Pens' Paints and Photos

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:19 am

If you're on my myspace, you've already seen this stuff. But, I figure might as well put this up here.

Photo still life.

Pencil sketch.

Photo, still life.

Photo. still one of my favorite shots I've ever done. Obviously some digital editing done here.

Photo.

Photo with digital editing.

Photo with digital editing. I really like this one.

This is a painting. Shitty fucking camera phone pic, I have yet to get a decent camera to shoot my paintings. Amy got the good digital cam and my lil sis broke my beloved SLR.
And yeah, I know I suck. I just got back into painting after nearly 10 years.

I have a bunch more recent paintings but no decent pics yet of them. I'm working on that, will post those when I manage to get some decent shots of them.

EDIT: Found a few more on my harddrive I wanted to put up.

Obviously, digital work. I still like it.

LOVE this one. Photo,

Okay, shitty painting and shitty cam photo. This is actually one of the last paintings I did in high school before I quit painting, and I never finished it. I've decided to do more with it soon.

Painting, shitty phonecam. Second painting I did after my "restart" this past year.

This, old high school painting when I was really into Miro. Only exists now as a digital scan that I added the blue bars to.

This is the painting I did last Sunday that I was talking about. A lot of detail is lost from the phonecam pic but here is anyway.

I realize it seems like all I paint is this abstract shit but honestly I paint in other styles too. I'm just a mega-perfectionist when it comes to my more realist stuff and don't like to post that cuz I think it souucks.

Diva · Post by **Diva** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:22 am

boones farm...HAHAHA!

i like the painting. verra nice!!!

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 1:11 am

Diva wrote:boones farm...HAHAHA!

i like the painting. verra nice!!!

That very bottle of Boone's was, in fact, responsible for the conception of my son.

Ty · Post by Ty » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:11 am

I really like that last painting, it has a simplistic style that's just right. Good job.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:28 am

Thanks man. Appreciate it.

Ty · Post by Ty » Mon Feb 09, 2009 5:42 am

You are a talented artist, I need to start painting again.

James · Post by **James** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 12:51 pm

This is my favourite simply because the aspirin and the cyclinder next to it look like the hammer of a 5 year old judge. The idea of a 5 year old getting pissed on whatever is in that bottle whilst holding candlelight trials with cult-like objects around is alluring to say the least. It gets better if you give him the voice of a 40 year old Italian gangster and the vocabulary of a Scotsman, shouting at bemused looking Lego men -

"Tell me which of youse cunts crashed Thomas into the Ecto-1 and no fucker gets hurt."

Post by **Mike** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:17 pm

I want to say how funny that James post is without being told off.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:32 pm

Hahaha. No, that is exactly what you are supposed to do. The idea of that picture is to be alluring and get someone to imagine something when they see it.

Maria (roommates GF) told me last night she loves that black/white/red abstract painting because it looks like barb wire and blood and she says its a powerful image response, reminding her of the violence in prisons and whatnot. Not really what I had on my mind when I did it, but that's why you do it.

Diva · Post by **Diva** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:04 pm

like you, i need to jump back into photo work. the first weekend out of the gate was the sunsets.

so, since my goal is to shoot stuff every weekend, and i've lost a couple weekends, next weekend is it. so, what you need to do, is get out your shit this weekend and do some painting. post what you've got come next monday.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:24 pm

I actually did crank out a finished painting on Sunday. Just woke up, had coffee, then cracked a new canvas out and cranked it out. By the time the rest of the house woke up, they all would walk by and doubletake, and beeline for it, look at it, and go, man, don't do anything else to this. It's done.

So, I guess it turned out well. I was pretty happy with it. Of course, none of my pictures show the detail in any of my paintings. I need a decent camera.

Post by **Doog** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:48 pm

James wrote:

This is my favourite simply because the aspirin and the cyclinder next to it look like the hammer of a 5 year old judge. The idea of a 5 year old getting pissed on whatever is in that bottle whilst holding candlelight trials with cult-like objects around is alluring to say the least. It gets better if you give him the voice of a 40 year old Italian gangster and the vocabulary of a Scotsman, shouting at bemused looking Lego men -

"Tell me which of youse cunts crashed Thomas into the Ecto-1 and no fucker gets hurt."

pfthahahaha

Some really cool stuff, Pen. I still owe you a copy of the Casa Bonita CD for using that Polaroid artwork:

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:15 pm

Doog wrote:
James wrote:

This is my favourite simply because the aspirin and the cyclinder next to it look like the hammer of a 5 year old judge. The idea of a 5 year old getting pissed on whatever is in that bottle whilst holding candlelight trials with cult-like objects around is alluring to say the least. It gets better if you give him the voice of a 40 year old Italian gangster and the vocabulary of a Scotsman, shouting at bemused looking Lego men -

"Tell me which of youse cunts crashed Thomas into the Ecto-1 and no fucker gets hurt."
pfthahahaha

Some really cool stuff, Pen. I still owe you a copy of the Casa Bonita CD for using that Polaroid artwork:

Yeah, I couldn't remember if you had sent me one or not. That was during a rather difficult period of my life so you might have sent it and I never remembered.

I would still like a copy if you could post one, it's really cool to have something you did being used in that way.

Post by **Doog** » Tue Feb 10, 2009 9:59 am

I've got one copy right next to my bed that is now yours. PM addy and I'll get it to you as soon as poss!

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:17 pm

Added super blurry pic of painting from Sunday.

Bacchus · Post by **Bacchus** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 7:39 pm

Whoah, I hadn't looked at any of this.

You're good.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Thu Feb 12, 2009 11:18 pm

Thanks Paul!

Holy hell I forgot how much of a pain that Miro stuff was. Painting clean lines like that is a bitch.

Pens · Post by **Pens** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:42 am

New painting:

Josh · Post by **Josh** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:53 am

I like!
you're very talented pens.

westtexasred · Post by **westtexasred** » Sun Dec 20, 2009 4:53 am

That's great man! I really like the one best,its my favorite.