November Park 89 blog

Rusty Metal Tutorial

2011-02-26T03:29:00.000-08:00

This is for a friend of mine, but anyone is welcome to use this tutorial as a reference if you'd like. This was done in photoshop so it's not as amazing as paint but this should get my point across..

Btw, on box number two instruction, it's "Get a thick* base metal..." not think... :P

We are stronger than Death

2010-08-19T20:01:00.000-07:00

HAPPY BIRTHDAY STACEY! I LOVE YOU SIS!

15 x 18

Acrylic on Wood

Seven Gates to Perfection: in process 1

2010-08-18T04:25:00.001-07:00

The first gate has opened. now 6 more to open.

New Series of 7 works: "Seven Gates to Perfection"

2010-08-17T05:49:00.000-07:00

As much as I am a spoiled bastard who are in awe of lust, gluttony, greed, sloth, wrath, envy, and pride, I continuously search for what I've been missing this whole time, me. How many time will I have to run away from my self so that I could lie to myself over and over? How many times have I turned my face away from God? Why must I feel this emptiness within me when I'm alone when I know I have a family and closest friends? As I began on my new series of art works last week, I have begun a journey to look for my self as individual and to find true happiness within my self.

Ever since the beginning of August, I realized that I've depended on my happiness with others and never understood how to be happy with myself.

As I struggled with my identity, a good friend shared this passage with me last Sunday.

Psalms 139:

^1. O LORD, you have searched me
and you know me.

^2. You know when I sit and when I rise;
you perceive my thoughts from afar.

^3. You discern my going out and my lying down;
you are familiar with all my ways.

^4. Before a word is on my tongue
you know it completely, O LORD.

^5. You hem me in—behind and before;
you have laid your hand upon me.

^6. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me,
too lofty for me to attain.

^7. Where can I go from your Spirit?
Where can I flee from your presence?

^8. If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I make my bed in the depths, you are there.

^9. If I rise on the wings of the dawn,
if I settle on the far side of the sea,

^10. even there your hand will guide me,
your right hand will hold me fast.

^11. If I say, "Surely the darkness will hide me
and the light become night around me,"

^12. even the darkness will not be dark to you;
the night will shine like the day,
for darkness is as light to you.

^13. For you created my inmost being;
you knit me together in my mother's womb.

^14. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;
your works are wonderful,
I know that full well.

^15. My frame was not hidden from you
when I was made in the secret place.
When I was woven together in the depths of the earth,

^16. your eyes saw my unformed body.
All the days ordained for me
were written in your book
before one of them came to be.

^17. How precious to me are your thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!

^18. Were I to count them,
they would outnumber the grains of sand.
When I awake,
I am still with you.

^19. If only you would slay the wicked, O God!
Away from me, you bloodthirsty men!

^20. They speak of you with evil intent;
your adversaries misuse your name.

^21. Do I not hate those who hate you, O LORD,
and abhor those who rise up against you?

^22. I have nothing but hatred for them;
I count them my enemies.

^23. Search me, O God, and know my heart;
test me and know my anxious thoughts.

^24. See if there is any offensive way in me,
and lead me in the way everlasting.

I looked closely and meditated and realized that everything that I've done was a plan written by God. And why? This plan of mine to become an artist and an art teacher, was it my plan to start and change it? Or was it God who wrote my destiny to begin with? Or is it he to use me to find the purpose of other's through his supernatural powers?

Although I was able to find the direction of the road that will lead me to become an artist and an art teacher through words of ancient texts, the conflict between me and my happiness was still in distress. The concept of my happiness and happiness through other's was continued to be questioned, "What does it mean for me to be happy? Is it through others or can I enjoy the fruit of life alone?" As I questioned myself in the midst of identity crisis, my dearest friend replied, "you can't be happy unless you are happy with your self."

As I reasoned my self against my unjust lifestyle, I came to a conclusion that I must face the seven conflicts within my self and relieve my self from it.

Each of the seven conflicts I must face will soon be represented in a form of art as one series: fear, guilt, shame, grief, lies, illusion, and earthly bound.

The journey of finding my self starts by holding my paint brush high and uncover the secrets and decease my seven conflicts with every brush stroke starting by knocking on the gates of my conflicts:

- First, how can I let go of my fears to be secure?

- Second, how can I relieve my guilt to be pleased?

- Third, how can I surrender my shame to find strength?

