Taceaux Loceaux - Messin W Texas

Just finished this piece for Taceaux Loceaux of their signature "Messin With Texas" brisket tacos. Taceaux Loceaux is an awesome-looking truck in New Orleans who were recently featured on Anthony Bourdain's The Layover. 

Apologies for the gratuitous process photos... If you can't tell I'm pretty psyched about this one. Tacos seem to be my new thing. The original painting is maybe the biggest of this style I've ever done.. around 18 x 24.

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food food food

Pretty much everything I'm working on right now is food related, which is amazing, but I'm hungry all the time. I'm pretty sure the part of the brain that's used to mix colors and cook is the same. I almost want to lick the brush to make sure it tastes right.




But it's really disappointing to paint slow braised carnitas and juicy burgers all day, then open the fridge to find off-brand english muffins, 2 week old chinese take-out, and a solitary chicken drumstick in the freezer.

Sketches

Behind every finished piece of art is a trail of sketches, scribbles, mountains of crumpled tracing paper and unused concepts. Sometimes I look back and wish I could incorporate some of the looser compositions into finished pieces.





I'm absolutely in awe of artists who go right from a blank page to finished product - including people that do super realistic, tight work, I can't even fathom how this is possible.



This drawing of Philly mayor Michael Nutter I thought turned out awesome and was of bummed that the job it was for was never printed.

Anyway seriously if anyone cares about these things I will send you hundreds of sketches for a few bucks, otherwise most of them go right in the trash.

comics marathon

spent the last week finishing up 7 pages of comics for 2 different anthologies, in a blur of coffee, ink and white gouache.. Doesn't help that I have an insane process where I redraw the pencil sketch for each page at least 5 times through a light table before even thinking about ink.

probably not going to post the full "living in filth" story on the blog, I want y'all to dish out the 10 bucks when I finally getting around to putting out another comic!