Commodore

🎤 Had the honor of speaking on the artist panel for Comic Couture: Beyond the Panels at the Biggs Museum, alongside some heavy hitters in the game. From comics to couture, we chopped it up about inspiration, process, and how storytelling still packs a punch—whether it’s ink on paper or paint on canvas.

Grateful to and for putting together this dope show and letting a stencil-slinger like me get a seat at the table. 💥🖤

Big salute to the crew—this is what it looks like when art, culture, and community connect.

Made some custom nutcrackers for the holidays

some more pumpkin carving for halloween.

some pumpkin carving for halloween.

learning from my first go at sandblasting (see prior post), i opted to do another sugarskull diva for the driver side back panel of my jeep.

Back in the 90s, the Ironbound was deep into car culture. Growing up in the middle of it, I was always fascinated by airbrushing and pinstriping that people added to their cars as visual ‘extras’. I came across a pinstriper that showed me the art of glass engraving using a dremel etcher. (a device much like a tattoo gun that contained a diamond point tip to chisel off the top layer of a glass surface.) I made some side money doing small engravings on various cars, with my car always having big pieces to showcase my skill. Then the internet came and my attention went to digital and I put this skill to the wayside.
With honing my stencil mastery, I wondered if there was a way to combine the 2 skills. I stumbled upon sandblasting on glass to etch in a design. It always starts with using a mask to cover the area you don’t want etched and then removing it afterwards to reveal the design. I thought sandblasting was complicated, its not. So I decided to try out using a small sandblast gun. Using my newer ride as my canvas, the results are better than I expected.
The pics show a small calvin n hobbes piece I did for someone and a large piece on the back of my camaro hatchback. Then there is the newest piece and my art that I made the reverse stencil for it from.

Tango on Melrose
22 by 30 on arches paper
The stencil was first used on an utility box on melrose ave way way back. This piece was started in early ‘21 but then I wasn’t feeling it so i stored it off for later completion. Guess sometimes later is a couple years down the road.

avail for purchase

graffiti

Smoking Paul Bunyon

this weekend me and did a thing. Decorating the exit of the new in

The mighty 8ft Paul Bunyon holds a big fatty for you to take a t**e from. Come on by and take a good shot of you puffing away.