Just picked up the first 3 framed canvases for the show. These are the smaller of the collection at around 24×36 ea. Always cool to see them all finished and printed up. Along with the other 8 pieces in the works, is a giant 8×9 ft mural collab that Allen and I are working on. Super excited about that one. I’ll post all the progress shots after the opening.

Gott Damn! The ‘God’s and Monsters’ opening is breathing down my neck. I’ve been busting ass non-stop to finish up the final pieces for the collection. The large format, canvas pieces completed so far have come our incredible and I can’t wait to unveil everything I’ve had in the works for the past month! I thought I’d start putting up a some sneak peeks as it gets closer to the show. See below for some cropped shots to wet your appetite and stay tuned for some behind the scenes action and pics of the framed canvas, new shirts, stickers, koozies and more when they come in! Hope to see everyone at the opening on Sat. Dec. 12th!

Gods & Monsters Art Show: Pale Horse and Allen Hampton from Pale Horse Design on Vimeo.

I’ve got a new piece in an exhibit called “Type Riot” opening this Friday (the 2oth) at a new space called Roundhouse Gallery that just opened up down the street from Pale Horse. I’m stoked to show a piece completely focused on typography for this one. If you are in the area, come by, check it out and say hi.

Dates: Exhibit – Friday, November 20th, 2009 – Friday, December 18th, 2009
Opening reception: Friday November 20th, 2009
Time: 7PM – 10PM
Location: 689C Dr MLK Street North, St Petersburg, FL 33701
Cost: FREE FREE FREE to all

Exhibiting artists include, Phil Holt (Tampa), Bask (St. Petersburg), Jason Vivona (San Francisco), Jeff Srsic (Tampa), Blackbooks (Miami), Pale Horse (St. Petersburg), Tes One (Tampa), James Whittinghill (St. Petersburg), Davey Montooth (Saint Petersburg), Frank Strunk III Saint Petersburg), Joseph McCue (Saint Petersburg), Daniel Cassaro (New York) and Johnny Vitale (St. Petersburg).

Props to my man Jeff Srsic of RedLetter1 for the killer work on my completed tattoo sleeve! He just put the finishing touches on it yesterday, so I thought I’d put up the completed work so you can check it out.

Iron Fist just release my new werewolf platform shoe called ‘Wolfbeater’ This one is a killer follow up to the incredibly popular ‘Zombie Stomper’ shoe we created together previously. These are now available at the Iron Fist website. Go grab a pair for yer ol’ lady!

Also, from Iron Fist! My ‘Tokyo Lights’ jacket is also now available. This was a fun project where I got to mix in some photos that I took while in Japan last year. The sublimation printing on this is amazing. I don’t know how IF pulls off the printing on these, but I’m glad they do! Pick one up here.

Thanks to fellow Tampa Bay artist/designer Joe Boccia of Arkkive 440 for sending over this motion graphics teaser for the God’s and Monsters Exhibit. This show is coming up so fast! Hope everyone can make it out for the opening! It will be good to see all the familiar faces again. I know it’s been too long since we’ve hosted an exhibit at the ol’ Pale Horse. I’m planning to show 10 new pieces, 2 collabs, an 8×10 ft. Pale Horse x Allen Hampton wall mural, as well as launch 5 new shirt designs at the show and online. Damn, that’s a lot of work. What was it thinking? Guess, I won’t be sleeping much for the rest of this month. Oh well, Sleep when you die, I guess.

Gods and Monsters Teaser from Joe Boccia on Vimeo.

This weekend I turned 31 and getting old in general sucks. Your back starts to hurt and gray hairs start to creep into your winter beard. Good thing I sit in front of a computer all day so I don’t overexert myself too much.

But recently I’ve been reading up on the philosophy of Bruce Lee and the Tao of Jeet Kune Do. I’m learning to “empty my mind, be shapeless, be water” like the master. I’m probably closer to room temperature margarine right now. Baby steps.

But birthdays aren’t so bad when you have friends like mine.

Angry dragon sushi:

Me and Casey with werewolves:

Shitty beer and weird leopard/tiger/bear stuffed animal prizes:

My boy, Achilles, ripping its face off:

My girl got me these numbered, signed and framed Usugrow and Alex Pardee prints from Upper Playground:

Then, I ended the weekend with ice cream cake with the fam. I’m a lucky man!

So, I finished up the artwork, printing, cutting, painting and mounting for my Dean Guitars “Six String Masterpieces” custom guitar. Here are some shots of the steps I used to get the artwork on the guitar. Turned out pretty good I think. Can’t wait to see it after Dean gives it a factory clear coat and installs all the knobs and pick-ups!

Cutting out the printed artwork and masking off the white guitar to be painted.

If it ain’t black it’s whack!

“Z-gel” clear acrylic makes for a great archival adhesive for inkjet prints.

Exacto-blading out all the little holes for the knobs and areas for the pickups.

Ready to deliver to Dean for the finishing touches!

Had a killer weekend that began with the the “Dark Art 3″ opening in Ft. Myers, FL on Friday night. Shout-outs to Curse Mackey (shown below) for having me in the show. If you are going to be in the area, check out the closing party on October 17th during Zombicon. Click here to see more photos from from the opening.

On Saturday I got to check out the TES ONE Solo Exhibit “Repeat Offender” at RedLetter1 in Ybor City, FL. Congrats to Leon “Tes One” Bedore. The new collection looked amazing! I took a few shots of the opening that you can see here.

After the TES ONE opening on Sat. Michelle and I headed over to the legendary Tampa metal bar “The Brass Mug” to see the Swedish metal band “BURST”. It was their first and last show ever to be played in Florida as they are calling it quits after this tour, so it was obviously a must see show! If you’ve never heard “BURST” check them out here. Click on “Where The Wave Broke” and see what I mean.

Last night (Sunday) I got a text from Curse Makey to come out to Ybor again to hang with the epic, way over the top, alien, metal gods GWAR! The show or “Lust in Space” the musical – as they call it was insane! I snapped a couple pics back stage. Check ‘em out below.