“Paintings – lifeless images rendered in colorful goop.”

I have chosen the quote from Treehouse of Horror IV as the title for this post because it is all too relevant to my own artwork, which I will once again be putting up alongside YA “reviews” for works from the 1980s and 1990s and sometimes earlier in reprint editions so no one knows it’s from the 1960s until they see all the content about hippies and go back and look at the copyright date in the cataloging in publication data (I bet that’s not just me).

 

Peregrine and Merricat always check the CIP. They want to know what’s what when they read.

 

Anyway, part of the reason for this continued shift away from mix making for YA Megamix Summer is that I haven’t been listening to very many things for the past couple of years and what I have been listening to is not really conducive to making mixes. My main two stalwarts of the past few years have been Havukruunu and Acid Witch, Finnish black metal and Michigan Halloween metal, neither are for everyone, both have Bandcamp pages. So if you want music I recommend, that would be it. I’ve also been watch/listening to the Two Minutes to Late Night covers of Danzig “Snakes of Christ” and David Bowie “Station to Station” on YouTube a lot. A lot. They are well worth the time and cheer me up at work when I need it, which is sometimes a lot. Depends on the crimes of humanity I’m looking at that night.

This is what Snuffy’s doing when I get to work at home. And also…right now!

Anyway, there may be older paintings, but none of them will have been featured alongside YA reviews before. All of them are on my page of “Art Works, Pig Based and Maybe Recent” as well if you’d like to see a grouping of multiple paintings by me with fewer words. And, each will be available on my Threadless, my Redbubble, or both and each post will have a link to that image’s exact page(s) as well as a link to the many images at the bottom of every page like there always are. Accessible for clicking while reading and listening to Halloween metal. Have a good summer.