Also something I should have done a while ago, Lino Cut of a sticker I’ve been strategically slapping up around town for the last couple years. Just 19 more of these to pull and 25 with white ink on black paper. Dropping in the webstore soon!
For when
The sales on the low brow, pop art, contemporary western paintings stop and I can get back to painting things I enjoy doing more. . .
Just in time
To drag bad children back to its creepy lair! More traditional sculpt of krampus before I start on a contemporary version.
Underdrawing
Layout for a slightly larger painting of Hunter S. Thompson. Kinda in love with multiples at the moment, exploring how my mood or the time of day I’m working on something can affect/effect my final painting. We’ll see how this on turns out.
Sketches for next few paintings
I Forgot
How miserable it is painting realistic metal. But it’s coming along.
Photoshop 1.0
Or a #2 pencil drawing and a copy machine.
Saint Prodigy
19 in x 22 in progress shot of “Saint Prodigy” from my limited series called “Patron Saints of Hip-Hop” can’t wait to finish this up build a custom rococo frame and get some prints made.
Patron Saints of a Hip-Hop
Late last night
starting working on a study for a new painting.
Something New
On the easel.
Playing around with oil paint and some new ideas for 2019.
It’s been one of those days
Where you draw a little kid launching a hellfire missile from a reaper drone.
Cause and Effect
or things that would be way cooler 8’ x 8’ or painting stuff no one wants in their house since 1984.
Panel One
Cause:
this would look pretty bad if I did it on an larger scale, somewhere around 8 ft x 8 ft. Maybe if I get in to one of these residencies I’ll be able to pull it off.
Well That’s Like
On the easel
This was a full pencil
When I started this 72 inch tall painting.
Couple more sketches
Blatant drug art always seemed pretty lame to me, so I’ve gone through several iterations of these preliminary drawings in my sketchbook before landed on these two. It’s definitely been an internal struggle of whether I should even make these. I went through the same thing when I was working on the AR-15 painting but it ended up turning out pretty powerful.
Whoa
Well the reaction to this painting has been pretty interesting. No one actually likes it, which is what I was actually going for. The left leaning types apparently don’t want to face the reality of guns in the context of school shootings especially when it’s to scale of a real AR-15 and the right sees it as some sort of attack on their personal freedom. The fact is America has too many guns and my biggest issue with where the gun control debate is headed, is towards the scapegoating of people with mental health issues. Blaming an already stigmatized and marginalized section of society isn’t moving forward. The Las Vegas shooter by all apperences didn’t have any “mental heath issues” before his massacre.
Oh and I have two words regarding the argument about a well armed militia: predator drone.
Freedom
Something, something