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starting out as a normal antique photo of a small child, the image seemed to suggest something more sinister to me. eventually i decided to reproduce the child (with clownish makeup, which kinda freaks me out) on a darker background with formless shapes of unrelated color swirling outside the darkness which envelopes the child. the bluish flesh hues are less life-like than the normal green tones would have produced.
composed of dozens of washes of gouache on fiber panel, dimensions are nominal 8.5" x 4"
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this is a painting i started almost one year ago. after having a horrible experience with a terrible art instructor i almost completely stopped painting and drawing (i should have never taken a class - i learned nothing from the instructor making the experience a complete loss). this was a one hour wonder (as are most of my works) which was almost completed before the hiatus just mentioned. after returning from a vacation my mood had lifted and i felt free to begin again. after completing this painting (in early January 2004) i immediately did the Jesus painting following.
this is the U.W. Fine Arts Center, directly across the street from my home. the early evening sunset bathes the building in the reddish hues seen here. the picture is a failure compared to the painting. the clouds are alive with subtle color variations, and represent the majority of visual interest. this is all lost in the digital photo.
acrylic underpainting, oils on streched canvas, dimensions are 29" x 38"
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this is a painting from a local St. Vinnies Thrift Shop. i've wanted to do a series of Jesus paintings in which he is represented in a variety of ways to underscore his humanity. this was one of those cheap-o prints with fake brush marks (if you look closely you can still see them!) which has been completely painted over with normal oil paints. some tacky art really annoys me - everyone should have real paintings in their homes! anyway, after picking this up i re-painted it (without removing it from the frame - you can see the brush marks on the frame)... the robe and sash he was wearing and the background were so bland i had to liven them up a bit. none of the original painting survives.
oils on cheap-o panel, dimensions are 20" x 16"
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stunning picture done on the cover of a magazine (catalog?) found in one of the many campus trash cans on my regular dumpster-diving route. your friends will love it! everyone who has seen it up close had no idea it was done on a discarded cover. these low-res pictures only hint at the detail and beauty. if you look very, very carefully you might spot the staple holes, or even the mailing address tag. but you would have to examine it in person, and know where to look, to find the postage meter mark! this thing looks stunning now that it is framed in an antique frame (which needed minimal restoration).
mixed media (gouache, ink, watercolors) on reclaimed magazine cover,
dimensions are 10 7/8" x 17"
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the Last Supper - according to that crazy person talking inside my head, and not as depicted by Leonardo da Vinci. Thomas seems to be saying "Our Lord needs quarters over here, already!"
acrylic on stretched canvas, painted edges, a wire is strung and ready to hang.
dimensions are 10" x 24"
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mixed media drawing. dimensions are 5" x 7"
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the media is feeding us fear all day, every day. this helps place the Government in a position to do anything - anything - to "keep us safe". but from what? on average more people are killed every year in nightclubs than in U.S. terror attacks and yet now "Homeland Security" will centralize more power than the old Federal Bureau Director J. Edgar Hoover ever dreamed possible... even in his wettest, wildest cross-dressing fantasies!
now *that* is something to be afraid of!
soft artist's oil pastels on brown paper. dimensions are nominal 15" x 14.5"
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his father was well known for telling the American people "Read my Lips". then we voted him out of office. now George Jr. is WOWing the global audience with his latest, loosely related, trick.
no, you're not seeing double - this is the UN Comedy Hour's open mic. nite repeat performance. as seen on CNN, Fox News, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and, of course, Saturday Night Live!
"kind'a like an old comedy routine i no longer want to watch", i say...
some British serfs think Tony Blair has no spine - good thing too, or how could King George get his hand in there to operate our Dummy? i guess we've shown 'em who's in charge: the 13 Colonies! long live King George! the world's greatest ventriloquist.
acrylic paint on stretched canvas, dimensions are 30" x 36"
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every few years one of my Polaroid cameras surfaces and i invariably find it contains old, unusable Polaroid film. this time i decided it might be fun to use some of the film as supports for a small painting, and primed the external surface of the emulsion layer.
the inspiration for the pilot portraiture was the flight instructors who worked for FlyGirl back when i dated her - she was a flight instructor as well as the manager of Pilot Instruction at the local privately owned Aviation Company.
acrylic portrait on old (blank/unexposed) Polaroid. dimensions are 4" x 4"
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my first homage to the "world's most important cleaner and dishwasher". he was the most prolific outsider artist ever, working in secret for over sixty years without so much as a word to anyone about his work. while hospitalized, shortly before his death, his masterworks were discovered. when asked what should become of them his instructions were that they be destroyed. thank god the dying wishes of an elderly man were, yet again, ignored!
