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PIÑATARAMA

Hello Muchicos! Long time no see. Here's a little something I've been up to. Jorge and I were contacted by Mr. Jorge Alderete to see if we wanted to participate in an upcoming art show featuring piñatas in Mexico City. A bunch of artists got picked and asked to create their own piñata design and then it would be sculpted out by piñata artisans in Mexico City to be exibited in the prestigious Museo de Arte Popular (please, please go if you haven't been, it's so very, very worth it). HOW COOL IS THAT I ASK YOU!?
Here is my contribution along with an illustration they asked for us to accompany our design.

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PS: Luka is featured as the last little boy in the Piñata Parade :)

DIA DE TUS MUERTOS art show in SD

Hi fellas! It's been a while! I've been busy making papier mache sculptures for an upcoming art show in SD in honor of Day of the Dead. It will be an honor to be showing side to side next to some amazing talent like the likes of Israel Sanchez, Simon Varela, Martin Ontiveros, Amanda Visell, Lorelay Bove, Jerry De Jesus, Sadie Figueroa, Rhode Montijo and of course Mister Jorge Gutierrez the awesome, who not only came up with the idea, but took on the task of actually bringing it all together :)
If you're in the area, go check it out at SUBTEXT GALLERY in SD, it's good stuff, good peeps, good food, good times :)

La Maestra de Ceremonias

El Payaso

El Hombre Fuerte

La Banadora

El Harlequin

*big thanks to Kellie Smith and her lovely long haired assistant Sean Szeles for taking time out to help take awesome pics. of my stuff :)

Negrita Cucurumbe

Hello anyone! I apologize for the lack of posts. Really I do. I've been a little caught up making sculptures for an upcoming Day of the Dead art show in San Diego entitled "Dia de Tus Muertos". I'm also doing a piece for a book in Mexico City paying an homage to Gabilondo Soler also known as Cri-Cri, the great Mexican children's song composer!
A handful of artists were picked out to do their versions of a song given to them. Mine is "Cucurumbe", a song about a little girl who doesn't want to be black, she wants to be white like the moon, the shells on the beach and the foam on the shoreline. One day a dapper little fish wearing a bowler hat comes up to her and exclaims " Goodness child! Can't you see that you are beautiful as you are?"
One of my upcoming goals is to have an art show based on Cri-Cri's songs, so this might just be the first step in that direction!
I hope you like it :)

New Stuff

Here are two characters from a project that Jorge and I have been working on :)

Please enjoy :)

Rei 2

As promised, here is my second drawing of Rei :)

Guess what my little boy did...

...very funny