'Art In The Streets'

Great street art exhibition at The Geffen Contemporary At Moca. The show spans over 40 years of street art history: graffiti, street art, the emergence of the surf and skate culture in Venice Beach and Santa Monica in the early 1970's, graffiti artists' sketchbooks, installations... really good.

And this is my one sketch report from the show!

Newport Beach.

A wonderful day by the beach, filled with joy for my little boy: Seagulls, blueberries, rain, playing in the freezing cold sea and creme brulée.

Cars 2 Posters!

I had the amazing opportunity to work on the upcoming 'Cars 2' movie posters with my friend Eric Tan. The last time we worked together on some movie posters was on 'Ratatouille'. 

It's always very inspirational to work with the creatives at Pixar Animation, we learn a lot from these guys, and great things come out from our collaboration.

Huge thank to Eric who did the layout/design on the poster below, I only drew and painted the cars for him while he was designing 12 more posters! Please check all the superb posters that he designed for the movie on his blog! Here, here and here.

(and below an early poster concept)

Adobe Eazel, Color Lava and Nav.

Few months ago, I've been asked by Adobe to join their Prerelease Team for testing several IPad apps they were developing. I was honored to be part of such an incredible team of people from different background.
The 3 apps are a lot of fun to use; they're called "Adobe Eazel", "Adobe Color Lava" and "Adobe Nav". 

I've done the images below using "Eazel"; it's a fun unique five finger touch interface, and the paint/brushes are like painting with watercolors. The paint dries and depending on how fast you are applying the next color, the paint bleed, very interesting and have a lot of potential.

You can also transmit your images directly to Photoshop, and your image will appear on a layer, very nice feature.

I had a lot of fun too with "Color Lava", you can mix your colors on a palette, there's even a water bucket to clean your brushes!

All 3 apps connect with Photoshop. 

They will be available early May 2011 in the ITunes App Store.

"Eazel" promotional video demo here. And more about the 3 apps here.

I've painted the bottom 2 images from models, "live", to test how spontaneous I could be with "Eazel".

The other ones are to test how the paints reacts, transparency, how detailed I could be...