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With thoughts of Wayne Thiebaud’s pastries always close at hand, it wasn’t difficult to see the battle scene of robots retreating from 300-foot tall donuts when he went to bed that night.

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After a month or so of searching for a ‘nemesis’ he had an epiphany while watching the movie ‘Pleasantville.’ In one of the scenes, Jeff Daniels paints a still life of…donuts. By 2002 the paintings were looking good, but they still needed something to play off of… perhaps a nemesis. In attempt to bring them to life without loosing their charm, he showed them where they belonged: outer space. So, armed with a small collection of tin robots and spaceships he began painting them in earnest.

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Though all four series of these subjects were enjoyable to do, he chose to focus on the tin robots, as they were the most popular and seemed to have the most possibilities. Four series of paintings of different subjects were started they were: San Francisco urbanscapes, paintings of old newspaper cartoons characters, Mexican masks, and last but not least, Japanese tin (toy) robots. In 2000, after years of painting other people’s pictures, he made the decision to only paint things that he liked. Shows in other galleries, (usually group shows) were positive as well. In 1999, he started to enter various juried shows at Artisans Gallery in Mill Valley, CA. The next job, doing backgrounds for internet cartoons at Spunky Productions, for some reason, was not such a headache. A few years later, I took a job texture mapping and got to relive the learning/producing nightmare. The training was good though and still use some of the things I learned. Anyway, after 3 months of torture, I chose not to pursue animation.

annual show.ĭuring the recession of the early 1990s I took a computer animation assignment, not knowing mouse from a hole in wall…learning 5 programs at the same time and trying to meet deadlines may sound fun, but I don’t recommend trying it. In 1989 he won two gold medals in the S.F.S.I. The clients were educational publishers, high tech companies, card companies, magazine publishers and advertising agencies. Later, with influential teachers like Francis Livingston, Kazu Sano, Bill Sanchez and Robert Hunt, my illustration skills improved and soon was getting a few advertising jobs during his last semester at the Academy (mostly pen and ink and school book assignments).Īfter art school, he joined the San Francisco Society of Illustrators and participated in their annual shows, charities and Air force art programs. While there, I made a few friends and won some awards. So I left home (in Oregon) and attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco for four years. After winning a few awards, I knew I’d be attending art school. In high school, I spent most of my energy on drawing, painting and working in a lumber mill to save up for school.

Sometime in the first grade, classmates and teachers started to take notice of his work and eventually some of his paintings from the fourth grade class, along with some other students work, were chosen for an extended statewide tour. He remembers going to a huge Van Gogh exhibit as a child at the De Young in SF (and being very impressed) and taking painting lessons with his older sister at the local recreation center. When you meet Eric, of course you learn about his official story : borned in San Mateo, a suburb of San Francisco, his childhood was fairly uneventful, doing the usual things most kids did, reading comics (mostly Mad, Creepy, Eerie and newspaper comic strips), playing sports, and going to school, as well as drawing and painting. Today, I’m so happy to improve your contemporary artistic culture introducing to you the fabulous ERIC JOYNER!!! Remember the posts I wrote about Masha in Ukraine (she’s still currently living between air alarms and shelters), Gianpa the Italian, Noémie and Noir Mat the French painters – see the Across the Pond section) … You know that, when I don’t ride, I spend (lose?) a little time on social networks trying to find artists linked with the motorcycle world … and as I’m a lucky guy, I regularly meet amazing persons, mainly painters, living of their artwork. Story and Photos by ITN European Reporter Herve’ Rebollo.

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