only once in his handwritten autobiography did he mention being an artist or making art! in addition to his five thousand plus page autobiography he also penned the world's largest work of fiction - in excess of fifteen thousand pages, soon to be made available on microfiche. no one has, to my knowledge, read it in it's entirety. only one researcher has even made the claim to have "been on" each page! some of his watercolor illustrations were strewn around the tiny living quarters he had occupied for many years, many were also bound - only to be cut out by vultures who wanted only to profit from this Magnum Opus, his private work.
acrylic on stretched canvas, painted edges, dimensions are 22" x 24"
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what could be more collectible than an original Knights Templar toaster? nothing. scroll down to see the photos of Knight Templar Wild Bill holding his, and the photo of two "Knights Templar of the Toaster" - this is the REAL secret order controlling the world!
the "Knights Templar of the Toaster" are the all-powerful, secretive cabal that operates in the shadows - the secret order that pulls the strings of the Masons, the Council on Foreign Relations, the Vatican and the Bilderbergers.
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one Knights Templar relic toaster, with cut cord.
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| Knight Templar Wild Bill | Royal Order of the Templar Toaster |
this example of Kabbalah kitch would make a fab gift to anyone interested in Kabbalah, Eastern Mysticism, or Hello Kitty.
mixed media on paper, mounted on handmade paper, dimensions are nominal 10.25" x 8.5"
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framed within a heavy Rococo style gold frame (kick stand in back) this is an artistic representation of the DNA sequence which is responsible for killing much of my family - and not the cigarettes, or sun, after all. the Surgeon General must be feeling pretty sheepish after this latest discovery: NAMI-A inhibits the rogue protein gene B-RaF from mis-signaling MEK!
drawing and painting on framed, partial Camel pack, dimensions are nominal 6.25" x 5"
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secured on a clean white napkin - to keep it sanitary - this fresh meat is secured
on a disposable styrofoam tray and wraped in cling film.
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sculptural collage including reclaimed objects, etc. dimensions are 5.75" x 8" x 1.25"
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this is one drawing in an ongoing series of near-miss misquotes of the "four Horsemen" genre: "the Four Horseflies of the Apocalypse" follows others, such as "the Four housepainters of the Acropolis" and "the Four Norsemen of the Apocalypse".
mixed-media drawing. dimensions are 8.5" x 5.5"
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the Sierra Club mails me solicitations *at least* once each month. calendars, stickers, long (and unread) letters pleading with me for financial support and chock full of promises for more junk mail should i give them that support.
all of it is treated as junk mail now, and i often wonder how many landfills the Sierra Club will fill with their unneeded junk mail before we can stop them. giving them more money is out of the question - they would use a portion of it to finance even greater junk mail campaigns... and i guess you could say that such wasteful squandering of our limited natural resources seems "looney" to me.
mixed media on Sierra Club (United States Postal Service junk-mail quality paper) envelope, dimensions are 10 3/8" x 4 1/2"
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hand painted cross with ex-Happy Meal toy Ronald tied, screwed, and glued. despite my best efforts, no clowns were injured during the making of this crucifix.
dimensions are nominal 8.25" x 4.75"
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mixed media drawing of America's favorite clown. Ronald reminds me of another person who wanted World Domination - this political poster is fashioned after one of his.
some say that in the future we'll all work at Wall-2-Wall Mart and eat at McDonalds... what a great future!
i hate clowns in general, and Ronald in particular.
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 4 5/8" x 6 3/8"
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mixed media drawing of America's favorite clown being arrested.
some say that in the future we'll all work at Wall-2-Wall Mart and eat at McDonalds... what a great future!
i hate clowns in general, and Ronald in particular.
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 4 3/8" x 6 1/8"
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mixed media drawing of America's favorite clown being arrested.
some say that in the future we'll all work at Wall-2-Wall Mart and eat at McDonalds... what a great future!
i hate clowns in general, and Ronald in particular.
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 5 1/8 x 6 5/8"
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millions of years from now Archeologists will excavate many thousands of McMeaty’s Golden Arches locations. while his name will have been long-lost to history, the Anthropological community will hotly debate the world-wide religion involving America's most successful spokesclown, Ronald McDonald.
this colorful character, the temple's central deity, was clearly offered burnt sacrifices of bovine flesh on plastic trays by the temple priests, and priestesses, wearing paper hats. the plastic clown face which the worshipers would speak their confessions into were also outfitted with speakers to extend absolution upon the drive-thru penitent, reminiscent of the automated confessional kiosks in THX-1138.
dimensions are 8" tall x 2.5" diameter
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mixed media drawing of America's favorite clown featured on a prayer card.
some say that in the future we'll all work at Wall-2-Wall Mart and eat at McDonalds... what a great future!
i hate clowns in general, and Ronald in particular.
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 3.5" x 6.25"
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millions of years from now Archeologists will excavate many thousands of McMeaty's Golden Arches locations. while his name will have been long-lost to history, the Anthropological community will hotly debate the world-wide religion involving America's most successful spokesclown, Ronald McDonald.
given the influence that huge multi-national corporations wield over the political and judicial systems it seems fitting to have the American greenbacks sport corporate mascots. here we see Roland McMeatie on the first such example, the "Ten McMeatie Dollars" bill.
