the first thing available directly through my site.
here ya go, the original painting, $100. on arches 140lb hotpress. I painted this with professional-grade liquid acrylic and watercolor; some pen and ink.
It’s not framed, but if you want a frame, I have some.
From now on, all new works are going to be available this way, direct, right here, for buying.
I’m slowly going to be adding my prints to this shop over the next few days. Until the shop is fully operational, feel free to email me if you want one.
I have the next few days off from tattooing so I will be posting some paintings!
(pictured, someone I like very much, holding the painting I made for her)
Here are some photos of all the things which I just got back from the speakeasy art show.
Some of these will be for sale at MY SKULL AND NATURE SHOP, others are already spoken for, waiting to be picked up.
The hardest thing about selling these (besides the amount of logical work that goes into shipping them) is parting with them. I really feel the creatures, you know? Like each one has a definite personality, to me. So when someone buys them it’s like saying goodbye to a friend.
At least awesome people buy them. That makes it a lot easier.
Click through to see more photos.
These were, until now, on display at the Oak Street Speakeasy in Eugene, Oregon. I have had three waves of art showed there over the past year, along with Jameson’s, the Horsehead, and Unfine art museum. These are my favorite places to hang my work- the crowds that go there all seem to like it, and I get good feedback from the folks in these places.
Plus, the speakeasy is where every good death metal and sludge doom band plays, here in town. So of course I like hanging my skulls there.
I recently did a painting of a ghost ship for a good friend of mine.
I used a lot of glaze layers in this; starting with the hard edged underpainting, then proceeding with white glazes, and blue.
I used ivory in my liquin to dull and smooth out the moon, and the ship itself. I wanted it to be ghostly and still, despite the rough and choppy water.
I aimed for ghostly more than violent. At first I was going to do sharks and severed hands and gore, but my friend wanted ghost ship, not disaster scene. So I toned it down a whole lot for this one.
The water was particularly fun. I shipped this out, and it was the first bigger canvas (16×20″) that I’ve shipped. I sent it insured, media mail…next time I might splurge on priority though…
I know she’s waiting for this to arrive, but I figured I would spoil the surprise by posting it right now. haha
I painted this during our big storm here; I had to keep stopping when it got dark outside, since painting by candlelight doesn’t work very well. Also my electricity was out.
When I die, please pile all of my creative work high on the pyre.
Burn it all down.
Please don’t go through it all, re-edit and assemble it for sale,
and then make a million dollars from my sad,
overworked corpse.
Kafka was firmly of the opinion that if they don’t want it now,
while it can do me some good to sell it,
they can’t have it later,
the bastards.
He worked full-time, NOT as a writer, throughout his life. He would come home tired from long workdays and stay up all night writing.
I’d have been pissed too. They always blame his lack of confidence in his own work- but I think, deep down, it was his fury that he had had to work so goddamn hard all the time while lesser authors had the leisure and funds to write, and to enjoy their lives.
Every time you think “I wish he had written more” ask yourself- when is the last time you PAID A CREATIVE PERSON for something, and spread the word, so they’d have time to write or paint more? People didn’t pay HIM either, so there’s your answer. He never had time, because he had to pay the rent. That’s how most creative people tend to live- I am lucky because my day job is art too, but even so, it’s not free, it’s not MY WORK wholly. Even so.
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