Here is a perfect example of just why I am doing this series. When I first set out on this fantastical, mythological zebra/Pegasus/unicorn I totally intended for her to be completely ethereal, something that would just exist in memory but I got caught up in
ReMixed. A series of paintings with all good idea and intention just somehow missed the mark. Sometimes being prolific isn’t the best thing, and some works deserve a second chance. #1 Murder of Thieves I still love the concept and sense of dread that comes with the
ReMixed. A series of paintings with all good idea and intention just somehow missed the mark. Sometimes being prolific isn’t the best thing, and some works deserve a second chance. “$” From the origami inspired series. I still wish I could origami graffiti letters for real, how
This is a topic very close to my heart. A topic, time and place all very close and dear to me. Art and Design high school and those years I spent there, mostly cutting classes to hang in the lunch room then having to make them all up because my spiteful butt refused to transfer to my zone school, Seward Park, school for determined dropouts as it was warmingly referred to.
First of all, let me just say, yes, I am the originator of the popular 3D style of graffiti. Graffiti artists were always trying to get their pieces to literally “bounce” from the walls. Most every piece ever done up until mine in 1993 had similar formulas. The fill or fill-in, an outline and then some type of either frame, or framing background color. Shadow, usually a directional drop shadow that would give the outline of the piece more weight to appear more dominant and lastly a 3D which would also be a directional, usually 45 or 90 or 180 degree angles. These 3Ds were usually in another color from the actual piece, meaning they made the piece take more paint as well as time to do but all still were to give the entire piece the feeling of more weight.
The making of Blood Bunny, Roll The Bones, The Hunger and Apparition from part 10 of Erni Vales' "Unusual Journey"
I am not evil but I am EVL. EVL is Erni Vales Limited. It’s also a play on words. EVL is the basis for most of my style: from my graffiti- always bold, mean, strong- carries over to my canvas as well. Here I was
So here I am in the 2nd showing of paintings for a 13 part series, I had really no feedback yet except that people were really digging the misfits and that series and I was hoping there was enough of a graffiti aficionado crowd to
Money, the root of EVL? I’ts a theme that will definitely repeat during the course of "An Unusual Journey". Money, everyone loves it, everyone needs it, everyone wants it! I struggled with piece though, sometimes i have a very clear image in my head about
Once again the letter R makes its appearance. This was so you can view 2 paintings, completely different of each other yet created from the same letter. I wanted to show how different one letter can be treated, the Rhino conveniently beginning with the letter
Certain letters in general are more challenging than others, which is why they appear often in my paintings. I chose the “R” to do both as origami as well as animal because it moves more freely in my mind. To me it can be sexy
Poor little Tatts, all he wanted after a rough day was to sneak into a dark alley, have a drink and some smokes just to contemplate life but his peace would be interrupted by the bright spotlight of the local authorities. Could the day get worse?
Weather you did it to someone, or someone did it to you, we have felt the sting, the pinch and the joy of love. From friends, from family, loved or not the deepest cuts always come from love!
The I'm not completely comfortable in my own skin feeling is a theme that I have explored several times in "An Unusual Journey" I think many viewers of my paintings can relate to the wanting to the change their skin theme. I believe that's why
