AVAILABLE HERE.These are the more popular things I’ve made available as prints over the last few years. They’re not all my own personal favorite pieces, but they’ve gotten the most attention and love from you guys. I think collecting them together here might give me some clues about what you all like so much, maybe.
Also I won’t be posting for a few days as we’ll be celebrating solstice here, but I’ll be back right after, on the 23rd. xox
“Down with the Ship”
This was a piece of tattoo flash I did as part of a series, and people really seem to like the sideways lighthouse in it. I did it at 11×14″ in watercolor, and did the linework with a nib pen and ink. The original sold and the prints have sold a lot too, I don’t often draw ships but I think I did a decent job on this one. You can still get some sizes of prints of this, here.
“Einstein”
I did a little contest on my facebook asking people to tell me the funniest story about someone falling down. My friend Tiny told a great story, and was the winner. The prize was a portrait of anyone famous they liked, they’d get to keep the original art. He chose Einstein, and man was he fun to draw. Lots of people seem to like this one. I tried to give him nice gentle eyes. Yes, there are still prints of him. I did this one at 8×12″ in colored pencil.
“Red Highway”
The original of this, I gave to a collector of my work. It was a 10×13″ watercolor. Of all the landscapes I’ve done, people seem to be most interested in this one. Maybe it’s all that hot dawn cloud color. I’m not sure.
“Dahlia with Dice”
Of all my still life work, this one gets the most attention. Maybe it’s the format, that high vertical? It was originally a 12×16″ watercolor painting. The prints of this one are popular and I’ve made a few handmade runs of it, as well as the open edition prints.
“River Otter”
A lot of you guys love the animal totem series, and this guy is the crowd favorite. He’s a little more simple than some of the others, so I think a lot of people just really, really like otters. Colored pencil on handmade tinted paper, 8×12″.
“Weeping Doll”
I’ve done handpainted prints of her. The original sold as soon as it was finished. I’ve redone the entire image twice and both reproductions by hand sold immediately. And the open edition prints…people really like this beat-up old doll. She’s pretty melacholy. It’s originally a 10×13″ watercolor on hotpress.
Then, there’s “Shy Owl”. The most popular of them all. Due to the buyer of the original schmoozing me out of open edition printing, (I was an idiot and won’t be doing that so cheaply ever, EVER again) there are only cards available of this guy. Every print I did make of it, that limited amount, sold instantly. People email me asking for a print all the time. I’d be at least a few hundred dollars richer if I’d never said I’d only make a few prints of him.
An expensive lesson.
I’ll never give up my reproduction rights so cheaply ever ever again.
The new coloring book, The Horrors, is out! The book is an adult coloring book containing ghosts, cryptids, mlnsters and urban legends from around the world, complete with stories and descriptions. You can find it here (it’s the scary werewolf!) click the images for a size you can print out and color.
Jackalope
The jackalope is an antlered, sometimes winged, jackrabbit. It’s found in the southwestern United States.
They’re as fast as an antelope, and as camouflaged as a jackrabbit. You can get hunting tags for them in Wyoming, every year. When hunting a jackalope, wearing good, high leather boots is a must, as they can be dangerous and may try to gore your legs or savage you with their horns.
The jackalope can imitate human voices and may lure hunters away from their fires at night by calling for help. They also find the scent of whiskey irresistible, so traps baited with glasses of whiskey are a good way to capture the elusive beasts.
Jersey Devil
I personally encountered the Jersey Devil. I was taking a long solo hike and was passing through the Pine Barrens in NJ- a grey, odd landscape, at dusk. I was coming around the bend of a trail when a…a thing ran past me, across the trail. It was the size of a small horse, on its hind legs, with antlers. It had a horse’s head, emaciated, and a deer’s body- but behind it flapped immense leathery wings.
I turned and ran about a mile back on the trail, at full speed. I didn’t try to hike past that point until full daylight, with others, the following day. There were clear deer tracks in the dirt, only two feet…
The Jersey Devil is said to be: a cryptid, some kind of giant bat-deer, and alternately, the evil deformed child of a satanic witch. Nobody knows its actual origins, but stories in the area are common. It’s one of the few creatures in this book I have seen with my own eyes.
I’m going to include the sheilanagig as well, without story. enjoy coloring these, and grab a copy of the book!!! xox
the show at TrueLove Gallery in Seattle comes down at the end of the month, as does the show at Cowfish in Eugene. If you wanted to see my paintings of women, or of life-sized predatory animals, get there while it lasts!
The last tattoo times I have open in 2015 are at Laughing Buddha in Seattle, nov 7-17. If you want in, or we have a continuing tattoo, please call the shop asap to book time with me. I may not be back until February!
I’ll be updating the event page shortly with all the winter plans.
Also, the expanded/full edition of the Horrors adult coloring book will be out very soon! 61 creatures. SIXTY ONE. If that’s not scary, I don’t know what is.
In the spirit of giving, here are some print-size images for you guys to download and color! These are imperfect scans of six pages from the Horrors; I figured a lot of folks have bought the book and many more would probably love to just color in a few pages. Click any image to find a full-sized version for printing.
(although you’re missing out on 22 other creatures, and the text that goes with them all!You can get the full book here if you’d like the complete experience.) Enjoy, and feel free to share!
We are having a book signing party at Laughing Buddha, at 8pm the night before Halloween!
I will bring some good coloring pencils for people who pick up a book!
And I will bring my wrist brace for the morning after.
If you’ve already got the book, come by anyway! Let me see what you’ve colored!
