Tattoo Empire

What a great month of May this has been. First of all I've made a GREAT connection with a really cool British tattoo magazine Tattoo Empire http://www.tattooempiremagazine.com/ who will be featuring me in their second issue. I tell you this ranks up there next to my kids being born. This is such a great opportunity for me to get my name and art out to a different audience other then action sports. I surely hope this will opens some doors to other great wonderful things that will keep me doing what I love to do and that is art. I want to thank all my friends and my family that have been supporting and believing in me to keep on doing what I do best. My thinking is that it's now or never and that I can't look back, just full speed ahead. I guess I won't believe it until I hold the magazine in my hands. So for this occasion I painted two paintings for the photoshoot which I did with Richard Brown http://www.richardbrownphotography.com/ and took a drive around Seattle to get some cool outdoor shots with Dan Manning http://www.danmanningphotography.com/ and at home with a great family shot from Sara Kuntz, they all did a great job thanks to all.

SOAG Beanies!!!

I have a good friend by the name of Chelsea Powers who has the gift of knitting cool beanies and winter hats. She did these for me and they turned out great, they are my new favorite beanies to wear. They are very well made to keep your dome warm. She has a blog/website http://chelpthreadware.blogspot.com/. Check her out and tell her Son sent cha!!!

Skullcandy time

So I got into Utah yesterday and made a mad dash to the Skullcandy factory. Finally this year I've made it here, last year I was in Utah but was at the opposite direction of them so didn't make it out and was really bummed. I told them that I would like to come out and do a painting session there if they were up to it. YES was the answer so here I am. It was great seeing the offices finally and meet the people that I know through email and phone conversations. Met Jon Mcfarland a great friend there and Brad Williams, and Tim Odland to name a few. They were all warm and friendly, just what I thought it would be like.

They decided to film and time lapse the whole session with a short interview that will be posted on Skullcandy TV. We had a few problems setting up for the painting session but it was mostly my fault because I was nervous. Thanks to Rob De Luca and Dan Trevino we got it done. All in all it was great time, thanks Skullcandy lets do it again next year or even earlier.

Dilla

So here it is finally, the one and only legendary J Dilla. My friend Travis and others have been telling me to get paint Dilla for awhile now but it always seem to slip my mind. After months and years here it is finally, I'm really happy of how it turned out. This painting was done on cold press illustration board with acrylics, paint pens and Prisma color pencils my favorite tools of the trade. I'm making 12 by 18 photo prints out of this for 25.00. If you want one you can email me at number1neson@hotmail.com . If you like to see more prints go to my Son of a Gun Facebook page http://www.facebook.com/album.php?id=165817040126109&aid=30767 .

"The Edge"

I was asked to be a part of a group show called "The Edge" at the Art Institute of Seattle. This show was to display artist and designer that went to AIS and is now doing work in the action sports industry. I had a good time showing the kids and wife to where I went to art school. My son Nathan especially had a good time drawing on one of the chalk boards at the school. I think he might want to do what daddy does for a living. Got a chance to say hi to Sigrid Cannon, one of my teachers from way back in the days and some others that I had forgotten their names. Good times.

Oopsy! and Facelift

Two new paintings I did last week and this week. Couldn't think of what to call it and then thought of "Oopsy!" because my daughter always says that when she know she did something wrong. Kind of cute and reminds me of her. Hope you all like it, my goal is to do at least one painting a week. The other one is called "Facelift" pretty self explanatory, I'm hoping this will get me motivated to produce more art. Anyway enjoy!

CUBE

New painting I did last two nights. Been doing mostly east coast Hip Hop icons until my friend Mike Clark suggested some west coast homies. Thanks Mike this one's for you buddy YEAH YEAH!!!