Daily project progress.
Dimensions.
I think Dimensions will officially be the name of the next solo show that I do if I can get everything together In 2025. I’ve been working pretty diligently this year making a bunch of new canvas pieces with a few in correspondence to the 3-D printed pieces for the show as well. Of course the venue and what time of the year will be really important to me. I’ve always had a vision of what I’ve wanted a perfect show for myself to look like but as to this point, I haven’t had one just like that yet. Sure, I’ve always been involved in shows where I was able to select what pieces I wanted into an extent depending on the theme and how many other artist were involved. The solo shows that I did have a little more control of I’ve never had a full series ready that I felt extremely strongly about showing. So hopefully this is the one, with a minimum of 40 pieces, All one body of work, All in one place.
Fully Vandalized. 2024
Well, here we are at the end of 2024 and my the mural I painted in 2021 has been fully vandalized. At this point, I look at it like it’s had a good run. It lasted 3 years without anyone significantly messing with it .For the most part I felt it brought a lot of color and visual vibrance if not to the community to 3rd street. Luckily, I’ll be repainting over this wall with a brand new design and different colors. If you want to see the full original image before it was vandalized, please visit the Work tab at the top of this page. Also, there’s a three-part video time lapse of me painting this on my YouTube. I’ll hopefully be starting this new painting in the next coming month before the new year. I’ll be posting the thumbnail or thumbnails I come up with on here so check back here soon if you’re interested in getting a better idea of what the image will be.
3d Printing with Everyday plastic bottles
Here’s my latest YouTube video and part two to my Re-Creator MK1 build. Hopefully this video helps out anyone who needs it who has been using the MK1 machine, but has had trouble producing any prints with the recycled bottle filament. I have one last video to do on this machine and that’s focusing on the plastic bottle cutter, which I had a bit of trouble getting to work. Also I’ll be printing a much bigger print out of recycled bottle filament. So stay tuned or subscribe to my YouTube if you want to see the final video on using this machine.
Animatronic Kirby Idea…
I’ve had this idea for sometime now to build a animatronic Kirby. This is the first draft or Schematic, I came up with. I thought it would be cool to have a Kirby that could actually blow air out of his mouth that would retract open and close. The idea would be to have the mouthpiece open up and expel air on a looped timing. The shell of his body wouldn’t take long to design or necessarily print and put together. But at this point, I’m still trying to get the mechanics down and make sure everything would work properly and the way I would want it to. Essentially, this would be a giant, powerful, moving Kirby fan. I’ll keep you posted though once I’ve started designing the shell ,check back here if you want to see where this goes in the near future.
Animatronic Spongebob Build pt1
I finally completed the first phase of building my Animatronic SpongeBob. I still have quite a ways to go, but I’m very happy with My overall progress on making this robot come together. I’m currently filming for the part two of this video out of a three-part series. The original design for this made was late last year. With my busy schedule, I’ve had to jump around on my various projects and return to working on this when I’ve had free time. With that being said, I’m gonna try my best to go full steam ahead with this the rest of the year! Please like and subscribe to my YouTube channel if you wanna see more of these kind of videos from me!
4 Canvases make one whole piece
Here’s a short video edit of one of my recent paintings. I’ve used 4 smaller 16x20 Canvases to complete the full piece. This is the 9th piece for my next solo art show i’m working on. Each piece from this series will be primarily made with spray-paint and an airbrush gun. The special thing about this series for me is i’m not producing a thumbnail, sketch, or any draft ideas before executing each painting. There’s a certain level of clarity i find when not constraining myself with my thoughts about how anything i’m painting should or shouldn’t look. I’m also in the process of building a complete custom box frame to showcase this piece. Stay tuned to see that. Digital prints are now available in my shop. If anyone is interested in a one of my original canvas paintings please drop me an email.
Recreator MK5 full build.
The Recreator MK 5 build is Finally complete. This machine can recycle most plastic water bottles into filament strands. I made an earlier post on this that I was going to build this out of my old Ender 3, which I’ve now completed in the full video above. I’ve seen very little instructional builds on this machine on YouTube and hopefully in the future there will be more. With that being said, there’s an entire 3-D print community working to make this machine more efficient and Discuss problems and solutions working with recycled bottled PET filament. Please watch and if you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment either below or on my YouTube channel. I have a few follow up videos coming to demonstrate how to use the machine and print with recycled bottle filament. Suscribe to my youtube channel if you would like to be notified.