- Fourth, how can I relinquish my grief to love?

- Fifth, how can I recede my lies to become truthful?

- Sixth, how can I diminish away from illusions to see?

- Most importantly the seventh, how will I be able to detach my self from the earthly bound to be pure?

After then, will I be able to find my happiness of individuality? And most importantly are you, the readers happy with your self?

lol?

2010-08-17T05:45:00.000-07:00

How cliche of me :P

Michael Kutsche

2010-06-18T20:21:00.001-07:00

Brilliant conceptual artist. first i began to wonder if his works are photoshop. but... NAY! twas the magic of acrylic and oil! He was also the character designer for alice in wonderland (2010) film. if interested, take a look at his works at his website linked below.

http://michaelkutsche.com//

Hot

2010-06-16T17:54:00.000-07:00

I've recently been interested in photography. as u can see on my website, i've upleaded few new photo works :)

2010-05-27T05:37:00.000-07:00

Study of female body position

Study of texture and multiple different layers of medium.:Pencil, matte medium, water color, and acrylic

Mark Ryden

2010-05-25T22:43:00.000-07:00

The man who keeps his hand's dirty

2010-05-10T01:39:00.001-07:00

All in the Open - David Choe “Nothing to Declare” Exhibition from hypebeast.tv on Vimeo.

Artist of the month: Valentin Fischer

2010-05-10T01:26:00.000-07:00

http://www.valentinfischer.com/

What can i say... This is art

2010-03-01T22:15:00.000-08:00

Creative thinkers are brilliant minds. but what category does this go to?

Nope. you got it all wrong.

2010-02-25T02:10:00.000-08:00

Oh yeah and another thing...

2010-02-23T21:38:00.001-08:00

My blog site is the only place that will show my artworks in high quality. This work is called "Trail of Entity"

Passion to find the love of your life is an adventure. But, before you do that, you need to find yourself of who you "really" are first. If you can't define your self as a person, look at your self and not others.

Connection Destruction

2009-10-29T12:49:00.000-07:00

9 NEW WORKS AND DONE!

2009-10-23T01:48:00.000-07:00

9 more to go

2009-10-15T17:45:00.000-07:00

"Mommy! Look! I'm flying!"

"Talk to me when you're honest"

"Killing Me"

"Go Back"

"Carnival"

Dangerous Walk

2009-10-09T13:02:00.001-07:00

Let me tell you something funny, I like...

2009-10-09T12:59:00.000-07:00

Fly me to the moon

2009-10-07T14:17:00.000-07:00

Die Pretty

2009-10-06T09:53:00.000-07:00

Kings of Convenience

2009-10-05T15:57:00.000-07:00

Their new album in 5 years!

Their actual music video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VZLC8YFmj8

3 in one

2009-10-05T13:57:00.000-07:00

"Southern Weather"

"Mad Pianist"

"Little Miss Weekend"

JAPANESE!

2009-10-03T20:24:00.000-07:00

HAHAH OMFGWTFBBQ!
it's amazes me how my name was recognized through an actor named Joon Park (from Speed Racer and Dragon Ball Revolution) in Japan and Korea.

My friend was looking through my stuff online and found this

http://headline.w-b-4.com/?eid=697

interesting....

it says "okay so this is kinda it... this guy was looking up a movie dragonball evolution and like he looked it up somewhere and he came across this and he liked it"-translated by Rae Maria Siedman's Roommate.

Finding the light in pitch black.

2009-10-03T13:53:00.000-07:00

Down town Sacramento. too much memories i have in this boring place. Is it me? or is it the mess that surrounds us? I have seen this world in a dark chaotic manner while growing up. until last summer, people i've met through my miles of adventure, I was able to find hope and light of the world.

Yesterday, i've met a hitch hiker around my age, and he shared his marvelous adventure meeting new people, one so dark and one so loved. i shared with him my experience of hitch hiking. and definitely we both agreed that our love for the kindness of people changed through adventures of the road.

God speed Aaron!

i forgot which state he was from... but the coolest hitch hiker i've met so far! we gave him soo much money and saw kindness in our heart, he wanted to take the grey hound back home to once again see his family.

Waiting for the phone to ring

2009-09-28T12:00:00.000-07:00

Last

2009-09-25T20:59:00.000-07:00

Amor Insistente

2009-09-23T10:27:00.000-07:00

Where did you go?

