Hey Every body!

Here are three new paintings made for Gallery 1988’s cult classic themed group show, Crazy4Cult in July.  The opening is July 9th and I’m very happy to say that I’ll be making the trip over from Rhode Island for the opening.  If anybody is in the area and wants to get down on some sketching or whatever I’d love to get in touch.  I’ll be in LA til Tuesday night and then back to the east coast.  Oh I almost forgot… Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier are going to be there hosting the opening.  You can’t miss this one.

More info and sketches on my blog.

I made prints available of these new paintings and discounted prints of earlier work at my etsy store.

“Wonka”
Gouache on Hardboard
5×7

“Mr. Sobchak”
Gouache on Hardboard
5×7

“Ash”
Gouache on Hardboard
5×7

A shot of the Crazy 4 Cult portraits in their frames.

This is an editorial spot for Rumpus Magazine.

Here is a snippet from the article:
“Today, I realize the truth — that it is not sex work that society fears is dangerous, but sex workers.“

The article was an interesting read and was a ton of fun to illustrate. Stories like these have so much you can draw upon for visual inspiration.
For a link to the article.. Click here!

A collection of my work will be shown at 303 Cafe in East Boston this month. This restaurant has such a great vibe to it. The menu is filled with eclectic choices like a BBQ Coffee flavored Chicken Tenders (which are delicious). Everything about the space oozes with personality.

Come check it out anytime from July 1st-July 30th.
303 Cafe
303 Sumner Street
East Boston, MA 02128

A few more shots on the blog.

Here’s a small doodle I did yesterday. It started out as a pencil sketch, but I ended up putting a few colors on top of it in PS. I’ve got an enormous amount of illustration to post here as well, I’ll try to put those up in the coming days.

-Brun

http://www.bruncroes.blogspot.com

For a solo show that opens tonight in providence. If you’re in the area come by!

Here’s an illustration I wrapped up recently for Playboy.

Hi fellow gorillas!  Some stuff I did recently!

1- I mixed some pencil sketches and played with them on photoshop. the text means ”

2- Well like everyone I couldn’t resist to color Clo’s lines :)

3- Fun with Alchemy!

4- It’s sooo cold here, I needed to draw something related hehe

I have spent the past year in a deep slump hating and loathing my work. I have since learnt that the ‘boot camp’ ideology is not for me. I have taken self criticism of my work to a pathological, destructive level and found myself spending too many days/weeks too paralysed to even draw. For those who plan to take this crippling path of ruthless perfectionism, I have found that personally, it only leads to frustration, failure and disappointment. Taking a break is great, easy and helps, but it never solved anything for me. I needed an attitude shift. I’ve always been ambitious on improving, but I’ve recently lost touch with the connection that sparked this crazy obsession with art.

For example, I’ve spent many hours in front of canvas or paper, and learnt nothing because I was blinded by my own obsession to get it “right”.  I think working more is never the answer, but it’s what goes through your head, why you draw and how you manifest what you learn that counts. I have to start having fun with what I do again, or else I’ll lose sight of why I even did this in the first place. Perhaps the only way out of this hole is to draw what I enjoy, to explore and to mess around with things and not worry about the consequences. I think there is a long way before I find the right balance.

Even posting here is a big step, as before I never would have felt I was up to the standard to deserve it.  I hope this doesn’t sound too melodramatic or self absorbed, I’m just trying to be honest and have a feeling there are some out there who feel the same way about these things.

They are just some drawings (some with pastel) I have been working on, as well as a life size oil painting of a homeless man. Thanks for looking and happy holidays!!!

P.S I also have a new website, made for free by an old high school friend, who is a professional in these matters. www.rodluff.com

life size oil painting, smelly homeless man.

Sorry for spamming guys, but I’ve *just* received my copy of Botobit: vol1, and I realized I never posted the art I did for the book here. In case you didn’t know already, Botobit is an artbook packed with awesome artists, more than a hundred pages of pure illustration goodness, and several of the contributors are Gorillas, so it would be great to see your stuff here guys : D. You can buy it here.
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Hello, gang !

A modest post from me today. Just want to share the kind of stuff I do for myself, just for practice. I also want to apologies to anybody who could be shocked by the last picture.

Love on you all, folks. You guys made great art on this blog. As usual, should I say ?

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Hello, gang !

I’m currently working on painting some buildings before add into it some San Fransisco’s shots I made a year ago. Ho, that and work on some theatre poster, specially on font. You will understand I am not able to post a dirty sunday special…

That said, I still have a few chicks I painted for my erotic comic pages [see last week post]. They don’t appear that way in the panels, so that’s the opportunity for me to show you the full pictures [plus a lil' Tool lyrics in it] ! ^^

Enjoy !

I consider second one as a prototype for further investigation, in case I will have to do some trade in the near future… That’s for you, Dave ! ;)

Love on you gang,

and go back to work ! ^^;

J.

Hi ! Great work everyone! I did something too! Quite weird…

edit : After looking at it more, i realize that i really dislike the colors i did, so here is the line work only! :P