older and wiser

i notice the older i get, the things i like to do sound really boring. played in the dirt today. planted tomato starts and mulched the ever-loving crap out of the garden. also planted dahlias. hopefully they will be this pretty.....

what's really going on... the skinny on painting

so, every new years eve loads of people get totally smashed and probably do something intimate with someone they shouldn't, or should. that's hot....

the resulting hangovers and remorse doubtlessly give people an impetus to make 'resolutions' ie; 'stop smoking' 'exercise more' 'stop hitting my kids' 'start a militia' 'banana splits'. that last one isn't really a resolution.

thanks for waiting. my 'resolution' for this year was to do a small watercolor painting everyday for a year, which in most circles is called the 365 project. after holding out for roughly a month i caved and failed at this, let me tell you why.

i do a lot of art. i have callouses from pencils, pens, brushes, tattoo machines, wood carving knives and musical instruments. most of my time creating is spent drawing for tattoos with some very limited and precious time left for doing design jobs for bands, writing music, cleaning, cooking, and lastly personal art. with the 365 project i found myself cutting corners on the painting. doing the same medium everyday is kind of a soul-crushing thing for me. i thrive on the diversity of tomorrow. my paintings got worse everyday. i was giving less and less time to it. and consolidating 4 or 5 days of paintings into one day. i figured i would rather swallow the failure of the project and take time to create art that I wanted to do and see, than spend the next year doing crappy one-off skull paintings.

that said, these are the last of the 365's, enjoy!!!......

 color study for a tattoo

this is what i'm talking about. can you say 'rush job'? the wine bottle is pretty, but the banners are blank and unshaded and the damned fiddle has no strings?! weak.

 painting this rose ruined my day. even looking at it makes me feel like a hack

 stylistically 'nice' rushed though. look at that wonky sun, if the sun ever looks like that, become a CHUD

 this is akin to bathroom stall graffiti.... the fella on the right is the famous Hot Stuff devil. classic. the four on the left are (clockwise from top left) Pot Stuff, Fraught Stuff, Bot Stuff and Caught Stuff...five 'days' of paintings, obviously took me under an hour between appointments. buh-loney.

pretty but under-developed, will prolly repaint

this was a bad one to end with, why did i do that?

keep yer lil' eyeballs peeled!

April Fools Art Show/ Prints For Sale

if you find yourself with nothing to for april fools, get yer rear down to Santa Cruz and cruz on by Eights and Aces Tattoo on Soquel @ Ocean to see some great stuff! here's my offerings....

also of note, i have a bunch of prints from the Year of the Rabbit show from earlier this month and they are for sale!!!! this is what they look like......all prints hand carved, hand pressed and hand numbered with love in handmade envelopes...email for ordering...peepeehedart@yahoo.com

'carrot dream' single color linocut, edition of 24, hand pressed on card stock, 4x7 $5 each

'til good liquor carry me down' two color linocut, edition of 12, hand pressed on watercolor paper 12x12 print $20 each

'daikoku's hare' single color linocut, triptych, edition of 9, hand pressed on watercolor paper, 9x12 $50 for set of 3

new year

it's been a year and a day since we've been in our new home and i need a damn vacation!!! here's a couple morsels for your discerning palate.

first off, a lil' eire Mr. Lucky.... we don't do enough Mr. Lucky's, if you smoke or have a skull, come down and get one, or two. they ARE customizable after all!

now, a real pretty number... we did this in just over 2 hours, yipes!

i've been really sparse with tattoo pix this month cause i've been working on a bunch of bigger pieces, and progress shots aren't always that glamorous, some really exciting stuff coming up though!

marching on, or gettin' mah march on!

happy march everyone! it's the third month of the year, which would be the firebird or thunderbird month if evaluated from a playground perspective (first the worst, second the best...). it's almost time to put yer seeds in the ground and i have a sweet-ass plant tattoo for you.

this is a neat 3/4 sleeve in progress, so pardon our dust...

also we are having an ART SHOW tomorrow night at Eights and Aces Tattoo in Santa Cruz, there'll be a bunch of great people and good art. a bit of what i've been up to for the last couple weeks.

the show will prolly be hanging for a month or so, so if you're in SC go swing by and shackadow.