Pics from the Mawns n Boughts show is on the MnR blog,

go look.

http://mawnstirrsandrowboughts.blogspot.com/

Nature's Mistake,

Here's me wearing one of my designs. :)

Here are the fliers for the october 1st opening.

Monsters and Robots (low-brow pop art) group art show. October 1st. Underground outsider art gallery EL Barn.

http://mawnstirrsandrowboughts.blogspot.com/

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/edit_images/108216-leftyjoe-torres




apologies to Bob Lizarrga whose name i had to change due to a misspelling error.

Hi all,

Hey, I'm updating my deviant art page, go check it out at http://leftyjoe.deviantart.com/ to see what i'm posting there too. also, hope you all checkout artslant?

Hey, here's some art to tithe you over.

Emerging LA artist Leftyjoe.

Hi guys,
Leftyjoe is now on Artslant,

http://www.artslant.com/global/artists/edit_images/108216-leftyjoe-torres

Thanks to Booleep!!!

LA artist Booleep and I where at an event a while back, here's the motley crew of interchangeable friends.

Some more NM stuff for the line revised.

Wish us luck, the line that I'm revising will hopefully be bought for the YELLOW RAT BASTARD franchise and carried in 29 stores across NY city. Wish me luck, hopefully someone like the tees!



I'm trying to portray a positive yet tajic message in these NATURE'S MISTAKE shirts. Hopefully other animal lovers dig the hidden meaning. :P

Nature's Mistake: holiday 09 line.

So, with a little help, and some inspiration; I'm gonna take some interesting approaches for the line based on Carson (the other NM artist) Cornett's designs. Check them out.

yjoe, air brush,apparel clothing line tee shirt designs leftyjoe, hot new apparel for 2009, pigeon, rising artist in Los Angeles, modern impressionist,

Latest updates!!!

So guys,
I'm back from Vegas.
I had a lot of fun at the apparel show Magic. I got to paint live in front of the Natures Mistake booth! ( Which btw Matt Geiger has left in my hands now. I'll be doing the sales reppin' and the art direction as well as the designing for Nature's Mistake.)
Thank you Matt, I won't let you down! I'll keep Nature's Mistake up and running and I'll take it to new heights!
I'll post the pics from the event soon.

My solo show at FARHAUS was sadly put on hold because of the Vegas trip. I tried to kill two birds with one stone by painting all my solo show pieces while at Vegas. (but it was really hard to paint and concentrate while tons of people approached me to chat the entire time) So, I guess it was like painting my solo show pieces live and letting some peepz take a sneak peek before the pieces came back to LA with me for the solo exhibition..

Well, so the show debut reception was supposed to be the 5th of September, but, since we all came back from Vegas tired, not to mention all the planning that went on for the Vegas trip, pretty much resulted in my solo show being put on the back burner. I don't mind, I'll work out the details with the lovely manager at FARMHAUS later this week.
I'm planning to do the art for the show all this month, and hang the art as it is completed. I'll invite you all to stop in periodically to check out my work as it comes into the shop! I may even try to hang out in front of the shop and paint live.
I'll iron out the details, but I'm planning on having the closing reception on September 25th from 6-9 at FARMHAUS,
chek this link for the details on the shop, (stay tuned on my blogs for final details on my solo show and more)

http://www.thrillist.com/limited-edition/farmhaus
http://maps.google.com/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&channel=s&hl=en&source=hp&um=1&ie=UTF-8&q=farmhaus&near=Los+Angeles,+CA&fb=1&split=1&gl=us&view=text&latlng=4157961353744656488

Stop in anc check out the shop!!!

Natures mistake!!!

My shirts have been printed! I'll post pics tomorrow!!!

NaturesMistake stuff!!!

So, we're getting ready to go to vegas! We're excited about the designs for this next season! Can't wait to see what we sell over there. Wish us luck.

Here's my take on sasquatch, and Mario and Luigi the way I remember them back in the 80's.

OK, so this is what's up for next month!

Come check out my show at the Farmhaus bootique! Also, I'll be painting life on front of the boutique for most of september. I'll be gearing up for the october monsters and robots show part III, the monsters and robots show is in open call, so feel free to submit!!!
to submit for the open call, go to http://mawnstirrsandrowboughts.blogspot.com

Open call to artists for september 2009.

The show is back!!! Open call gallery group art show for september 2009! The show starts in october and it'll be up all month long!!!
Go check out the details and enter!!!



http://mawnstirrsandrowboughts.blogspot.com/

Leftyjoe featured in the Pony Block party.

Yo, it's been a busy ass month, i haven't been able to fully keep trach of everything that is going on. I should've posted this a while ago, but here it is.
Check out these links!

http://www.pony.com/blog/ponyblog/2009/07/pony-took-hollywood.html
http://www.bartabz.com/BarTabz.com/Entries/2009/7/10_Entry_1.html
http://www.bartabz.com/gallery/losangeles/july/7.10.09pony/

Latest News!!!

Hi all, so I'll be at the show in pomona tonight, hope to see some of you there, it's at Galleria Rustica, and Leftyjoe will be featured in the En La Mescla art show.
I'll have pics up and everything else from last night's "Battle Royale" art show in west LA at loft 4300. It was fun as hell, Leftyjoe art was up, along with most of the stuff from the "Mawnstirrs and Rowboughts" traveling art show.
Stay tuned, I'll have stuff up tomorrow night!!!
You can see the pics here, or on my myspace, facebook or other social interaction pages!
luvz,
Leftyjoe,

The monsters and robots show I curated will be up tomorrow for a night at the "Battle Royale"

Originally I had been in this show, but the curator just told me that lot's of his artists flaked out, so, I told him about the show that I have, and he decided to let me put it up!
come see the second instalment of Mawnstirrs and rowboughts at
Friday the 7th,
"Battle Royale"
curator:Ryan Gaw
LOFT 4300
4300 W. Jefferson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016

First two pages of my Gallery portfolio are up.

