Honduran White Bat

For the B2 5th Anniversary Party/Benefit Show- Tomorrow!

my pieces for the snyderman works on paper show

"The Vegetable Lamb of Tartary (Latin: Agnus scythicus or Planta Tartarica Barometz^[1]) is a legendary plant of central Asia, believed to grow sheep as its fruit.^[2] The sheep were connected to the plant by an umbilical cord and grazed the land around the plant. When all the plants were gone, both the plant and sheep died. " a zoophyte, or plant animal, called in the Hebrew Jeduah. It was in form like a lamb, and from its navel, grew a stem or root by which this Zoophyte, or plant-animal, was fixed attached, like a gourd to the soil below the surface of the ground, and, according to the length of its stem or root, it devoured all the herbage which it was able to reach within the circle of its tether. The hunters who went in search of this creature were unable to capture, or remove it, until they had succeeded in cutting the stem by well-aimed arrows, or darts, when the animal immediately fell prostrate to the earth, and died. Its bones being placed with certain ceremonies and incantations in the mouth of one desiring to foretell the future, he was instantly siezed with a gift of divination, and endowed with the gift of prophesy." "

"Twrch Trwyth is a particularly potent wild boar in the Arthurian legend. The hunt for Twrch Trwyth by King Arthur was the subject of a popular stock narrative in medieval Welsh literature. The fullest account of this great hunt appears in the prose tale Culhwch and Olwen, probably written around 1100, but other references demonstrate that this was a popular subject in Wales for hundreds of years. Both the boar and the hunt have parallels in earlier Welsh and Irish mythology. Twrch is named as the son of Prince Tared, cursed into the form of a wild creature; he has poisonous bristles, and carries a pair of scissors, a comb and a razor on his head, between his ears."


The first piece was actually in the Best of Benna's show in April and had sold so I hung an archival print in the Snyderman show. The boar is new and was done in 5 days (of non-stop painting) as I was a late addition to the show. Both pieces are in really beautiful custom frames made by Josh Robeson (I'll include pictures of them framed at a later date probably). You should 100% ask me for contact info if you are interested in having a really nice frame made by a Philadelphia artist, because he does incredible work!

There's a lot of detail lost in posting these so small but it's a limitation of the blog format. Hopefully you get the idea!

UPDATE: READ A REVIEW OF THE SHOW HERE! they chose to highlight one of my pieces and I'm pretty excited about that!

Snyderman Works on Paper Show-I'm in it!

"The Works Gallery is proud to present a show composed of ten local artists; Alicia Neal, Adriane Dalton, Justin Gray, Michael Bukowski, Matthew DeFilippo, James Ulmer, Joslyn Newman, Steven Dufala, Jeanne D'Angelo & Josh Robeson. This is the first show of Works on Paper at the Works Gallery and also the first show curated by Kathryn Moran. The show opens First Froday, September 4th and runs through September 30th."

Date:	Friday, September 4, 2009
Time:	5:30pm - 8:30pm
Location:	The Works Gallery
Street:	303 Cherry St.
City/Town:	Philadelphia, PA

For Those to Come group show

from top: Ruppell's Griffon vulture baby, Juvenile bearded vulture, Egyptian vulture.

Paintings on sale at Benna's Cafe, all proceeds to benefit the American Bird Conservatory! come! buy these or any of the other awesome bird themed art!!

The Diamond Sea

hey, here's the tshirt I did for this Australian band the Diamond Sea. I had intended for it to be printed in three colors, which didn't end up happening but I feel like the design isn't too muddled just in linework alone. just a big pile of ocean crap!

suicidal failure!

a partial scan of a bigger drawing I did inspired by the old hand-drawn suicidal tendencies white button ups. I'm hoping to make a screen print of it at some point!

bones of sea birds

Here's a little painting I made for the cover of a cassette coming out on Sal's Label

Warthog Bag !

hey, remember that warthog drawing? The kids over at resist today printed it on a bag that is now available! go buy it!

couple of the pieces from the show

more forthcoming!

hi, I'm having a show.

brainworms flyer

yerrrrp!

Bear

This is a revamp from an unused tshirt design I did. Toothier, hairier, more bug eyed, etc.

Hanafuda-Man with an Umbrella

prooooobbbbably the last one.

Rosa the Dog

full color portrait of my friend Katrina's dog, Rosa.

sixth bourough fringe festival poster

trash monster!!!!

for luke

for a cassett he's putting out!

Hanafuda Crane and Deer!

Crane and Deer prints are done! available in magenta and teal (deer) and gold and purple (crane). Each print is handscreened on cover stock printing paper and is 10 1/4 in by 13 3/4 in. following are swatches of each print. $10 each or $25 for all three. email burningbrothel@gmail.com for information!

Warthog

These dudes are so ugly. I went kinda crazy with it.

Hanafuda boar prints!

hanafuda boar screenprint ($10!) available in orange red and yellow green

and also a few hot pink streaked orange red ones, if you're feeling adventurous

also two new hanafuda designs- a deer:

and a crane (mind the crappy scan):

both soon to be prints in the series!

owl

soon to be a print.

sixth borough stickers

corpse in a field

FNU Flyer

Happy Birthday, Justin!

This is his "card". Also, if anyone cares, I used these Koh-I-Noor stackable watercolors to color it and I recommend them really really really highly. Super vivid colors. Really portable. Blah blah blah.

R-A-T-T-F-I-N-K

Matt and I painted ratt finks on old pizza boxes from my alley. uhhh are old spraypainted pizza boxes archival? probably not. he spray painted.

6th bourough poster

Some old prints...

Part of a series of women from horror movies that I seem to have misplaced. These are a couple I did when I was fooling around printing block prints with half dried ink and water spots to get fuzzy devolved looking stuff...

the Sharpie Project...

For a week or so during the summer I made a point to draw one completely ridiculous sharpie drawing a day, to relieve the stress of producing something that was actually worthwhile. It's a fun exercise and the results were impressively retarded...

wolf and crow paintings

Hanafuda boar