Backpacks

Bags for 2 A&T Sigmas Deregaryl Nightcrawler Covington and Sentel TheFlash Allen (my boo! lol)
this bag is for my friend, former teammate, Antonio Sales.

Custom Christmas gifts

Here's some of the work I did for customers for Christmas....portrait I did last week of my friend Kevin's sister and her new husband. (by the way Kevin is the one setting up my website, Thanks Kevy!!!)

ApronDora kicks 2.0DJ Drevaughn logo and graffiti (DJ's in Chapel Hill at the Library, Player's and PT's Grill)Spongebob chasing jelly fishing! My favorite shoe of the week. Too bad the shoes were really bad fakes...but arent the jelly fish so cute?!

Semester/Winter Break

So not only did I have a ridiculous amount of work to do at the end of this semester for studio but I also had the opportunity of a life time to paint a shirt for one of my favorite artists.... But thats not all....On top of that, Thursday I wake up after taking one of my "I am a failure at life" naps till 4pm in the afternoon to find out that the ceiling above my bed is LEAKING AGAIN. and that the reason I was feeling to cold durring my nap was not only because my house has zero insulation and costs a fortune to heat but half of my bed was wet from rain water that was leaking through the roof of my nearly condemed slum house and then through the second story flooring... Needless to say I was extremely stressed and PISSED. I had slept through half the day before my project was due AND I had to call my land lady from hell and hope that she wouldnt ignore my calls for 3 days like she did last time my ceiling was leaking... which luckly, she didnt and I got the problem fixed the next morning. Though "fixed" is a relative term since the roofers said that the roof is "unfixable" and that it needed to be replaced years ago...
But the moral of the story is that I had a horrible week but I made it through, am stronger for it and God rewarded me emensly as you will read about in my previous posts....

*HARD WORK PAYS OFF. and good things come to those who wait ;-) *

Now I'm off to R&R at Northgate Mall in Durham to airbrush for the x-mass holiday!

Raphael Saadiq

I had the honor of painting a shirt for the legendary Raphael Saadiq and meeting with him after the John Legend concert in Durham this weekend. Saadiq asked me to do a piece of James Jamerson, a legendary bass guitar player from Motown and Saadiq's idol.
If you dont think you know who Saadiq is, you probably do... I made a playlist on Imeem of some of his hits from when he was with Lucy Pearl, Tony! Toni! Tone! and from his solo career...

Saadiq, TTT, and Lucy Pearl playlist

But besides the music he's made with T!T!T! and Lucy Pearl he's also produced for and worked with artists such as D' Angelo, Joss Stone, Musiq Soulchild, John Legend, Kelis, Mary J. Blige, Teedra Moses, Anthony Hamilton, Earth, Wind & Fire, Q-Tip, The Roots, and Floetry just to name a few....
So as you can imagine, doing artwork for such a musical genius was quite a big deal for me as an artist...and as a fan. Turns out the man is really down to earth and cool peoples to chill wit!

ALSO! A friend of mine, Pierce Freelon, founder of Blackademics.org did an interview with Saadiq while he was here with us in Durham.
and I'll soon be posting a link to the Saadiq's interview with Christopher "Play" Martin when I get a hold of it.

BY THE WAY! his new album "The Way I See It" is incredible. Being that I am jus a lil young buck it took me a while to fully appreciate the magnitude of this album, but none the less it is deff one of the albums in my small collection of legally attained albums (thats the bootlegers version of a compliment, lol, meaning it's worth paying for even though I coulda got it for free)

Much love and thanks to Raphael Saadiq!

"The truly blessed are best at sharing their blessings..."

Fall Semester ID Studio Final Project

*****UNDER CONSTRUCTION****** Check back in a day or two for better pictures and more description....
For my final project, I had to create a working prototype of one of my earlier projects. I choose to do my Safety Torch from October. I changed a few things about the design and simplified the electronics so I could actually get it made in the month I had to do it. Here is the final product...

Fall Semester 3D Game Design Work

For my 3D Game Design Class we each had to model different parts of Black Beard's pirate ship the Queens Anne's Revenge using the program 3Ds Max by Autodesk. I was assigned to replicate a small artifact cannon from the ship, a sea turtle to swim around the ship and Lt. Robert Maynard of the British navy who was the one who killed Black Beard. These are the screen shot images from each model...
Our last project in class was to make a game level with the Unreal Tournament 3 Editor program. We got to do whatever we wanted and so I felt like making a crazy purple and yellow themed amusement park that's been hit by bombs.... dont ask why... I couldnt get it just right cause its hard to do outdoor worlds with this program but it turned out pretty good for the time I had to do it in...

