Group Exhibition & Print Release

Joshua Liner Gallery has released a new giclee print of my most recent painting, "Label Me". The original painting will be exhibited in their upcoming group exhibition which opens on August 15th.

"Label Me"
18" x 24"
Giclee print on fine art paper
Limited edition of 50 (signed & numbered)
$150



To purchase, contact info@joshualinergallery.com

Joshua Liner Gallery, New York
www.joshualinergallery.com
http://tinyurl.com/lvos67 (arrested motion post)

Group Exhibition: August 15 to September 5, 2009. Artists include:
Candice Tripp, Chloe Early, Cleon Peterson, Damon Soule, Dave Kinsey, Evan Hecox, Greg Simkins, James Roper, Joe Sorren, Jud Bergeron, Kenji Hirata, Pat Rocha, Robert Hardgrave, Ryan McLennan, Shawn Barber, Stanley Donwood, Stella Im Hultberg, SUB (Tony Curanaj), Sylvia Ji, Tat Ito, Tiffany Bozic, Travis Louie, Tristram Lansdowne, ZAnPon

PRE-EXISTING CONDITION

A Type 1 Diabetes Group Exhibition Benefit
Saturday, August 15th, 2009 from 7-9pm

I'll have an ink drawing available for sale at the opening of the "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION" group exhibition to increase awareness about Type 1 Diabetes and to raise money to fund research for a cure. The majority of the proceeds will be gifted to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. All of us artists who are participating share a connection to diabetes (my dad has it) or they know a friend or relative who has the disease.

m modern Gallery
2500 N. Palm Canyon Dr.
Palm Springs, CA 92262
www.mmodern.com

Aztec Tattoos

Nice collection of top notch quality Aztec tattoo artwork designs.

At its pinnacle Aztec culture had rich and complex mythological and religious traditions, as well as reaching remarkable architectural and artistic accomplishments. A particularly gruesome element of Aztec culture to many was the practice of human sacrifice.

Colorful design.

Amazing warrior tattoo on back.

Back Neck Tattoo: Swallow Tattoo

Upper back and neck tattoo of a swallow and cross tattoo design.

"Swallow Tattoo" originally uploaded by Nowhere Fast Tattoo.

Deph Toy release

My Friend Deph has a Toy release at this upcoming Comic Con in San Diego.

Here is the info on that:
July 24th
Holy Roller FatCap 6-Inch
Signing with DEPH

DEPH’s FatCap wears a gas mask to protect his lungs and conceal his skull face while he destroys walls with his crate of spray paint and extension roller. Available in two colorways, green and the SDCC exclusive purple, this limited edition FatCap stands 6-inches tall, rattles when you shake him just like the real thing, and features DEPH’s tag on the back. Retails for $75 each and includes a DEPH poster.

Signings: Shake things up with DEPH at SDCC! He’ll be in Booth #4529 on Friday, July 24th from 11am-1pm with a limited number of Holy Roller FatCaps available for signing.

Artist: DEPH is a LA-based graffiti artist, illustrator and painter. He has created artwork for toys, cars, movies, video games, skateboards, print ads, and more. His work has been displayed in many galleries across the US. When he is not painting, he concentrates on his clothing company To Die For.

Availability & Production Run: The run of 1200 of the green FatCaps will be available at SDCC, Kidrobot stores at 11am local time on July 23, kidrobot.com at 11am EST on July 23, and at select retailers (check for times and availability). The run of 200 purple FatCaps is an SDCC exclusive and only available at Kidrobot booth #4529.

Also I have a piece in the "Bashers" art show along with some incredibly talented folks. Check it out and see Dulok Shaman perform live for his record release party happening along side.

more news to come soon.

Old School Script Letters Tattoo

"Old School Script Letter Tattoo" originally uploaded by by Benoit.P.

Foot Tattoos: Hibiscus and Turtle Tattoo

Foot tattoo of a beautiful hibiscus flower and Hawaiian honu turtle. The turtle is colored heavily in black ink creating a great tribal look while the hibiscus is tattooed and shaded with a pink tone that brings good contrast to the overall design. Nice tat!

"Foot Tattoos: Hibiscus and Turtle Tattoo" Tattoo, originally uploaded by Las Vegas Tattoos by Jon Poulson.
Honu with Hybiscus flower tattoo by Jon Poulson

Technorati Tags: tattoo,tattoos, tattoo ideas, tattoo designs, tatoos, tattos

Tribal Butterflies

Cute tribal butterflies & a small tribal dragonfly tattoo.

"Tribal Butterflies" Tattoo originally uploaded by Diogo Araujo.

