"Shades" - an illustrated look at the famous glasses in pop culture history!

After many months penciling, inking, coloring and designing, my new book "Shades" is here!

"Shades" is an illustrative look at my favorite glasses throughout pop culture history. From the 1933 "Invisible Mans" Motorcycle glasses to the recent tortoiseshell frames worn by "Harry Hart" in the "Kingsmen, Shades captures the gnarliest glasses inspired by my love of films and tv!

As a young shy kid, it fascinated me how sunglasses made people appear so confident and nigh invulnerable. I wanted so badly to be as cool as the characters I saw on tv and felt that a pair of shades would do that for me. Thats what started me collecting all sorts of unique glasses, and as an illustrator, inspired me to draw what made these characters so special to me.

Thats always been the intention for “Shades”, to capture the confidence a pair
of glasses gives a person, the same way I saw these characters in this book as a
kid. I hope you all enjoy the art as much as I did drawing them, it was a lot of fun re visiting these great characters.

If you'd like to see the book in it's entirety, check out my online portfolio MrMauro.com

order your copy via Amazon!

stay Rad!

Mauro

Order a copy of Shades for yourself!

i tried to think of the most harmless thing

I thought I had lost the original art to this but thankfully I forgot I had scanned it prior to gifting it to the Firefighters at Hook & lader 8, The Ghostbusters firehouse. Being its the 30th anniversary I was excited to paint this right and give it some new life.

so I hope you all enjoy it, everything was done in watercolor and then enchanted in photoshop a tad.

Long Live the Stay Puft Marshmallow Man...and Gozer the Gozerian.

"I tried to think of the most harmless thing" Stay Puft - 55 Central Park West

I've always been in love with Ghostbusters. It's a part of my childhood and hard wired to my creativity. I recently found a stack of 17 x 6 watercolor board and really wanted to do something interesting with it. What better way then to utilize the length of the paper by drawing that infamous building where gozer the gozerian conquered (well, tried to anyway).

This was done using ink wash, watercolor, colored pencil, and micron pens. really happy the way this came out.

fun fact. on Saturday April 19th, I visit the Hook and ladder 8 firehouse and donated this piece to the fire fighters working that night. Was a really great moment and I couldn't be happier knowing the art is where it should be :-)