Just found this

I just found this picture from a few years ago. Lisa doing her best Ms. Kwan impression (and it was good). I miss having her barge my classes at school...

failed but fun

I never really got much further with these cactus shaped things but heres a painting I started in the summer and lost interest in...

Rick Reese and Harry Diaz - New Work

A painting for the brother of a friend

Heres a newish painting with an oldish element in it. Been a long time since I painted to be honest so this was a good ice breaker and now I'm in the mood to work on the new stuff for the show in august.

A new sketch...

I'm finally going to get started on a series of paintings along these lines. Curious to see what happens when I change up the materials I usually work with. Should be an interesting and frustrating experiment but I need to change up the medium and the subject matter. Things get too comfortable and predictable.

Digital sketch-something to do

When I was young my buddy Buck and I used to go spend the day at this place in the summer way up the McCloud arm of Lake Shasta. Deep green swimming hole, big fish and angry locals. Rarely a soul in sight. I miss the company and the place.

Big Illustration Party Time

Josh and Kevin asked me to talk about art theory and writing artist's statements for their podcast Big Illustration Party Time. It was fun and I felt like a jerk for monopolizing most of the time but if you're interested in a listen heres a link.

http://www.illustrationparty.com

I have no idea how to make that actually clickable...