I use Nova Color paint, exclusively. Best fine art paint you can get.
Some sample Bowie paintings.
We are the goon squad and we're coming to town. BEEP! BEEP!
Laying out the composition for a painting.
Masking off a painting
Tape is removed.
Add letters.
Current Hollywood studio, 2023.
Playing around with plastic letters for a promo pic.
Figuring out which mugshots to paint.
Laying out and deciding the colour choices. They usually go thru around 4 sets of colours before I make a decision. If I can't decide, then I just paint them all.
A young Steven Tyler before Aerosmith.
Laying out the paintings.
My studio was in my garage in a Silverlake hills house from 2013-2022.
Paingings lining the wall at Ultrastar Studio on Santa Monica Blvd, 2011.
Vintage button with Apollo Staar Couture logo from 2002.
Apollo Staar Couture Logo striped top from 2002.
Bottoms Up! Part of the Curate-It-Yourself panel series.
Style Icons article, Trap Magazine, Los Angeles, 2000.
Painting bar codes for 3 months in my studio, 2000.
Choosing some colours.
Finished commissioned paintings for a client.
Mounted on the hand-made wooden panels.
Getting wrapped for shipment.
Wrapped and ready to be shipped to my client!
Dali! Available for purchase in The POP SHOP.
Studying and drawing reflections in martini glasses.
Finishing up the Devilish Delights series, 2010.
Hollywood tragedy. Sharon Tate & Roman. 2009.
Figuring out the background colours on a few commissions for a client, 2021.
Deciding the colours for a few more commissions for a client, 2020.
Ronnie and Mary, 2021.
Figuring out the colours for the backgrounds.
Ok, that looks pretty good!
They say stripes are good luck!
Creating dirty cartoons to hide in my paintings, 2022.
Captain Dookie and his bitter curmudgeon friend, Fuzznuts.
Practicing drawing a still life.
Drawing some vintage telephones
Resurrected my old A.S. logo from 20 years ago and will be using it again to promote my new artwork.
Plastic surgery table.
Creating some fun text sayings to add to my paintings.
Colour palette for the Teaserama series, paintings inspired by lingerie ads from the 60s & 70s.
A few samples from the Teaserama series.
Current Hollywood studio.
A messy work area is a sign of pure genius. Don't let anyone tell you any different.
DJing at my night, God Save the Queen, at the Burgundy Room, 2014.
Drawing out some 1960s inspired panel paintings before painting them.
Custom mixing the perfect shade of magenta.
Early stages of some Cramps paintings.
Backgrounds added.
All done!
In front of my work at the Desolation Holiday gallery show at Ultrastar, 2009
Colour is everything. Matching the right colours together can take many hours, sometimes even days.
Work In Progress
Cross assemblage, 2018.
Not many reds are as beautiful as Pyrrole red.
Stocking up for the holidays.
Working on Munsters paintings for a gallery show called The Munsters vs. The Addams Family @ Boshin Gallery, 2013.
MINI Munsters paintings. Available for purchase.
Red dots for the win!
Rock 'n' Roll Picture Show at Burgundy Room Gallery, Fall 2019. Almost sold out opening night.
Testing some op-art ideas with black tape before painting them.
Second studio in Hollywood, Ultrastar Studio, corner of Santa Monica Blvd. at Cole St, Hollywood, CA.
Working on some paintings for the Pretty Vacant gallery show, 2011.
Testing out the painting configuration for the gallery show, 2011.
some sample paintings.
Some pieces for the Pretty Vacant gallery show, 2011.
Touching up some old paintings. These are from 1992.
Coating an old painting with resin.
Even the backs of the paintings should be museum ready. Never cut corners with anything art related.
I did some 70s inspired 'Universal Monster Adult Movie Poster' paintings for the Halloween show at the Burgundy Room gallery, 2008.
Sid lives! Collection of film director Paul Sapiano.
Surgery ward. A snip here and there to make sure they look just right.
Adding some highlights with white China marker. (underground filmmaker and the creator of The Cinema of Transgression movement, Nick Zedd)
Background for painting.
....and Voila! Never got a chance to give this to him before his passing. :(
The doctor is in. Snip, snip!
Double Siouxsie paintings. One for a client, one for the gallery show, 2011.
Saint Sid and Lydia Lunch, for the Pretty Vacant gallery show, 2011.
Self-portrait, 2010.
w/Holly, 1998.
Promo pic for my photography, 2010.
Gotta love Italian design.