Baby photo. Next in line to be created, arriving in October, it’s…
IN THE SUMMER. 1st sketch
Why is it going to be done by October? Glad you asked. Check next post for some exciting news, plz…
HOW CUTE
Friday, September 6th, 2013VALESKA GAVOTTE IS ON THE RISE
Thursday, August 15th, 2013
!%#$#%!. Exciting news: The awesomely talented human Valeska Gavotte has just been featured on the front page of the Italian music site Onda Rock. Thrilled to see him gaining exposure, and not just because my art is featured on his albums. There’s nothing else like his music. Be sure to check it out here.
Keep an eye out for his next album and the accompanying single, both of which are arriving in the next few months (and will be featuring art from yours truly).
***ART SHOW ALERT***
Tomorrow, Friday August 16, 2013, I will have a booth at Art Night Out in Lafayette, CO, 5 – 9 PM. Come hang out and enjoy live music, a beer and wine garden, food trucks and tons of local art!
PROGRESS
Friday, August 9th, 2013
A recent look at “In The Beginning We Lived Outside”
Listening to Tool right now. Whoops. Awesome. Other scattered updates:
A wild Cube Shelf appears. How in keeping with the Three Cube lifestyle
Dead swamp 4 the homies
The Produce Sticker tree is now expanding wildly in 3 different directions
PIPES
Monday, July 29th, 2013
All America. PIPES. Mario’s Day Off.
Faber Castell marker on recycled paper, 8.5 x 24″.
NEW PAINTING
Friday, June 28th, 2013Started another painting on wood, about 5′ tall and 3.5′ wide. As of now it is called “In The Beginning We Lived Outside”. Check out that grain pattern. Danggg son. $12/sheet plywood at Home Depot…It may not be suitable for building anything, but it looks cool when you paint on it.
The title was inspired by a lyric from musical mastermind Valeska Gavotte‘s forthcoming release, Songs for Sinfonietta, which I am very excited to be designing the album art for. It’s shaping up to be pretty spooky and dark so far. Borderline metal. Br00tal.
ART NIGHT OUT
Tuesday, June 25th, 2013Friday, June 21 was a great day. Art Night Out is held once a month in Lafayette, CO during the summer. People gather for a splendid evening of art, live music, local beer and community. I had a booth there (my 1st ever!) displaying my most recent batch of prints. Thanks to all the awesome people who helped make this happen and came to hang out. You guys are extremely cool.
Best Pic Of Show award goes to…this one
Did you lose a light-up ring price tag at the show? Let me know. I think I saved it, but I haven’t unpacked yet. So no guarantees.
“Light-up rings?!”
FYI, FTW
Monday, June 24th, 2013
Things new and old:
Swamp of dead trees…brutal
Beginning of my newest painting. Spoiler alert…it has mountains and trees in it
This is a vague idea of what the new painting will look like, the bottom being the foreground and the top being the…anti-foreground
The foliage is made of card symbols. These colors make it look like sugary cereal
Sketch for a commission I’m working on. It’s a diptych inspired by that feeling I get when I drive through suburbia, surrounded by malls, chain restaurants and selfish, useless over-maintained lawns. Uneasy. Displaced. Worried about the future. Sad and lost. I want it to make the viewer feel like vomiting, yet still be like, ‘that’s a cool painting’. Tricky
Making paper mache dinosaurs with a person really teaches you about the core of their character
I made a stegosaurus with a sun on its side. f$#%ing hippies
The ol’ stood has been pretty full lately
The painting on the bottom right is called “I’d Rather…”
This symbol is how I sign my work. It goes back to some of my oldest doodles, when I used to draw nothing but stacks of cubes. I think I learned how to draw them from the show ‘Imagination Station’, that awesome show on PBS that taught kids how to draw all kinds of cool stuff, along with basic concepts like utilizing 3 dimensions. Thanks Mark
It’s been done. Joe.
Mini tree discussion
‘No Good Oxygen User’ progress
My bamboo bush thing is the only plant I’ve ever managed to not kill
“Headless Ghost Gives The Thumbs Up”
Me at the beach
Trees Are Just Giant Plants
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013heyo yo. yo. Wut u been up 2 major Brin?
Here are some things. Recently.
The center is cut out…you can put your face behind it. if you want.
Power Drain
Business Man
Oldies but goodies…The one on the right is an early version of ‘Take A Bow’
Part I of ‘No Good Oxygen User’
Part II of ‘No Good Oxygen User’
he looks like he likes Metallica
Pipes
Pipes progress
Hand of God
Concept art for an awesome company
What it looks like setting up for a show
Progress of ‘Flowering of Memory’
Oil paints you disgust me
Great American Prairie – study / naming process
Early Brian Leahy art. Age 8 or 9. I liked finding out that even back then I was drawing trees and mountains. But I grew up on the ocean. Maybe that explains the killer whale in the lake
LOOMER
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013My largest painting yet has achieved finishment. Es final.
Created with Liquitex acrylics on wood, “Loomer” measures 4.3′ x 3.6′. This painting was developed when I was given the mural project in Lafayette (see previous post) and was completed at the same time. It ended up having its own personality.
WINNING. Below you can see some shots of the painting in progress
who set this shot up
When I finish a piece I write details about its life on the back, like the time period and what albums I was listening to most at the time. The phrase “Look Up” sums up my perspective on life. Positive minds create their own positive world. B$#$%.
It was super cool painting at this size. I plan on going bigger next time.
Mural In Lafayette, CO
Wednesday, June 5th, 2013
It’s done!
Last month I finished work on my first mural in the great state of Colorado. Located on a garage door in Lafayette, “Loomer – The Mural” measures approximately 8′ tall by 10′ wide.
The mural was done in conjunction with the great people at Project YES, a nonprofit also based in Lafayette that provides leadership opportunities for young people through the arts and service-learning. Check them out – they are doing some really great things for the community. The more art in kids’ lives, the bettaaa.
The 1st day I had the help of some awesome volunteers
I met many cool people during the course of this project and was excited to see how much is going on in Lafayette’s art scene. Can’t wait to get back there – I hope to be rocking a booth at Art Night Out several times this summer. More info on that to follow.
at the start
dat reflection, son
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