The Award-Winning New Years Eve City Chicken Video

Posted on January 1, 2016 by portfoliolongo.com

ArtRage
This year Annyth and I were invited for the second year in a row to the Mendenhall Farm New Years Eve Celebration, and the challenge this time was to bring an appetizer – and an accompanying video – that represented our “roots and heritage.” We went with CITY CHICKEN and walked away with this year’s Best Short Video Award!

Annyth and I both have familial roots and heritage in Southwest Pennsylvania in City Chicken country. Not familiar with City Chicken? Then the following video will help you out:

The iLighter

Posted on December 17, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

I’d been thinking about this one for years.

So, I found a couple of public domain images on line and played around with them, i.e. photo editing, in Procreate and iColorama; and, if you scroll down below,I used VideoShop to tell the story behind all this:

And now, iLighter, the documentary.

This Year’s Christmas Letter…PLUS a free holiday music video for the first 10,000 visitors!

Posted on December 15, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

Enjoy this year’s letter! Last year, you may recall, the letter was h; but, there was no music. This year is different. Thanks for visiting, and all the very best to you, your family, and loved ones!

Procreate, Phonto, iColorama

Santa’s Mood, an original portfoliolongo.com holiday tune:

Videoshop

Standard Lobotomy: A 15 Sec. Animation

Posted on December 9, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

When we as Americans speak of our crumbling infrastructure, we focus on rusty bridges and other examples of tangible decay and neglect, and we tend to overlook the undesirable, long-term, and initially intangible effects on human capital precipitated by the steady erosion over time of investment in and support for public education.

Sketch Club, Photo Speak, Videoshop

Barber Pole, Main St., Merced, CA

Posted on November 30, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

Nutritional Products, 551 Main St., Merced., CA 95340

Procreate

My own iPhone photo.
Progress video (accelerated), click here.

Auto

Posted on October 24, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

Procreate

Progress video accelerated.

Another video, this one in PhotoSpeak by MotionPortrait.

Fall

Posted on September 27, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

Somewhere it must be like this somehow for some reason at least sometimes or maybe not.

Fall, the jpg, large, 3840 X 3840!

Sketch Club, iColorama, Procreate

Katrinaversary & St. Peter’s Cream Stout

Posted on August 29, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

Annyth and I picked up 2 prints from Cuba that we had framed and then stopped off at the 17th St. Pub for a beer and some take out from J&R Tacos. I had a St. Peter’s Cream Stout that I snapped an iPhoto shot of because I thought I might try sketching it once I got home. (Nuffs been said about the 10th anniversary of Katrina, which we experienced first hand…well while on forced evacuation via CNN.)

Procreate. Note: I partially traced over the label on a separate layer…only the label, the rest is a freehand sketch using the above mentioned photo reference, as shown in this progress video.

mDAC2015: Sketchy SKETCH CLUB Live Model Drawing Snippet

Posted on August 10, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

What a treat to have participated in the Mobile Digital Art & Creativity Summit in Palo Alto, CA this past weekend! And to have a piece selected for and shown at this event, beyond words!

First, I should have my head examined for doing that and posting this on the day before we’re moving across town! So let me get this up and posted before I take leave for a few days; I’ll have to keep this very brief and leave out 99% of what I learned and what went down that actually had an impact on me.

I’ll limit my comments to a session on day #2 of the summit: Figure Drawing with Live Model by Jeremy Sutton, founder of www.Paintboxtv.com featuring the illustrative Inky Bunny, live model. This was my fist try at SKETCH CLUB, which I had mistakenly identified as ArtRage, which I also like, by the way. However, now that I’ve uncrossed my wires, let me point out more explicitly that I fell in love with Sketch Club because of how gracefully I was introduced to it by Jeremy Sutton, a talented, generous artist and a master teacher. To have covered as much with so many in such a short period of time… well, I’m speechless!

Back to packing and loading! Back in a few days.

Cover Artwork: We Need to Talk, Fergus

Posted on August 6, 2015 by portfoliolongo.com

A couple of months ago I was asked by a friend, Josh, here in Merced, CA to create an iPad drawing for his group’s new CD, We Need to Talk by Fergus. Once I became familiar with the music and lyrics, I ran an idea by Josh. A dialogue and a few revisions ensued. Now that We Need to Talk by Fergus is available on iTunes, I’m pleased to share the image along with a 46-second video below exploring the evolution of the drawing and featuring a snippet of Track #9: Hold On, Let Go.