Leftyjoe gallery portfolio 2007 through 2009 is here, check it out. I put up my artists autobiography and the first two pages of my portfolio are up. Check them out. I'll do more later. I gotta paint today.
http://modern-toon-impressionist.blogspot.com/
the lates art show info featuring Leftyjoe is at them bottom of that blog. Hope to see you there, I have a show on friday and one on saturday.

More of today's work.

Stuff I'm working on for Nature's Mistake!

NaturesMistake.net buy some tees! these are for next season. Fall I suppose.

Shows this week,

Friday the 7th,
"Battle Royale"
curator:Ryan Gaw
LOFT 4300
4300 W. Jefferson Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90016
mobile: 310 213 9403





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EN LA MESCLA

A group Art Exhibition
Curated by Patricia Zambrano

Exhibition Dates: August 8th – September 9th

Participating Artists:
Jestr One, La Bella Sandra, Fat Mike, Eduardo Espinoza, Juan Manuel Zambrano, Patricia Zambrano, Lefty Joe ……. (and more).

En La Mescla
is a group art show of artists who work in different media such as photography, drawing, painting, graffiti, printmaking and metal sculpting. There is a unifying cultural theme found in each artwork.

Artist Reception: Saturday August 8th, 6-10 p.m.

Closing Reception: Saturday August 22nd, 6-10 p.m.

New Blog, please check it out!!!

This is my official gallery portfolio. I'll upload my portfolio and list of galleries i've been in, as well as the art. :) Maybe look for that tomorrow.

http://modern-toon-impressionist.blogspot.com/

check it,

I made this yesterday! woo!!! I'll be starting a new blog and a new portfolio just for gallery shows. Guys, this is my new career and I'm not looking back! Hope you all can make it to my art shows in the coming months, I have two in august, my first solo show in september, the next installment of MnR in october, the big one in novembe,and one in december, but the way things are going these days, I may be in more this year! Wish me luck guys!!!
I'm gonna start the new blog right now, as soon as I finish this post!!!

Ok, so check it out, this is killing two birds with one stone!

So, this Hispanic heritage month is coming. These pieces will be in two shows, woo!
After the "Mawnstirrs and Rowboughts show on the 18th, i looked up some open call shows to help a friend get into more art shows. I ended up taking the opportunity to submit a piece from the MnR show to the Los Angeles Municipal art gallery "Open call 2009" show. Exhibition: August 13 – September 27, 2009 Opening Reception: Sunday, August 16, 2-5pm
Call Gallery for details 323-644-6269
or www.culturela.org
There, i met a great young woman named Patricia Zambrano, who is helping put this event together. Well, seems she's really busy! She told me about a show she took over as curator after one dropped out. She invited me to participate in EN LA MESCLA

A group Art Exhibition
Curated by Patricia Zambrano

Exhibition Dates: August 8th – September 9th

Participating Artists:
Jestr One, La Bella Sandra, Fat Mike, Eduardo Espinoza, Juan Manuel Zambrano, Patricia Zambrano, Lefty Joe ……. (and more).

En La Mescla is a group art show of artists who work in different media such as photography, drawing, painting, graffiti, printmaking and metal sculpting. There is a unifying cultural theme found in each artwork.

Artist Reception: Saturday August 8th, 6-10 p.m.

Closing Reception: Saturday August 22nd, 6-10 p.m.

check her out at:

LUCHAGallery.blogspot.com

Myspace.com/LUCHAGallery

Well, i jumpe at the chance. I love this art scene, and where I'm going with all this!

Well, these two pieces will be in her show along with a few more i'm gonna do.

Tomorrow however, I'll be turning in my submission for the El Pueblo Historical Monument.
They will present Sacred Memories: Cross-Cultural Celebrations of Day of the
Dead. Sacred Memories follows El Pueblo’s acclaimed 2007 exhibition
which explored celebrations that venerate the departed including Dia de
los Muertos, first observed by the indigenous people of Latin America,
China’s Qingming, and other rituals practiced in United States,
Europe, Africa and the Caribbean. Artists are asked to submit for
consideration two and three-dimensional work (including ofrendas/altars)
that examines rituals honoring the deceased and/or pays tribute to
departed ancestors. From October 19 to November 27, 2009
My submission will be in the form of a CD with images, so I figure i can put these up in Patti's show, and if I'm picked (hopefully I'm going to be) they'll be in the day of the dead show. (shoot, the pueblo people found me, so, i think that means i would get in, right? oh man, I'm gonna go pray to my ancestors for luck!!!

Two Quetzalcoatls with one obsidian! lol.

Check it biyotches!!!!

New season's logo for nature's mistake!!!

Leftyjoe painting live at the MAGIC show in veas!!!

I'll be at the natures mistake booth in the Magic show, selling my art, my line of tees by NM, and hopefully my paintings! If you're at the magic show, come by the booth, say what's up!

lol, I drew this one at church.

The sermon was about H. E. double hockey sticks!!! See how my mind works, btw, i've been drawing at church my whole life, surprisingly, my parents let me! Crazy huh, they knew i was paying attention because they would quiz me at the end of the sermon. Very supportive people huh, lol. (jerks) lol.

Some stuff from cafe sketching.

Gennady and I went cafe sketching last night in Los Feliz, omg!!! Hotties everywhere!!! Let me ge rich so i can move there!!! First ju git di powher, den ju git di monee, den ju git di Jweemen!!!

Frankenstien studies.

just for shitz and gigz.

Pics from drink and draw sandiego!!!!