Jeff Mcmillan

Jeff McMillan was born in October of 1977 in San Jose, CA where he spent a good portion of his life, and it was during the first few years of Jeff’s existence that he started trying his hand at art at the young age of 3. McMillan’s influences lie heavily in 80’s pop culture. The artist proclaims that the decade boasted the best television programming, cartoons, toys, and movies. It was a decade of imagination and creativity during a time when the world was changing so drastically on all levels. As he continued to make use of the right side of his brain, it eventually became time for McMillan to begin the final stages of schooling. He attended the Academy of Art in San Francisco from 1999 to 2001 until he made the big move to Southern California, where he continued his schooling at the prestigious Art Center College of Design, in Pasadena, CA from 2001 to 2004. He studied illustration at both schools until he graduated from the Art Center with honors. He now lives and works in Long Beach with his wonderful wife, Liv and a disobedient Siamese cat.

Website — http://www.jeffmcmillan.com/

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“Sins of Atticus Finch” by Dave MacDowell

March 14th 09, 10:47

I took the night off and decided to be social, I went to Dave MacDowell’s opening last night at Thinkspace.
“The Sins of Atticus Finch”
It was great meeting Dave, we have emailed, facebooked, and have had phone conversations, we had a chance to meet each other and talk in person. He’s a good dude.
His work is awesome and to me it looks like he must paint lightening speed to get all that stuff into one piece. The paintings look fresh and they look like it was all done in one sitting.
There’s all kinds of pop culture references in them, some obvious and some discreet.
Here’s what i saw-

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Another Awesome Thing, Kaiju!

February 11th 09, 11:54

I wanted to mention that I’m starting a Kaiju collection with the help of my friend James B. Levy seen below with his awesome Kaiju Collection that was on display at Art Basel this past December. It was pretty impressive to see in person. Before I was in the “Kaiju Monster Invasion” show, i had no idea how in depth and how many monsters there were in the Kaiju Index, and I can can understand how this can be addicting.

James picked out several key figures to give me a great head start on my kaiju collection, very much appreciated! And I’m happy and honored to say that he is the new owner of the “Off Shore Sea Quarrel” piece seen below-

here’s a link to Kaiju Show at Basel and some other stuff that went on in Miami click here
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The Gate

February 11th 09, 11:04

Hey there, I haven’t posted anything for a little bit, but there’s there’s some stuff coming up in the works very soon. Here’s something i think is pretty cool, i got to do a piece for RVCA that references the classic 1987 horror flick called “The Gate”

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Mike Tyson Portrait!

January 16th 09, 12:06

Hey there,

I wanted to let everyone know that the Mike Tyson (the
official) site went live yesterday, Here's a link to
it
you can see the portrait I did on the front page.
I'm pretty excited about this one, I also put the original painting up here too.

http://www.officialmiketyson.com/

New Old Pieces

January 5th 09, 14:32

Happy New Year

I just finally scanned these in, i finished these pieces at the last minute, took them to the framer and then sent them off to the suru show, so now i finally documented the whole thing.

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Art Basel (part 3)

December 11th 08, 14:50

Day 3, I’m completely wiped out, from lack of sleep, being on my feet all day, and maybe being a little hung over. We headed down to the Aqua Art Fair in the Wynwood Design District. Best day day so far! The art at Aqua was awesome and the scene there was pretty wild too. There was an epic battle mid day in the court yard area of Aqua that featured 3 Shrimps, 1 Robot and 1 Golden Turd ascending to the top of a golden pyramid. check it out

Next, We headed down to Kill Your Idols Punk Is Everything show which featured both photography and flyer art that covered the walls with music acts to get things all crazy inside. It was an amazing show to say the least and the climax of the week for me.

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Art Basel (part 2)

December 10th 08, 14:52

Day 2, No real sleep, pretty tired at this point. We checked out the Scope Art Fair down in the design district of Wynwood, which by the way is a strange place. I wonder what it’s like now, with all the hype over and done with Basel. It’s kind of a ghost town there. There’s empty warehouses and factories all over the place, but they’re building it up condos and megamalls. It’s a weird senerio.

Anyways here a couple pictures of the fair with highlights from the like of “Friends with You” check out the bounce house and the small town-like world they made with their art, i had a good time hanging out there, plus works from Shepard Fairey, Alex Gross, The Clayton Brothers and Dawn Black.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jeffmcmillan/
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Art Basel (part1)

December 10th 08, 12:41

Well, I’m back from Miami. it was a crazy week and i can say that i was art-ed out for a little bit. I witnessed so much completely amazing stuff there i feel “this” small now in the art world, so here’s a report about all of it. this is going to take a while.

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Bail Out Finals

December 2nd 08, 2:28

Yo, here’s a sneak peak of my pieces for the bail out show in a couple of days, I just scanned them in and they’re off to the framer. Going to Basel Wednesday morning and jumping in the deep end right when i get there with all kinds of premieres and parties to go to, should be fun! I’ll report from there.

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One more thing

November 20th 08, 21:29

I’m going to Art Basel this year and i’m in the Kaiju Monster Invasion show at the Harold Golen gallery, here’s the link click

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Star Wars Portraits

November 20th 08, 21:14

Here’s a couple of new paintings of star wars characters i did recently, i’ve been a fan ever since i can remember. I’m sure star wars was once of the reasons i started to draw. These paintings are going to a couple different places, but they look nice all together as a set. The empire was always inspiring to me, they should have won more battle, at least they got one movie title.

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BLOC 28 ART SHOW BY DISNEY

November 13th 08, 14:32

Last night was the special premiere opening of Bloc 28 Art Show by Disney, the 2nd annual collaboration of Disney and visionary street artists showcase their vision of an American icon, i ripped that from the flyer, it sounded pretty good, so why reword it, right. Plus a couple of new artists added for the 2nd installment of Block 28.

I went down to the event and snapped a couple of picts, check em out-

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Linking up the sites

November 11th 08, 1:04

Hello

I have some designs that got picked up by this company called Music Skins, here’s my work on their products
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http://music-skins.com/newsletter/jeff.html
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Also, this blog is new, so here’s the link to my older blog, i’ll be linking

these two up for a while until there’s a smooth transaction

i program my home komputer
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Hey There from Jeff McMillan

November 5th 08, 14:02

I just got my blog set up, Thanks Nick!

just wanted to say hey and i’m happy to be blogging here.

i’m getting my new website up any day now, i’m super stoked on it

so watch out for it-

www.jeffmcmillan.com
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Coming Soon!!

November 5th 08, 13:32

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