CRUSH

Same story – new painting, old design. I do that a lot. I might be out of new ideas, i don’t know. But i have a huge catalog of illustrations that i’ve done over the years – 90% were done in the computer – but the ones i like, i always envision them having a longer life as a painting. Plus, i really like it when i combine my illustrational style with my painting (if you want to call it that) style.

So this piece is called CRUSH – big fan of the double entendre.  Check it.

if i remember right, i originally did this for a threadless submission.

I gotta find some sort of protective, fixative that won’t affect the color because this badboy has a bunch of pearl-x powder in the background. That stuff looks awesome but gets everywhere. You can’t touch this painting without having sparkly fingertips after. Not always a bad thing, of course – sparkly fingertips.

This piece is 24 X 36 inches. It will be on display at UPSTAIRS in monroe, la at the upcoming art crawl on august 5th. And as always, if anyone’s interested – email me for price. gutterpark@comcast.net

hoodlum

2 posts in just over 2 weeks, i’m on fire!

new painting. 24 X 36 inches. Seems like there’s a political message, alas i don’t even remotely keep up with politics so your guess is as good as mine. In fact, let’s not question things, just enjoy the subtle nuance of the hoodie in today’s fashionable climate.

I don’t have a name for this particular piece yet. I’ve been calling her “hood girl,” but that’s not exactly clever. Maybe “hoodlum” or something with a more patriotic bent. Titles mean nothing to some artists and probably to most art lovers, but a good title can push a mediocre piece into a higher plateau. Maybe that’s just me.

She’s done on canvas. The sides are red, which i’m a bit iffy about; but its done now. The dollar signs are gold. The background is made up of every red paint i own, from aerosols to acrylics to glass paint – i just mixed them around to see what worked. The glass paint and the spray paint were less than friendly, which made for some interesting results.

This piece will be on display at UPSTAIRS at the next gallery crawl in August or you can see it in person before then if you contact me. Price available on request. Until next time, kids. gutterpark@comcast.net

The Company of Wolves

I read this thing the other day about blogs, the main thing to ensure success is to make sure they are updated regularly – like once a day at least – if that’s true, and it stands to reason that it is, i must have the worst blog EVER! So to those 9 people that visit my blog this month: my apologies, but look, a new post!

So here’s my latest painting. A simple 3 color stencil (the third color is the halo). I splashed a lot of color in the background too but that wood just soaked it up so it’s hard to see most of that.

It’s about 3 feet long. My dad put the wood together – go dad! I’m sure most will view this and wonder what meaning was intended – but the eye of the beholder perspective is far more interesting, so let’s go with that for now. It’s on display at UPSTAIRS in Monroe, LA – price available upon request, email me here – gutterpark@comcast.net . Here’s a (slightly fuzzy) detail shot:

Eve & The TVS

Here’s an illustration that i did for the band, innerpartysystem. They’re incredibly dope – and as i am equally dope, seems like a perfect marriage right? Right? Not just yet – they weren’t feeling it but hopefully i’ll be able to come up with something for them – so watch this space. In the meantime, i put this in the running over at threadless. You can find it here –  enjoy.

Swordfighter

And as promised, here’s my anime-chick on canvas. Digital print. Chrome spray paint for the sword. Forgive the bad photo. More information here – http://gutterpark.wordpress.com/2010/03/21/anime/

Email me for purchasing information –  gutterpark@comcast.net

Tick Tick Pirouette

New stencil, using my typical black/red palette. It’s origins can be found here: http://gutterpark.wordpress.com/2009/08/25/yale-cabaret/

It’s on a thin piece of metal, cemented onto a piece of wood for hanging. 12 inches x 24 inches. I dig it but i think if i make another, i’ll make the red part just a big blast of red splatter. The negative space of the black will clearly define the dynamite and i think doing it that way will give it more energy.

Open Road

I’m doing a logo for a production company called, Open Road Films. I’ve done 5 or 6 versions and variations for them so far. I’m sure i’ll post them eventually. I’m fairly certain the one shown below is not one they’re considering, so i feel okay about posting it now. Check it:

I wanted to show it because it’s yet another example of a commercial piece of mine that eventually made its way into my more fine-art focused methods and intentions. Shown below is the same illustration done on wood, using spraypaint and wood stain. It’s 12 inches by 24 inches. I gave it a very reasonable price, less than $100, if anyone’s interested. It’s currently on display at UPSTAIRS in Monroe, LA.

Flyer

Here’s a flyer i did for a friend of mine, what up Vince? – thought i would share it. Back in the day, i designed flyers all the time …  just realized that i miss it. Flyers are fun for me – i get to switch up styles depending on my mood or what the band wants, plus i like working with text within an image. And they usually want it fast so no time for needless nitpicking. So any bands out there, hit me up, i’ll make time for you – i’m nice like that.

Anime

New illustration. Not a huge anime fan or anything – i dig the classics of course – I remember ordering Akira from some Asian mail-order magazine when i was in high school (pre internet).  Anyhoo, I recently saw a photo of a very contemporary home – minimalist, lots of white, the usual – but they had this huge, bright, anime style painting above their couch amongst all this sensory depravation aesthetic. Point is – i dug it and thought that i might try my hand at something like that. It was my first attempt at that style and i found it to be a lot harder than i anticipated. I’m going a bit out of order, showing the final image first:

final

The photoshop work was a bit time consuming, particularly the hair. My plan is to have in printed fairly big (32 X 48 inches) on canvas, then spraypaint the sword using a stencil and chrome spray paint; and the final step will be putting some circular varnishes on it to complement the circular shapes of the image.

Here’s everything i did before bringing it into photoshop – not much as you can see.

And if you’re wondering, the SB is the Shaw Brothers logo, they make beautiful kung fu movies and the words say “kiss my converse” which is from The Last Dragon (a personal favorite – RIP Sho Nuff).

Here she is, sans background.

And here it is with the background. I was happy with the image at this point but i didn’t want it to look like it could be an animation cell so i added the flourishments seen in the first pic. Once i have it printed and add the spraypaint and varnish, i’ll post it again. Thanks for looking.

Anyone interested in ordering a signed, giclee print of this image on canvas, contact me – prices available upon request.

SHORTOMATIC

Check it out. T-shirts is one thing, but swim trunks? – that’s right! Currently i have  6 designs on shortomatic.com – i plan on adding another one very soon. They’re not the most affordable shorts in the world – but hey, quality don’t come cheap.

So go.  Buy shorts. Summer is right around the corner. You can see all my designs at the following link. Enjoy. http://204.109.57.178/index.php/artist?a=132