Here is a link to the facebook event, feel free to share it! If you’re not in Seattle for Halloween, you can still buy a signed edition here. But if you ARE in Seattle, come to the signing party and pick one up! There will be a prize for the best coloring job, and a prize for the funniest as well.
We will have some printed pages for broke folks to color in and take home, and candy.
Here are some of the awesome colorings-in people have sent me so far! I’ll add more as more people send me photos!
my list of favorites… (new additions at the end)
the woman – domestic violence, rape, and revenge horror
possession (the one from the 80s) – monsters, divorces, and doppelgangers
altered – aliens and a hermit guy, innawoods
resolution – drug addiction, atmosphere, original premise, creepy spying, innawoods
slither – aliens, bad relationships, marriage, monsters
relic – bad science, monsters, sexy beasts
the seasoning house – brutality, warfare, rape, oppression, and revenge
from beyond – science, monsters, villianous experimentations
pontypool – language, viral plagues, zombies of a sort, bad day at the office
the grey – animal attacks, betrayal, isolation, survival horror, innawoods
the thing (80s) – brilliant. isolation, distrust, betrayal, aliens.
return of the living dead (any of the first three) – zombies that can speak.
dead end – dark humor, great acting, excellent dialogue, ghosts, innawoods
teeth – abstinence-only sex ed, incest, revenge.
trick r treat – werewolves, murderers, ghosts, pumpkins.
pieces – slasher film with lots of suspense moments.
pioughkeepsie tapes (if you’re a fan of true crime documentaries, you’ll love it)
s&man – mockumentary, self-referential to the horror genre and “extreme” video.
V/H/S – anthology film, harpies, ghosts, video nasties.
abcs of death – anthology, some artsy, some feminist, some violence, zombies.
the masters of horror series. varies
memories of a murder – serial killers, korean horror.
audition – best bad guy ever, gory
funny games – self-aware horror that breaks fourth wall
cabin in the woods – same
the pact – murders, ghosts, incest, abuse.
the host – monsters, claustrophobia
the frighteners – ghosts, bad cgi, JEFFREY COMBS’s BODY IS AN INSTRUMENT OF PAIN
the road (not the one with viggo in it. the foreign one)- ghost road
the shrine – demons, religions, eastern european fear
severance – killers, history, warfare, strife, business, bad days at the office, innawoods
andromeda strain – viral plagues, government fuckups
the mist – monsters, religious nuttery, perfect ending
the shining – domestic abuse, ghosts, evil places, creepy kids
the descent – claustrophobia, monsters, betrayal, great characters/acting, innawoods
anamorph – crime thriller, dark arts, murder
the stuff – consumerism, monsters, plagues, cassandra complexes, industrial espionage
troll – (NOT TROLL 2!) – naked julia louis-dreyfus, sonny bono, monsters, fairy badness, creepy kids
nightwatch – fate, monsters, secret worlds, russian behavior
primal – aussie mayhem, monsters, claustrophobia, isolation, innawoods horror
dogtooth – incest, abuse, control issues, isolation
barton fink – isolation, art horror, serial killers, mayhem, the life of the mind
call of cthulu – silent horror, monsters, elder gods, madness
dead man – existential horror, art horror, isolation, innawoods, ghosts
ravenous – cannibals, innawoods, isolation
american werewolf in london – monsters.
dog soldiers – monsters, betrayal, war games
may – social anxiety, medical weirdness, frankensteining
they live – a documentary
the changeling – possessed wheelchair, kid ghosts, perfect soundtrack
contracted – sexual repression, rape, body horror, gay rights being impeded
REAL THINGS THAT HAPPENED:
cropsey, dark days, the dust bowl (ken burns), tell me and I will forget, kinjongilia, reel injun, titicut follies, just melvin just evil, child of rage, a place for pedophiles, children underground, this entire series
The krasue is a Thai monster, which feeds on entrails, fetuses, placenta, and babies. It’s considered very dangerous to pregnant women, and people put thorny branches around the house to keep it away when someone in the home gets pregnant. It glows red (as seen in this video) and floats. The krasue lives as a normal person during the day- but at night, its head and entrails separate from its body, which it leaves hidden away from view. It must go back to its body by daylight and reattach itself.
The krasue is Thai, but similar beings are known throughout southeast Asia. In all cases, it eats fetuses right out of the womb, and if it can’t find that, it eats animals’ guts or feces. If you leave clothing out overnight to dry, it will wipe its mouth on them, leaving slime, blood, and gore behind. Some say the krasue is a witch, who cast the wrong incantations and was cursed. Others think it is a woman who killed someone in a previous lifetime, or who had an abortion, or even an older woman jealous that she can no longer get pregnant. Still others believe it to be a ghost or supernatural creature, not human at all.
In the image, a krasue has just succeeded in stealing a fetus from a pregnant woman, and flies off, triumphant, to eat it.
(All this and more about the krasue, in my book!)
I make a lot of creepy things.
Spent the day and night signing and packing and prepping every copy of the Horrors that’s been ordered so far.
I am covered in papercuts, I have emptied several large gel pens, and ran out of labels. I’ve got about fifty signed copies left after packing these all up. You can order them here: http://resonanteye.net/2014/08/22/the-horrors-orders/
I have to go soak my wrist now.
GO BUY ONE AND SHARE THE LINK AND MAKE ME GET MORE PAPERCUTS FROM THESE EVIL ENVELOPES PLEASE
right before the envelopes sliced me up
tons of paper products, and books
I’ve been defeated
ready to go
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