College Pikasso is founded and run by Michael Vecchio out of Akron University in Ohio. It is not limited to just that school. This is envelopes the entire country. Everything is still rough around the edges but things are starting to perk up and work for these fellas.
The idea behind College Pikasso is to create an environment where art students and other students can sell their wares, projects and work to make some extra cash and grow themselves as a brand before they graduate. Wish I had this when I was in school to make some extra money with my art degree. Instead I ended up working my ass off and covering it at a Tattoo shop because I wanted to make some money by drawing. HA. I regret nothing but these kids have the right idea and I couldn’t help but throw my hat in the ring to help them out with a logo and some collateral material… They are still getting set up, but I’m so excited for them (and my little brother who’s helping them with a business model) I had to Hype it up.. More will follow!
This is a small low quality taste of my new painting series. I do not have the proper equipment to take slides of them yet and have not figured out when I am going to display all ten paintings (I have 5 done) and ten drawings (I think I have all of them done). I will keep all up to date of when everything is done.
When my best friend Bill got married I wanted to give them a present to remember and something that was very personal from me.
Jist Magazine is a artist/writing/philosophy collective created in Bowling Green, Oh and has now expanded into Houston, Tx and Portland, Or. The magazine turns no contributors away unless the current issue is full. For further information regarding the Jist or contributing check out www.theJist.info
The last month has produced some interesting artwork (to be posted later). These are some funny little production designs around my daily life. Disc Golf, Skiing and the Portland Rain.
Any chance I get to make a poster I tend to take it. I feel poster art is a art-form that is being taken advantage of. There were days when most designers made posters and printed pieces for propaganda and advertising. Today there are billboards and one color posters littering the streets, the art of screenprinting, four color process and even pasting posters up is dead. This can only be found by artist who are all about process. The posters I created while living in Bowling Green, Oh to promote my band were all screenprinted and four color process.
These are some of the fun computer art images I have created in 2007 and early 2008. They are along the same lines as my physical art, and almost all of them started as a drawing. Most of these are just for fun or end up being used in my extensive stock files or I convinced someone to put a part of them on a t-shirt.
These are painting/drawings that I created over late 2006 and 2007. I’m still waiting on more slides but this is what I have so far. I normally paint within the subject matter of decent and women. I would like to think that I do not have a two tract mind. I keep up with culture and trends but my painting normally is a type of therapy for me.
“The Far Outhouse” was originally named by a professor of mine. He said it matched my decent and weirdness that the book seems to capture (plus there is a outhouse on the cover). The contents of the book is quick idea drawing I did over the course of my senior year in college. I would literally sit down every night and do prisma-color marker drawings on scraps of paper. Some are ok, some are great, but I feel that is how most artists ideas are. They do not show their process on this kind of scale or have the courage to put all their ideas on display. I create each book by hand, perfect bind and all. So if you want one you will have to contact me and assure it’s going to a good home. Below are some of the pages and the cover.