2009-09-22T16:28:00.000-07:00

fun with 25 panels 5

2009-09-22T13:10:00.000-07:00

Gr... i need to reinstall photoshop.. any ways i finally got 1/25 pieces done hahah.

"Where Did You Go?"

Muther Fucker Buzz the Light Year ~

My foot

fun with 25 panels 4

2009-09-20T02:39:00.001-07:00

All i did was sand the edges and spray painted the sides with white. and guess what? my white spray can died on me, wood dust loves to get in my eyes, and got high off of the fumes of the spray can..

have a good day.

fun with 25 panels 3

2009-09-18T19:47:00.000-07:00

Life is mysterious as it is and so beautiful. Life is filled with adventure and live to see what's it about.

fun with 25 panels 2

2009-09-16T18:46:00.000-07:00

How many asians does it take to fix a car? even there were 4, they couldn't fix it... actually i should say Me, my dad, and two others couldn't fix it... and for those who thought this was a joke, it's not... I got a pretty farmers tan from it. XD

fun with 25 panels

2009-09-15T22:36:00.000-07:00

Someone very special visited me today while painting. She claimed to be my number one fan, I double checked.. and she was!

here is what i have done today.

My Dae Woo Lanos BITCHES!!

personally gesso-ing all 25 panels and sanding them is the worst part of painting on wood.. but oh my goodness, oh how i love painting on wood!

LONG TIME NO SEE!

2009-09-13T20:58:00.000-07:00

HELLO THAR
I realized that i havent uploaded anything yet. so here is couple line of works I got uped. I have a new show coming up on november and december, come check it out at novemberpark89.com :)

SERIOUS BUSINESS!

2009-04-28T18:45:00.000-07:00

Good Bye wall.. I'm gonna miss you.

This is a private mural(my garage) tribute to my biggest influences David Choe, Jeff Soto, Audrey Kawasaki, Blaine Fontana, and Joe Sorren.
I ran out of black and wolf grey... so my patience will be tested.

Testing: Montana 94

2009-04-18T22:13:00.000-07:00

Holy mother of pearl!! this can will not let me down!!

My photographer. He's scary and adorable like a bear.

After years of krylon I am simply amazed at the quality of montana94

MONTANA 94

2009-04-15T23:13:00.000-07:00

HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT! the quality of this spray paint is amazing and easy spray control

Just a simple sampler with black and white.

Progress 5

2009-04-09T22:50:00.000-07:00

I finished this piece and hoping for a good weather tomorrow so that I can take high res picture

day before finalization

Progress 4

2009-04-07T22:24:00.000-07:00

Sorry for the shitty quality...

Progress 3

2009-04-04T08:09:00.001-07:00

through out the week I had many things to think about. some came down to conclusion of desperate change of life style. some not..

I'm almost finishing up the painting.

progress 2

2009-04-02T15:52:00.000-07:00

I'm exhausted.. I may need 2 or more days to finish this piece

Hello thar miss lady!

2009-04-01T22:02:00.000-07:00

I am currently working on a new series of artworks. it's weird because I have never been so consistent with me painting.

Buh... I'm very excited to come up with new line of works.

here's a little taste of what I've been up to..

DIRTY HANDS

2009-03-15T15:56:00.000-07:00

DAY1: Friday the 13th

Arden fair mall's cold stone. thx for the free icecream!

2 hours later I finally arrive at Emeryville to meet up w. dirty

fuk! best bathroom

Fo Shizzle bitchez!

lulz

Photo Art 1

Photo Art 2

showing "Dirty Hands: art and crime of David Choe" at Castro Theater.

I took pictures with Harry Kim, the director of Dirty Hands

Dirty Taking pictures with Dirty Hands director

FUK YEAZ!

ACID TRIP!

OH SHIEET!

2009-03-12T21:16:00.000-07:00

I've been a big fan of juxtapoz, and holy shiieieit mother of baby jesus!
I'm featured in their reader art!

go here

http://www.juxtapoz.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5595&Itemid=1

CUTE

2009-02-17T12:05:00.001-08:00

*This is not my art*
I thought this was bad ass.
credit goes to Wilhelm Steahle
hahah

OMG IM SOO!

2009-02-10T22:39:00.000-08:00

HYPED UP FOR MY NEW WEB!!

http://novemberpark89.com

Fly Dive:complete

2009-01-18T14:47:00.000-08:00

Mr. Joe Benson<--->Me
I keep my clients happy!

