$100 and under show!

Get em' while they're hot! Gonna show a few oldies but goodies at this one.
http://www.treehousegallery.org/

http://eccollab.blogspot.com/

God, I am so excited about this one! 2 of my Philly Illustrator friends wanted to get in on the whole Exquisite Corpse Collab. So this one was started myself, then scanned and emailed to The Mighty Jusin Gray who then passed it onto The Wonderful Peter Wonsowski. It took a little while to make the rounds, but man I was so happy when I opened my email to this monsterpiece!

Head- Peter Wonsowski. http://www.peterwonsowski.com/
Torso - Justin Gray. http://www.coroflot.com/burntobuild
Legs- Ryan Gannon. http://ryangannonart.blogspot.com/

Exquisite Corpse Collabs

http://eccollab.blogspot.com/
I have been doing some Surrealist Drawing Exercises with my coworkers and friends!

Work for sale-new SF Gallery- Modern Eden

I am very excited to be showing and selling work at this wonderful new gallery and studio space in North Beach San Francisco. The Grand Opening is Saturday June 13th from 6PM to 10PM. Come out and support 12 local SF artists!

Christmas Ink

Sorry for the crumby lighting everyone but I shot this at a family members house under a low watt incandescent bulb right after I painted it. My sisters cat watched me work and seemed to approve. I made it on the desk that I used to practice drawing on as a child.

Untitled...

My baby sketchbook says, "Hello".

Sketchbook.

My desk on Thanksgiving.

I promptly grabbed the lit candle in the background and tilted it to myself to light it thinking it was unlit, only to spill wax across my latest work. I think it adds a little something nice to the piece however.

Sketchbook 2003

Colored Ink is Great.

Sketchbook

5 P.M. Bus Ride Home

Breakfast.

This is a painting entitled "Breakfast" I did a while back. The piece was done using the mixed media process I had developed in my college days. I met a very lovely couple from Ireland who were kind enough to purchase the piece from me. The woman told me that they were going to put the painting over their small two person table in their kitchen where they ate breakfast together everyday.

-12" x 12" deep body stretcher bar, canvas, mixed media, (2005)

Recognize this guy?

If you look a little bit, you will notice that I drew a set of curved teeth where the neck is now represented and drawn over. That was my initial reaction relating to composition, but decided those proportions were too predictable so I drew a pair of lips and a nose. From there I decided the dude just plain old needed a mask. So I put one on him. I later modified this piece digitally for a coloring book project with Super Dudes Justin Gray and Peter Wonsowski. I miss those two guys a lot.
http://colorthisbook.blogspot.com/
http://peterwonsowski.blogspot.com/

Piece for a friend...

Just finished this piece last night for a friend of mine. I did another piece a couple of years ago that is up in my house (same process) that this friend wanted. I did not want to part with it for sentimental reasons so I used the same process and look to create this one. 14.25" x 7.5" scratched plywood with spray paint and acrylic.

In progress...

This is my most recent personal in progress piece. It is from an old sketch I rediscovered and decided to turn into a finished piece digitally. It is temporarily on hold for another project right now, but it will be the first thing I get back into when I am done with my current work. You should see this thing full size.

Some Available Works (More on the way!!!)

So I am trying to plan a trip east with my good friend and could use a couple extra bucks. Anybody want some art??? All pieces shown are part of a series I did in 2006 for a group show in San Francisco. The images shown are all mixed media on 5.25 x 8.25 inch Moleskine pages. All works are currently unframed and as a result are only $40.00. Anyone interested in purchasing art can contact me directly at rhgannon1@gmail.com. Please include the number of the piece you are interested in purchasing in the email. Thanks for swinging by!


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Color This!

From the amazing mind of Illustrator/Fantastic Dude Justin Gray comes an adult themed coloring book as a part of his big upcoming show in Philadelphia. He was kind enough to ask me to do a couple of designs for it's pages. Please have a look, and if you like it, contact Mr. Gray and he just might be able to get one into your hands! Thanks for looking!

http://colorthisbook.blogspot.com/

Sketchbook...

Some samples from my most recent sketchbook...



Technology scares me a little bit.



Sketch for the digital painting, "The Seeker".



Sketch for The Academy of Art University's 3-D animation desktop image. This is the image (modified in the final) that the poor students had to see as soon as they turned on their computer...for a whole semester. The final included lots of delicious pustules taking over the mutant cyborg slug's surface. Juicy.





I did this drawing for a group of students at AAU who were doing a collaborative video game project. They needed a character that would fit into a western steam punk environment for a FPS they were creating. (FPS is short for first person shooter for all you non gamer folks out there). They were quite happy with the design.











Hadn't picked up my colored inks and brushes for a while. Decided to paint this happy floating dude. But where is he floating off to? I still haven't decided.





So I have gotten some comments on the above piece and most want to know if I wrote the story to go along with the image. I cannot take credit for it. Here's what happened...I was at a friends house in Oakland eating some home made fried chicken, sweet potato pie, playing video games, drinking beers etc. I broke out the sketchbook halfway through the day and cranked this drawing out. My friend's friend was there and was interested in the drawing and I handed it over to her and asked her to write a story for it. She happily jumped in and left me (us) the story you see above. I was pleasantly surprised. I hope you enjoy our little spontaneous colab.



I'm pretty sure he will be in a painting at some point...





Strange dreams of floating over the ocean in N.J.



More peace. Less bar codes.



Hope you enjoyed!