A show, you should go, bro

I have an opening in a show this Friday at LE Gallery. The show is based around work inspired by alchemy. My work is inspired by and made through alchemy.

The show itself is Friday December 2 at LE Gallery, 1183 Dundas West. The opening is 7 to 10 pm, and the show stays up until December 18. Regular gallery viewing, Wednesday to Sunday, 12-6.

Also, thank you to my fans in Russia.

Study #7

Hi.

This is the final study I will be posting. Number 8 shall be unveiled in the real world. It collages two reapers from Holbein's Danse Macabre series, with hatched lines in the background and a horseman from Bruegel's Triumph of Death in the foreground. The two figures on the left in this image appear faintly in the upper background of the Plague Wind piece. This is the only study completely devoid of text. Plague wind is an odd piece to me; neglecting the bottom inch, it has almost no English, and in my mind sits a little apart from the three other large drawings. I think this study preserves that.

Study #6

This is the sixth study, the second study for the Siege Drop Dead piece. It's more or less the gluttony and sloth panels from Bosch's Seven Deadly Sins and Four Other Things. The main area is pretty faithful to the source material, but the little bubble has been altered for maximum Siege references.

Sorry for the glare, but with great stippling comes great glarability.

There are two more of these studies, then I am drawing metal logos and dogs and ice cream and monsters for December.

Details on the show will follow.

Study #5

This is a study for the Plague Wind drawing. That drawing was based loosely around Bruegel's Triumph of Death and the album art of the band Skaven. The Skaven are a breed of rat like humanoids from Warhammer, who will take over the world. Ideally.

The floral motif works well with the black death; people actually believed roses and chrysanthemum would cure or at least slow the onset of the bubonic plague.
These flowers appear in the original, and in the lower right corner of this piece. I plan to use these two symbols again. The top one is Japanese, and the lower one, the chrysanthemum, is my own.

I think that Plague Wind is the most abstract drawing of the series, the drawing just looks like one giant symbol and, despite the English text at the bottom, it still seems very alien. The study was fun. The large text in the middle is another ambigram, present but smaller in the original.

Study #4

This is the fourth study, accompanying the DADG APES piece. It's one of Durer's woodcuts from the apocalyptic bible series he did around 1498. The woodcut has been called "The Avenging Angels", though I suspect this is a case of historians giving posthumous titles to things.

This is probably the most literal of all of these studies I have done so far. I'm almost done the fifth, but it's taking longer than planned, due to x-treeem stippling.

Stippling is extreme.

Study #3

This is one of the studies for the Siege DROP DEAD piece. It's an expansion of the illuminated Siege title in the top left corner of the original drawing, done to resemble a manuscript. If monks copied out Siege lyrics by candle light...things would have ruled.

The text is an interview from 1984 done by Suburban Punk.

RIP Screamin Kev Mahoney.

Thrash>Google

I hate technology. I draw by hand...

Paint and PS are convinced that a 2000 pixel image I have should print out at about 3 inches. Google is experiencing infinite redirects, so I'm actually using internet explorer. From 1997, google. Google, you hear me?

Anyway, I wish life could be more like this picture., by which I mean "oldschool and gnarly"