Fly Dive: right shoe complete

2009-01-14T18:00:00.000-08:00

Dear Mr. Joe Benson, your right shoe is complete. you sir, are a very lucky man. you will soon own the first of YA™ Shoes designed by Mr. Joon Park. Your left shoe is at work.

Detail

detail

First blog and first art works of 2009

2009-01-14T11:04:00.000-08:00

"Please Don't"
6"x6"

Finished mural
I don't like it much but people seems to like it alot..

Detail of Nam Dae Moon

process 3..

2008-12-31T22:29:00.000-08:00

Here, started all over.

Merry New Years Eve

mural process2

2008-12-30T16:21:00.000-08:00

my client did not like the way it was going.. well he thought it was too busy. im in a current position of painting it all white.

mural for Robinson's Tae Kwon Do, at fair oaks.

2008-12-24T20:17:00.000-08:00

Drivin my shitty Daewoo!

Every time I see this, it made me wanna throw up...

Look at this shit... fuk its soo bad that it looks like a blind kid painted it.

Lets gets starts

Cheeze!

This is where I stopped for today.

dear David Choe.

2008-12-22T11:08:00.001-08:00

Dear David Choe,
I bet ur thinking "DAMN THIS IS AMAZING! WHO HAS THE FUKIN BALLS TO PAINT MY WHALES!??"

yes.. only I can paint ur whales with giagantic orgy.

That was my way of talking. this all translate to-> "you have influenced my 2008 art works"

"Whale for Whanted"
earlier version

"My gold chain and I"
Just rescent version of dave's whale

30 seconds of fame..

2008-12-09T13:55:00.000-08:00

my shits were shown in tv for 30 sec..

lolzo..

Caravaggio's "Sacrafice of Isaac"

2008-12-09T13:03:00.000-08:00

I'm in a process of learning Caravaggio's techniques..

1. painted burnt umber and mars black
2. sketch with chalk pencil.

3. black on the black areas..

on a process of painting a sheep.

fuk...

study

2008-12-04T11:37:00.000-08:00

I havent uploaded any thing in a loooooooooong time.

aud..

2008-11-25T11:42:00.000-08:00

workin my way up through contrast and value..

Aud Kawasaki

2008-11-16T20:06:00.000-08:00

Alright! new piece coming up! this is a study of Aud's painting

arghghgh

2008-11-04T11:11:00.000-08:00

Im almost there... dunno how much more...

LITTLE BIG PLANET

2008-10-29T22:23:00.000-07:00

I've been playing all day! holy shit! best game ever!
I think i've got a new influence!

UpDaTes!

2008-10-28T11:37:00.000-07:00

Finished!

Not yet... just need to work more on the arms and few flowers..

Up Da Tes 2

2008-10-23T11:15:00.000-07:00

wtf... I've been hella slow lately... it's takin fukin way too long for me to paint this..

Up da tes!

2008-10-21T11:11:00.000-07:00

Comments??

Update on current works..

2008-10-16T11:26:00.000-07:00

Obviously David Choe influence.. if you don't know who david choe is.. then fuk u and shame on you!

"Money Trouble"

Detail of "Classy Geisha"

I've been workin a littlebit more on this piece!
Claire!! ur gonna start an art blog just like mine! and update it atleast twice a week! It goes to all of my art friends..

"Classy Geisha"

2008-10-14T11:43:00.000-07:00

Alright Claire... stop bitchin like a geisha and paint me! look how awesome my golden shits are!

Current..

B4..

my second all oil painting!

2008-09-25T22:26:00.000-07:00

For some reason... I was able to finish this piece fast.. usually with acrylic it may take be 2 weeks to one month. I probably spent about 12 hours; 3 hours each day..

I was drawing on my sketch book while listening to coldplay's "talk" and form some reason I had this weird connection, an urge to create!! I came up with more interesting figures, and drew my "YA" robot :P

ny ways I had fun painting this shit!

"Thumbs Up" starring David Choe and Harry Kim

2008-09-25T22:23:00.001-07:00

It was awesome how they filmed them selves across America. Their experience opened a window to see the true American soil... ya know wut I mean?

I haven't blogged in a while..

2008-09-25T22:15:00.000-07:00

hey guys, wuts up?

I just recently started college, and it's so far the most boring experience of my life. I've been feeling a little bit down spiritually; having conflict with my own thoughts.

