efangel

new blog

2010-07-15T08:08:00.000-07:00

im working on redoing this whole blog.. this is too simple.. cool but too simple

inspiration --> http://www.bowsbootsblue.com

oh shit son

2010-07-05T14:37:00.000-07:00

http://www.vimeo.com/13105856

Frank Frazetta 1928 - 2010

2010-05-10T12:04:00.001-07:00

The art world lost one of the greats today. When i started drawing seriously around the age of 12 there was 2 things i liked drawing on a constant. One was graffiti and the other was Frazetta's girls and monster's. Although i never really took to creating my own fantasy art, I filled countless pads of paper with Frazetta copies. My instructor at the time Ricardo Irazari had an amazing collection of prints and books by Frazetta and I would work on full scale charcoal copies every week of one or two of his pieces. He was a great inspiration to me and to many others. For more info on Frazetta check out these links...

FRANK FRAZETTA

WIKIPEDIA

ROOTS

2010-05-04T17:56:00.000-07:00

Hung out again this weekend at the Wynwood Penit. Feels awesome to get back to what initially inspired me to get into art. My roots are in graff and i've missed it. Altough i did a bit in college it wasn't really the same. I miss the days hangin out with T and him just showing me all bout tips and letter and everything. I also remember the first time i met FREEK and some of the other guys in DAM and i was like whoooa. That was an inspiring time. I was young and i was around the best writers in miami at the time and since.

I been designing some walls and im trying to get a wall somewhere in the wynwood district... maybe ill scan some of the designs tomorrow and let you guys see.. maybe.

Here are some pics of me and Christy over at the penit messing around. Between writing and looking at pieces we managed to get some shots in. Let me know what you guys think.

fun with photoshop

2010-05-01T15:02:00.000-07:00

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New York at a glance

2010-04-25T10:45:00.000-07:00

What can i say about NYC. I guess first off let me say thanks to Ivy, Calvin and PickleJuice for letting me stay with them for an entire 2 weeks ! not many people would do that for friends.. you guys are the FUNK.. and anything you need i got you. PickleJuice don't let charley talk shit.. Mike and Haley thanks for the dinners. Haley thanks for the early invite.. it was pretty awesome to surprise someone.. i dont think i've ever done that before. Mike thanks for being my boy.. the advice and the usual guidance around the city. Can't wait to get back and see everyone again.

The Trip

What can i say. This was one of those trips that was life changing. Really was. I got to feel like i lived in the greatest city in the world for an entire 2 weeks. I really got to know the city for the most part. I mean before i've only gone for a few days and gone here and there. But this time around i really took my time walking around and going places by myself. Trying to read the train maps and making believe i knew where i was going when half the time i was just really walking in circles. I got to hang out with friends i havent seen in a long time and do things i wouldn't do in miami. Got to see some amazing art. Classical and contemporary. Saw some

Rembrandt's i hadn't seen before.. the Frick collection is truly, truly mind blowing. The Met of course is always incredible. To Go from Sargent, Goya, Vermeer, Ingres, to Pollock to Chuck Close and Andy Warhol. It's incredible to see it right in front of you. These are some of the paintings that have molded history you know. These paintings of George Washington and Andrew Jackson are Historical accounts of our nations history.. It's kinda hard to wrap your head around it.

We also ate and some pretty incredible places. I love a city with a deep sense of history and culture. Me, Mike and Haley ate one night at one of the oldest Speak Easy's in NYC. It was right near Union Square. Incredible food. Calvin, have to give a big thanks to Calvin. He truly has a great sense of the city. On the real, like from the birds that populate the local parks to the flowers in bloom, the history of certain areas and the cultures of the people. He also knows exactly where to go depending what you want to eat of course. We got some awesome Dim Sum in Brooklyn (actually went back 3 times, yeah that good!), crazy hot dogs in Flatbush and the best bacon, egg and cheese bagel every created by man. He even cooked one night a delicious red tomato sauce with lamb meat and pasta.. took a while but it was awesome. He's one of those guys that you want to be as smart as him one day you know what i mean ? Thanks again Calvin, if theres ever anything you need, let me know. Also got to hang out with some new friends, David and Tatiana.. awesome artist awesome people.. thanks for the tour around soho and Union Square lol we walked for like 4 hours !

