1962 Chevy Bel-Air

My new Old Ride. This here is a 1962 Chevy Bel-Air.

I love the classic cars and have been looking for this year and this style in particular for a bit now. I finally got my hands on one. Now I just need to work on it to get it looking Sick.

My Love for Photography

My Love for Photography is displayed to your right under my links. One is dedicated to objects and the other to landscape and scenery in and around Ontario. Mostly the GTA.  It is amazing the things you can find when you open your eyes.  

Erick Cervantes

Ok so here are some pics of my babies. i guess you can say Frenchies are my life.  I love photography and so I take every opportunity to take shots when ever possible. I do a lot of art photography and nature and just creative imagery. I will be showing such pics in the near future. 

Erick. 

Ok so here is my latest Portrait. This little beauty is Little Mia, although she is not so little anymore she is still a darling Frenchie. Full of energy and ready to take on the world. 

It was a pleasure to do this commissioned Portrait for a really nice family. They know who they are and they loved the image.  I too was very happy with the result. Mia has so much character in this pic and it showed in the portrait.

It always takes a great photo to make a great portrait. Happy birthday to Alicia the Happy owner of Mia's Portriat.

Erick 

Saturday June 7th we went to the biggest dog event of the year in Ontario or should I say North America. We had a great time seeing so many dogs and meeting so many people. It was great, lots of vendors and food and just an all over great time.

I did not get as many pics as I would have wanted but here are two just to show. 

Erick 

Here are a couple of pics of our Late  little girl Sunny. Enjoying her time with each of us. She was definitely a love bug. I was going through our many pics of our babies and it broke my heart to see Sunny as she was before the Cancer and during her illness. there was such a change and it took place so fast. I am glad she passed her last year with us to love us and to bring us joy. Sunny is so missed and it hurts not to have her here in the flesh to hug her or to sniff her nacho scented ears.  Every time my wife sees her pics she breaks down and cries. But this is all part of loving and letting go. 

I often wonder why she came into our lives for such a short time. But regardless she really touched our hearts. Missing our little girl Red (Sunny Sun Sun Cervantes)

Erick

Not long ago when I had my little Red girl Sunny, her mommy Gabby and I would spend some days relaxing about the living room couch.  Here you see a pic of such events.  The girls love nothing better then spending time with their daddy. 

The Progress on the sculpt

So just to update everyone on the Frenchie Bust, I had made the rubber mold on it and then I had covered that with the hard shell material and I missed a few steps in between which caused the shell to stick too much and the rubber to be damaged, also the sculpt broke in a few places and I did some repair work on her and she is good as new now. But now I have learned my lesson and will not skip any parts to the mold making or casting of the sculpture. I have to re do the rubber coating now and then the hard shell exterior again. This time the right way. So bear with me as I learn the proper way to do things, this being my first time doing something of this scale. 

Life is a learning process and what is the best way to learn, ............ by making mistakes. 

Erick

French Bulldog Lawn Plaques

I have made a few of these now and they always look so cute. they are a great way to express your love of the bullies.  Set them up on your lawn or mount them on your wall or fence. Up to you.

I make them to resemble your Frenchies colours out of plywood and hand paint them. Cartoonish looking just to give them a cute look. You can add the bone in the middle with your house number or what ever you would like to put there. They don't have to be in this position either.  

I can make them to suit your wants.

Erick C

Frenchie Lawn Plaques

At the end of every tunnel...........

This is my latest  pc to finish. It has taken me 2 years to complete.  It is my version of the saying,

"At the end of every tunnel, there is a light of Hope".   (the Frenchie) 

It is an abstract style rendition from my mind. 

This one is up for sale.

 It is 20 x 24 inches in size and painted in Acrylics on stretched Canvas. 

Going price is set at $300.00 Canadian Plus S/H

If you are interested in this pc. Please contact me  with your info.

Erick C

ittybittybullies@gmail.com

The Rubber Coating

So now that the Bust is complete I started applying the rubber moulding compound. This is a very good detail capturing rubber that will give me a great result in the end. I need to put like 4 layers of the rubber coating and between each of the layers it has to dry approximately 1 hour.  At the back I need to build a wall about one inch deep and one inch wide all the way down the back. This wall is where I will be slicing the sculpt in order to get the Bust out of it. But before I pull out the Bust, I need to build a hard shell cover for the support around the rubber so that it maintains its shape without distortion.   This will take place after I have the 4 layers of rubber. tonight I was only able to put 2 layers of Rubber, by the weekend I will be doing the other two layers and then making the hard shell. Ill keep you all posted. But for now you can see the images of the work.

Erick C

Acrylic Paintings

Below here are some of my Acrylic paintings I have done on Canvas. 

These were also commissioned pcs and it was fun to do them. 

I love using rich colors and the anticipation of the finished pc is always at the tip of my mind. But patience is the best part of this work. I tend to do a little at a time so as to get the best result. I will often start a pc and then walk away from it for a day or two. Then I will put in approximately 4 hours and walk away again.  I will keep it in eye view so every day that I walk by it I can see new things in it to fix or to add or to erase. Now doing the pencil work is awsome, I love doing fine lines and using specialty tools to get the effect that I am looking for. When I paint I tend to squint my eyes to see more then I am looking at. Not sure if that makes sense but that is what I do. It helps me to see all over areas and to get shades and similarities from the subject photos. it is a great way to express my artistic insight I guess. 

Enjoy.

Erick C

My Pencil Portraits

Below are some of my past Graphite Pencil Portraits. I did these as commissioned pcs and I am proud of them.  This is why I like to show them.  

Erick C

My Pencil Portraits

I would like to thank you all.

I would like to thank each and everyone who has visited my blog and have left me comments and sent me private emails regarding the work I am doing. 

Your words of encouragement and positive feedback have been a great help to me.  I was not expecting this sculpt to come out as good as it did and I am so happy with the end result. I am still not completely finished with it yet but will be done soon. 

I am going to make copies of this one for those of you who have asked me to add them to the list of people who have pre ordered one of these lovely sculpts.

I will also be taking orders from  those of you who have asked  me do some commissioned pcs of your very own Frenchies. 

Please contact me privately to get your Starfish Paws on one of these beautiful Frenchie Bust sculptures.  

Thanking you in advance. 

Erick  C 

Love it.

Yes so today I was showing all my peers the photos I took of my work.  Everyone was loving the detail and the size of the sculpt.  I am jonesing to do another one now. Maybe another breed. But this is awsome. I still have to do a rubber mold and then cast them when ready. I hope to have a sample soon. It does take time as I work full time and then when ever I have a couple of hours I do what I love doing. Art.  

I still need to figure out how I am going to attach the sculpt to a base. I am thinking of using marble blocks for the base or wood.... Still thinking about it. But i am so happy with the results.

I hope everyone likes the work. It took me in total approximately 24 hours to do. 

There is still minor things to do to it but will be done soon.

Erick C

Just about there.

Wow, it was worth every minute. I am just about done. Today I put in another 3 hours on detail alone and it was great seeing the transformation. Love it man. I am so happy with the turn out. 

I got some good detail shots and some not so good detail shots but you be the judge. Now I have to look for anything that needs to be touched up or tweaked, Then I have to think about how I am going to do the Rubber mold. Damn need to get some sleep. Ill continue this tomorrow. 

Have a great night all. 

Shoulders.

Ok I have added some more to her and also have added some shoulders to get a better view of her. i still have to bulk out the back part and then I will start again with the details.  Still have to tweak it a bit more but getting there slowly.

Hope everyone enjoys what I am doing here. 

Erick C