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 4 7/8" x 9 1/4"
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millions of years from now Archeologists will excavate many thousands of McMeaty's Golden Arches locations. while his name will have been long-lost to history, the Anthropological community will hotly debate the world-wide religion involving America's most successful spokesclown, Ronald McDonald.
here Roland McMeatie is looking prosperous and self-satisfied standing in front of his personal mansion "Billions Served, Millions Eaten, Hundreds Digested" is the text to his left.
Some of you may prefer 2-ply, quilted, or scented, in which case this artwork may not be to your liking. Otherwise suitable for framing, nose-blowing, wobbly-table steadying, etc. just use your imagination.
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 4 1/4" x 5 1/8"
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millions of years from now Archeologists will excavate many thousands of McMeaty's Golden Arches locations. while his name will have been long-lost to history, the Anthropological community will hotly debate the world-wide religion involving America's most successful spokesclown, Ronald McDonald.
one ordinary day, after putting a 50-gallon drum of mayo out in the sun (that's the super-top-secret recipe for making "secret sauce"), i went into the back room and found Roland McMeatie getting dressed for a public appearance... and this is what i saw !
when i first found out that Roland McMeatie is, in fact, an insect i... well i freaked out. he is the evil overlord of segmented, six-legged invaders who are feeding on our supple Supra-Sized flesh... no wonder the corporation is selling us out! Soylent McMeatie is PEOPLE!!!
mixed media on paper. dimensions are 6 3/4" x 7 1/2"
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faced with a piece of junk mail this morning i tore the envelope in half and separated out the blank pieces, drawing Roland McMeatie on the available pieces. the entire collection, thirteen pieces in all, are stowed securely in a discarded fry sleeve i found yesterday while walking along the local riverbank - it originally came from someplace called McDonalds... no relationship exists between the two. i've never heard of McDonalds before and assume they are a fly-by-night location trying to build on the success of McMeaties; another McMeaties wanna-be! what next? Krabbie the Klown?!?
mixed media on United States Postal Service junk-mail quality paper. dimensions vary,
fry sleeve is nominal 5" x 6"
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this is the original seed from which the following (below) images grew.
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millions of years from now Archeologists will excavate many thousands of McMeaty’s Golden Arches locations. while his name will have been long-lost to history, the Anthropological community will hotly debate the world-wide religion involving America’s most successful spokesclown, Ronald McDonald.
this colorful character, the temple's central deity, was clearly offered burnt sacrifices of bovine flesh on plastic trays by the temple priests, and priestesses, wearing paper hats. the plastic clown face which the worshipers would speak their confessions into were also outfitted with speakers to extend absolution upon the drive-thru penitent, reminiscent of the automated confessional kiosks in THX-1138.
the idea of a TV tray used as a support appeals to me because it epitomizes the convergence of religion, corporate culture, and pop culture - especially the blurring of lines between religion and pop culture which results when corporations press in on us more and more via radio, magazines, newspapers, baseball caps, t-shirts, race cars, television - the list seems endless.
imagine one of Roland’s paper-hatted disciples placing your BigMeatie on a plastic tray and saying the magic words "This is Mc flesh. Eat ye all of it" and a paper cup holding your icy beverage, adding "This sale is my life’s blood. Do this in remembrance of me, and have a nice day."
obviously Roland can't believe his eyes: you're eating at home when you could be eating a fat-and-cholesterol soaked BigMeatie burger?!?
Roland McMeaty TV Tray with detachable folding legs, tabletop dimensions are 21 1/8" x 15 1/8"
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just a musing on what a fly on the wall might hear at a Roland McMeatie strategy meeting in Medieval times.
concept sketch, mixed media on paper. dimensions are nominal 4 1/4" x 5 1/8".
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original oil painting, ''Animus Suppurate''; Mother & Child embroiled in oil.
oil paints on 12" x 16" board, painted in frame.
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framed and protected under a layer of glass this is a really provocative drawing of a young Nun, the kind i knew in Catholic school. where do you think those fast Catholic girls go?
provide your own 'mount saint Mary' jokes, please.
mixed media drawing on reclaimed paper. dimensions are 5" x 7"
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pair of drawings of Saddam and Rumsfeld, each in turn being brought down by the U.S. Military-Industrial complex. each can be said to have brought his personal problems upon himself.
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| US Soldiers Bringing Down Saddam | US Soldiers Bringing Down Rumsfeld |
since we (the big "Corporate" we) can send our troops for the sake of
their bottom line, maybe they should be pumping gas and cleaning windshields,
too. the fascist government we're drifting toward will want troops on every
corner anyway- right where gas stations often sit...
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