Haley Jane invited me early out to NYC to catch the return show of Schoch O Lautte. This is a pic taken from my iPhone at GlassLands

Michael P outside the MET. This was the first time we went out there

Me outside the MET. Taken by Michael P.

Jackson Pollock Autumn Rhythm number 50, 1950
Don't remember the exact painter but this is prolly my favorite painting in the MET collection.

This was taken at that Speak Easy After me and Mike had hit the MET all day we met up with Haley Jane and hung out at the MOMA for a bit and went and got some food. This place was really awesome. Can't wait to go back.

Dean and Delucca is just the funk.. i love that place !

I could go on and on about NYC, i have ALOT of photos from the trip but i guess i should end it kinda short. Once again i want to thank everyone from the bottom of my heart. I've been depressed in Miami the last few months and this trip definatly helped me out. I was wrapped in this bubble and it seem to never pop. Although some things still linger you guys showed me that there soo much world out there. God truly created a huge place and life is too short to live in one place.

Thanks to everyone and i love you all. See you in August ......

NYC

2010-03-30T19:06:00.001-07:00

i have alot of stuff i need to post !

before elysium

2010-03-21T14:03:00.001-07:00

Peligro gave me the name for the book last night.. It suits it perfectly..

before elysium

NYC

2010-03-18T15:39:00.001-07:00

Ill be going to NYC soon for 2 weeks. Ill be documenting the entire trip. What i seek to find im not sure. I've been lost lately. well, since august..I cant sleep at home. I find myself drivin to work at 5 in the morning to get some sleep before work.

My surroundings seem to decieve me. Everything reminds me of her. I paint and think of only her. I write and the only thing that fills my blank pages are thoughts and memories of the time spent with her. I've been working on a letter for about 4 months now. Everytime i see it i rewrite it. Take certain things out and add certain things in. I look like a bum off the street... I havent shaved in months. The more time passes the more its an addiction to paint and write in this journal. It's addicting. All day i think about it. Everything relates to it. Is there a way to ask forgiveness ? Does forgiveness exist for what has happened between us ? who knows.

i just want to go home, but that place no longer exist.

For the few that read this stay tuned.. many things to come.

- efangel

Gap ad ?

2010-03-10T20:21:00.001-08:00

Sunday Morning

2010-02-22T10:46:00.000-08:00

Awesome sunday spent with Christie at the studio

Some recent photogrpahy

2010-02-11T20:50:00.000-08:00

This is the lovely Christie Bulnes

Some GRODY fun...great hair huh

landing on twigs

2010-02-05T18:35:00.000-08:00

boom boom said the wild free bird,

its time to wake up and work for nothing,

but he knows not what i do,

its been 4 days since i've felt a warm bed,

seems a lifetime since a felt a warm embrace,

all i do i create fake images of a lieing truth,

where is she that pretty soul, that strong soul,

such a strong soul all the angels know what she does

chirp said the bird,

and this is how i knew it was a she was bringing me,

a message from the past,

birds only speak in vowels,

what does it want to say,

yes i could smell the salt of the ocean but not her hair

and all is black

the bird left

thought of you

2010-02-04T10:59:00.000-08:00

Lately all i could hear is poetry.. all i see is what Ernest Hemingway writes in his blank pages. His love of words is almost exploitive. I dream dreams of days past. When nothing really mattered except waking up and seeing her face. Seeing her smile and holding her in my arms. I miss you...and i have everyday since i lost saw you... This reminded me of a recuring dream im having.. with you

Shake dreams from your hair
My pretty child, my sweet one.
Choose the day and choose the sign of your day
The day's divinity
First thing you see.
A vast radiant beach in a cool jeweled moon
Couples naked race down by it's quiet side
And we laugh like soft, mad children
Smug in the wooly cotton brains of infancy
The music and voices are all around us. Choose they croon the Ancient Ones The time has come again Choose now, they croon Beneath the moon Beside an ancient lake Enter again the sweet forest Enter the hot dream Come with us Everything is broken up and dances.

