Occular Awesomeness® Part.1

Occular Awesomeness® for the masses

Love getting stickers from my friends. Painting sessions always lead to some stickers and trading. More UnderWaterPirates pictures here. I love Junobo. Originated in Philly and truly one of a kind. Check them out, they are doing it big 2010.

Got to hang out with Goest at one of the collab sessions. 

Aaarrrggghh!! It's nice to draw something and your friends will just take their own spin on it. 

Made for a friend, trying to help him get a mark.

Before you ask that's called Diamond Plating Vinyl paper

Don't forget to check out the Friends with Benefits blog for some behind the scenes look from me and the other artists in the show.

Prints are still for sale at the store for people who want to purchase some affordable art work.

Blogger is freakin weird..sorry for the look of this post, cant figure out why it's changing colors on me.

Your late for tea!

Your late for tea!, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.

This was so awesome to do and what better time than right now! I still have not seen the movie, but planning on seeing it some time next week in imax. I did not draw the teapot. Ticky did a bang up job on that. Im so lucky to have great artists to work with. We are all dedicated to our craft and what one person lack the other fills and we all compliment each other greatly. I think that's really what makes this work. All of our style are so different, but yet so harmonious together. Visit the Friends with Benefits blog for more behind the scenes look.

Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.

From here to there, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. Sneak preview of a canvas for the Friends with Benefits show this April 3rd at Rarebreed.

Click on the link to see some more behind the scenes from all the artist participating at the show.

Cold stone don't got this flavor!

melty..., originally uploaded by ELTORO215.

Some melty goodness for ya'll. This is gonna be available for the Friends with Benefits show at Rarebreed. Also, we're gonna have a similar graphic available for the special edition tees for the show. This is gonna be a doozy!

Alice 2.0

Alice 2.0, originally uploaded by ELTORO215.

Met Goest for the first time at our 2nd paint session meet up with Bob, UWP and Ticky. Pretty cool dude and check out the crazy character! We're all in an Alice mood lately since we began the canvas and the movie is out today! I wanna see it so bad in imax.

COKE N CLAWS

Crazy Wolverine pic from the net

Paris Dub Step

Dave Gee from MethodsNYC just got back from Paris to spin some dub step and here's a 10min sneak peak of how he got down

14 Bolt is my homie

Man what a great package from my man on the west coast 14 Bolt. If you don't know about him I suggest lookin at his flickr page. This man does work! He's been in the game before I knew the game even existed! He took a hiatus and now he's back makin waves in the sticker art world. I met him once in LA and he is a fun loving lil spanish dude who is great to hang out with and always crackin' jokes. Check out this awesome pack from him. He included tons of his own vinyl, collabs and also a bunch of others from trades i think. Also, hooked it up wit a slick hand drawn and a west coast writer that i cant read, but i know he's gotta b older since the crews he represents have been established for a while.

More fliks of the pack here

We're all mad here....

Another sneak peek of a collaboration canvas for the Friends with Benefits show. We got tons more in store for this show. It'll be a blast. Be sure to mark it down your calendars for the first Saturday of April. Full flyer with info coming soon!

Nothing can kill the Grimace

Over 1 Million Stickers stuck..., originally uploaded by ELTORO215.

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.

Read more about the Grimace

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!

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

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.

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

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).

Read more about the show...

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.

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.

Check out more here

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.