Monday, February 22, 2010

SNEAK ATTACK ART SHOW

Just wanna thank all of you that came out and partied with us. It was good to see a bunch of you guys I haven't seen in a while. I'm sorry about the abrupt ending, I guess the staff really wanted to get out of there.










All photos courtesy of Creative Casualties.

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

THE BOAT HOUSE DRAWING

Here is the inked sketch of the mural I painted for the Boat House show. Super wacky, but the photo I pulled for inspiration was hilarious. I had to abandon my original plan and come up with something new just to use this lady's photo.

SNEAK ATTACK SHOW



If you find yourself in North Park, come on in. It's gonna be a good one. Dope art and DJ's and free booze. Doesn't get any better than that.

Thursday, February 11, 2010

BEHIND THE SCENES WITH TOCAYO AT THE BOATHOUSE

I got this great opportunity to be a part of a this Boat House project, my only dilema was that the mural had to be done by friday for the show.

I had multiple images in my sketchbooks that I wanted to use. But they were all very ambitious. Instead, opted to go the clean route with something totally new and in a comic book style. A crazy looking lady holding a Santa Muerte statue is what came up. I know its wierd. But I was doing some internet research earlier that day and came across this lady's senior class photo and felt it had to get some praise for pulling off such a great expression. Drew it up, got home, scanned it, printed it on a transparancy and hauled ass to make it happen in one night.

The finished product will be up soon. Just need to get a nice looking finished photo from one of my photographer friends.













Big thanks to Mike and Chadwick at Creative Casualties for drinking beers with me and snapping these awesome photos of my last minute, one night mural piece for the Boat house show.

SEZIO PRESENTS: THE BOAT HOUSE SHOW






As Sezio put it, there is an all-star cast of artists and musicians coming together for a night of live music and visual entertainment. First band comes on at 8 PM. It's gonna be an awesome time. Hope to see you guys out there.

Go to: http://www.sezio.org/event/all/1/Default.aspx#1136 for info.
For the story on the show go to: http://sezio.org/news/Boat-House-Preview.aspx

Party is in North Park, at: 2939 Monroe Ave. SD, CA 92116

Wednesday, February 3, 2010

FINISHED MURAL FOR "HOPE FOR HAITI" SHOW



This was the mural that Alex, Krystie and I painted live during the "Hope for Haiti" art show.

Thanks to One Wing Monkey for throwing and curating the event. It was an awesome turnout, and most importantly we held a silent auction for this piece and we managed to make $1000 off of it to donate to Haiti.

This was the first show held at the gallery space to be named later, by the boys at One Wing Monkey. Aside to this mural painting, we all have artwork up in the space for the next month so feel free to make an appointment to stop by and check out the space. You can email me at: tocayodesign@gmail.com