Today, I was lookin around youtube and I found some nifty stuff. It's about this one awsome asian and a big deal artist dude, David Choe and his cousin road trippin.

Interested?? then start with episode 1!

Goodies or... I could say goodie..

2008-08-01T11:09:00.000-07:00

I couldn't sleep last night... then I thought "with all the time I could spend, I could explore my deepest thoughts!!" So I adventured through my room to pick up my trusty sketch book. writing few notes here and there and BAM!!.. and then there was painting.. till 5 am :D

I've been experimentin with GOLD!

Finishing of West and East

2008-07-21T14:25:00.000-07:00

These past couple days I've been paintin like crazy... workin day and night to finish these two.. been alot of stress jus so that five of my art works including these two could get into August art show.

Damn!! It looks good together

Finished "Azure Dragon of the East"

Paintin the arm

Finished "White Tiger of the West"

Today's Art party!

2008-07-17T20:44:00.000-07:00

Today's Progress

(JAWS THEME) BUM.. BUM...

BUM.. BUM.. BUM. BUM

Shit.... too late.

Group Project Progress

still needs works to be done.

It looks very good together.. (9?)

Simple outline!

Gardian of the West in progress

Works in Progress

2008-07-14T13:58:00.000-07:00

Starting on "Gardian of West".

Dirty finaly finished his figure.. now its my turn to work in the figure "Raijin" now.

It's almost done.. " Gardian of the East"

Work in Progress

2008-07-10T12:58:00.000-07:00

Stayed up til' 3 tryin to get to composition in place.. this is the outcome.

2008-07-07T15:05:00.001-07:00

worked more on the contrast of the painting.. and the eye movement.

Bobby is workin his magic again.. and im not voting for you any more Barack!

HAPPI 4TH OF JULY! in San Francisco..

2008-07-05T16:47:00.001-07:00

I had very good korean bbq

bery nice picture taken with a camera phoneAnother illegal picture..

I got kicked out of the Asian Museum.. so I checked out an art gallery 5 miles away from museum.

Everything looks better when they are on fire.

It's illegal to take pictures here... buh I did..

Fuujin;god of wind

Raijin;god of thunder

After japan town my fam n I headed towards Asian Museum; Exhibiting Ming Dynasty artifacts.

International Gallery!
http://www.tokaidoarts.com/
My first gallery visit in sf

Japan Town's some... chillin place... it was nifty

Paintings in progress

2008-07-02T12:50:00.001-07:00

now im cleaning up the edges and working my way down from the horn to the eye.

Bad Bob's dark swirly background
My asian clouds!
and dirty is starting to work in his figure!

Another day of painting party..

2008-07-02T11:39:00.000-07:00

Thats me workin on on my azure dragon.. so far I'm likin it!
This is my crew of artiststssts!

later during the day she joined us to paint. she is the classiest geisha you'd know!
This is Dirty Dan. im pretty sure he's a rapist buh... he likes gots paint!
This is a collaborated artwork, it his turn to do his part..
Here is Bad Bobby workin his magic for his sister.
and here is Barack Obama workin on his presidency...

Collabrated Art work...

2008-06-28T10:51:00.000-07:00

one last post for the day..

Now this is a collaborated art work with Bad Bobby, Dirty Dan, and I.

This painting is gonna be awsome..

Paintings in progress

2008-06-28T10:30:00.000-07:00

These are some of the paintings I'm working on..

This is one piece is based on Chinese constellation; Azure Dragon of the East, Black Tortoise of the North, Vermilion Bird of the South, and White Tiger of the West.

I am super psyched about this piece. I thought it was gonna be too cool.. I jus need to make it more painterly.

Now this is a mural painting for my self... I was doing random stuff in the garage and next thing u know I pick up a brush and painted until I got bored... it been sitting there in my garage, untouched for a year! so began painting that little Muppet dude!

Movies...

2008-06-28T10:12:00.000-07:00

That movie with Angelina Jollie was just bad ass!!

But... the movie that moved me was Wall-E!

This movie was just too cute I gotta say... but thats not all, I was able jot down some ideas for my next painting because of this lovely movie. such as exploring new themes; man vs time, time vs itself.

For those who love art and art history, Check out the credits! It's a big surprise!!

HURRA!

2008-06-06T00:41:00.000-07:00

This is my first blog!