daily routine

shoots and ladders

...check out this new video my friend Jesico did to promote his upcoming show...

Cervantes in Golden Gate Park

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Passage from Don Quixote:

Don Quixote took out the notebook, moved off to one side, and very calmly began to write the letter for Dulcinea, 

and when he had finished, he called Sancho and said he wanted to read it to him...

Supreme and Most High Lady,

He who is sore wounded by the sharp blade of absence, he whose heart strings are broken, 

most gentle Dulcinea of Toboso, sendeth thee wishes for the well-being he doth hot have.  

If thy beauty scorneth me, if thy great merit opposeth me, if thy disdain standeth firm against me 

even though I possess a goodly portion of forbearance, I shall not be able to endure this affliction,

 which is both grievous and long-lasting.  

My good squire, Sancho, will recount the state in which I findeth myself for thy sake:

 if it be thy desire to succor me, I am thine; if not, do as thou pleaseth, 

for by ending my life I shall have satisfied both thy cruelty and my own desire.

Thine until death,

The Knight of the Sorrowful Face

"By my father's life," said Sancho when he heard the letter, "that's the highest thing I've ever heard!  Confound it, but how your grace says everything anyone could want, and how well the Knight of the Sorrowful Face fits into the closing!  I'm telling the truth when I say your grace is the devil himself, and there's nothing your grace doesn't know."

"Everything is necessary," responded Don Quixote, "for the profession I follow."

by Monty Guy

acrylic on cardboard

faceless man wearing a wool hat and a pinstripe sport coat jacket over a black wife beater, weathered frame, vintage classic

a couple weeks ago I posted the under-painting for this image.

here's the finished product, for the owl at least; now I send it off to Denver

for Mike to have a crack at it.

Loucheur, Chamber Made, owl painting, Loucher, eisel, on the road, jack kerouac, the road, cormac mccarthy, wildlife art

last day of the project

make moves aerosol mural san francisco, roman cesario, rpes, france, toulouse, yellow scaffold, sunburst

Ocean Beach

morning in Golden Gate Park
conservatory of flowers, Golden Gate Park

here's a look at the most recent painting I've been working on

...wrinkle madness

brothers
Ocean Avenue Tattoo, Salem, Taylor Barnes, Leon Loucheur

studio
Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Chor Boogie, Vogue, Kozie, wiener dog on skateboard, San Francisco

**progress**
(step 1: under-painting)
Owl painting

Pemex, it's San Franciscan for hella big.
(thanks to SF Mural Arts for the great stitch of this piece)
Market Street San Francisco graffiti mural, tattoo

pop-surrealist extraordinaire, and all around good dude, Robert Bowen at home in his studio

skulls, painting, San Francisco

taking down The Truck Show

Optimist, Plantrees, DE, Bay Area graffiti, 1:AM San Francisco

"Learn this from the waters. In mountain clefts and chasms loud gush the streamlets, but great rivers flow silently." -The Buddha Siddhartha Guatama

..progress..
make moves mural van ness san francisco

The homie Pemex generously gave me the above, very clever marker drawing, titled Couple a 40s.Also, featured in the photo below, aside some older pieces hanging around the studio,
is a comp I'm working on for a UFC promotion.
Elizabeth Loucheur, Jones, Evans, fight, dahlia, fox, painting, 40 ounce

Listen up kids: Smoking kills, and so does Mike Gallegos.

Check out the newest painting in his line of "internal organ self-portraits."
Denver, Colorado

burning the midnight oil

wolf fight painting

Here's the new piece I just rolled up for The Truck Show, upcoming at 1:AM.
The idea for the show is that each artist is provided with a silk-screened truck as their inspiration/starting point.
I flipped it a bit, focusing on the area surrounding the truck while leaving the truck itself blank.
If you're in SF this Friday, come out and enjoy the celebration.
Optimist Plantrees Bay Area graffiti