Dont you wish Ferbies were real?...

They are so cute and cuddly and as long as you dont get them wet they stay that way forever andeverandeverandever.... dont you wish you had one?
well looky here!
now you can have a real live version of those cute lil ferbies!
“Mommy, will you buy me a Pygmy Tarsier for xmass?!”


















awww just look at those bedroom eyes....lol

Blog stealing! Kehinde Wiley

This is a video i stole from Travis McCoy's blog about Kehinde Wiley...



When I first started painting portraits, one of my art teachers told me to look Kehinde up and I did but then kind of forgot about him since I put my painting on pause. but I have been re-inspired again!! This man's work really intrigues me... I want to be the Julie Pitts version of this cat (no not a COPY cat) but I like what he does with portraits and how he goes way beyond and puts his own funky twist into it...
wait how old is he? I've got some time right?? cause this aint gonna be easy...
WISH ME LUCK!!!
n please send me your thoughts or suggestions
JPAirbrush@Gmail.com

Cornell West Reaction to Obama

First Friday Street Art Gallery

Ahhh I'm in love with the artwork... and so so very jealous that my own is not this freakin awsome...

Featured Artists:

• Mathew Curran
  
• Bart Cusick
  
• Joseph Giampino
  
• Sean Kernick
  
• Victor Knight III
  
• Garrett Scales
  
• Matt Scofield
  
• Derek Toomes
  
• Ben Tuttle
  

Visual Art Exchange - Window-Down: Beyond Street Art

It's the Obama signal!
Told you he was a super hero.... lol

Gym Class Heroes Concert

^Shirt I gave to Gym Class Heroes at there concert tonight. Hope they liked it! I didnt get to give it to them in person. Which I was really dissapointed about.. a lil heart broken. I had been lookin forward to meeting them for like 2 weeks but I feel blessed that I even had the opportunity to get my artwork to them and go to their concert. I thought they were never gonna come to NC!! and the concert was AMAZING! Travis was a lil sick and he still gave a great show. I had so much fun! I was exusted afterwards cause I was so amped up in the concert!

GCH if your reading this, PLEASE LET ME KNOW THAT YOU GOT MY SHIRT! send me an email, call me, myspace message, or leave a comment here! just let me know u got it!! please!!
Also, Thank you for putting on a great show last night even though yall were tired after touring non stop for the "last too long". lol. I wanted to hear some more from Papercut Cronicles and some tracks from For the Kids. but anyways... I hope yall are resting up for your next show, yall deserve it.

Sample airbrush BroChure I did just for GCH!

Video Share!

I lovvvvve this video... I had to share it. I love T-Pain, this man knows what he's doin.... Pay special attention to the video during the chorus.

I think this is what I wanna do with my degree. 

T-Pain Ft Ludacris - Chopped N Skrewed

click "watch in high quality" under the video or else it just aint the same

Question: What/who is the black and white face paint guy that is in every T-pain video?? 

I donno who he is but i likes him!

3D Computer model class update

Olive Ridley Sea Turtle model (Sea Turtles are Julie's favorite animals)

textures still not right. but I've got a new project now so ill have to finish his skin later...

pretty much finished "th-th-th the cannon!" (DJ Cannon look what you've done to me...)

COD Halloween Bash!

The annual College of Design halloween BASH!!! each year is a different theme. this year was

"MasqueRAVE disco Bloodbath"

My last minute costume was a "RAVE Ninja!"

Here you can see the Rave Ninja quietly scouting out her surroundings...
Sam's studio mates costumes.. Sam is the Obama Terrorist (yes he's an Obama supporter)
Me and Sam
Me and my mentee Blade
Me and Korry!

ESPN Road Trip: NC State Special

Watch from 0:51 to 1:16 & 5:21 to 5:29

So there's an exclusive online show on ESPN called Road Trip that travels to different campuses on a big game day. They people from the show wanted to do a little piece about our free expression tunnel on campus film some art students painting the ESPN Road Trip logo... Saul Flores, Samuel Davis III and I got the chance to skip class Thursday afternoon and paint the logo for Road Trip crew while doin some lil comedy sketches... If you can't tell what hes saying at the end it's suposed to be like the chorus from that T.I. song whatever you like... Yeaaaah. lol
There was a lil part they filmed with just me and the host where he came up to our painting and tried to touch it and I got to act all mean and swat his hand away like "Ey! Dont touch!" but I guess they took that part out... :-(
Needless to say we had a BALL, and got a few cans of free paint in the process...

Here are some pictures too...

It wasnt the best but I'm really proud of it considering we only have like 2 hours!
Thanks guys!