Bleeding Eyes

Photo by Laura Perez-Harris Model: Me (as Robert Smith)

Apparently the members of The Cure used to apply lipstick around their eyes, so that when they sweated during performances, their eyes would appear to be bleeding. Boys don't cry, but I guess they do bleed from their eyeballs. I've actually tried this, and maybe the lipstick was waterproof because it didn't drip at all, but I did manage to look really ill with my red-ringed eyes , so mission accomplished after all.

For a while I wanted to start a band called Extinction Girls. I don't know why I thought that would be a good name. The photo of the birds on a guitar is from Modern Painter and is of a work by Celeste Bousier-Mougenot in which several finches really do play the guitar. It's so simple and logical I can't help but love it.

Gruesome Castle

Gruesome Castle

Oil. 2010.

Structural sketch for 'Gruesome Castle'

Pen and Ink. 2010

The Plague

Flesh Peddler

Flesh Petal
Flesh Pedal
Flesh Peddle

Rock n' Roll Sketches

Music occupies much of my free time-both listening and playing- and it tends to find its way into a lot of my work. Record players and amps especially. I love how much power lies in such a deceptively simple shape. There is always a danger of making art that could belong in Hard Rock Cafe, however. It's definetly a subject rife with kitch. Oh well. Such is the challenge of any artist today, right?

Thanksgiving Sketches