2005.




One is in Colorado.
One is in California.
One is engaged w/ child.
And one just is.

If our time together was a good song,
it would be this:



Si dibujas las memorias, tienes mejor chance de recordarlas. ;)



Alice Neel

A dynamic portrait artist.

UPDATE: I am just an admirer.
All but the last piece is by the great
Alice Neel (1900–1984)














My color study/portrait attempt, with non-traditional colors.



Now You Don’t See It




Click to see the before-and-after side by side



Portable Inside Joke


Developed in 2004.
It began with a CD I got from a coworker that summer:
Beatles Unplugged, demos of the band jamming in India.
I shared it with my roommate and BOOM!
An inside joke was born.



Mass silkscreened.



True Love

…summed up two aesthetically pleasing ways.


Artist unknown, I need to know the name of this artist!!


On a good day.



England 2008

(carried over from allisonruiz.com 1.0)

I went to London for only one reason:
To see French and Saunders.



I stayed at a lovely hostel.


I went pub-hopping.


I even met some cool people.


But the main event


and meeting them



could not be topped.

Or could it?

During my free time, I went to the National Portrait Gallery.
And I cried, I was so overwhelmed.
An overwhelmed tourist needed
documentation of SOMETHING. ANYTHING.



Then a guard stops and reprimands me,
forbidding me to take pictures,
with or without flash.
So here is my polite version of flipping the bird
to the powers that be over there:

YOU WILL LOSE BUSINESS.
IT IS NOT A THREAT.
DO YOU EVEN KNOW HOW CAMERAS WORK?
THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
HAS TONS MORE STUFF THAN YOU
AND THEY ALLOW MOST GALLERIES
THE (apparent?) PRIVILEGE OF
CAMERAS WITHOUT FLASH.
MY FLAUNTING YOUR PORTRAITS
TO MY ARTIST FRIENDS WHO APPRECIATE THEM
IS FREE PUBLICITY, GUERILLA MARKETING.
CAN’T YOU MORONS SEE THAT?
STEP IT UP AND LOOSEN YOUR POLICIES.
OR YOU WILL LOSE BUSINESS.



Fools in Brooklyn

…Are there any other kinds of [Brooklyners]? —Joe Jackson



My personal touch to a personal touch.


My buddy Aaron took it a step further. Thanks hun!



FUN FACT: Both Rocco’s and my “last names” add up to Richard Williams,
an animator whom I greatly admire.



Nobody’s Got No Class


Well, not nobody.

These little wireless devices
we have now are supposed to
help us get to where we need to be,
physically or otherwise,
with speed and efficiency.

They are not meant to make us
forget handwritten script,
proper grammar and punctuation,
or even how we should treat one another.
It’s like, the more tech-savvy we are,
the more primitive we become.



What we have just seen is an example of class.
Man, even the cattiness in the beginning
exudes pure class.

Let’s all try to get back to those days
(emphasis on delayed gratification)
while holding on to our machines.
I’m not pointing at anyone in particular.
hahaha Who am I kidding? Yes I am! :P



The Album Cover That Fell Through



The client wanted a smoking ostrich in a tutu.
Variation of a theme perhaps?



For Those Who Are Stuck

There is an artist’s equivalent to “It Gets Better”.


—Ira Glass