Tardo-copyright Leftyjoe-aka Joe D. Torres

Here's something i did at drink and draw yesterday night in San Diego! This is Tardo, the next big thing to hit the market! I'll be teaming up with the awesome Matt Gieger of nature's mistake to do all kinds of cool stuff!!!

We'll be making Tardo-copyright Leftyjoe, a vinyl toy for the next season!!! I'll keep you all posted.

I just drew on this official drink and draw shirt, which by the way i was to hand out to a hot chick! I didn't, i kept it for my self, lol, Jeff Johnson, Dave Johnson and Dan Panosian, my good buds from the drink and draw social club drew on the squares, and i drew on the rest of the shirt!!! Woo!!!

So, i didn't make the July 24th deadline for the Latino Heritage Month thing,

These were just lighting studies i did for my submission for the Latino Heritage thing, but i didn't make the deadline. :( It's ok, i'll be able to represent my culture for the Day of the dead thing, stay tuned!

Ok, so here are the pics from the show!

I may have missed a few, just go on my myspace.com/leftyjoe and go to the monster album.

Oh yeah, stay tuned for the pics from the Mawnstirrs and Rowboughts show,

I'll be putting the pics up soon, they'll be on my myspace, facebook, here on this blog, on the mawstirrs and rowboughts blog, on all my other pages too, to find them all, just google web search "leftyjoe"

Stay tuned!!!

Here's a random one i did just a few sundays ago.

I'll finish it soon. Once again, it's in my style, modern cartoon impressionism.

I turned this piece in the other day at the LA municipal art gallery in hollywood.

So, this piece was one of my final paintings for the Mawnstirrs and Rowboughts show last saturday the 18th. I decided to put it into a gallery over in hollywood. They hadn't reached their 1,000 piece limit, so i put it in.

I love Van Gogh, and I love cartoons, it was only fitting for me to combine the two. I call this my Leftyjoe-modern pop-cartoon-impressionism style. I'll be developing more pieces in this style! I love it!!! Hopefuully you like it too.
Go check out this piece in person either at the next Mawnstirrs and Rowboghts show later this year, (maybe in september or october) stay tuned!
Or go see this piece at the "open call LA 2009" at the Municipal art Gallery in hollywood, the opening is from august 13th to september 27th, oen reception will be on sunday august 16th, from 2-5pm, the address is 4800 Hollywood blvd, LA.CA. 90027 admission is free. I'll be there the 16th, (hope i win something) there will be awards handd out! Wish me luck!

Some practice for a piece for Day of the dead at LA's historic Pueblo museum.

So this one is just the beginings of a lighing study for this piece.
The bottom two are closer to what the piece will look like.

Freakin APES!!!

You all remember my MON monsters for that charity show a while back, well, check out this mo-fukka from Spain!
If i'll be damned!!!

http://www.dkillerpanda.com/home.html

Here's his stuff,


Here's my stuff from hella long time ago!!!


I don't want to accuse, sometimes great minds think alike, and sometimes like minded individuals come to the same conclusions, but, that mummy is way to close to my Mummzy design!!!
Spain has really done a number on this Aztec warrior, lol.

Ok. So, right before starbucks closed, two lovely and wonderful young women started taking to me. We had some nice conversations. So it made up for the alienation i suffered at the hands of the kids earlier on today. :)

UGH. I freakin came out to sit and draw at starbucks across the street from a cool taco place. I was seeking inspiration for a piece for the latino heritage thingy, but i happened to sit behind the most annoying early twenty somethings. Ugh.

So, today's that day that I've been working towards.

If you're in the LA area, come see that art show i've been talking so much about. the address is 606 E. 6th street. LA CA 90021

Here's a link to the show,

http://mawnstirrsandrowboughts.blogspot.com/

Leftyoe, character designer now up and coming POP artist.

I guess you can say this is my "state of the Leftyjoe career address"
Well, things have been going well for Leftyjoe.
This year has been a year of major progress. Leftyjoe, an undiscovered but up-and-coming LA based "american/mexican chicano artist has been working hard to make a name for himself.
Chuck BB a friend, invited Leftyjoe to do a piece for Chuck BB's "Black Metal" book release party. Since then, several other friends invited him into some group shows. He caught the painting bug and he hasn't stopped.

Lately,
thanks to a a chance encounter with a friend of Brado James of http://www.myspace.com/laindybazaar,

Leftyjoe has met Matt Gieger of http://www.naturesmistake.net/ who has now taken Leftyjoe under his wing to provide some entertainment at Matt's booths at many of LA's amazing independent events!



Matt Geiger has a company called FSP designs. Matt will be working closely in the near future with Farmhaus and PONY.

This friday, PONY and Farmhous had a block party at their new location.
http://www.pony.com/
http://www.pony.com/blog/ponyblog/


Beer was provided for the event by affliliate: Nakhon beer, http://nakhonbeer.com/


I was supposed to do some caricatures for tips at the event, just to entertain and add a fun party favor to the event, instead I ended up doing a last minute LIVE PAINTING exhibition. I guess the guy that was supposed to do it dropped out.
Here are the pics, and hopefully I'll put more up soon from that event.
Matt called me to replace the bailed artist. I was happy to do it.

This is the live painting I did for the PONY party, it's a pony, in Leftyjoe style! I experimented in a new style just for the show, maybe a sneak peak at what I'll do in the future.













And this is saturday's event that i did with Matt, it was the Funk rumble in Chinatown.