Blog - resonanteye

Bus to CA, poetry from my book “Tar and Gravel”

25th of February 2014

In geek, hobo, money, travel, true stories,

29157_397937423370_2677846_n from tar and gravel

bus to CA

There’s something beautiful and comforting about grey vomit stains barely scrubbed from velveteen seat backs and

something about the dense air and useless frustrated wanderlust of the greyhound station and the greyhound itself, this universe of breakdowns

in Pierre North Dakota and Weed, CA that makes me calm. Patience. It makes my mind shut tight and arrange itself compulsively. checking

repeatedly for wallet, keys, ticket, the automatic functions of the reptile brain fully involved;

Making sure nothing is lost, nobody touches me, children don’t climb and I

in the meantime have killed the upper brain.

Feet automatically avoiding the sprawl of wild loud children with sticky fingers and dirty pink too-tight shirts where they sit on the floor at the entrance

to the terminal; thirteen slightly torn and stretched garbage bags full of towels, clothes, toys, no books but I can see the handle of

a cast-iron fry pan

clearly outlined in the plastic, spilling around the children is the detritus of people who don’t

realize that frying pans are available at thrift stores in duluth as well as southern california.

Antidote prints finally up!

25th of February 2014

In art, stuff for sale, tat zap wizard, Tattoo,

“Antidote”

I finally got a good scan of this sheet. Prints are available, so is the original. 11×14″ watercolor and ink on hotpress.

Prints can be found at http://www.redbubble.com/people/resonanteye/works/11578688-antidote-tattoo-flash-guns-evil-babies-and-skulls

Original is listed at http://resonanteye.net/buyit/tattoo-flash-sheets/

summer hare!

24th of February 2014

In art, original art, painting, step by step,

Progress photos after the jump.

This is the second in a series of four paintings.

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some new monsters for The Horrors!

23rd of February 2014

In art, drawing, halloween, horror art,

tamamo no mae

~~Book is at print stage!~~

available for orders!

Individual prints available via the print shop

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Joe Harrison,
from The Noun Project

illness, returning to internet

20th of February 2014

In you,

I was very ill the last five days, but I am on the mend. I’ll be posting regularly again now.

Here are a few images to tide you over.

More new prints and shirts up!

13th of February 2014

In art, posts with links in them, prints, stuff for sale,

It’s been a while since I posted up new things, so here they are, some shirts and some are prints.
I’ll be adding more next week I think.

Ninjas and editors all up in my monsters!

12th of February 2014

In art, coloring book, drawing, halloween, horror art, posts with links in them, stuff for sale,

smallbanshee I have chosen to go with http://www.printninja.com/, both because of their excellent and helpful customer service, and also because of the quality of the samples they sent me. I colored all over that shit, even used watercolor- and the paper can take it! it may buckle if you soak a large area, but it’ll soak it up, and hold up to water media, marker, and pencil as well as crayon. So you guys can color however the hell you like!

I’m rolling along with finishing the inking of the artwork, should have more pictures for you guys on friday I think- and the text is all but finished now. I’ll be sending that to my favorite editor, http://modifiededitingservices.com/ – she’s a gigantic horror fan, mostly of Poe and the older guys- so she will know how to keep the creep, but toss the dross.

The printer has been paid- and I have enough left for all the shipping to the backers. I feel that I am ahead so far, financially. I had one of the larger backers cancel payment due to an emergency of their own, so I came out short of my goal even though the total went well above it. I’m hoping to have enough left after shipping, to pay for promotion as well- but we’ll see how it goes.

You can pre-order here, to get this super-dope first edition. There will only be one run in this quality, and I am ordering a short print run of it, so if you want the nice version you should probably get one before they run out. People who backed my kickstarter will get some additional awesomeness (signed and doodled-in books, extra prints) but ordering via paypal just gets you the book, plain and simple.

thunderbird, bunyip, in progress

9th of February 2014

In you,

The Big Year of Joshua Gomez

7th of February 2014

In interview with the artist,

1. Most artists have a favorite medium, what is yours? If you work in multiple media, which one is the most enjoyable for you?

I paint in acrylic more than anything because I understand it better than others, though sometimes I’ll work in watercolor. And most recently, I painted on a cake with food coloring for the first time, and now I’m thinking of the possibilities with that. In the future I don’t want to be called a painter, but a Jack-of-all-trades. I’m sitting on a pile of ideas for sculpture, music, film, and performance–some that I’ve been planning for more than a few years. I’m just waiting for the right time and connections to start firing these things off.

2. Do you have any secret shortcuts? I mean, do you use odd tools, techniques, or anything else that isn’t strictly status-quo for your medium? How did you figure out that it worked?

I use stencils and spray paint from time to time for different patterns on my acrylic works, and sometimes I’ll tape areas off to get a straight line. I wouldn’t call those unusual necessarily, but I suppose they are short cuts. I have some ideas for sculptures that I’m going to do later this year that involve no tools, and only sticks and sand. Those are going to start popping up around my town unannounced in the summer.

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