Super Boy Mural

"Super Boy"

~ 18ft x 30ft

Spray paint and latex

Commissioned by the Olneyville Housing Corp

Nickerson Community Center

Providence, RI, USA

Corner of Chaffee St - Appleton St

New Pallet Art

3 New Pallet Portrait Art paintings!

All created by recycling old wood pallets -

Disassembling, re-compositioning, and screwing together -

Followed by photoshop positioning of the faces with the best board in the best orientation, drawing on the lines, and painting with spray paint (color) and airbrush (black & white).

"Trouble"

"Secret"

"Power"

All together, including "Stare" from my senior show in May!

Getting a sense of series and scale all lined up.

(on the far left is the very first pallet art I did, "Rising", with a bit of different style.

The painting is sold.)

Example of a hung painting!  Could be yours!

Backside of all the paintings.  Securely hung with wire.

For prices and purchasing, please don't hesitate to contact me!  

mdeanart@aol.com

 or follow the link in the contact tab up top!

Blue Monster Door

Blue Monster 
painted on a scrap door
spray paint and airbrush

painted this monster guy that I have been drawing a lot lately, used it as spray paint and airbrush practice

12 Questions with UGLYgallery USPS Sticker Event Curator

Check out the 12ozProphet interview with UGLYgallery owners Jeremiah Hernandez and David Guadalupe.

My stickers are featured in the article, seen below!

photo courtesy 12ozProphet.com

Here is the article, please read and enjoy!

http://www.12ozprophet.com/news/12-questions-with-uglygallery-usps-sticker-curator-event-recap/

USPS Sticker Art

The United States Postal Service priority mail stickers have been used for many many years by street artists, by drawing on the free USPS stickers and posting them around the city to get up.  

The UGLY Gallery (U Gotta Love Yourself) in New Bedford, MA, is celebrating that past time and curating a whole show dedicated to that side of street art, while creating a fundraiser to benefit 3rd Eye Unlimited, a annual festival with basketball, b-boying, graffiti, and more.

These are my contributions!
Since I was the mascot, "Arnie the Corsair!" for UMass Dartmouth, mascots have a special place in my heart, so this theme was fitting for me.  I have personally met all of these mascots!

Original blank sticker

Wally the Green Monster
colored pencil and marker on USPS sticker
3.25 x 4.5"

Boston Bruin
colored pencil and marker on USPS sticker
3.25 x 4.5"

Lucky the Celtic
colored pencil and marker on USPS sticker
3.25 x 4.5"

Pat the Patriot
colored pencil and marker on USPS sticker
3.25 x 4.5"

Arnie the Corsair
colored pencil and marker on USPS sticker
3.25 x 4.5"

The guy is just my own creation.. Inspired by the Skateboard Monster I created.. 

I'll name him Smudge after my cat

colored pencil and marker on USPS sticker

3.25 x 4.5" 

All 6 stickers! 

For the UGLYGallery USPS sticker show, to benefit 3rd Eye Unlimited in New Bedford

Opening June 7th, 7pm @ UGLY Gallery

New Bedford, MA

Palette Art

This is the newest Palette Art painting,

created using a found wooden palette recycled into a new composition

and painted with spray paint and airbrush

"Stare"

Spray paint and airbrush on recycled palette wood

42x25"

HERE IS THE PROCESS VIDEO FOR THE WHOLE PAINTING!

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 Process Video!

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Senior Show!!

SENIOR SHOW!!

These are my pieces from my Senior Illustration Show,

which shows May 11th at the 

University of Massachusetts Dartmouth

College of Visual and Performing Arts

Rooms 302 & 304

"On the Rise"

Acrylic on board

18x24"

"Koo-Koo"

Acrylic on board

24x32

"Gangster"

Acrylic and newspaper on board

22x34

"Big World"

Newspaper, conte, acrylic, paint marker on board

24x32

"Lost & Found"

Spray paint and acrylic on cardboard

46x21"

"Skateboard Monster"

Acrylic on recycled skateboard

33x7.5"

"Boy Soldier"

Acrylic on canvas

24x36"

New paintings!

Self Portrait

Acrylic

18x24"

"Greed"

Acrylic

24x32"

A Gift from a Dream

"A Gift from a Dream"
Acrylic on board
24x48"

The second painting I did for the Unity House Art Gallery!

Read about the story here!

http://www1.umassd.edu/communications/articles/showarticles.cfm?a_key=3095

I was project manager for this project, and it was a great success.

See the panorama here:
(thats me in the green pants!  This photo was taken at the very start of the opening, we had a great crowd flowing throughout!  The men sitting on the right were African Drummers performing live!)

Boy Soldier

"Boy Soldier"

Acrylic on canvas 

24x30

This was an idea that popped into my head with regard to my new style that I'm trying out.  I really enjoy this painting and had fun painting it.  I think you will start to see more paintings like this one in the future.  

Here is the final painting!

 

And a process shot below!

Below is three shots of my process for this painting.  First comes the drawing, this drawing was sketched out on paper and then traced over in photoshop, allowing for quick changes and easy moving around of elements.  Then the line drawing is saved and a color study is done in photoshop as well, figuring out all the colors that are to be placed in the painting, getting a tight enough rendering to use as a reference for myself when painting the real thing.  Then, the line drawing is projected on the canvas and I trace my drawing on the final surface, and paint!

Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

Paying tribute to this accomplished and dedicated man.

Also will be hanging in the new gallery I have been renovating a new space into for Black History Month at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, in the Frederick Douglass Unity House.

http://www.facebook.com/UnityHouseArtGallery


Spray paint, acrylic on board
24 x 36

Rising

"Rising"
Recycled Pallet Wood
Spray paint and airbrush
23x42"

The contrast of the edgy aged wood with the soft spirit like forms of the woman give this piece the feelings of overcoming, uplifting, and sensual gratification. 

The upside down upward moving drips assist in the rising movement and bring this tonal piece some saturation.

I love building things, and using found objects to create new artwork (as with my last Skateboard Monster piece). And this was also my first go with my airbrush that I've always wanted to use.

Skateboard Monster

I found this old trashed skateboard in the woods walking back from the gym one day at school, and I knew I could do something awesome with it.  It wasn't even that bad, just looked like some water damage on the end where it was buckling and a little bit of peeling down the side.

I sketched out some ideas of what I could do with this... I've always enjoyed the skateboarding culture and the graffiti characters that go along with it, so I decided to make a cool gorilla/wolf/blue monster, just because I could.

Modeled teeth with a jigsaw and a chisel, peeled off the griptape and glued it back down with the pieces farther apart to give room for the mouth.

Acrylic