Blick Mini Art Show Fun Time Thing

Small update, not sure what you would call this, but Blick Art Store in Philadelphia has a local artist feature wall and this month I have a piece on it (as well as other Autumn Society members). Should be up for at least a month and possibly longer.

Pee-Wee Tribute Show

Hello all, here is the piece I did for the Gallery1988 Pee-Wee Herman Tribute Show. Before I started, I re-watched the movie to get inspiration and I had forgotten how much bike and dinosaur goodies are in it. Being a dinosaur and bicycle guy myself I just had to add them to my tribute piece. Its a five color screen print and is about 8.5" x 16". Look for it come August at gallery1988! Enjoy!

Doug LaRocca

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From Whence We Came Show Pic

Show turned out great! Thanks again Ryann for putting this together. The Show is up till August 10th incase you missed the opening. Still plenty of time to buy some great art for a great cause.

Studio update: A tad messy!

Typical of what my studio looks like mid project. I really enjoyed this project and relearned quite a bit about screen printing in the process. Very little frustration with this one, hopefully the next one goes this smooth. 

An Ocean life for me!

Hey all! Here's my new screen print for the upcoming Benefit show: From Whence We Came. It runs from July 8th to August 10th at Benna’s café (1236 South 8th ST, Philly) and is curated by Ryann Casey. The opening is Friday, July 8 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm. All proceed from the show go to the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society & Oceana. Please come out and help a good cause.

For More info visit:
From Whence We Came Facebook page
http://na.oceana.org/,
http://www.seashepherd.org/

Shell Shocked show pics!

Here are just a few pics of the epic Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle show. Thanks to Phillip Micheal for posting the pics (more at phillustration.com) and Brittney Schneck for bringing her turtle van!

Turtle Power!

Here is my piece for the TMNT tribute Show. Shell Shocked opens June 3rd at Brave New Worlds Comic shop from 6-9pm. Should be a good time, lots of good pieces so far.

This piece fought me a bit, I'm still re-learning how to screen print. Still I think it came out alright. Brave New Worlds is located 42 N 2nd ST, Philadelphia and is part of Old Cities First Friday. Hope to see you out there!

Success!

The 3B show opening was a couple nights ago and I guess it pretty well. Gallery1988 has asked me to be a part of some more upcoming group shows! Ever since their I Am 8-bit show a few years back it's been my goal to get my work in their gallery. Not only have I now done this but they asked me for more! I'm very happy to say the least. I think I'll have a celebratory bowl of Marshmallow Mattie's! While I'm pouring a bowl feel free to take a look a few picks from the show. More details of the upcoming shows soon.

3B show at Gallery 1988

I'm lucky to be a part of the upcoming 3B show at Gallery 1988. Beetlejuice, Back to the Future and Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure comprise the three B's. Its presented by The Autumn Society and so far from what I've seen, there are a lot of great pieces in it. The show opens May 5th and runs till June 3rd. These prints will be on sale at the gallery and on their website. For more info visit: http://www.nineteeneightyeight.com/

First post and studio!

So this is my first official post for what is to be my news and general info blog. And I guess the best way to kick things off is to post a couple pics of my studio (I feel like its the mandatory thing to to for any artist starting out a blog). Took some time but finally got it set up the way I want it. The next mission is to get stuff on the walls. If anything this will be a reminder of what a clean studio looks like cause I know it wont stay this way for long.