Beauty & The Streets (Overture Vol. III)

Ashley in Moleskine

Jessica aka BunnyHarlow in Moleskin

Isa - charcoal and pastel

Study of Jessica - oil on paper

I'm Fighting Every War At Once And I'm Winning

You Don't Give People You Don't Love The Power To Destroy You

The World Is A Beautiful Place And I'm No Longer Afraid To Die

Beauty & The Streets (Time Lapse) from Luis Tinoco on Vimeo.

Beauty & The Streets is more than portraits of beautiful women, it's about the women depicted in the portraits. These women have their own stories, they're living their own struggles. They know pain, love, loss, loneliness, joy, they're strong women who know the meaning of empowerment, passion and freedom of expression of one's own self. They reject utterly sardonic platitudes and know inequality and deal with objectification and misogyny on a daily basis. They know the feeling of contempt for the status quo and subjugation of their freewill and rights. They know that freedom isn't free and that all that has been fought for will need to be taken with an iron fist and loud voice. They represent the voice of all the women who have fought for basic human rights and equality for hundreds of years. A voice that says "I want to live my life freely, peacefully and without judgment". A voice that resonates with the notion of true understanding hat the rights of women should have been standard and that this fight for basic equal rights should have been over a long time ago.

Since 2012 I've made it my mission to produce a body of work where my skills could be utilized to their full potential. I continue to push my limits and hope to explore further narratives and evolve with this series.

Beauty & The Streets is my way of making an otherwise ugliness in the world beautiful.

Previous posts. Prologue , Overture Vol. I , Overture Vol. II

Bombay Sapphire and Art Basel Miami have teamed up once again and are running a contest for artists to win a chance to show their work at Art Basel in Miami later in 2015. I need your help and your votes to win a spot and show the world my series "Beauty & The Streets". Voting is aloud once per day and is on until November 9th 2015 you can VOTE HERE search "Tinoco" in the search field.

Thank you so much for your vote and please help spread the word by sharing this with your friends, family and social network!

Raven - painted from life during Casey Baugh workshop

Rustin Cohle of True Detective

Stevie Wonder

Imperator Furiosa of Mad Max Fury Road

I often do some small portraits from movies for fun, along with commissions here and there. Above is a combination of them along with a painting I did while attending the painting workshop of Casey Baugh (at the top) I never posted it last year when I completed it.

Enjoy!

Still Lifes

Barnburner II - 10x10 graphite on Bristol

Barnburner I - 12x12 oil on canvas

Bianchi - 10x10 oil on circle canvas

Bubblegum - 12x12 oil on canvas

Sunday Afternoon - 10x14 oil on linen

Lucha - 9x12 oil on paper

Calavera 9x12 oil on paper

Hey everyone! Apologies for the inactivity lately, I've been busy on various projects. Hopefully you'll enjoy these paintings. These are all still life paintings I've done over the past several months and the Bianchi painting was in a show at Studio Gallery in San Francisco. I want to do more still life paintings soon since they can teach you a whole lot about proportion, value, color, perspective, etc. I highly suggest you try doing still life paintings whenever you can, it's a great challenge to paint or draw from life and a great way to help you improve your skills!

Enjoy!

Erase The Ones I Love The Most So I Can Bleed In Peace

"Erase The Ones I Love The Most So I Can Bleed In Peace"
16x20 oil on canvas

Come Join Me For A Sad Time

"Come Join Me For A Sad Time"
12x16 oil on canvas board

I haven't done a painting in a while with more flesh showing, and I've had this one lying around kind of half started, so i thought I'd just bang it out and used only natural hair brushes to get a more painterly/finished look. I tried my best to somewhat emulate Jeremy Mann's style backgrounds by accident using a pallet knife. Took about 2 sessions to complete. I hope you like it!

Ref: Boomie Suicide

Nieces' Presents

I painted these for my 2 nieces since they asked me to paint them some birds of paradise. I obviously couldn't say no to the, plus it gave me a chance to try my hand at applying my skills on some new subjects. Both are 8x10 oil on canvas board. Enjoy!

Beauty & The Streets (Prologue)

"Hiraeth" - 11x14 oil on canvas

"If Only I Could Break Down The System" - 16x20 oil on canvas

"Voice The Victory And Unlearn The Ways Of Self Defeat" - 14x18 oil on canvas

"I Was Born Make Mistakes, But I Ain't Scared To Take The Weight" - 14x18 oil on canvas

"For All Who Deny The Struggle, The Triumphant Overcome" -18x24 oil on canvas

"An intimate look at women in dirty/grimey places, showing that no matter where a woman is placed, the setting can be transformed. Like all things in nature, everything has an opposite. Black/ white, good/bad ugliness/beauty...the streets and it's ugliness, women and their beauty, that's one of the most honest truths of the world."
- excerpt from my original sketchbook notes