- Jim Morrison

Burnt umber studies

2010-01-31T02:22:00.000-08:00

I started a study today for my next painting. Started with just a burnt umber sketch but the drawing grew so much i kept it at just burnt umber. looks pretty rad and i think ima do more of these.. this one only too me like 3-4 hours. also what i liked about it is thats a real study of anatomy. In other full color studies i see that i dont give much thought to the anatomy cuhz im so concentrated on color and temperature. trying to get the mixes right. So this was a faster so efficient i guess learning process. although the full color study is still essential and prob my next step i think this is another step added to my process.....

paint

2010-01-29T21:05:00.000-08:00

Paint again has become a refuge for me.. in it i find solace. I find i cant sleep at night. Thoughts and regrets haunt my every thought. The note is almost done. How can i put words to something so deep and well.. no words can describe what i feel as of late. Days pass and suns rise as surely they will fall. I stare at the sun of dawn and the days first warmth floods the air. It smells diffrent. But i no longer feel the first lights warmth. It's been 4 days since i slept.

I've been working on this painting for a while now. There are days i don't even paint.. I get to

my studio and sit in front of it and stare. I stare and think.. Think of the past and i take to myself to those days. A happier place. When colors shined bright and the day started with enthusiasm. Now the colors are desaturated and the days start as the one before. They seem dull and repetitive. My first thought and my last thought are if i will ever see her again.

past few months

2009-12-09T08:50:00.001-08:00

These past few months are a blur. Time seems neverending. Days feel like weeks and colors that once shined so brightly have become grey. I had to let go of someone. Someone i loved perhaps more than my art. For reasons i still dont fully understand. although its evident she has moved on, I'm still in the same place from when i last saw her. Lost in a vast dead space. Where nothing moves and everything resembles a better time spent. Alot of new stuff is comin. Maybe ill get around to digiting it.. maybe i wont. lets see what happens.

crazy

2009-07-18T08:35:00.001-07:00

CRAZY... more IHUNTZOMBIES stuf coming soon..

second weekend in june

2009-06-14T20:36:00.000-07:00

made some shirts and had a small shoot at the studio.. i think i fucked up on the mixture of the photo emulsion cuhz after crystalizing the emulsion seems bubbley or something as if there was too much water in it.. should seperate on its own though.. tis is one of the pic.. some more coming tomorrow..

CANON AE-1

2009-06-11T05:50:00.000-07:00

I just picked up an old school canon AE-1 .. I figured if im going to be a somewhat professional photographer i should know every aspect of photography.. Same as painting. You cant be a good digital artist without actually knowing how to paint in real life. So i bought one off of ebay and recieved it about a week or 2 ago ? not sure.. but ive gone through 2 rolls of film and kind of excited to see what comes of it...

Ava Adore

2009-05-20T07:44:00.000-07:00

One of the most interesting things to see over time is some ones growth. Artistic growth is something that some battle with and never conquer. Others seem to have a natural thought process that enables them to expand as artists and constantly see things differently. Picasso said "Artistic growth begins at birth and never ceases til death." I find this to be very true. We as artist or painters see things differently. We take every expierence, every change and create ideas and images with the thoughts and the reactions we get from them. Altough we sometimes loose our train of thought, be it for a week or a year.. we never cease to think in artistic terms and think of ideas visually with vivid color, composition and imagery.

Over the past few months I've seen someone on the begining step to her artistic career and development grow imensly. She's driven by her past as well as her present and her future looks ever so bright. I've been around a lot of artist. I was involved in highschool and went to a pretty big art college for my Bachelors. I've never seen someone grow and develop as quick and efficiently as she has in such a short span of time. Although some things are still rusty, overall her imagery and concept development are gaining strength and momentum. While working on one project the next is never far from thought.

The next few months should be really interesting. Some of the ideas we have been throwing back and forth seem over the top. But the drive and excitment is there. Reminds me a lot of some of the stories I've read on Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner in New York in the late 30's and early 40's.

