Still life painting. Session 1
Proff told us to start light...
Soon to be my next masterpiece?... hmm... might be....

Video Share!!

Jay-Z - Brooklyn Go Hard (ft Santagold)

I thought this video was hot not jus cause I love doin portraits. making out faces with weird objects isn't anything new but I like how they made the process of building the face go with the music and changed views in the verse. Simple. but very good. I like...

first week of classes SPR 09

Random updates....

The last time I ran was April 12th 08. Since then I went into lazy/depressed mode. I ran a little bit over the summer. and then fall semester I had a good routine going of running at least 1 mile every day...but then it got cold outside...and I HATE running in the gym so that kinda stopped. But I'm tryin to get back on it again.
I started lifting at the athletic facility last Friday for the first time in 8 months...omgness I was hurtin the next 2 days... I'll probably start up runnin again when it gets a lil warmer.
I'm still having trouble motivating my self to work out. Every time I work out I feel great and I'm always really glad I took the time to work out. but I'm so used to having to go to practice every day its hard to make myself do it when I dont have to and I dont have anything to train for. It's kind of depressing actually... but I'm determined to get back into a work out routine and disiplined again. Like my dad says "baby steps!"


I picked up a minor in art and design just in case I decide to be an artist when I graduate. So I'm taking my first two art and design (fine arts) classes this semester! Painting and Sculpture... I'm most excited bout the painting class but I have really good professors for both classes. I'll be sure to put up pictures of my work as I go along... YAY!!!


So apparently Travis McCoy from Gym Class Heroes is now signed to Nappy Boy... which is pretty cool. I was already really excited a few months ago when I heard that GCH and T-Pain were going on tour with Lil-Wayne. It was the perfect combination! and then like 2 stops before they came to NC T-Pain announces that Travis is gonna be part of Nappy Boy... and I wanted to go soooooo bad. but I was tryin to be responsible and save up my monies to pay my ridiculous utility bills.... Grrrr... oh well. next time... I'm excited to see what they concoct together....

Korry Richards is my hero

Today...sigh...one of my best friends, could call him a brother in fact, Korry Richards, left me.....
cue water works... ;.-( jk, big girls dont cry. lol
No but really, I felt it necessary to blog about my homie Korry and his recent blessings...

Korry is a senior in Industrial Design who was supposed to finish this semester and graduate in May '09 but his lil over achieving self got a job a KidsII 0utside of Atlanta before he even graduated! so he was like bump school! well not really he's gonna take distance Ed so he will still graduate in May but he will be working and living outside of ATL instead of staying in Raleigh with me and the other homies :-(

Korry has always wanted to design toys since he got into the ID program at state and he has always been an inspiration to me since I met him. This man is determined, positive, creative, works HARD, and has his life together. Very professional career wise but acts a dang FOOL when you chill with him, class clown all the way.

Anywaysssssssss, I love my boy Korry and I'm gonna miss him but he promised me he would start a blog so we can read about what he's doing.

I'm proud of you Korry! You know I got yo back for life

www.krdzn.com

whose world is this? (the world is yours!)
its mine, its mine, its mine...

Donatello my pet Turtle

"I'm runnin this, and I can jump the hurdles. I feel like I am racing a bunch of little turtles..."

Well my turtle's not so little any more. He's out grown his note card...his shell is about 4 inches long now. It seems like his head and arm are still as big as they were when he was a baby tho. He was so cute when he had that itty bitty shell and that big head. lol

Bigger turtles need bigger tanks...u can get a sense for the scale by his lil step cave thing which is in both pictures.

New Years Eve

Me and Sofia before we went out new years eve.
Sofia saw this dress at Bebe and was like "oh yay I'm excited! I wanna wear a dress tonight too, you should get this dress and we will both go out in sexy dresses tonight!" and so I was like yay ok cool. and so I bought the dress and LOOK WHAT SHE DID!! she wore jeans and a long sleave shirt cause she said it was "too cold"....ugh....

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!