DIA DE TUS MUERTOS ART SHOW

MUERTO MOUSE

Hola amigos!
Sandra and I are curating a little Day of the Dead inspired art show this Friday October 29th in our favorite gallery: Galllery Subtext down in sunny San Diego.

Here's a link to a preview of some of the amazing art (I especially LOVE Sandra's paper mache calaveras):

http://subtextgallery.com/preview_ddtm.pdf

The show features 10 different artists from various cultural backgrounds who all happen have some sort of connection to the world of animation. The name of the show is DIA DE TUS MUERTOS which translates to DAY OF YOUR DEAD. The idea was to have every artist make the iconic Mexican holiday of "Dia de los Muertos" into their own muse.

The show features the art of:
Simon Varela

Rhode Montijo

Israel Sanchez

Gerald de Jesus

Amanda Visell

Martin Ontiveros

Lorelay Bove

Sadie Figueroa

Sandra Equihua

and little old me.

Hope to see you guys there! Here are some of my paintings...

SANTO NO MUERE

EL AMOR NUNCA MUERE

SKELETOR

ADIOS AMIGOS

SE BUSCA MUERTO O MUERTO

LA CALAVERA

El Abejorro Mostachon!

This image is for a CRI CRI tribute art book.

Don Gabilondo Soler "Cri Cri"was a famous composer of children music in Mexico. Many of his songs had really amazing and quirky characters. The song I chose was about a pissed off bee who stung people because he was pissed. And he had a mustache. Yeah, he was hard core.
Hope you guys like it...

La Calavera & El Valiente

*UPDATED

I was recently invited to participate in an art book based on the Mexican game of Loteria. Different Mexican artist will be doing their take on each of the iconic cards. I have always loved this game and even made my first CalArts film about it. I always wanted to do my take on all the cards but I think this will have to do for now.

Here's my first card: LA CALAVERA

Here's my secong card: EL VALIENTE

Carmen Got Expelled pilot!

Unfortunately our Disney pilot did not go to series. Hope you guys like it ;)

Carmen Got Expelled! PILOT from Jorge R. Gutierrez on Vimeo.

Lynda.com Mexopolis: Creative Inspirations

La Wicked Witch!

Here's a character design from a project I'm experimenting with. I usually don't design girls since that is Sandra's domain. But when I do get to design one, I try to make them really hot! Hope you guys like her :)

faces

Trying out some facial expressions on a new character I was playing around with.