Jeff "jefe" Levine
@el-desinador-jefe.bsky.social
Artist, Toy Designer, Illustrator, animation... and now oil painting.
http://www.jefflevineartanddesign.com
I like all kindsa art, history, and trying to stay f•king positive!
http://www.jefflevineartanddesign.com
I like all kindsa art, history, and trying to stay f•king positive!
Come and see my wife and I at Midsummer Scream 2025!
We will have Christmas Spirits Volume 2 for your spine tingling edification! All new Holiday Ghost stories and all new art from so many talented ghouls!
#christmasspirits #christmasghoststories #hauntedholidays
We will have Christmas Spirits Volume 2 for your spine tingling edification! All new Holiday Ghost stories and all new art from so many talented ghouls!
#christmasspirits #christmasghoststories #hauntedholidays
April 29, 2025 at 9:36 PM
Come and see my wife and I at Midsummer Scream 2025!
We will have Christmas Spirits Volume 2 for your spine tingling edification! All new Holiday Ghost stories and all new art from so many talented ghouls!
#christmasspirits #christmasghoststories #hauntedholidays
We will have Christmas Spirits Volume 2 for your spine tingling edification! All new Holiday Ghost stories and all new art from so many talented ghouls!
#christmasspirits #christmasghoststories #hauntedholidays
I have not seen this before. Some clever cat napping milliflore glass into an obsidian arrowhead! McLeanLithics
March 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
I have not seen this before. Some clever cat napping milliflore glass into an obsidian arrowhead! McLeanLithics
Pulp Scifi aliens are my new thing!
They’re so weirdly wildly innocent.
#pulpaliens #pulpscifi #quickpainting
They’re so weirdly wildly innocent.
#pulpaliens #pulpscifi #quickpainting
February 24, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Pulp Scifi aliens are my new thing!
They’re so weirdly wildly innocent.
#pulpaliens #pulpscifi #quickpainting
They’re so weirdly wildly innocent.
#pulpaliens #pulpscifi #quickpainting
Turns out, it can be way quicker and easier to flesh things out w opaque paint! All these years of pencils and watercolor, it just took forever. Also, wow, Naples Yellow and Venetian Red work great together! I think they may be my new fave color combo
#oilpaint #naplesyellow #venetianred #softball
#oilpaint #naplesyellow #venetianred #softball
February 24, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Turns out, it can be way quicker and easier to flesh things out w opaque paint! All these years of pencils and watercolor, it just took forever. Also, wow, Naples Yellow and Venetian Red work great together! I think they may be my new fave color combo
#oilpaint #naplesyellow #venetianred #softball
#oilpaint #naplesyellow #venetianred #softball
Seeing Tyler with my teen!
Forever after…
“What was your first concert?” He’ll have a good one. Me?
The Wailers sans Bob Marley.
Forever after…
“What was your first concert?” He’ll have a good one. Me?
The Wailers sans Bob Marley.
February 18, 2025 at 2:54 AM
Seeing Tyler with my teen!
Forever after…
“What was your first concert?” He’ll have a good one. Me?
The Wailers sans Bob Marley.
Forever after…
“What was your first concert?” He’ll have a good one. Me?
The Wailers sans Bob Marley.
I was making sculpey heads to light and paint, like Corben and other artists. They were going to be basic planes like a Loomis head, but then they start to look like sombody- and I chase that as far as I can- kind of a pygmalion thing, looks like a Skarsgard Nosferatu will visit too.
February 17, 2025 at 8:04 AM
I was making sculpey heads to light and paint, like Corben and other artists. They were going to be basic planes like a Loomis head, but then they start to look like sombody- and I chase that as far as I can- kind of a pygmalion thing, looks like a Skarsgard Nosferatu will visit too.
Here’s my li’l Jareth. That song and dance w the babe must be super sad for the goblins now, ‘cause they were all the babe once, but now they are no longer Jareth’s favorite- that’s cannon right? The babes all become goblins living with him, sad.
February 17, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Here’s my li’l Jareth. That song and dance w the babe must be super sad for the goblins now, ‘cause they were all the babe once, but now they are no longer Jareth’s favorite- that’s cannon right? The babes all become goblins living with him, sad.
