Something about a fire truck

Park

Market Day

It's going to be a good night

Comfy

On the little bridge

Chasing Butterflies

This one is a bit different..rougher . I saw my little boy run around the garden yesterday and when he ran behind the bushes, there was this great play of light happening. It's already pretty hard for me to draw foliage, and to add light and shadow to it is incredibly hard for me. This is more of a test, a research if you want, and I wasn't going to post it at first..but I figured.... It'll be nice to put it, and, in a few weeks, few months from now, when I figure out how to think about this more properly and render it in a more convincing manner, I'll be able to look back on this and realize that it was as good a starting point as any other. I am writing this because I get a lot of questions or concerns about younger artists or students who are afraid of trying to do something they don't think they can, or actually think they would never be able to. All you need to do is the first step, and then build on it ..it's a little like opening a box of make it yourself toys.. except that you have no instructions. You have to tinker around a bit( or a lot) to figure it out.

Wheels on the bus, 2012

Cooling

7.30 PM

1, rue de l'Academie, Strasbourg, France, 1999

Beach day, Sf

Tackled

The one with the blue book

Chug chug

Downhill

Pancakes

Closing time

OUR ice cream

Spring morning

It was going to be a chocolate cake

Sleeping in

Warm waters

Good night kiss

Sand Castle

Skyping

For Oscar

Congtatulations Aude and Michael!

Thursday night Bath

California Street

Flight

We are going to miss you honey.
Have a safe flight.
We love you.
Us.

Dirt Road

Blue note

Good morning Bay Area

I know this one comes a little late in the day and is pretty rough....but it's because I actually left the studio I was at in beautiful San Francisco to move to a different location.
This is a memory sketch of the city in the morning, when the light comes through the fog and hits the bay .
I love this city.

another summer day

Summer is around the corner

Cafe Sale

I am working on a new book with Cafe Sale right now..and I am including some very old images.
I found a bunch that were really fun...like this one from a few years back.
It's interesting to see that , at the time, I was using ONLY flash...no photoshop.

Because of that, I was paying more attention to colors and their vibrancy from the get go rather than what I do now which is refining them later, in photoshop.
I am not saying that the images then were better than now, but that they have changed quite a bit over time. I think that technically, I could do this again, but I am not sure I'd have the mind set for it right now.

I feel that as an artist, we have to let ourselves evolve and not be afraid of letting go of the things we know in order to discover and learn new ones.

Evening

Alice aux pays des Singes

My friend Nicolas Keramidas asked me a little while ago to do a piece based on his new and fantastic graphic novel, Alice in the land of Monkeys.
It is the first sketch I ten days and I feel very rusty. I'll probably have to do a new one.
Anyhow... HI everybody.
WOndercon was fantastic. Thank you to everybody that came by.

What Do Ducks Eat and WONDERCON 2012

Hello everyone! Off to Wondercon 2012 in Anaheim in the rain. Good thing I'll be driving down with Erin Leong, who will be doing her first showing at Wondercon. Do not miss her! As for me, I'll be in the Small Press Area Table #SP55. I worked really hard this year to bring lots of unique originals from the last 4 years, as well as recent favorites. Looking forward to seeing you there!

Hush little baby

Raining

How to make a Touchdown

I have been asked a few times HOW I go about doing my daily images.
So..
here is a new sketch for today PLUS a little movie showing a step by step process.
let me know what you think
Cheers
P.

The process

The image

Time for the weekend

It's time for the weekend..also..
Next week I'll be going to WONDERCON in Anaheim, from Thursday till the following week.
I'll be at table SP 055.
If you are in the area, come by and say HI!

Walking the dog

Morning Ride...from a few years ago

Yesterday's image made me think of this one I did a few years ago....which looked better in my memory of it.
At the time, this image was , to me, the best I had ever done in that vein. It feels dated , clumsy and not especially well thought out.
I am posting it here today because I think it's interesting to see the evolution from just a few years ago.
The more you practice your art, the better you get at it, and no matter how old you are, you can always grow.
It's nice to be reminded sometimes

Morning ride

Feels like summer

Tattoo Artist

Cat Lady