"I want to be a mystery to you, untouchable, a star all to myself, a galaxy away from your starved fingers"

- Emily Palermo

"If you're going through hell, keep going"
- Winston Churchhill

"Nobody can save you but yourself and you're worth saving. It's a war not easily won, but if anything is worth winning then this is it. Think about it. Think about saving yourself."
- Charles Bukowski

Previous posts: Overture Vol. I , Overture Vol. II , Overture Vol. III

Bill Murray

"Lost in Translation"
11x14 oil on linen

This painting was pretty damn fun to paint! I've been a Bill Murray fan for a long time, and when I was approached to do a piece inspired by him and his works, I was very stoked! Lost In Translation is one of my all time favorite movies, the fact that it has Bill Murray in it has a lot to do with that, so I thought I'd take a stab at painting him as his character "Bob Harris". It was a toss up between this, Groundhog Day, Ghostbusters and Rushmore. I might do one of those other ones some day...

This piece will be exhibited at the event: The Murray Affair: The Bill Murray Art Show
All the info can be found there, but the show is happening on August 8th in San Francisco at Public Works SF and I'm very exited about it!

Also the show is gaining hype on the internet from various sites online, here are 2 that feature my painting:

The Creators Project 

and The Reynolds Report
                                                   

Thanks to Ezra and Julie Croft for putting on the show and I can't wait to see what other artworks will be there!

"For a relaxing time, make it Suntori Time"

Portrait of An Artist

Portrait of An Artist
9x12 oil on canvas

This was a fun portrait for my long time friend. It was a gift for his birthday. I intended on painting a larger version of this back in 2010 in acrylics (which was my chosen medium back then) but i kept fussing with it and could never get the hang of it. Now that i'm more comfortable in my chosen medium of oils, I thought I'd give this another shot, and I really enjoyed the outcome!

Check my friend's music projects out as well! The Actress Not The Character

Cheers!

Nicolas Cage

9x12  - oil on canvas

This will be shown for one night only at this event: NICOLAS CAGE ART SHOW AND MUSICAL SHENNANIGANS It will be on Saturday, April 12, 2014 at 7:00pm at Balancoire in San Francisco. If you're in the area I suggest you check it out, it should be a fun time full of a bunch of different Nicolas Cage themed artwork.

Cheers!

Musa Mortis

Musa Mortis 14x18 -oil with gold leaf on canvas board

This was for a Gustav Klimt inspired tribute show in Los Angeles at 423 West Gallery.  It's on display now until March.

Recent Paintings

Top to Bottom:
Batman - 7x9 oil on canvas board
Dr. Seuss - 12x16 oil on canvas board
Krampus - 5x7 oil on canvas board
Larisa - 9x12 oil on paper

Thom Yorke

Thom Yorke
9x12 oil on canvas board

I wanted to stretch my art muscles a bit and attempt a portrait painting using only natural hair brushes instead of my usual combination of natural and synthetic. I gave myself a bit of a restricted palette of colors to work from also. I thought the final result came out quite well.

Stay Grim

Toska

'Toska'
9x12 oil on canvas board

*reference: Alle Suicide

Auggie

Auggie
11x14 oil on canvas board

A portrait I did for my friend of her late puppy. He was a rescue from the pound and was getting up there in age. I wanted to show my sentiments with something physical, as I feel sometimes, words can't do enough. It was my first time painting an animal in oils where I actually felt comfortable enough to make it be the sole subject. I think I got his likeness down and I also had an opportunity to work on my nature background skills. RIP little pup.

Stay Grim

El Alacran

'El Alacran'
5x7 oil on canvas board

My piece for Noche de Los Muertos show in Santa Barbara. The show's theme was Loteria, the Spanish Bingo-like game. I chose the number 40 card El Alacran (The Scorpion). I couldn't make it to the show in person, but I saw photos and heard from the curator that it was a great turn out.

Cheers!

Marilyn Rondon

Marilyn Rondon
9x12 oil on canvas board

A portrait of the awesome Marilyn Rondon aka Totally Stoked. I had the awesome chance to meet her when I visited New York for the first time in September of 2012. I had been following her work on Tumblr and Instagram (which is now unavailable). This painting was done sometime in February of 2013 but I never got a chance to get a good photo of it. Check out her work if you get a chance!

Enjoy!

Please Remember

9x12 oil on Arches canvas paper

reference: Dot Suicide

Paint Dump 2013

Colleen

Julie
Naomi
Phoenix Suicide

Natalie

Stephanie
**all oil on A4 paper
Deathblow - 7.5x10 oil on moleskine paper

All of the above are studies I did in about 3 hours or so. It was a great learning experience for me. I found better use of muting down colors and achieving more realistic color tones and I liked experimenting with brighter and newer colors. On to more painting!

Enjoy!