this technique you can begin to play around with it and use different types of glazes to create effects.

Here is one of my most innovative pieces. For this piece I was experimenting with diluted paints in order to see what would occur when i would tilt the canvas and let gravity take its course. In order to create this I first laid a heavy layer of gesso and then drew in the image of the sun as to how I wanted it. from here a pallet knife was used to place a heavy layer below the sun to create the jagged image of the earth. In order to dilute the paint as to how I wanted it I would use an old household cleaning spray bottle and spray the water and acrylic onto the canvas and begin manipulating it by tilting it and moving it and shaking it. this was done multiple times with multiple colors. From here I used a black india ink and calligraphy pen and splattered and dug in the inks across the bottom. With this water color pencils were also used to create a watery effect. In order to completely seal the deal a clear coat acrylic glaze medium was placed across this water color india ink combination. After a few coats of the glaze I began to slap the brush in these areas which caused actual bubbles to form. I left the bubbles to dry outside which then became 3 dimensional. this piece is currently hanging at Trattoria 225 in Oak Park Illinois.

This is a series all painted on handmade paper. The paper was made by my girlfriend Rachel Lechocki. In order to create each piece I first started by drawing an image than coloring it in with water color pencils then overlaid that with acrylic paints, gesso, and oil pastels. in order to seal the image and to preserve the paper I then use heavy clear gloss spray paints and coat the image on both sides for preservation. The paper becomes stiff and is then easy to mount or frame.

This is another form of pastel that I created. For this piece there is actually only one drawing the rest are all created by mirroring that 1 Image. This idea came to me in a dream and in order to achieve what I wanted quickly before I forgot. To do this I mapped it out roughly in my head. No math used just guessing and luck. If I ever do something like this again Mapping it would probably be best, but whats the fun in that?

This is a series of pastels I have worked on over the past 10 years or so revolving around orchids and lilies and daisies. I sadly did not place them in proper chronological order. As I began working with pastels and studying the different types of flowers for them my imagination began to run wild. I began to see different images hidden within the flowers. Some are more visible than others. You could see images of a phallic nature to a vaginal to faces and in some cases I was able to create an entire imaginary scene from one flower (the first picture on the list). For that image everything from the petals to the leaves create one stirring image for a for ground and also created the background which I camouflaged as horizon. I have taken a break from this series recently to follow through with some other endeavors that I wish to try and achieve in my work, but this type of work is always calling me back. There will be more to come most definitely.