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It's that time of the year again. In the spirit of Summer I will exercise my creativity by making 30 sexy summer images. One per day. All figurative semi erotic futuristic art. Enjoy the heat.
Some images will be NSFW and might be deleted from myspace. All uncensored images posted on my art blog THE NAKED CANVAS SEE LAST 30 DAY PROJECT HERE
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Day One -June 17th




Day Two June 18



Day Three June 19






Day Four June 20



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Day Five June 21 "HEART LIGHT"




Day Six June 22



DAY 7 June 23 "SACRAL"


DAY 8 June 24



Day 9 June 25 "Burst"

Underpainting detail

DAY 10



DAY 11 "Blind"



Original sketch / wash version




DAY 12 "Sunrise"


DAY 13




Day 14


Day 15 "Lost In Light"




DAY 16 "Labyrinth of Love"





Day 17




DAY 18 "Wishing Well"

Tonight the TV show, 60 Minutes, reported a piece on happiness and life satisfaction. There was a study conducted across Europe which led to the conclusion that Denmark has the highest level of happiness compared to the rest of their European countrymen. Danes interviewed expressed their satisfaction based on not having high expectations regarding many things in life so there is little to be disappointed about. Emphasis was also placed on strong family relationships, plenty of rest, sleep, and work weeks of 37 hours. It's not to say that they lack great ambition, dreams, goals or aggressiveness, but rather have healthier, realistic expectations and priorities many countries can learn from.

Now if you are anything like me, you may have thought to your self "Those lazy bums! They need to work harder and stop being babies." The perfectionism in me cannot handle letting things go. A person (ahem... me..) makes the rules of life so hard to achieve, so overwhelming, there is no choice but to be bummed out when unrealistic goals are unfulfilled. Someone may not be satisfied until they make 3 million dollars a year, have the trophy wife / husband, fancy car, attain that low percentage of body fat, president of the nieghborhood association, or the best dressed. Compare that to someone who designs the rules of their life to be so EASY to achieve. They are content with their "low" paying job that they love getting up for. They live in unconditional loving relationships rather than empty shallow marriages. She is satisfied with her hair/waistline/wrinkles/zits/extra curves/ and imperfections. He lives a simpler way of life, secure, and is just happy to be above ground alive for another day. Our overworked consumer oriented lifestyle aims to have everything, yet that quest to landfill the "hole" with possessions, status, and power continues to elude us.

My unrealistic expectations of my artwork are about being highly detailed, interesting subject matter, strong impact, clever use of design, great idea, excellent execution, style, energetic, harmonious color schemes, humor, clear communication, technical skills, passion, and has to sell. - An overwhelming combination at times very similar to the person who refuses to be happy until he has everything (what a revelation I am having right now) Wasn't I happier as a kid with a simple Crayola in my hand?

As you can see that's one of my huge creativity blocks. My artistic assembly line would be at a different level of output without the unnecessary dead weight. Like some twisted computer hacker, somehow I reprogrammed myself to think everything I do must be perfect gold. I enslaved myself to be creatively miserable. How did I let myself get to this? Nothing is ever "good enough" so the thought of consistently producing "grandiose" imagery becomes extremely daunting. I run away under my bed sheets covered in misery. Damn, I wish I was cooler.

How did I forget my mantra? " Create for the garbage can." It helped take the pressure off so many times. It explains why i draw fantastic work on a napkin, and mediocre work on an expensively primed canvas. Tomorrow I begin the tow truck exercise that will pull me out of this gravitational magnetic hole of unproductively. Stay tuned as I attempt to just "let things go" and "expect little".

Santi-

Check story here.

I am reposting an email I got from Chris Flynn at Falconvsmonkey.com.

Hello all,

It has just come to my attention that a book of illustrations has been
released for sale on the net that contains the work of hundreds of
illustrators, without their permission. Full details about this heinous
venture can be found on the following blog entry of one of the artists, Luc
Latulippe from Vancouver:

http://www.luclatulippe.com/2008/04/18/book-publisher-in-china-plagiarizes-and-steals-illustrations/



The book contains full colour illustrations and interviews ripped off The
Little Chimp Society website. It is printed in Hong Kong and has a fake
ISBN. Some of the illustrators have been trying to take legal action, but it
looks like they're finding it difficult.

More here.

http://apefluff.com/colorful-illustrations-93c-please-do-not-buy-this-book/

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For the month of December, I will be conducting a little experiment.
One art piece a day, everyday for the entire month.
31 pieces.
Some simple, some complex, some that suck, some great.
A little latin, pinup, urban, futurism, fashion, portraiture, smooth airbrush, jagged sharp lines, painterly, flat, colorful, subtle, wild, calm, and more.

Stay tuned every day for new art posted.
I will be selling prints of some as well.
Think Xmas. :)

Art will be posted here as well as in picture section.

Santi




DAY 1



DAY 2 "DUB" 2007
My pal STEREOTYP from Vienna Austria came into town to perform in NYC last night.
He does futuristic Dub/ reggae music. Really great show. I was inspired by his tracks to create this.
here is his page
http://www.myspace.com/stefanmoerth

"DUB" 2007



Day 3 "PHRENOLOGY 2.0"

Phrenology is a theory which claims to be able to determine character, personality traits and criminality on the basis of the shape of the head (i.e., by reading "bumps" and "fissures"). Developed by German physician Franz Joseph Gall around 1800, the discipline was very popular in the 19th century.



