Gallery of the Absurd

Happy Halloween!

In honor or Halloween, here's a creepy portrait of Vincent Price in his role as the diabolical, organ-playing mad scientist Dr. Phibes. If you enjoy campy horror flicks, you can't go wrong with The Abominable Dr. Phibes or Dr. Phibes Rises Again. Medium: graphite on paper, digital paint.

Is This What Passes For a Farm These Days?

This is what happens when I watch too many of those disturbing food and agriculture documentaries circulating on Netflix (hey, it's better viewing material than all that blur of Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker rom-com crapola they've got on there). Combine that with my love of vintage wacky packages, and this is what came out of me. Anyway, I find it laughable that certain poultry processing giants claim their chickens are raised on "family farms", roaming freely across verdant fields, clucking and happy in the sunshine while rosy-cheeked Farmer Joe gazes lovingly over his flock. Uh, no. Medium: Ink on paper, digital paint. Thanks Viper!

Update:  A few of my readers have asked me why I don't post as much celeb satire here as I used to. It was a LOT of work to keep up with the current trashy gossip and crank out so many weekly posts. It began to drain me and I suffered massive burn out. Those mind-numbing Kardashians and Lohans can really do a number on you if you aren't careful. These days, I still find the occasional inspiration in a paparazzi photo or a silly news story over at Dlisted, but I'd rather just be an artist and draw whatever I feel like drawing on any given day. One day I might wake up and decide to work on my deck of playing cards - another day I might be in the mood to paint Madonna (currently in process) or Karl Lagerfeld (swoon), or I might visit a grocery store and see some confounding new chemical food-type thing and want to draw that.  Thanks for reading my blog!

Portrait of Tom Waits

Yes, I took a long break from making art and spent the summer wandering forests and drinking wine with laughing shamans. It's true - and I needed it.  Anyway, I'm back now and just finished this portrait of Tom Waits for the Caricaturama Showdown 3000 group on Facebook.  Listening to Waits' music, I've always pictured him as a grizzled satyr who creeps around in the darkness and uses his pan flute to concoct music out of moonlight and fire.  Medium: digital painting.