New deal.

Another revisitation of old ideas, from this summer. All but the blue faced grinner has been a part of my art in the past. Hes new, blue and trying to smile at you.. But its hard to smile and make it seem real for these guys, very hard to trust them and find some warmth in them. They just put on a face to get women, and sometimes it works.

Zombiehead pop-remix

That old zombiehead is back, in crazy colors and great numbers (8). I love painting that head, and I dont see an end to it in the near future.
The origins of this head might be interesting to one or two of you, so here it is.. Its my take on one of the zombies in the great movie "Zombie Holocaust". Where zombies and cannibals meet and eat.

Skate and do everything

Its going off like crazy in the skate park, with lionmen on boards ripping off heads, old-school tricks, a man eating himself and all kinds of colors on the wheels (probably from kryptonics). I was trying hard to capture the color of 80s skateing and the feeling of having your eyes stuffed with things of interest that you always did when you went into the skateshops back then. Saw the movies about how Gator and Jason Jessie went crazy, put on some "Devo" and dugg up some old thrasher magazines and this came out in the end, but not from "the end". Its never the end.

Two blue women in hot water.

A cople of new works. Small canvases about blue women whos carried off by brutes, a lifeguard with a big old horsemask from Africa and a great ape. The ape is in leage with a robot and the lifeguard is working for the planet of the apes. Ive been enjoying my "Planet of the apes" box set alot these days and its showing in my work.

Snakewomen of the west

This painting is based on the visions of a young man who asked me to paint a painting for him (for a fee). Its harder to paint something that dont spring out of your own mind, but when he told me what kind of things he wanted to happen in the picture it didnt take long before I saw that this was something I could get into. The snake comming out of a womans mouth is the highlight and something I really enjoyed painting. Its probably most peoples nightmare to have some kind of serpent forcing its way out of them..

The mask is the key.

This is the backstreet of a southern town in the 40s, the heart of Africa and the deep dark of a little caribbean island only William Seabrook would have liked to see. And what a great time I had painting it, with Nina Simones "Sinnerman" on the system and a free flow of colors and Negrita rum all over my inner and outer space. A fair bit of the inspiration behind this picture came from the first part of the "Book of the dead" about the history of the zombie in the cinema..

Diablito

Just a little devil I did to have something to do on a winters day.. Saw a nice mask that gave me the inspiration, got a small canvas and there it is.
This is one of those oriental devils that has his fangs turned outwards, dont know how that works when you bite, or even if devils do bite, but it looks interesting. He is also wearing his hair in a party in the back kinda way, with some more representable backslick action happening in the front.