If you’ve been keeping up, here’s number five of the custom painted slip on Vans shoes that I’ve completed. I believe these are on display in the Vans, Inc. retail store in Dallas, TX.

And a link to the Flickr collection.

Geesh! It’s been like ferrevrrrr since I posted. My gawd. What the hell’s wrong with me? I’m sorry to the massively random person who stumbles upon my blog and happens to read it every now and then. Here’s an ad I did for pdxpipeline.com. They’re some old friends of mine and I love doing work for them. Totally rad to the bone awesomeness.

Painted these for the Canvas Art Show here in Oklahoma City. The show was amazing. I believe 1500 people made it through the door that night. The venue was incredible—hardwood floors, track lighting, full bar, dj’s and a huge dance floor with over 125 shoes on display. We danced our asses off to DJ Diverse — he’s the shit. There was also a 4 x 8 art piece that all of the artists collaboratively worked on at the show, which was auctioned off at the end. All of the shoes were amazing. This event put the one in Portland, OR to shame, which I never thought I would say that, but it’s true. Oklahoma City has a great art scene and some really bad ass artists. I feel fortunate to live here. I can’t wait till next year’s show. Enjoy!

This is a hand-painted skateboard deck for a local skateboard shop, Arockalypse. Their latest art show, “On Deck”, featured about 40 custom-painted decks. The show was amazing. Lots of great artists on the wall and the crowd was awesome. Think Ink’s artists were there (Josh Crain, David Bruehl and Fernando) representing some really nice talent. And as always, TDS (The Death Squad), Oklahoma City’s premiere skate crew, were there with a blinged-out board on 24’s, well they were 5’s but they kept ‘em clean. If you live in the OKC area, visit Arockalypse for all of your skating needs and fashionista apparel.

This was a design comp that I did for the Enlyten Sales Kit Folder. This particular one did not get picked but was later used as a poster in the corporate office. I have always been a big fan of splatter, clouds and collages. This was built in AI after the images were posterized in PS. So the majority of it is vector. Let me know what you think. It was pretty fun hammering this one out. Learn more about Enlyten SportStrips here.
FYI: CURRENT WEBSITE IS NOT OUR DESIGN!

Some VERY fast handbills for The Ills’ tour dates. It’s not my best work, but I’m still quite fond of the war planes dropping OMs.

This is the second wallpaper that I’ve done for Patrick McNeil and his amazing website, Design Melt Down. There you can find an extensive archive of great websites, design tutorials and endless chit chat about the latest trends. Thanks again to Patrick for letting me be involved with such a magical thing. Check out Chocolate Lovin’ to see the first one I did for him.

This is a t-shirt design I did for the Made You Look Graffiti Art Show held in OKC in 2007. I also did the
Poster and Hand Bills. This was Oklahoma’s first graffiti art show — so it was a big event and hundreds of people showed up. The shirts were a big success and they sold out of every size except XXL, which the curator was very happy about since it helped recoup some losses. Big ups to Nick and Jason for the honor of choosing me for the design of this event.

These are hand-painted Vans for an art show called, “Canvas,” put on by Shoe Gypsy of Oklahoma City. Click here to see the backs of the shoes. I was unable to attend the event, but apparently there were close to 1,000 attendees and 75% of the shoes sold. Thanks again to the Curators for including me in the show.

I illustrated this for my daughter’s 2nd birthday. I really like this style of illustration — it’s pretty popular nowadays — the whole cut-out-looking construction paper stuff. Subtle drop shadows, all vector, done in Illustrator CS2.