A LONG TIME AGO
Came a Southern California boy that was given the power of THE FORCE in 1977 when his Father took him to see a little unknown Sci-Fi movie at the Mission Valley Cinema called "STAR WARS" which will be a day LONG remembered, as it forever altered his vivacious look on life and inevitable future, via drawing X Wings, Tie Fighters, Battle scenes and characters from the movie on any piece of paper he could get his hands on while escaping the adversities of the real world, alongside creating his imaginary one throughout his preteens, high school and into his early twenties...Yet never took his art seriously, and eventullay relinquished it for the next 20 years until the passing of his Father in 2006.
Sept 2006: Unaware to ease my grieving Mother and a dwindling 48 hour timeframe before my Father's services, I dug out my old sketch pad, No2 Pencil and initiated a portrait of my Dad and fond memories of him to gift my Mother...she loved it. I continued for the next four years creating portaits for others who's lost their loved ones. Within that time, I vastly enhanced my skills with the help of better tools, materials and hundreds of hours of non-stop practice, patience and failures as I engaged working with other mediums: Charcoal, Pastels and Cartooning which totally reignited my talent and love for Art to a more advanced point in my life.
March 2010: Curiousity got me to buy a few canvases, brushes, acrylic paints and embarked on my painting journey by experimenting with the fine detail Art of "POINTILLISM" in which small, distinctive dots of color are applied in patterns to form a larger image, created by Sir Georges Seurat in 1886. Within a year of enthusiastically developing this skill, I started noticing the results, as my painting style was evolving rapidly in my mission to apply the diligent style of the Old Master in today’s Pop Culture and Movie Icons for the next nine years to employ a lost and dying art forms that require days or weeks to create with craft that requires skill, determination, knowledge and courage in today's ridiculous microwave culture of lifeless Digital and Ai.
August 2019: Illustration is a type of “Line Art diagrams and graphics” that I've always secretly admired and yet not previously known to me before jumping in and creating a few pieces just for fun, unknowingly ending up with a vast array of fresh artwork in my Illustration Series as it emphasizes shape, structure, and clarity, often employing techniques with continuous symmetrical lines, geometric precision hand drawn strokes to convey motion and emotion by prepping the canvas and using basic tools: Such as T-Squares, French curves, straight edges and stencils which is unusual from my more intricate detail style...it's nice to take a break from it from time to time.
Present day: My work is recognized and appreciated at every Comic Conventions, Live Art exhibitions, Galleries, Group Art shows, Charity events, Auctions and Live Art demonstrations. I take my art very seriously, at the same time I'm a kid at heart because the child in me survived. It’s hard to say goodbye when original work is sold…but it also motivates me to create more because it’s 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 : )