cock rock; shock pop

Wow I stink at blogging. I'll blame school.

So despite slightly slower additions to my etsy shop, I've been getting more done than ever in my fine art practice. And some really cute tiny oil paintings that just need to dry before I list them.

Here's a sneak peak into some upcoming projects. I've lovingly nicknamed pretty much my entire studio practice "cock rock; shock pop" from the PBF song Leather Boyz with Electric Toyz. It just fits.



The delightful Marc Bolan. Oil on panel, 8x10". It's got a really nice charm in person as a cozy miniature painting. A little view into a boozy glam world. This was the catalyst for most of the work I've been doing in the last couple months. Music and glam are my things. A big trend recently has been artists that document urban culture, and there's always been artists dealing with immigration and their native cultures, and so on. Well glam rock is my little project. This painting doesn't so much idolize Marc as it does give a window into this warm, glamorous setting. But before I launch into an entire thesis, I'll leave it at that. Bottom line, Marc was a foxy man. And there should be many many paintings of him for the good of mankind.



(other side of the hammer pillow)

Michael Alig pillows. The prompt was 3D drawing, either by building off the wall or removing the drawing from the wall entirely. My If It Bleeds... series prompted a lot of talk about promoting serial killers as celebrities or pop idols and whether that bothered me. It doesn't. I have a giant Ed Gein painting on my wall and more movies about psychos than I should admit, buuuut artsy people love to talk about that shit. So in response to those people, I went a step further and created the Homicide Home Collection. If Martha Stewart just isn't your style, you can pick up a lovely series of pillows depicting Michael Alig and his unfortunate little homicide incident. After all, people love killers in their movies, tv, books, why not have them around all the time and use them for decoration? Makes sense to me.

And a couple projects in the works:


Pardon all the random junk on my table. The project is "Clowning: The Mask". Club kids obviously operated within the idea of the mask. Being a portrait painter, the comparisons to renn. and dutch painters never end. But in this case, hey, why not. So I thought of old timey portraits where a society lady would put on her best dress and a nice hat and pose for the portrait that more or less defined her identity and status. And if Richie Rich, at this time, were to dress in his definitive look to sit for a portrait, I figure this would be pretty close. And that makes me laugh. James has been done since this picture was taken too. Now they just need to hurry up and dry so they can get some glamorous color.


Oh Phil, so pretty it should be a crime. Getting back to my glam rambling, these are sketches for future paintings. In general I don't draw this much or even color my sketches, but they're for another class project ("drawing as plan for a future work") and should look nicer than my usual scribbles. In essence even the paintings will be studies for future work this summer or fall, more along the lines of the Marc piece above with a background and whatnot. But these will be technical pieces about the surface and physical properties of the paint, color, and getting the spirit of the subject. Phil was the singer for Girl and LA Guns, by the way. Youtube it.


Dj Ashba. Beautiful Creatures, Sixx AM, etc. And all around pretty boy.


Donnie Vie. Singer for Enuff Z'Nuff. Again, youtube 'em. Then get the albums 'cause a life without EZN just isn't worth living. In terms of getting the subject's personality this is probably least representative. He's a cynical bastard, but I think it gets the spirit of EZN (they really couldn't possibly use more peace signs in their imagery). Whatever, I think it's a cute drawing of Donnie, so fuck it. He has his cheery moments.


Aaaaand last but not least, poor John Lydon (Johnny Rotten) is stuck with these glam boys. He'll manage. At this point this painting will probably never happen, but I like the drawing anyway.

Tom Keifer, Brent Muscat, and Billy Idol are also in the early stages.

Aaaaaand, that's about all there is to update on. 3am, probably time to sleep.