Fontana Artshow
I finally had my first solo art show at Fontana’s Community arts Center, aka The Art Depo which is in Fontana California. For those of you who don’t know Fontana is a small city about 45 minutes east of downtown Los Angeles. The show ran from February 17, to March 16, of this year.
The majority of work displayed in this show was created from 2018 to 2020 with the exception of a few pieces. My original plan for this body work was to have a show in 2020 but with Covid and all the quarantine /lockdowns everything was postponed. With that I just committed myself to developing as much work as possible for the next few years. I have new work on the way as I’m still in the process of developing these style of paintings.
It was really important for me to be able to do a show with this gallery since I was born and raised in Fontana and had most of my experiences there that inspired me to do a lot of my artwork . I’ve Also participated in various city, art events doing live art, as well as displaying my art over the years. So I’m happy I was able to have an official solo show. It’s always been a great thing to me to be able to bring my family or friends out together in one place even if it’s just for an hour or for a day, especially when I’m displaying my art in my city. Thanks to anyone that came out and supported and thanks to my family and friends as well as the staff at the Art Depo and the city of Fontana.
Giant Bot head
Here’s my almost finished giant robot head. The original design for this was taken from a full-size robot that I’m actually working on. The structure itself is made completely out of wood and Petg filament. Using seven servo motors, the head is able to turn left or right. The eye lids are able to blink. Both eyes can look left and right. Last the eyebrows can swivel up and down in sync.
The brain of the robot is an Arduino Uno, which is a quite popular chip in the diy robotic community. An esp8266 chip is controlling the 2 led ring lamps in each eye. Colors and lighting effects can be changed through a Wi-Fi app that connects to the chip either from a phone or computer.
This project is far from finished though as there’s still a mouth that I’m designing and AI capabilities that I would like Integrate. Unfortunately, I didn’t make a full build video for this project, time was not on my side as this project was going to be displayed at (Coachella) this year 2024. I’ll post more updates here as I continue to work and make a new parts until this robot is finished.
Old Ender 3 Printer to Filament bottle recycle machine.
A few days ago I bought an old Ender 3, which is honestly newer than my five year old Ender 3. For quite some time I’ve seen a few different builds of machines modified to recycle pet G bottles on YouTube. Usable bottles include water, bottles, soda, bottles, etc, basic bottles you see In the public today. The picture on the left is the $50 used Ender 3 I bought off OfferUp a few days ago. The picture on the right is a completed version of the MK5 kit. This machine uses almost all the parts from an Ender three with some additional printed ones that have already been predesigned to fit. This should be a fun project to take on for the next few weeks so I can actually start saving money and recycling my bottles that build up instead of taking them to a recycling plant. Something tells me I’ll still spend money on commercial pet G if needed. But I’d love to cut my cost and start using old bottles to make usable filament. Stay tuned In the following weeks I’ll share progress, of how the machine is coming out.
3D PRINTED SHOWER SEAT
I finally finished a 3-D printed shower seat I made for my parents. Recently, my parents decided to renovate their Entire bathroom. I thought this would be a fun project to work on as well as getting to make something for my parents they need. The full design was made in Shapr3D on iPad and took about 150 hours to print on an Anycubric Cobra Max 3D printer. The seat was printed with 20% infill and was printed vertically. All measurements for this project we’re made from fold down railing for the seat which my father had already anchored in the shower wall. I also think this is a good introduction for me to start designing and printing, different types of usable furniture. I may have some different furniture designs in the shop at some point if I can come up with some cool designs. If you have any suggestions of pieces I should try to design and print. Please let me know in the comments below!
Finishing pieces from 2020 for a show in 2024!
There’s definitely a lot more of these paintings in my closet. During Covid I had plenty of time on my hands to work on different pieces. Ultimately I basically paused on this series not being able to have a show due to the lockdowns. So now I’m working on a bunch of different pieces to complete this series for a show solo show in 2024 ignore the pieces to the right of me. Those are for a separate show as well but more details on that later in 2024.
Welcome!
It all begins with an idea.
Welcome to my website! I’ve been working on the imagery and design for this website for some time now. I’m hyped its finally up and running. My goal with this website is to go more in depth into all the Art & 3D print projects I’m working on. All my social media sites will still be activate and will direct followers here. If your reading this thank you for being one of my first visitors and hopefully soon a customer.
