Godzilla Artwork from Carlos Valdivia

Happy Birthday Carlos!

Here's Carlos enjoying is birthday dinner of homemade Camarones a la diabla, by request, rice and beans. Oh hey! BEENZNRICE!

More of the dinner party:

 And of course a picture of the dinner plates. Everything was DELICIOUS!

Nohea Arabica Berry Hawaiian Mask

Carlos is very excited this morning because another packaging project he designed goes out into the market today! The product is Nohea Arabica Berry Hawaiian Mask. Here's more about it:

"A unique and luxurious Nohea Arabica Berry Hawaiian Mask is now available at a special online launch price of just $49.25 (50% off retail). Just click www.noheanatural.com and type in the code LAUNCH when you checkout. For gifts just say so in Special Instructions and we will wrap!"

Here's to more and more packaging projects!

Illustration Friday Topic: Spooky

Here's an old piece from Carlos. This was part of his Senior Thesis at Otis College of Art and Design. It's an illustration of the trenches from WWI. Spooky indeed.

Carlos has a new blog!

It's called a Face Per Day inspired by Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! Go to the blog here at: http://faceperday.blogspot.com/

Here's the opening to Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! If you've never seen it...

Beenznrice.com Re-Vamp!

What was I doing New Year's Day? Well, I had planned on starting the revamp of our website, but I ended up starting and finishing it, as well as finishing the entire holiday without even realizing it! I am quite happy with the current format of the site, and there are buttons to link to this blog, our Facebook fan page, and our twitter profile! Please check out the site and look around. I've added quite a few pieces, especially in the Paintings section!

Art Tour Stop 3: Leo Carillo and Explosions in the Sky

So some work from Leo Carillo will be coming soon, they are quick oil sketches, so I have to wait until they are dry enough to scan (don't want to ruin my scanner). Here are a couple of shots from Explosions in the Sky. Very low quality shots from my phone, but there was something about the abstract effect of the lighting along with the music that was very cool to me. So I thought I'd share.

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Illustration Friday: We both have contributions!

This week's topic was "Cracked" and we both had illustrations that went along with the theme. Here's the link to the Illustration Friday site, and our links are together on the left side: http://illustrationfriday.com/entrysubmit_p.php

To see the pieces individually, click on the following buttons:

Ian Fleming Band Poster featured at Spraygraphics Support Your Local Band Poster Show

This is Carlos' official first show after our senior show at Otis. His poster is shown here in Steve's Pics set on the spraygraphic page. Here's the link to see the other pics. http://www.spraygraphic.com/postershow

There were some really great designs here, and we're so happy to have been among them. Here's to more shows for Carlos in the future! Hopefully we can be at the next one!

Levi's Buttons in stores!

Carlos is very excited! The buttons he designed for Levi's through Nexgen Packaging are now in stores! More info to come, for now enjoy his terrible pictures of excitement! We are going to the Levi's store in Camarillo to check it out!

Carlos is featured in an Article for Create Now!

Hey everyone, Carlos and Beenznrice have been featured in an article for Create Now! Please check it out. Here's the link:

http://www.createnow.org/programs/mentoring.html

Carlos is showing art to Ignacio:

Welcome to Beenznrice Art and Blogspot!

So I thought for our first post, we'd display some of our work. Bigger things are coming, yes, much bigger things. Comments are very appreciated!