Sunflower Guitar

I really liked how the guitar came out in the second image below. I think I overdid it by adding too much on the sunflower. I didn’t think nothing of it until I looked back at my progress, even though it looks unfinished, you still get the idea what I was aiming for. Still looks great but the potential on the unfinished image below.

I love You Bill 😢

Today fucking sucks! I would shave off 10 years of my life to give to you. I wasn’t expecting this, my heart really hurts. I love and miss you Bill, Sam, Max and Harley will welcome you with open arms. Until we meet again. 😢

Skeletor IPad Drawing

Haven’t drawn much on my iPad since I cracked my screen a while back and for some reason my stylus is a little wonky. Fixed the stylus, I think and drew out Skeletor from The New Adventures of He-Man. Feels good to draw on the iPad again.

Mammá Chepita 😢

I wish I had a picture of us together but this was the only one I can find of you. I wanted to take my mind off of things so I decided to restore this image of you and grandpa. I know we never had a great relationship because we weren’t fluent in each others languages and the last time I saw you was in 1997. I hope one day when we meet again, that we can embrace each other with open arms and have a great conversation that we both can understand. Until we meet again. 😢

Sunflower Painting

I don’t know why but I’m not digging my latest painting, something missing. Either more sunflowers or I should of painted just one sunflower.🤷🏽‍♂️

Flower 2023

I hope my nephew doesn’t get mad that I added on to his painting he did a few years back. It wasn’t bad but it need more detail.

Running Again

Not art related but this was the first time I did a long run since I injured my leg back in April. It was hard to rest, I would work out but no running. I tried in May but kept straining my calf muscle so I swore off running until last week. I ran my first mile last Monday and the day after that I did another mile. This past Sunday I had enough confidence to run a 5k, I ran but I was worried I was going to strain my leg again. Hopefully I can get to four straight miles by next week.

Guitar Restoration # 3

Finally finished with my seven string, I have a love hate relationship with this guitar. I only bought this guitar because Korn and Wes Borland used a seven string, at the time it was expensive and it was the only one I can afford. It only took me fifteen years to figure out how to use it. Plus, this is the only way I’m able to get a custom guitar, if I do it myself.

Acoustic Spray Paint

I’m really happy how my acoustic guitar came out, I have another guitar in the works, just waiting for my pickups to come in to finish. I might spray paint another guitar but who knows.

Final Version

Old Design, this was the second time I drawn something out before I spray painted the guitar.

Spray Paint The World

I kept seeing these videos of spray paint art and I was wondering, can I do that and I did. I want to do a design on my next guitar rebuild and I think this will work out just fine, I hope. 🤞🏼

Guitar Restoration

I forgot I had this guitar that a coworker gave to me years ago. At the time I thought he wanted me to fix it up for his kid but he just wanted me to have it. It wasn’t in bad shape but I wanted to clean it up a bit. I bleached the pickguard and the screws, sanded the rust off the screws and added a new pickup, which I’m not good at setting the EMG’s up. Finally I sanded the dings to give the guitar a vintage look, surprisingly it sounds pretty good for kids basic guitar.

Painting Ideas

Trying to see what sticks for my next painting. I see the painting in my head but its not coming out the right way when I sketch it out. I even saw the sun peaking through the clouds today and I thought that would be a great painting.

Nine Years Ago (3-16-14)

I love this video of my nephew and I playing a cover song by Faith No More. I remember asking him can you learn this song and show me how to play it because at one point my band was going to play this as a cover and I wasn’t great at learning covers but I knew my nephew was. I wish I had more videos like this and I wish I would of asked Matthew to join my band sooner.

Flashback Friday (2017)

I didn’t forget about this drawing but I forgot I'm made a video for it. I like making timelapse videos of my drawings but I always forget to start recording as I start the creating process. 🤷🏽‍♂️

Look at this Photograph

I always hear Nickelback when I say look at this photograph, I don’t know why, Ha! Here’s something you don’t see used as much in this polaroid, a landline, VHS tapes, DVD’s, there’s probably one more thing but oh well. I remember I took this picture to show my art teacher what I can do because he didn’t have any faith in me that I can paint something so massive. After that art class I question if I should keep drawing but I’m happy that I still draw and paint to this day.

Cruel Melody Painting (2014)

Here’s an old painting that I never used. I think I was going to use it for my bands EP but that never happened. I decided to re-edit the video, used a new backing track and shorten the video from six minutes to forty five seconds. I’m glad I used a new guitar track to the clip, the acoustic track gives the video a different feel, more peaceful than creepy.