52"x 52" in progress

as some of you know, we have moved to house in Hollywood and I am using our back room for a studio space. Things have been working out well and I am getting back into painting larger pieces.
The 'group cityscape' show is up until the end of the month at SGFA and I have other shows planned for the Fall as well as the Art Fairs in the Winter. So, lots to look forward to. I am also teaching all Summer at various places both privately and publicly. Please contact me directly if you have any interest regarding classes.

Ok, another video and then I will stop wasting everyone's time and get back to painting. I love the Trader Joes.

My buddies The Pressfire ( T.P.F ) have released their long awaited E.P. Es Slash Tee. its out of this world.
www.myspace.com/thepressfire

The Lone Wolf (Album Trailer) from Sum Patten on Vimeo.

And here are some video clips of some friends of mine that are awesome. I know Jesse ( Belief) from camp. Camp! His new album is finally being released-'Sum and Belief are the Lone Wolf.' good stuff!

And of coarse kate micucci. She's so famous now that CNN has called. Garfunkel and Oates 'sex with ducks'. enjoy. the videos, not ducks.

The Group Cityscape show is up at SGFA and it looks good! I am in the South Gallery with Kim Cogan which is pretty sweet.
There is a review that is out in Artscene that can be viewed in its entirety at
http://artscenecal.com/Articles.html. an excerpt:


Scott Yeskel seems to incorporate elements of all the above artists--that is to say that he is stylistically all over the map. For example, “Her Old Mercedes Benz” is a monochromatic, somewhat ghostly, greenish-ochre composition that can be seen as a portrait of a shiny status symbol that has been consigned to oblivion, like a fading starlet. Then again, he creates a visual wild ride in “Inner Coastal,” an abstract impressionist painting dominated by brilliant oranges and red, with touches of blue and black that convey an ambiguous melding of water and sky, with perhaps a road in between. What matters is that this painting, along with “Bends,” “Transit Map” and “Last Bridges,” among others, departs from the lugubrious ghostliness that permeates paintings like “Taco Truck,” an over-mined and exhausted effect. While conventional wisdom holds that painters should focus on a signature style or subject matter, Yeskel thumbs his nose at consistency, and therein rests the appeal of his body of work.

thank you Daniella Walsh

I have been very busy moving! Therefore the lack of posts. I have also been getting ready for a group cityscape show at SGFA featuring Kim Cogan, Francis Livingston, Siddharth Parasnis and Duke Windsor


taco truck #5 20"x16" oil on wood panel framed
Hollywood Motel 28"x44" oil on wood Kim Cogan!

Siddharht Parasnis
Francis Livingston

thats me and Gary Ruddell at his recent opening at SGFA. nice guy! good show!
some work I did with my students, 1st is a collage of cut pieces of color swatches onto a cut-out of a magazine (above)
I also teach a class now called creative foundations. It incorporates a lot of 'found-object' art. The kids gathered pine cones and other organic materials. I then wrapped these birthday balloons around them to make 'Mama, Papa and Baby'.