Dry Erase Koi

So I have this dry erase board in my office that I use to draw on. Yesterday I was looking to put something on it and came across a Japanese Koi fish on the internet, I liked how it looked so here is my version of it.

GO CREATE!
I couldn't let it be, so I added a bonsai tree, temple, and
mountain range to the background. Looks finished now!

Company ad

A few weeks ago a coworker of mine asked if I would be interested in coming up with an ad for the company I work for. The add would run in local papers and maybe some billboards. At first I wasn't really interested, but then a few ideas struck me and the rest as they say is history. Here is a picture of the printed version I came up with. It's very retro and I thought would fit well with our location being in a more rural area of South Atlanta. Let me know what you think!

Here are the digital concepts w/color before print.

Master Bedroom Makeover

In case you heard about it and havent seen pics, here are pics of my master bedroom makeover I surprised my wife with last month. Love how it turned our and I have to give props to Ikea for the idea on making a closet space in a small room. We now have 2 closets in this room. Now on to the "Yellow Room" as I have affectionately named it....ENJOY!

Reclaimed wood bench

This is a bench that I made last week for my kitchen from scrap wood I found at my job. If you can't find it, I say MAKE IT! Now all i need to do is fill in the holes with wood filler, paint it, and have a cushion made for it. I LOVE how it turned out. See what a wild imagination, some left over wood and about 6hrs can do for you.

GO CREATE!

 Old pallet, and plywood  used for 

bench seat and shelf for baskets. 

Frame up w/the 4x4 posts

 These are the slats for the top of the seat,

as well as the frame for the shelf on the bottom

that will have baskets for shoes.

Plywood cut for shelf.

Nailing slats on top of bench seat

Finished product.

Quilling

I stumbled upon this once b4, so I had to share it the second time I came across it. Quilling as it is called is proly not for me b/c it requires great patience I think and great precision. But Yulia Brodskaya is amazing and known the world over for her amazing works. You can check her out via the link below but here is a pic of just one of her amazing works. GO CREATE!

www.artyulia.com

Roots

So I have recently decided to sharpen the skills that have brought me to where I am today as an artist. Graff has seemingly always been in my blood. Having been mentored by an amazing graff writer and friend way back in 93' I have never stopped writing graffiti. I have books full of random pieces, sometimes napkins become canvases. Anyway here's a sketch I did yesterday in a book someone gave me for my bday last year. Kinda basic, only 2 color but there's still some gas left in the 'ol tank...

GO CREATE!

Reclaimed wood project

So I saw something on Etsy several weeks ago and thought to myself..."I can do that!" and quickly  the wheels started turning on how I could make it happen. Obviously I love to create, and being inspired to create by others, well I love that more! So I saw the sign below on a very cool Etsy shop of which I will post a link. This over sized sign was selling for $100- so you can imagine why I would much rather make it, if I can. Not that it's not worth it, I would just rather make it. I get complete joy from doing so, and I love telling people that come into my home "why yes I did make that myself"...lol. Anyway here is the inspiration(along w/ the link) and my finished product. If you want one, let's talk, I got more wood and "wood" love to do more of these.

GO CREATE!

Etsy Shop

Now for some before, after and how I did this.

These are the tools I used plus a drill of which I clearly

forgot to place in the photo.

A belt sander, Dremel tool, jig saw, circular saw & drill

I started w/this piece of reclaimed wood I had at the house

I then decided on my dimensions, sketched the word onto the wood

cut the piece out using my circular saw, used my jig saw to cut the

outline out, then drilled holes on the insides of the 'D','E' & 'A' in order

to get my jig saw inside those areas.After that I used my belt sander to 

bring back the natural wood character of the piece. It had 

years of varnish or whatever on it. When I was done with that 

I took my Dremel tool and smoothed out all the edges on the

inside and outside of the whole piece, until I was happy w/

how it looked. I have now only to decide what color to paint

it. *Sorry I don't have step by step pics, I was too focused

on doing the piece that I forgot....whoops

And here is the finished product.