Ooze (oil on hardboard)
Tools used: brushes, palette knives, toothbrush, Ooze battery charger, storage unit key, tin foil, whittling knife. I ended up embedding the Ooze battery charger into the painting once I have finished it.
279 [highScore] ~24 x 30 inches
I made a digital collage (can be found under that category), which I then traced onto this canvas with a projector and painted. I wanted to explore both texture and color with this piece. The name of the piece comes from my high score in Wii bowling, which is a 279.
Summer '24 [Weón 1] 40 x 32 inches
I also started this piece off by making a digital collage, then tracing it and painting over the traced image. This piece has much more significance to me because it is meant to reflect my feelings of loneliness and my abuse of marijuana to try to escape from the loneliness. This was my second summer back at home (Arlington, VA), and most of my close friends had not come back for the summer. I was missing my friends from school as well, and my parents were busy working their 9-5 jobs. I was working a job at Outback Steakhouse that I hated, and I was smoking every day, multiple times a day, to try to escape the reality I had found myself in. I was also closing myself off from anyone who was close to me and supported me (especially my family). I did, however, go to Barcelona and Madrid with my family this summer, and it single-handedly kept me from breaking down and going off the deep end. All of the imagery used in the digital collage was from that summer, coming from both the trip to spain and images I had taken back home. This piece is meant to reflect that state of high that I was constantly chasing and was seemingly the only thing I was able to enjoy on a daily basis.
Untitled (06/06/25) ~4.5 x 6.5 inches
This was a piece I made out of boredom during the summer of 2025. I did this more as a form of stimulation and entertainment. I used acrylic paints and traced over that with Sharpie markers.
Portrait of Cresco Man (06/28/25) 8 x 10 inches
This was another piece I made out of boredom during the summer of 2025, and was also a form of stimulation and entertainment. I used acrylic paints and a whiteout pen along with embedding a Cresco Cart into the painting that I had found on the ground on the way home that day.
Los Quatro Globitos Weónes (07/1/25) 7 x 5 inches
My father and I have always joked about Weónes (a Chilean slang word). He and I used to doodle a variety of caricatures with exaggerated features. I was bored during the summer of 2025 and decided to make some Balloon Weónes. This was made with acrylic paint, sharpee markers, and the whiteout pen. This was more conceptual and just for fun than anything.
Globito Weón (06/28/25) 5 x 3.5 inches
This was the first version of the Weónes series, and I was once again playing around with my paints out of boredom during the summer of 2025. I was doodling and watching a Bob Ross videos a bunch at the time had and I basically decided to doodle some figures into a Bob Ross-type background. I used acrylic paint for this one, but I watered it down a lot to try and give it more of a water color type of feeling (I did not have any water color paints at the time). I found this beautiful frame at the thrift store, and it happened to fit the piece perfectly, so I decided to put it in there. I also used Sharpie for crisp outlines on everything.