Hoo boy! Rollin’ a lotta snakes to bring old Sculpey back to life, and boy are my fingers tired. Found an extra guy in my old stock too!
February 4, 2025 at 6:39 AM
Hoo boy! Rollin’ a lotta snakes to bring old Sculpey back to life, and boy are my fingers tired. Found an extra guy in my old stock too!
Heh. He looks gross! I have an idea of where shadows go- it licked in my head in the 4th grade. I want to get a fresh eye on shadows. So I’m sculpting some basic heads to explore shadows and reflections.
February 3, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Heh. He looks gross! I have an idea of where shadows go- it licked in my head in the 4th grade. I want to get a fresh eye on shadows. So I’m sculpting some basic heads to explore shadows and reflections.
Sometimes you HAVE to keep reworking a painting. Based on a Sanxingdui bronze mask. NOW I’m happy w the underpainting.
February 3, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Sometimes you HAVE to keep reworking a painting. Based on a Sanxingdui bronze mask. NOW I’m happy w the underpainting.
The Native people have a visual language in their wood carving. Each totem animal has it’s own visual queues- even Bigfoot.
February 3, 2025 at 7:02 AM
The Native people have a visual language in their wood carving. Each totem animal has it’s own visual queues- even Bigfoot.
Heard that magenta, cyan, and yellow paint could mix in richer blends- i guess I got the wrong colors- i got a nice brown and muddy purple but it wasn’t what I expected- portraiture is meh, but go look at Max Schreck. He was a pretty handsome guy but his performance as Nosferatu was shriekworthy!
February 3, 2025 at 6:55 AM
Heard that magenta, cyan, and yellow paint could mix in richer blends- i guess I got the wrong colors- i got a nice brown and muddy purple but it wasn’t what I expected- portraiture is meh, but go look at Max Schreck. He was a pretty handsome guy but his performance as Nosferatu was shriekworthy!
Seen in the wild at Claremont Forum Bookshop. The Christmas Spirits book my wife and I made!
We are putting Volume 2 together now. christmasspirits.org
Looking for cool Holiday Ghost Stories and cool artists!
We are putting Volume 2 together now. christmasspirits.org
Looking for cool Holiday Ghost Stories and cool artists!
February 2, 2025 at 9:52 PM
Seen in the wild at Claremont Forum Bookshop. The Christmas Spirits book my wife and I made!
We are putting Volume 2 together now. christmasspirits.org
Looking for cool Holiday Ghost Stories and cool artists!
We are putting Volume 2 together now. christmasspirits.org
Looking for cool Holiday Ghost Stories and cool artists!
“From your bloodied Tyrannosaur mouth to god’s ears”
Cool deck of 1988 collectible cards from my pal Brian E., thank you buddy!
Cool deck of 1988 collectible cards from my pal Brian E., thank you buddy!
February 1, 2025 at 6:01 PM
“From your bloodied Tyrannosaur mouth to god’s ears”
Cool deck of 1988 collectible cards from my pal Brian E., thank you buddy!
Cool deck of 1988 collectible cards from my pal Brian E., thank you buddy!
Just what exactly does this visual
Metaphor mean? Fire in the bed is usually bad, unless it’s sex… then… really what does this mean?
#duolingo #visualmetaphor #wtf
Metaphor mean? Fire in the bed is usually bad, unless it’s sex… then… really what does this mean?
#duolingo #visualmetaphor #wtf
January 29, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Just what exactly does this visual
Metaphor mean? Fire in the bed is usually bad, unless it’s sex… then… really what does this mean?
#duolingo #visualmetaphor #wtf
Metaphor mean? Fire in the bed is usually bad, unless it’s sex… then… really what does this mean?
#duolingo #visualmetaphor #wtf
So, would you choose to put down your art on whatever’s at hand? Or would you wait to get all your materials ready…
I choose the former- I’ve been unable to get shit down because of fussy little rules I made for myself. Is this the “Right” sketch book, aren’t you ONLY using oils now?
