Involuntary Collaborations

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Thanks to @GreatDismal and @JoeyHiFi for tweeting about my stuff. Here are two new involuntary collaborations I've finished recently: ...

The summer months...full of such promise...time to work on some art.  Yet I find myself banging my head against the wall of stagnation.  Her...

Build a zombie incense burner out of clay.  Basically, cone incense can be placed on the tray (which reads, "SEND MORE COPS") and ...

Try it!  Sometimes it's fun just to whip something off with no predetermined plan or vision.  Sometimes it's a significant glimpse i...

New Strand theater. Parking ramp. Neighbors. Kimberly Pool. Fred's Feed.

I drew a chainsaw katana after a friend challenged whether or not something like that was conceivably functional. CLOSE ENOUGH.

Here's one I did last year.  I believe I found this one at a Goodwill.  I like the mouth on this guy.  This painting was a struggle t...

I'm using today's post to spotlight a couple of my heroes.  These are people I've found on the internet who realized as I did th...

Here I'm showing the process.  This one I worked on a little differently than I would acrylics (or even other oil paintings), but I deci...

One thing I've learned through doing this is that other people are doing it as well.  As I happen upon other artists rocking the same co...

After posting the three monster-in-landscape paintings, a Reddit user who informed me he was an architecture student showed me images of his...

Out of the three paintings I initially posted to Reddit , this is the one that gets the most requests for prints.  But I don't have the ...

This is the Swamp Monster, the third one of these I did.  This one's hanging in the room of a college art student.  This is the first on...

This is the first monster-in-someone-else's-landscape painting I did, as described in my last post.  It's currently hanging in the h...

I had, with perhaps less than honorable intentions, been buying other people's paintings for a while.  The first time I picked up a pain...