Golden Stash

Hello Lovelies!

Exciting news! I have now added enough photo and illustration prints to the shop to run a sale. For one week I will take 15% off orders of 2 or more photo or illustration prints. I really think these prints are top knotch and I want to get them into your hands.

The sleaze photos have officially been added to the shop. I showed a few of them off in the last post and here are the other two:

          

The Golden Stash??? I can't make this stuff up. I will continue adding to this series because to be honest, it's fun. These prints are really rich and dark, a computer screen doesn't do the sleaze justice Lovelies.

I am also working feverishly on those childhood fear scratchboard pieces. Here's a preliminary sketch of the first one:

        

I hope to get these listed this weekend.

As I sit here listening to Diana Krall's The Girl in the Other Room (inspiration for the female espionage series), I am pondering a couple of questions that maybe someone can help me answer. First, why are there women out there who still insist on wearing scrunchies, taper-legged pants, shoulder pads and/or suits from the Sears catalog? This bothers me folks because those looks... never coming back. I hope. 

And did you hear about the lady who went into the McDonald's and ordered McNuggets and when she found out they were gone... called 911? Now what? There were seriously injuries on hold out there while she said what? "Hello officer, I'd like to report a crime?" I just don't know people... 

Until next time: unpleasant dreams.

The side we deny...

Hello Lovelies!

Be warned, this is going to be a dark and seedy post! Read on if you dare...

I went to see Sweeney Todd over the weekend at the Merrill Auditorium here in Portland and man was it good! Full of murder and fantastic sets and voices to die for. If it comes to your town RUN to get tickets!

I am really excited about some new projects I'm working on for the shop. Possibly this week, I am going to be offering a photographic series of sleazy neon signs that I've photographed on my travels. They will all be somehow related to the underbelly of society either through direct association or an implied one and they will be available as high-quality archival art prints. Here's a sneak peek dear readers, get excited, these are really neat!

       

Also, I am going to be doing a series of scratchboard illustrations relating to the things we all fear as children; closets, underneath the bed, the dark in general. These dark and somewhat creepy illustrations will be available as originals only as I don't think they will look as good as prints. I'll let you all know when they're available so you can take a gander.

And let me wrap up with the worst of the worst folks. A little back story, a group of my friends and I like to get dressed up and/or do makeup and then photograph the results. Then I get to play with these photos in Photoshop. Recently, we went out on a limb and decided to do a zombie. We got the TP, the cornflakes, the liquid latex and here are the results... can you believe it? 

      

Pretty scary, huh? Until next time: unpleasant dreams.