Here are the first few steps of a new painting. I am hoping to have this complete in time to submit to Bear And Bird, a gallery located in Tate’s Comics here in South Florida. The theme is “Monsters Under My Bed”

You can buy THE TIKI GOD IS MOST AMUSED! t shirt over at my cafepress store:

Also, some of my work is over at www.society6.com. They choose some of the uploaded work to be sold through their shop as t-shirts, ipod skins etc. My DO NOT MOCK THE TIKI GOD illustration was chosen for their shop. Here is a pic of the T-shirt (click to view larger):

tikitower.com is Live!

I sketched my first tiki not quite a year ago, and it seems to be dominating my illustration output, so I decided to have a dedicated site to those works. The site features works in progress as well as a store featuring  prints, originals etc. Below are some samples. Click each to view larger!

This page contains illustrations I’ve submitted for Illustration Friday. Please feel free to post comments!

To find out more about IF or to see other illustrators submissions, click here .

The notes in orbit around the bass player’s head from a sketch I just did today fits right into this weeks Illustration Friday!  06-30-10 Satellite:

05-25-10 EARLY:

05-14-10 EQUIPMENT:

05-06-10 COCOON:

Something different from me. This is an illustration I did for  a t-shirt for my 4 year old daughter to wear at the hospital for the birth of our 2nd daughter.

04-15-10 LINKED:

04-08-10 DIP:

Didn’t have a lot of time for this week’s IF so not more than a sketch this week!

03-30-10 RESCUE:

03-19-10 EXPIRED (Click to enlarge):

03-12-10 SUBTERRANEAN (Click to enlarge)

02-26-10: PERSPECTIVE

Flying Tiki has a great perspective of his village!

01-29-10: FOCUSED

01-25-10: CLUMSY

01-15-10: WILDERNESS

01-12-10: CONFINED

01-08-10: RENEWAL

From time to time I will be adding some of my illustrations formatted for use as an iPhone or iPod Touch wallpaper. To use these, simply  save the image to your photos folder and load it up through itunes and then set as wallpaper. Feel free to leave a comment below!

Cupid

Volcano Tiki

Groucho Marx

Wrestler

Caveman Surfer

Tiki God

Thought I’d share some of the the Tiki illustrations I’ve been working on lately. I sketched out some idea I had for a Tiki t-shirt at lunch a few weeks ago and that has lead to a number of sketches and finished illustrations. Some of these are available as 5×7 inch canvas prints now and as t-shirts soon. Also soon look for 8×10 matted prints.

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The items you see below will soon be added to our store. They are 5.5″ X 7.5″ canvas prints of my tiki illustrations mounted on stained pine with a hook for hanging. I am making them by hand myself and have yet to determine prices of quanities.  Look for them soon!

Here’s my latest:

Working in this one now (click to view larger):

New Tiki illustration:

The original idea and sketch for The Tiki God Is Most Amused:

and the final art:

Here is another finished piece:

Here are some sketches/drawings of others I am working on:

Thanks for looking!

I’m glad to see many people enjoy and buy Bully! products featuring my illustration of President Theodore Roosevelt. As a child, I was always interested in the image of Roosevelt; the large teeth, the mustache, the bulging neck. And of course the battles he fought during the Spanish American War were pretty exciting to read and hear about in school. As an adult I began to sketch him on occasion and was happy with a particular illustration that I think feels somewhat iconic. I titled it Bully! a word that is associated with President Roosevelt and is part of the vernacular of that time. Bully of course meaning excellent or splendid and “Bully for you!” meaning “good for you”.

After people began to buy Bully!, not just on shirts but mugs, magnets etc. I wanted to know a bit more about President Roosevelt and picked up the excellent biography THE RISE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT by Edmund Morris. The book, the first of a trilogy, chronicles Roosevelt’s life from birth to the assassination of President William McKinley. At times the book reads much like an adventure, as Morris recounts in page turning detail Roosevelt’s time in the Badlands, his many hunting excursions, his pursuit of outlaws and his courage in Cuba during the Spanish-American War. I learned much about Roosevelt’s days at Harvard. The sudden and tragic losses of his father then later his first wife and mother. The thing that left quite a lasting impression to me about Roosevelt, though, was his fearlessness, whether facing down a bear or a fellow Republican.

The second book, THEODORE REX is out although I have yet to read that and Morris is currently working on the final book.

I hope to add more illustrations of Roosevelt to my store soon. Right now you can buy Bully! as well as a pencil sketch as seen below by following the link below.

Zerostreet’s Cafepress Store

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