Nonetheless, the artists pressed on, drinking and painting, I was posted next to Abazzaba coltrane and Delr One, discussing our different styles and techniques.

I started this night asking my wife “what should I paint?” we agreed on a tiger, but I had no idea what positioning or layout… it just kind of came to me after drinking one of the $5 tall cans of PBR… below is the beginning and end…

Tiger inna Bamboo Forest – roughly 2ft x 4ft – Acrylic and Ink on Wood Panel – Available – $400

Dragon Koi
16″ x 20″ Acrylic & Ink on Wood
2″ deep sides, ready to hang
Available
$1200

They will be going back to their regular price of $60.

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Past Show from May 13 – Downtown San Diego Solo Show – See Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIY0R4MDKt4&feature=g-upl&context=G2f8b56aAUAAAAAAAAAA

Tribal Valentine – $80 each, or set of 4 for $240 – One of a kind original pieces, no prints will be made of these, the last four of 25 that were produced in the last year.

Sizes are:  Dark Heart 18″ x 24″ / Kiss on tha Cheek 18″ x 24″ / Bubble Gum 12″ x 24″ / Lovely Thoughts 18″ x 24″

Contact us today for any one of these items, can be delivered or shipped anywhere in the US.

“Fight Club” – 14″ x 17″ Pencil on Paper – Framed / original avail. tuesday at basic…

You are not a beautiful and unique snowflake. You are the same decaying organic matter as everyone else, and we are all part of the same compost pile.

$400

Biography courtesy of Wikipedia

Toshirō Mifune (三船 敏郎 Mifune Toshirō [miɸɯne toɕiɽoː]; April 1, 1920 – December 24, 1997) was a Japanese actor who appeared in almost 170 feature films. He is best known for his 16-film collaboration with filmmaker Akira Kurosawa, from 1948 to 1965, in works such as Rashomon, Seven Samurai, Throne of Blood, and Yojimbo. He is also popular for portraying Musashi Miyamoto in Hiroshi Inagaki‘s Samurai Trilogy.

Akira Kurosawa meeting Toshiro Mifune

Kurosawa first encountered Mifune when Toho Studios, the largest film production company in Japan, was conducting a massive talent search, during which hundreds of aspiring actors auditioned before a team of judges. Kurosawa was originally going to skip the event, but showed up when an actress he knew told him of one actor who seemed especially promising. Kurosawa later wrote that he entered the audition to see “a young man reeling around the room in a violent frenzy…it was as frightening as watching a wounded beast trying to break loose. I was transfixed.” When an exhausted Mifune finished his scene, he sat down and gave the judges an ominous stare. He promptly lost the competition. Kurosawa, however, had found his muse. “I am a person rarely impressed by actors,” he later said. “But in the case of Mifune I was completely overwhelmed.”^[6]

$400

Biography courtesy of Wikipedia

Akira Kurosawa (黒澤 明 or 黒沢 明 Kurosawa Akira^?, March 23, 1910 – September 6, 1998) was a Japanese film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. Regarded as one of the most important and influential filmmakers in the history of cinema, Kurosawa directed 30 films^{[note 1]} in a career spanning 57 years.

Kurosawa entered the Japanese film industry in 1936, following a brief stint as a painter. After years of working on numerous films as an assistant director and scriptwriter, he made his debut as a director in 1943, during World War II with the popularaction film Sanshiro Sugata (a.k.a. Judo Saga). After the war, the critically acclaimed Drunken Angel (1948), in which Kurosawa cast then-unknown actor Toshirō Mifune in a starring role, cemented the director’s reputation as one of the most important young filmmakers in Japan. The two men would go on to collaborate on another 15 films.

Rashomon, which premiered in Tokyo in August 1950, and which also starred Mifune, became, on September 10, 1951, the surprise winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival and was subsequently released in Europe and North America. The commercial and critical success of this film opened up Western film markets for the first time to the products of the Japanese film industry, which in turn led to international recognition for other Japanese film artists. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s, Kurosawa directed approximately a film a year, including a number of highly regarded films such as Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954) and Yojimbo (1961). After the mid-1960s, he became much less prolific, but his later work—including his final two epics, Kagemusha (1980) and Ran (1985)—continued to win awards, including the Palme d’Or for Kagemusha, though more often abroad than in Japan.

In 1990, he accepted the Academy Award for Lifetime Achievement.^[1][2] Posthumously, he was named “Asian of the Century” in the “Arts, Literature, and Culture” category by AsianWeek magazine and CNN, cited as “one of the [five] people who contributed most to the betterment of Asia in the past 100 years”.^[3]

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Perfect for dressing up any wall, this is the perfect size for maximum visual impact, or instantly creating a theme for a room. Images look great on this high-quality poster, printed on heavyweight 7 mil semi-gloss paper using superior dye inks. Image size 23″ X 35″. Treat yourself or give as a gift.

Regularly priced at $60, now only $39.99 through mid December. After which, the prices will go back up to original.

Please contact us if you would like a signed version.