Phrenology map

1. Sexual love
2. Parental love
3. Love of friends
4. Love of home
5. Concentration
6. Combativeness
7. Destructiveness
8. Appetite
9. Acquisitiveness
10. Secretiveness
11. Cautiousness
12. Love of Praise
13. Self Esteem
14. Perseverance
15. Conscientiousness
16. Hope
17. Spirituality
18. Veneration
19. Kindness
20. Constructiveness
21. Love of beauty
22. Imitation
23. Gladness
24. Individualality
25. Form
26. Size
27. Weight
28. Color
29. Order
30. Calculation
31. Local
32. Memory of events
33. Time
34. Tune
35. Language

A. Union for life
B. Love of the Magnificent
C. Human nature
D. Agreeableness
E. Love of life


DAY 4

"I ? GRAFFITI"



DAY FIVE
"FLAME-.ENCO"



DAY SIX
"CHAKRA-BOT"

What do you get when you mash up a giant Japanese Anime robot with yoga???


DAY SEVEN " SAINT SANFRAN"



DAY EIGHT
"TONIGHT"
(myspace safe pixelated nipple version)




DAY NINE
"CAVALIER"




DAY TEN
"AFTERGLOW" Myspace safe version.





DAY ELEVEN
"8-BIT BOOTYCALL"




DAY TWELVE
"NAPE"



DAY THIRTEEN
"UNTITLED"





DAY FOURTEEN
"BELOW ZERO"





"ONE A DAY" ART EXPERIMENT- DAY FIFTEEN " R.I.P."

DAY FIFTEEN
"R.I.P."




"ONE A DAY" ART EXPERIMENT- DAY SIXTEEN "DROPPED"

*disclaimer only had one hour to do and had to use mouse to create. Lost my pen tablet. :( I hate it, but promised a piece a day.
DAY SIXTEEN
"DROPPED"







DAY SEVENTEEN
"BIRTH"





DAY EIGHTEEN
"GHETTO-BLASTER FABULOUS"


DAY NINETEEN
"RITA HAYWORTH'S DIRTY LITTLE SECRET"



DAY TWENTY
"NIA"

Probably longest pal on myspace waiting for a portrait. NIA. Sorry for the delay.



DAY TWENTY ONE
"Day 21 "HUTU & TUTSI (Rwanda)""



DAY
"Day TWENTY TWO "THE EMBRACE"






DAY TWENTY THREE
"TO BE 5 AGAIN AT XMAS"

When I was 5, I got a kick ass toy for xmas. It was a part of the SHOGUN WARRIOR giant robot line. (Known as part of the Mazinger Z line in Japan)

GAIKING-. A horned giant robot with face on chest, spring loaded hands which shot off giving any child a black eye. Bullet speed nipple rockets that would be banned by today's toy manufacturing standards, and roller skate feet.



Ahhhh, To be 5 again with your favorite toy.

Here is my version.




DAY 24
"MISTLETOE"




DAY 25
"TRUTH?"




Day 26
"Just one of those days"."


DAY 27
".....FOR LOVE IS AS STRONG AS DEATH."


"ONE A DAY" ART EXPERIMENT- DAY TWENTY EIGHT "BENAZIR BHUTTO"

DAY 27
"BENAZIR BHUTTO."




DAY 29
"WAITING ON THE WORLD"






DAY 30
"ZOMBIEEEEEEEEE!"



DAY 31
"ELECTRO BOOGIE"

Live art session Mash up session. at Cielo NYC to benefit Harvey Milk High School.
Sponsored by Levis.
This was part one of a mash up of my digital style and my abstract funk style painted on 8 foot denim jeans.

Pics courtesy of
Amanda
www.lightstalkers.org/lafotographeuse
www.lafotographeuse.myphotoalbum.com
http://www.myspace.com/mandala_lafotographeurese

Jessica
http://www.myspace.com/jessica143










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Hey.
Give it a few seconds to load.
Here is another animated gif showing how my brain works. I rarely know what the hell the final image will look like. This is a window into how I come up with my ideas. Just improvising along tossing photos in the background to stir up ideas.
This is for a latin music poster design. I wanted to create something street, funky, punky, futuristic with an indigenous edge..

Yes, it's hebrew.

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This animation shows one of ways I work. I have a collection of unfinished artwork that is put aside for future use. I came across an image of a women I did a while ago, decided on a theme and built the image from there. I use different photo reference for ideas, positioning, mood, etc. Once the direction is clear, I start the "digital painting".

Rarely do I know what the final outcome will look like - which is the exciting, yet risky part of the process. There are so many directions you can go with one image. Did I make the best choice? Should I have stopped earlier?
Sometimes I lose, other times I win.

Enjoy.

-Santiago

Illustration for upcoming ad for the Puerto Rican Day Parade. (portion)

From the 4th installment of the Raza events.
My live "digital painting" session. Still unfinished.

The "shattered" is quite the heart shatterer.

Happy Wicked Valentines Day. :)

Tikal is the largest of the ancient ruined cities of the Maya civilization.
It was one of the major cultural and population centers as well.
The city was at its height in the Maya Classic Period, approximately 200 AD to 850 AD

The Maya civilization were noted for the only known fully developed written language of the pre-Columbian Americas, as well as its spectacular art, monumental architecture, and sophisticated mathematical and astronomical systems. Many of these reached high development during the Classic period (ca. 250 to 900 CE), however these advances were also in the Preclassic (or Formative) period which came before, and in the Postclassic period which followed. At its peak, it was one of the most densely populated and culturally dynamic societies in the world.