CRAZY 4 CULT

Well, the cats out of the bag. Recently my friend Amy Sol and I created a collaborative piece based on the fanciful movie "The Neverending Story" for this years "Crazy 4 Cult" show at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. In doing our research for the piece, it was necessary to actually travel into the book and have our own adventures. After teaming up with Atreyu to save the world from "The Nothing", we encountered what we were hoping was the G'Mork, but in fact turned out to be this guy:... that's right. Limahl, the creator of the song with the same great name of our favorite childhood movie and the wearer of the most beautiful head of hair known to man, the spiky mullet. After battling him tooth and nail for days and days (Limahl fights dirty), I finally made it back to my studio and was able to finish my half of the painting, forever scarred, not so much physically, but more emotionally, I mean look at the amount of feeling he puts into each verse:


Well, you are all welcome to come out and join us for this years "Crazy 4 Cult" (heralding the cult movie classics)on July 16 at Gallery 1988 in Los Angeles. There are too many amazing artists and pieces in this show to list so I hope you are ready for stimulus overload.

Bear Tattoos

Great gallery of excellent bear tattoo artwork designs, most of these are pictures of grizzly bears, some of which are quite scary looking but very cool styles.

Deer Tattoos

Deer tattoo designs are a strikingly beautiful choice of animal tattoo artwork.

Deer tattoos are most commonly seen on those who enjoy hunting them for food, while animal lovers simply enjoy their unique beauty.

Here we have a great picture gallery of some high quality dear tattoos, to help you in your search for the perfect deer tattoo artwork.


Frogs are quickly gaining popularity in the world of tattoo designs, and why not? Frog are often thought to symbolize harmony, life and rejuvenation, in fact the ancient Egyptians saw the frog as a protector and guide to the afterlife.

Here we have some cool examples of frog tattoos, for you to browse though and enjoy.

Indian Chaniya Choli Dress

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

Keep it out of focus - I want to win the foreign picture award.
~ Billy Wilder to his cinematographer shooting 'Sunset Boulevard'

The scratches in Yoko Ono records are moments of relief.
~ S.A. Sachs

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.
~ Oscar Wilde

Pain is temporary. Film is eternal.
~ Pi website

Music is well said to be the speech of angels.
~ Thomas Carlyle, Essays, "The Opera"

Tattoo Sleeves

Awesome tattoo sleeves high quality work, very detailed design overall.

"Tattoo Sleeves" Tattoo, originally uploaded by skeletonandkey.
The one on the left side (my right arm) is Christy Brooker at Artcore Studios in Seattle, Washington. Christy completed this sleeve at the beginning of December 2008, almost exactly one year since she had started. As you can tell in this photo, it all looks very new and I still have some Burt's Bees Hand Salve on it.

The one on the right side (my left arm) is Victor Policheri from when he was working at Apocalypse Tattoo in Seattle, Washington. We started it in, I want to say the end of 2004 or maybe early 2005, and completed it 2 years later.

Technorati Tags: tattoo,tattoos, tattoo ideas, tattoo designs, tatoos, tattos

Vampire Bite Tattoo

"Vampire Bite Tattoo" Tattoo, originally uploaded by Las Vegas Tattoos by Jon Poulson.
Vampire Bite Tattoo by Jon Poulson

Technorati Tags: tattoo,tattoos, tattoo ideas, tattoo designs, tatoos, tattos

Embroidery work designer saree

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.
~ Lily Tomlin

The artist is the opposite of the politically minded individual, the opposite of the reformer, the opposite of the idealist. The artist does not tinker with the universe, he recreates it out of his own experience and understanding of life.
~ Henry Miller

It has bothered me all my life that I do not paint like everybody else.
~ Henri Matisse

I decided that if I could paint that flower in a huge scale, you could not ignore its beauty.
~ Georgia O'Keeffe

Floral printed churidar dress

Photoshop art of Indian models posing in floral print churidar dress (salwar kameez)

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

A man paints with his brains and not with his hands.
~ Michelangelo

Bach opens a vista to the universe. After experiencing him, people feel there is meaning to life after all.
~ Helmut Walcha

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.
~ John Updike

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
~ Martin Scorsese

Photoshop glowing edges art

Photoshop glowing edges art of a female model.

 FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

If anyone has conducted a Beethoven performance, and then doesn't have to go to an osteopath, then there's something wrong.
~ Simon Rattle

Art consists of limitation. The most beautiful part of every picture is the frame.
~ G.K. Chesterton

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
~ Orson Welles

It is not the language of painters but the language of nature which one should listen to... The feeling for the things themselves, for reality, is more important than the feeling for pictures.
~ Vincent van Gogh

Indian model wearing a printed designer saree

Photoshop art of a Indian model posing in a printed black designer saree.

