Untitled, acrylic on canvas.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #portrait #retrato #travel #oaxaca #mexico

La Tía, acrylic on plywood. Handmade tin frame by Silvestre López González. My subject was a strolling vendor, trying to sell me sponges. I asked if I could pay her to take her picture, instead.
#art #finest #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #portrait #retrato #hojalatería #agave #oaxaca #mexico

(Whoops—I meant painted from a reference photo, not used with!).

Portrait of a Yemeni Bombing Victim (used with a reference photo from Save the Children, with permission from the photographer), acrylic on canvas.
#art #arte #kunst #pintura #painting #portrait #retrato #peace

El Mecánico, acrylic on plywood.
#art #arte #kunst #artist #fineart #painting #blueskyart #pintura #portrait #retrato
#oaxaca #mexico

Dogs are the best. Full stop.

A couple more painted hand-hewn wooden troughs (from Miahuatlan, Oaxaca).
#art #arte #kunat #popart #corn #maiz #painting #illustration #pintura #mezcal #Oaxaca #mexico

Portrait of Don Ranulfo: Master Mescal Maker, acrylic on handmade paper. I met Don R through a friend’s grandmother, Doña Cristina, whom I befriended when she was 104. She drank Don R’s mescal everyday, and lived to 107.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #portrait #retrato #mezcal #mescal #oaxaca #mexico

El Rancho de las Tías, acrylic on MDF.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #farm #cows #dog #chickens #goats #oaxaca #mexico

An untitled piece in the Oaxacan food theme, I painted at a downtown museum, for a group show/on-site public painting project invitational— for artists who had previously shown at MUPAL, acrylic on illustration board.
#art #arte #kunst #popart #illustration #foodie #tlayuda #Oaxaca #mexico

Revenge in the Ruins, acrylic on handmade paper. From my early yrs in Mexico, trying to wrap my head around all the conquistadors’ churches built on pre-Columbian ruins, while drawing artifacts I found on my hikes.
#art #arte #kunst #pintura #painting #archeology #illustration #Oaxaca #mexico

Late night drawing practice, while nervously listening to more news of sadness and insanity. Pilot G-Tec-C4 &BPT-P on Canson bristol illustration paper.
#drawing #sketch #sketchbook #illustration #art #dibujo #cat #skateboard #oaxaca #mexico

Three figures holding hands—left: a woman with an embroidered blouse from Huautla de Jiménez with a handblown glass shot glas for a head, middle: a man with white pants and shirt and a reddish bandana with a mezcal bottle for a head (label that says mezcal with an agave plant), right:a woman who also has an embroidered blouse from Huautla de Jiménez, and a long skirt, with a slice of lime for a head. Top of painting has a banner with the text, and below that, a string of papel picado—the cut paper banners used to adorn Mexican celebrations.

Don Rostro de Pomo te Promete Recuerdos Magicos de Oaxaca, no Cruda/Mr. LiquorBottleHead promises you Magic Memories of Oaxaca, not a Hangover. Acrylic on handmade paper.
#art #arte #kunst #popart #illustration #mezcal #mescal #papelpicado #foodie #travel #oaxaca #mexico

Portrait of an Istmeña, acrylic on a hand-hewn wooden trough (traditional craft from Miahuatlan).
#art #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #portrait #retrato #IstmoDeTehuantepec #oaxaca #mexico

An acrylic painting of a chicken drumstick dripping with mole negro as the head of a woman in traditional dress from Huautla de Jiménez, a man with a quesillo head with a striped shirt, orange-yellow pants and huaraches, and a woman in traditional blouse and skirt from el Istmo de Tehuantepec with a corn cob with its husk open as a head. In the bottom left corner, there is a grasshopper—a traditional Oaxacan snack—eaten toasted and with lime and chile—above the signature.

Somos Oaxaqueños. Sin la Comida Oaxaqueña, nos Moriríamos./We are Oaxacans. Without Oaxacan food, We Would Die, acrylic on handmade paper. If you know Oaxaqueños, you know what I’m talking about.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #popart #illustration #pintura #mole #quesillo #maiz #foodie #oaxaca #mexico

Memories of San Juan Chamula, acrylic on plywood.
#art #artsky #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #portrait #acrylicpainting #travel #Chiapas #mexico

The Flower Seller, acrylic on handmade paper.
#art #arte #artsky #WomenInArt #painting #kunst #portrait #retrato #travel #oaxaca #mexico

Cartel de Turismo Oaxaqueño, Linocut and woodcut print—inspired by vintage travel posters.
#art #arte #kunst #printmaking #linocut #woodcut #xilografia #illustration #travel #oaxaca #Mexico

More drawing practice from an old photo. (The head didn’t fit, so I added a squat cat head).
#sketch #sketchbook #drawing #dibujo #art #illustration #cat #portrait

La Vendedora de Jugo Verde, acrylic on corrugated tin.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #birds #VintageToys #Oaxaca #Mexico

Portrait of an inquisitive toddler in a yellow dress, with her finger on her chin, looking up at the camera.

The Brown Eyed Toddler (Chacahua,Oaxaca), acrylic on wood. I painted this in the early 2000s, from a shot taken with my first digital camera. I don’t think this sweet girl had ever seen either a camera or a foreigner.
#art #artsky #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #portrait #retrato #Oaxaca #Mexico

La Chica Enamorada, acrylic on handmade paper. Her traditional dress is from el Estado de Mexico. The flowers— azucenas, are a wild lily that grows in the hills in Oaxaca, after the rains of summer are in full force.
#art #arte #artsky #WomenInArt #painting #kunst #portrait #travel #oaxaca #mexico

La Familia, acrylic on paper.
#art #arte #kunst #portrait #retrato #LatinAmericanArt #ArteLatinoamericano #illustration #Oaxaca #Mexico

Hang in there, Doña Cabeza de Papel Picado! (Hang in there, Mrs. Cut Paper Banner Head!), acrylic on scrap wood.
#art #popart #arte #kunst
#illustratiion #papelpicado
#Oaxaca #Mexico

Best to play it safe, and never leave your house without your frog suit on.

Amen to that! Aida is one in a gazillion!

From my early years in Mexico—The Wedding, acrylic on handmade paper, depicting the tradition where wedding guests dance with their gifts after the ceremony, in a procession from the church to the house of the festivities.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #illustration #wedding #Oaxaca #Mexico

An acrylic painting of a landscape with two women carrying agave plants on their heads, two seated drunk men and half the body of a drunk man passed out, in the bottom right corner. A church on a hill is in the background, in front of a bank of clouds, on the top middle-right side.

En la Tierra de Mezcal, acrylic on plywood.
#art #arte #kunst #painting #pintura #portrait #retrato #mezcal #mescal #agave #landscape #Oaxaca #Mexico

The dogs are scared of the fireworks, typical of all Mexican Catholic fiestas, so the UFO is beaming them up and out of their misery.

Oaxaca in a Dreamscape, acrylic on plywood.
#art #arte #kunst #surrealism #painting #WomenInArr #pintura #illustration #birds #cat #dog #Oaxaca #Mexico