Life is getting interesting again...

ihuntzombies.blogspot.com

Fun on the side

2009-05-06T20:00:00.000-07:00

We had a pretty big photoshoot on sunday.. there where about 8-9 girls and alot of space.. lighting was a nightmare but i think i figured it out pretty well. My boy Kiro Fox Ace was the main photographer.. although i took a few shot and helped out on posing he took the majority of the photography on the main set. My job was to light everything.. which i think i did a pretty good job at.
In our down time it seems me and Amliv cant keep but continue shooting and messing around with compositions and ideas. Here are some shots taken while we where on break

enjoy

efangel.com

2009-05-02T02:56:00.000-07:00

Altough i prob wont launch the full site till im happy with about 10 paintings, i posted up a splash pg linking to this blogger page and to my email. let me know what you guys think.. its simple.. but i digs it

THE BARONESS

2009-04-26T05:20:00.000-07:00

still workin on the main image. . not sure how thats ganna pan out. .but this pic i thought was great from the set. This is from a photoshoot me and amliv had tryin to recreate some Baroness images from Adam Hughes, just to see if we could. But we didnt have the exact weapons. So we did it.. just not exact. either way we got in the groove and we got some great shots besides the one we originally intended to get. let me know what u guys think of this. i thought this pic inparticular was the hotness ! let me know

// GRODY //

2009-04-25T06:04:00.000-07:00

a storm is comin. Limited test prints and randomness will be available shortly..

www.thegrody.com

>>HEADPHONES<<

2009-04-24T17:58:00.000-07:00

Ive notice i get easily distracted by ambient noises in my studio.. i been using the headphones from my iPhone but they get really uncomfortable and the cord is short so today igot some dope fones... they sound awesome so far.. long night of design and music ahead. Hope everyones week was as interesting as mine

>> ROOTS <<

2009-04-24T09:24:00.001-07:00

The older i get the more drawn i am to rebeliousness and purity of graf. I have a great respect for the movement. at around age 10, the small (but strong) local graf scene in miami really grabbed my attention. thanks to POSE i began writing and drawing all day everyday. i filled up black books within a week of having it.. from there a couple guys from DAM crew thought me some tricks with an airbrush and i would forever remain dedicated to art. i hate the word artist.. i think its been pretty thinned out to where no one knows exactly what it means.. i think of myself as a painter. heres are a couple contemporary artist grabbing my attention at the moment.

bigFOOTone

D*face

the classic SEEN

FREEK >> miami classic

PHAZE

get it

2009-04-24T06:50:00.001-07:00

get it

monday 4.22

2009-04-23T05:44:00.000-07:00

Amliv started work on a new munny last night and wrote up her first GRAFFITI

Im planning my next painting

2009-04-22T15:22:00.000-07:00

im planning my next painting and im excited over it.. i havent been so excited over a painting as the one im currently developing. The one in the images shown below is almost done. a couple more sessions and itll be done. i need to upload a bunch of pics..

amliv in the studio you could see the painting im working on in the backround

a little closer

2009

2009-04-21T03:50:00.001-07:00

Its been since 2006 that i dont update this.. i never really got into it..

but im about to pull off some next level shit !

STAY TUNED

the VS poster- reposter- poster

2006-10-04T16:58:00.000-07:00

hi

2006-10-04T16:46:00.000-07:00

this work?

efangel

new blog

oh shit son

Frank Frazetta 1928 - 2010

ROOTS

fun with photoshop

New York at a glance

NYC

before elysium

NYC

Gap ad ?

Sunday Morning

Some recent photogrpahy

landing on twigs

thought of you

Burnt umber studies

paint

past few months

crazy

second weekend in june

CANON AE-1

Ava Adore

Fun on the side

efangel.com

THE BARONESS

// GRODY //

>>HEADPHONES<<

>> ROOTS <<

get it

monday 4.22

Im planning my next painting

2009

the **VS** poster- reposter- poster

hi

the VS poster- reposter- poster