Subways

Celebrity Garbage

I wanted to create a body of work to send to Topp Trading Card Company. Topp is the creator of the Garbage Pail Kids, www.garbagepailkids.com. Garbage Pail Kids, aka GPK, are non-sport cards/stickers made by Topps Inc. between 1985 and 1988 in the U.S.A. Since girls had Cabbage Patch Kid Dolls back then, they created GPK for the boys, to make fun of the Cabbage Patch Kid Dolls. They also do a collection called Hollywood Zombies, www.hollywoodzombies.com, poking fun of the pop culture icons in a grotesque manner. My idea was to sort of combine the two. I came up with a play on words that intertwines an item of food with a celebrity. So here's a few of the illustrations from it: Bread Pitt and Angelina Jelly, Elvis Parsley, and Juice Willis.

My attempt at digital painting.

The assignment was to illustrate the words sin circus and president. This was the piece where I felt i had broke new ground for myself. Creating a controlled chaos environment, along with being funny, blunt with simple but recognizable likeness. This was the transition of doing things more for myself rather than just homework :D

Day of the Dead

This piece was in my first group show in September in Times Square at the Chashama Art Gallery. It didn't sell (probably due to the poor presentation because I was asked to be apart of the show 3 days prior to the opening and wasn't able to frame it, oh well!) the show had a fantastic turnout and it had a great response regardless!