Love in Mind

This is a super quick piece I decided to do before I started on some of the new work I have in mind. I guess I just wanted a quick splash of color. Love in mind see, it how you please!

13″ x 8″  -   $40

quick draw

few colors

sky blue

full paint

outline

close to being done

All finished.

contact me if you’re interested!

Beauty in Death…Take 2

I think cutouts have to my favorite pieces to work with .   This one in an old piece I did a while back  and it was time to do a repaint on it.  I love repaints cause you can really see the progression you’ve made since the first.  Check out the difference (http://hobbsart.com/progression/beauty-in-death)  So here is the new version of “Beauty in Death”.

Enjoy!

drawn and cut

first stage paint

full paint

beginning outline

full outline just needs random detail

up close done

Fully finished and ready to hang!

Pastels on 5th

On  September 10th a really awesome event took place in downtown Loveland  to benefit the Southern Larimer County Safehouse Project.  Alternatives to Violence hosted Pastels on 5th where businesses could sponsor an artist to create a work of art on a sidewalk tile. I never realized how much work it is to completely cover a 6ft x 5ft chunk of cement or some of the wild techniques others were using to make it look amazing. What can I say I’m a total pastel am but I had a blast! Now being the day after my legs feel like they were hit by a bus from all the ups and downs and my finger tips are completely raw. Cant ask for a better event going to an amazing cause!

Enjoy!

Drawn in and realizing how hard it was to make colors come thru pure

top half of the bird in

ready for main outline

all outlined and ready for the background to be put in.

Clouds clouds and more clouds. And a few of them look like they’re suffering from a little pollution. From my fingers all the way up to my armpits were completely black and it really dirtied up some colors

Was hunched over like this way too much. Thank you to whoever took this pictureAll done! And THANK YOU so much to Mckee Medical Center for sponsoring me  for this event

Ace Project- Box Three of Three (Free Birds)

The final box. Lost a lot of sleep trying to get this one done and it might be my favorite out of all three of them.  Maybe I just like painting birds or maybe its because the pieces actually got done on time and I’m just relieved. Right after I had fully finished outlining it I looked at the birds and they looked like they were screaming at each other. Not sure how I didn’t realize that the entire time. I blame lack of sleep so that ended up being a last minute change. A piece is never fully done I guess.

P.S. (I really sucked at taking a lot of pictures of the process of this one)

Enjoy!

drawing ideas

Birds

So hard to see but first stages of paint

birds coming in

full paint

tails

one bird full outline

tails outline

Screaming birds

DoneDoneDone

I got some strange ideas brewing up for upcoming pieces so check back soon!

 

Ace Project- Box Two of Three (the heart)

So here is box two. I keep looking at these and putting a time limit on them and then I sit  painting and watching the time shoot past. It is kinda surprising the time it takes to paint all 5 sides of these. But I should have just enough time to get the last one finished before the deadline. The second one I decided to put a abstracted heart on the top and out of every artery shapes pour out creating an abstract face on each side.  One left to go!

Enjoy!

start of drawings

Heart painted in

Clouds!

Other things

Two faces

two more faces

Heart outlined

close to full outline

other 2 sides

Finished up

finished up

The top is my favorite piece by far. probably end up doing a canvas piece of this down the road!

 

Ace Project-Box One of Three

Pieces in my past have been coming back lately and are opening up so many new opportunities and recently the transformer project brought this one to me. The ACE project held this year at the Agilent Technology building is hosting 400 business people and I got lucky enough to paint 3 centerpieces for the tables there. They’re a mock version of full size transformer cabinets and I will do everything I can to make mine super chaotic. Heres my first one. The concept is how our brain works. Every shape represents a thought, memory, idea or piece of imagination our brain shoots out.

enjoy!

three to finish in 20 days

drawing

drawing

the start

half

the other

the brain on top

flower on the back corner

full paint

first side to outline

corners coming together

more

brain outline

outline done. now for the little detail

DONEDONE

Thanks!!

Make A Mark Shoe Exhibit- My Shoes

I got super lucky to get to take part in this event that the owner of Blacklist Boardshop in Greeley put on. 12 artists created 12 custom pairs of Vans showing off so many different styles of art. This is the approach that I took, to completely cover the shoes sole and all. This was definitely a learning experience and paint doesn’t like to stick to rubber. So here are some pictures of the process of them coming together and a lot of angles of the shoes all finished. If you’re in the area go check out the show at Blacklist- 919 16th st Greeley CO until the 12th of August.

You can also bid on the shoes to own them through the 12th!!!

Enjoy!

drawing finished

first stages shoe 1

every shoe needs a skull

full paint on shoe 1

Outline was a struggle after I found out calligraphy ink bled like crazy on this surface

full outline shoe one

Start of shoe two

both shoes are similar with slight changes in sizes of shapes or added shapes

paint

Start out outline
Near done minus small detail and highlights

finished front

finished back

left left

left right

right right

right left

ready for display

display

display

Opening night

get over to Blacklist and check out the display

Make A Mark Custom Shoe Exhibit

I got super lucky on this one. I got to be one of the lucky people to be able to take part in this exhibit. 12 artists and 12 pairs of custom painted Vans shoes is this event. Come see art taken to another medium and meet a bunch of awesome people. After opening night ill post the entire process of my shoes coming together. Hope to see you there!!!

 

 

 

A Piece to My Dad

Theres one person that got me into art, one person who has always kept me with it since I was a child, and one person who has helped and believed in me more in the past few years as I have been working to make it a career…my dad. Anytime I needed to build a canvas or needed help with anything to progress my art further hes always been there to help.  Thats true support and I hope he knows how much I appreciate it. So here was a piece to him. Super bright and kinda chaotic yet flows.  I hope will look good hanging in his house.

Thank you for everything you do to support me. Its appreciated beyond words

Drawn, cut, boxed up, and ready for paint

first shapes

more

full paint

first outlines

coming together

full outline

This is probably the hardest wrapped edge piece I have done. With one inch sides and so many shapes shooting off the sides edges were rough but always add to a piece

Front view, all done and ready to hang

Color Without Content

Going into this newest piece all I wanted to do was paint something a little bigger and just paint random shapes. Just a piece filled with crazy colors and a chaotic look. It’ll be one of those pieces that everyone can see in their own way. They’ll spot things they see and I don’t and I’ll see what they miss. That’s what I love about these pieces. And even if you see nothing just enjoy it!

Currently Available- 15″ x 43″ – $250

Enjoy!

pencil

background blue and first colors

6 colors down

The hardest part at the point is spreading out the colors and trying to mix new tones that’ll flow together

Full paint.

first black lines.

mid section in

2/3

11/16

Full outline. now just highlights left

half of the finished piece

2nd half finished

Here it is finished in whole. Photographing this piece this morning was impossible. So colors look super dull in this last picture but in person they’re beyond vibrant!

Contact me if you’re interested in this piece!