I choose the former- I’ve been unable to get shit down because of fussy little rules I made for myself. Is this the “Right” sketch book, aren’t you ONLY using oils now?
January 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
So, would you choose to put down your art on whatever’s at hand? Or would you wait to get all your materials ready…
I choose the former- I’ve been unable to get shit down because of fussy little rules I made for myself. Is this the “Right” sketch book, aren’t you ONLY using oils now?
I choose the former- I’ve been unable to get shit down because of fussy little rules I made for myself. Is this the “Right” sketch book, aren’t you ONLY using oils now?
I AM TRYING!
Every painting is a lesson.
Every painting is a lesson.
January 22, 2025 at 5:41 PM
I AM TRYING!
Every painting is a lesson.
Every painting is a lesson.
I am relieving myself of old guilt by painting over my incomplete High School paintings. I have carried them for so long. Promising them and myself that I would complete them one day. They are not bad, just the best 17 yr old me could do. They are white gesso now. Goodbye, I loved you.
January 22, 2025 at 5:39 PM
I am relieving myself of old guilt by painting over my incomplete High School paintings. I have carried them for so long. Promising them and myself that I would complete them one day. They are not bad, just the best 17 yr old me could do. They are white gesso now. Goodbye, I loved you.
At the Pergamon Museum I saw this delightful Roman platter (?) of hammered silver of baby Herculese. I’ve loved it ever since. Little did I know I would have a baby Herculese of my own, and he just turned 13! I do hope his Labors will be much much easier with none of that bad Herculean stuff either!
January 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
At the Pergamon Museum I saw this delightful Roman platter (?) of hammered silver of baby Herculese. I’ve loved it ever since. Little did I know I would have a baby Herculese of my own, and he just turned 13! I do hope his Labors will be much much easier with none of that bad Herculean stuff either!
Egyptian Goddess- learning me paints- If I haven’t mentioned it, I’m dedicating this year to learning how to paint well with oils.
The “well” part is up to everyone else, LOL!
The “well” part is up to everyone else, LOL!
January 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Egyptian Goddess- learning me paints- If I haven’t mentioned it, I’m dedicating this year to learning how to paint well with oils.
The “well” part is up to everyone else, LOL!
The “well” part is up to everyone else, LOL!
Tanit! I guess I made her my ambassador to the Western Mediterranean and the isles And shores therein. A worthy and forgotten goddess- she guided the sailors and the Carthaginians and showed me Menorca and the ancient taulas- also great seafood.
January 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Tanit! I guess I made her my ambassador to the Western Mediterranean and the isles And shores therein. A worthy and forgotten goddess- she guided the sailors and the Carthaginians and showed me Menorca and the ancient taulas- also great seafood.
Painting-wise this is where I’m at.
Now I want more detail, more tones, more colors, and bigger!
These are my 2025 goals- I am exclusively focused on oil paint this year.
Now I want more detail, more tones, more colors, and bigger!
These are my 2025 goals- I am exclusively focused on oil paint this year.
January 16, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Painting-wise this is where I’m at.
Now I want more detail, more tones, more colors, and bigger!
These are my 2025 goals- I am exclusively focused on oil paint this year.
Now I want more detail, more tones, more colors, and bigger!
These are my 2025 goals- I am exclusively focused on oil paint this year.
The last five years written on the floor of a L.A. corporate office;
Adhesive stains from covid distancing, cracks from earthquakes and subsidence, air filters for the city fires… I still don’t want to be anywhere else.
Adhesive stains from covid distancing, cracks from earthquakes and subsidence, air filters for the city fires… I still don’t want to be anywhere else.
January 15, 2025 at 3:32 PM
The last five years written on the floor of a L.A. corporate office;
Adhesive stains from covid distancing, cracks from earthquakes and subsidence, air filters for the city fires… I still don’t want to be anywhere else.
Adhesive stains from covid distancing, cracks from earthquakes and subsidence, air filters for the city fires… I still don’t want to be anywhere else.
Krampus for December 2nd
December 2, 2024 at 7:35 PM
Krampus for December 2nd