FAMOUS ART QUOTES, MUSIC QUOTES, PAINTING QUOTES, FILM MAKING QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

I am never going to have anything more to do with politics or politicians. When this war is over I shall confine myself entirely to writing and painting.
~ Winston Churchill

Music is a friend of labor for it lightens the task by refreshing the nerves and spirit of the worker.
~ William Green

When my daughter was about seven years old, she asked me one day what I did at work. I told her I worked at the college - that my job was to teach people how to draw. She stared at me, incredulous, and said, "You mean they forget?"
~ Howard Ikemoto

Now I absolutely despise the murderer Werner Herzog. I tell him to his face that I want to see him perish like the llama he executed. He should be thrown to the crocodiles alive! An anaconda should throttle him slowly! The sting of a deadly spider should paralyze him! His brain should burst from the bite of the most poisonous of all snakes! Panthers shouldn't slit his throat open with their claws, that would be too good for him! No. Big red ants should piss in his eyes, eat his balls, penetrate his asshole, and eat his guts! He should get the plague! Syphilis! Malaria! Yellow fever! Leprosy! In vain. The more I wish the most horrible of deaths on him and treat him like the scum of the earth that he is, the less I can get rid of him!
~ Klaus Kinski - On The Importance Of Maintaining A Good Actor/Director Relationship

Photoshop art - photomanipulation

QUOTES, PHOTOGRAPHY QUOTES:

I didn't throw myself off my balcony only because I knew people would photograph me lying dead.
~ Brigitte Bardot on the pressures of her fame

Music is moonlight in the gloomy night of life.
~ Jean Paul Richter

Great art picks up where nature ends.
~ Marc Chagall

A team effort is a lot of people doing what I say.
~ Michael Winner

I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
~ Henri Matisse

Tiger Lily Tattoo

Flower tattoos for the most part are commonly preferred mostly by women, they are one of the most popular designs among tattoos. There are a wide array of flower designs to choose from ranging from the common rose tattoos, the hibiscus flower a Hawaiian traditional design and many others including the "lily flowers". A tiger lily flower tattoo as the one pictured below can be a great design to choose for a flower tattoo. It is a flower that can be loved purely for its beauty and attractiveness. It has gorgeous flower petals with a beautiful assortment of exotic colors, many people particularly women simply can't stop admiring its charm and appealingness.
What does a lily symbolize?

Some meanings that represent the the lily flower include purity, majesty, innocence, wealth and pride.Those that reflect the meaning of the tiger lily flower could be pride or prosperity and the words "I dare you to love me" can also be attached to the meaning of the tiger lily.

"Tiger Lily Tattoo" Tattoo, originally uploaded by loki13.
This is my submission for Project 365: Week Thirteen - Yellow.

I got this tattoo on my upper arm and shoulder in spring 2005. It depicts a tiger lily flanked by two roses with faces inside. The design is loosely inspired by the living garden scene in Through the Looking Glass.

Custom tattoo by Dave Knight at PSC Tattoo in Montreal.

Technorati Tags: tattoo,tattoos, tattoo ideas, tattoo designs, tatoos, tattos

Sailor Jerry Dragon Tattoo

Here is a "Sailor Jerry" old school design featuring a small dragon tattoo.

"Sailor Jerry Dragon Tattoo" Tattoo, originally uploaded by Tattoo Tom.
Here is a closeup of the Sailor Jerry Flash design of a dragon on my shoulder.

Tattoo by Terri Morgan, Socal Tattoo, San Pedro, California. Tattoo was just done on 01/24/07.

Technorati Tags: tattoo,tattoos, tattoo ideas, tattoo designs, tatoos, tattos

Lotus Flowers & Butterfly Tattoo

Back tattoo design of purple lotus flowers and butterfly tattoo.

"Lotus Flowers & Butterfly Tattoo" Tattoo, originally uploaded by red bunny.

Technorati Tags: tattoo,tattoos, tattoo ideas, tattoo designs, tatoos, tattos

Warped Tour Pics

So my good friends at TO DIE FOR, the greatest clothing label around, took some photos for me of the some of the Hurley ads and mainstage backdrop at the Vans Warp tour recently. If you look closely, you can see the crayon clawed ugly mug of a certain wannabe classical pianist whose protusions in the hands make it impossible to play.... and looking around you might see a talented Bob Dob and a Jason Maloney too.



Thanks Hurley and To Die For...
now for those of you who like Peanut butter and Jelly sandwiches, click the sandwich
and for those of you who like weird paintings and drawings that slap you unconscious and drag you into another world where you slowly wake up and say, "where the hell am I...is that a unicorn snuggling a cloud on a rainbow colored carebear ?", click the little black bunny head...
seeya,
greg