New step-by-step painting video up on YouTube! It’s a fun painting of a mighty oak tree; a symbol of strength, morale, resistance, and knowledge. Down here, around Charleston, we have big beautiful oak trees that line the roadways to the plantations and beaches. They create a twisted canopy of branches and leaves that spread across the roads. Charleston is also home to the biggest and oldest oak tree east of the Mississippi: The Angel Oak. 🌳
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The Pickle Barrel
Continuing my series of places we can no longer visit, I designed an ode to the Pickle Barrel. Anyone who went to Ocean City High School, the old school school- before they built the new one, remembers the convenience store on the corner. It was a little hole in the wall with beat up soda machines on the first floor of an old shore house. You’d have to walk through the haze of smoke from all the older kids getting their morning or after school cig fix. I’d go in for a Snapple or some gum and candy. Others would grab some breakfast or a bag of chips. The Pickle Barrel was for all of us: the punks, the surfers, the hippies, the metalheads, the jocks, the art kids, the popular ones; it was our bit of freedom just before being locked up in school all day. 🥒
The design comes in a distressed look to give it that vintage feel. https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/8614526-pickle-barrel…
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Step-by-Step Painting Tutorial – Beginner Beach Scene
At a friend’s request I made a little step-by-step painting video for students who are home schooled or just home from school. It’s good for adults as well, grab some wine or beer and take a drink every time my big head blocks the painting. Hey, take it easy on me- it’s my first video attempt!
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Schitt’s Creek
Just submitted this illo to TeePublic’s Fan Art Program. ⚡️ If approved it will be official Schitt’s Creek merchandise: tees, hoodies, phone cases, stickers, all the good stuff!!! Fingers crossed!🤞🏼
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Baby New Year
Baby Yoda Happy New Year! I was inspired by J.C. Leyendecker’s 1920s Baby New Year illustrations for the poster style of this one. I hope Baby Yoda brings you all good health and happiness in 2020! 🍵 🐸
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Mermay Day 5: Cinco de Mayo
Erin is going to turn these Frida Kahlo shrinky dinks into earrings for a fun collaboration! Only problem is that I used cheap shrinky dink sheets and some of the lines are smudging off. I’ll try some clear coat to save them.
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Big Lebowski- WIP
Almost done with the linework. I can’t decide if I should add Maude or Jesus or anyone else that might tie the room together, man. Thoughts?
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Bob’s Burgers Season 8 feature!
Thrilled to be one of the guest fan artists on the Season 8 premiere of Bob’s Burgers! “Brunchsquatch,” was animated with the help of more than 60 creative fans in three categories: character design, backgrounds, and animation. The show’s co-creator, Loren Bouchard, is a big supporter of fan art and came up with the concept. “We didn’t want it to be the ‘best drawings,’ we didn’t want slick and professional results, here,” Bouchard said in a statement. “We weren’t going for that. We wanted it to feel like it feels when you’re online and you stumble across somebody’s fan art — and maybe that fan is a kid, but some of those drawings have more life and energy in them than what we could draw.” Thanks to Bouchard, Bento Box Entertainment, and the cast & crew for making this fun episode Bob’s Burgers.
It took me a minute to recognize my own characters as they were in a daydream sequence out of Sex and the City. I don’t know the reference very well but seeing Lady Gene cracked me up. I’m still beside myself with the whole thing, hearing the voices I know and love come from characters I drew, it’s just crazy! Check out my 15 seconds of fame in the clip below.
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Ben Franklin
Only guy who likes rain on the weekend in the summer.
