A LONG TIME AGO

My father took me to the Mission Valley Cinema in 1977 to see a little sci-fi film called Star Wars. That single day permanently altered my universe. I spent my childhood escaping into imaginary worlds, filling every scrap of paper I could find with X-Wings, Tie Fighters and character drawings into my preteens and early twenties. But as adulthood took over in 1986...life got in the way, and I stopped creating for the next twenty years.

Everthing changed in 2006 when my father passed away that brought me back to my No. 2 pencil and sketched a portrait of him to comfort my grieving mother 36-hours before his services. Seeing her loving reaction reignited my love for art. I spent the next four years picking up where I left off by re-educating myself how to draw using graphite, charcoal and pastels, dedicating hundreds of hours grasping the human face and honoring the loved ones others had lost.

In 2010, I picked up a paintbrush and fell in love with pointillism-the meticulous, 19th century technique pioneered by french artist Georges Serat versus today's instantaneous era of digital and AI art? I deliberately choose to apply the dillgent, labor-intensive style of the Old Masters to the pop culture icons /cinematic history that shaped my youth. Later, I expanded my porfolio into high-precision, geometric illustration art, using T squares and french curves with bright, vibrant colors to capture structure and motion. 

Today, my work is featured at comic conventions, galleries and live exhibitons. Selling an original piece is always a bittersweet goodbye, but it only fuels my drive to create more. I take my craft seriously, but at the end of the day, I'm just a kid at heart whose inner child survived...because It is never too late to do what you love : )

We laid our Mother to rest in Sept of 2024 with my Father and will love them forever...he was 85, she was 95.  Website is dedicated to my Mami Chula and Papi Chingon.

  

Papi Solo and Chewie

 

Papi Solo and Mami Leia with Nana C3PO

Rebel Mami with Stormtrooper Familia

Me hanging out at Ben Kenobi's Pad 

My Brother and I at the Rebel Alliance Academy

My Lowrider Mandalorian bike 

Present day : )