Saturday, February 27, 2010

Nothing can kill the Grimace

Collaboration canvas with Underwater Pirates and Ticky for the Friends with Benefits show in April. I came up with this idea randomly one week and decided to try it out. I sketched out the Grimace Toro and gave it to the guys to get down on. Bob and Josh? still needs to get down on this and very excited to see how it looks.

So do you like the Grimace? Do you think he's adorable purple monster? Read to find out some new facts about the Grimace.

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Sticker-philiacs


sticker sessions, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.
Sticker sessions at Ticky's house are always good times. Me, Bob, UWP & Ticky were all working on stuff for the Friends with Benefits show and UWP had this lying around. We got alot accomplished, but a butt load of work still needs to be done. Should be one hell of a show!

Friday, February 26, 2010

Q&A sessions...




Recently found out about QHUB and made a page where you can post sticker and street art related questions and I try to answer them. It's kinda like formspring, but way less pervy. Haha

Trying to educate and help younger artists with the questions everyone had starting out in the sticker obsession. Go ahead what do you wanna know? Visit stickers.qhub.com

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Ice Cream creations


Ice Cream creations, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.
Doodled some ice cream versions for the flyer. Hopefully lay it out as a fun ice cream truck graphic. Maybe a free download too of an ice cream truck! maybe...

Friends with Beneftis


Friends with Beneftis, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.
Getting to do some fun melty ice cream font for the flyer graphic for the Friends with Benefits show in April.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Stand Out Stickers


You might notice the latest add on to the right of the blog. I am starting to put some quality companies I have found to help guide some people in the companies that I've used, heard about and trusted in the past. I get asked a lot about stickers and who to go for printing. So my first link up there is a company called StandOut Stickers. Josh? passed me the link first and then I found another posting on iamthetrend.com about them. I decided to take a further look and see what they are all about. See what I found out after the jump...

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Bus fight!

Grand dad standing up for himself and whoopin some ass

Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Custom Yoka Show at Black Maria Feb. 18







Stole this write up from Vinylpulse and the image flyer from ToysRevil blog. I was too lazy to type about it and they are so much better explaining. 


Curated by Sarah Jo Marks and Dov Kelemer of DKE Toys, the Custom Yoka Show which debuted at last year’s DesignerCon featured an army of over 200 customs ofadFunture’s 3” Yoka.  Now the show is moving onto its next milestone – the first gallery exhibition which opens @ Black Maria this Thursday, February 18th (7 – 10:30 PM).

Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Snow day! Yay!


Dreaming, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.

Started this a while back and finally had the right kind of paint and time to finish it. I love drawin ham hocks. They are so much fun.

Sunday, February 7, 2010

Heartburn...




Heartburn..., originally uploaded by ELTORO215.
The annual Heart Show by Jinxed is coming up this Valentines day and this is my piece for it. I knew I wanted to do a woodburn since most of the submissions will be on the wooden hearts that were given out. I waited to long and missed out on that and had to get one from AC Moore instead. It's much thicker and provided a better surface for me to woodburn on. I'm super stoked on how it turned out. Should be a really awesome show, with over 100 artist listed as participating it will be a great show. The show will be at Jinxed which is located in the Piazza at Northern Liberties, 2.14.2010.

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Thursday, February 4, 2010

Hazardous Toro Ahead


Hazardous Toro ahead, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.
"Don't forget your potholders, cuz your holding hot shit!" - MF DOOM

A new take on the bone versions of TORO i've drawn in the past. Ive been wanting to do that effect on the eyes for awhile on something and never had the right piece till now.

This is an 8x8 acrylic canvas. I got a gift card from my gf on my bday and finally got to splurge on some supplies at Utrecht and the following week I ended up getting more canvases at Blick. Ridiculous sales are happening since art kids are coming back in school. I picked up like 6 of these 8x8's. I think it'll look real neat once they are all hung up.

Sorry for the lack of updates lately, I just got NBA2k10 and that's occupying my time alot. hah

And thanks to Revok for putting me on to Die Antwoord from South Africa. Just watch and enjoi the jeenyus of Die Anterwood!

Taxijam presents Die Antwoord from taxijam on Vimeo.



Monday, January 25, 2010

THIS TIME TOMORROW


This Time Tomorrow premieres  at the Trocadero in Philly!
Feb. 5, 2009! Link and trailers click on read more...


Sunday, January 17, 2010

This is the Droid I'm looking for...

I got the new HTC Eris  a couple weeks ago and I've been enjoying this life organizer ever since. It's so convenient to have everything all in one device right now, pictures, music/video player, radio, phone, web.. its got everything. Slightly smaller than the iphone, but the screen is still big enough to watch comfortably with out squinting. The built in 5 mega pixel camera is so good to have on the go. The only thing I could really want with this is a flash since the camera isn't so good in dim lighting like a restaurant. The appz are the shit, most of em are free. I got a Last.fm app that lets me stream a station while i'm driving so if i don't have the music I want to listen to I can just put that on and all is good. So enough of the tech talk here are some fliks of the new phone.



Fried Steak w. Biscuits, Onion Rings & Mac N Cheese @ Honeys



The biggest distraction ever...





Cuban Skirt Steak on top of rice with a side of plantains and across the table is Ropa Vieja with a side of white rice @ Cuba Libre  



For dessert Cafe con Leche and Cafe Xocolat (spelling not correct)
Thanks for everything Amanda. What a great night!



I went down this slide @ Bounce U 



And played dodge ball in here








Friday, January 15, 2010

RAWR!!!!


Just finished 8x10 painting this last night for my nephew Leo (get it?). It got cropped slightly while I scanned it though. It's going to be Leos B-day present. He's probably not going to enjoy it as much as a 10" Optimus Prime toy, but I think he'll enjoy it longer in his life. Although the 10" Optimus kicks ass too, I want one now.

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I'm with COCO


How are old people dictating what we watch on TV pass 8pm?!?! Aren't they all passed out by the time The Tonight Show comes on? I'm with Coco, fuck the Chin.

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Awareness Test

See if you can do the test

Monday, January 11, 2010

KILLADELPHIA POSTER



New 11x17 poster design for 2010! In the Chinese New Years calendar 2010 is the Year of the Tiger.

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BALLS DEEP

Cleveland JR: You know how when I go down to the bottom of the ball pit at Cheesy Charlies and you cant find me? 
Cleveland: That deep?


Best line: " Make your south mouth salivate, (teehee!) "


CHARGING BULL CYCLE







This motorcycle concept is brought to you buy the folks at Massow Concept Cycles. The bull is suppose to represent a few companies like Lamborghini, Merryl Lynch and the Chicago Bulls. Hit the jump for more pics.






Sunday, January 10, 2010

EL TORO X ABAKUS




EL TORO AND ABAKUS is at again...