Inking My way Through It

Approx. 60” x 48” | Acrylic on Shaped Masonite | $1200

My newest puzzle painting, a more sophisticated design and concept, focusing less on artist block, and more on the wave of success, and how experience and failure brought it to be. The Talk Vacuum is a beautiful and frightful take on how communication, experimentation, and upbringing can shape not only an artist’s creation, but their personal life.

This painting was inspired by my hometown of Tillsonburg, along with all of the things that not only influenced me and brought happiness, but the things that pushed me down and brought pain. I thank it all for who I am today.

First painting of a triptych.

Music I listened to at the time:

• Flight B741 - KGLW

• Presence - Led Zeppelin

• Rage Against the Machine

Approx. 55” x 48” | Acrylic on Shaped Masonite | $800

The sequel to The Distorted Puzzle. Just as I was finishing it up, I was beginning to work in comic books, creating my Wendy and the Sprite series. I used this newfound excitement and inspiration and merged it with my graphical acrylic painting; building onto the artist block concept previously, and rekindling my love for the medium.

To add to the concept, instead of making separate “puzzle pieces”, I attached every piece to a large egg shape, as if to hatch into something new in my life and career; boy was I correct.

Music I listened to at the time:

• Rust in Peace - Megadeth

• Black Star - David Bowie

• Machina/Machines of the Gods - Smashing Pumpkins

Approx. 60” x 36” | Acrylic on Shaped Masonite | $650

My first puzzle painting, inspired completely by artist block. This was a project in my first year of post-secondary and I had zero ideas at all. So I put on my favourite album at the time, picked out my favourite colour, and slashed at the canvas.

The main concept here is embracing change, the uncertain, and breaking out of routine.

Music I listened to at the time:

• Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins

• Mind Over Matter - Young the Giant

• Abigail - King Diamond

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $1200

The Flooded Planet Overflow tells a story of four creatures who have lived in the world above, a world of grey and dullness. They find themselves now exploring a vast underwater world filed with beautiful creatures and colours, what awaits them deep below?

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $1200

This page in particular marks their encounter with a guardian of an ancient facility known as, The Overgrowth(E) building. Who left all of this down here!?

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $800

Our adventurer’s approaching the Overgrowth(E) Facility, something they had saw on their way down here, I wonder what awaits them inside?

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $500

More exploration for our adventurers, as they traverse a landscape of plant-life and fish alike. They watch now as they move forward, the landscape slowly becomes more and more flooded with the debris of broken down robots…

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $300 each

The entire comic and its original pages, all on one wall! Work done on Bristol Vellum, with India ink and brush

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $400

Monster of the Abyss tells the short tale of a doll named Sleepy Joe, for whom his owner, Joseph, just received for his birthday. Leaving him on the floor one night, Sleepy Joe faces something he never though possible, beneath the bed…

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $800

Sleep Joe, left on the floor to witness something truly horrifying beneath the bed.

11” x 17” | India Ink on Bristol Vellum | $1200

Oh no! Something’s got Sleepy Joe!

~ 36” x 36” | Acrylic paint on shaped masonite | $800

This painting was created after the production of my Prophets of Grey album, A Split in the Sun, was complete. Depicted on the painting, are the events taking place within the album, and what begins the comic series I have created over the years; Dot the Robot, Wendy and the Sprite, and The Flooded Planet, Overflow.

You can listen here, or (mostly) wherever you listen to music!

https://distrokid.com/hyperfollow/prophetsofgrey/a-split-in-the-sun

~ 22” x 22” | Acrylic paint on shaped masonite | $800

I grew up with Night Terrors as a kid, when they finally went away they were replaced with chronic migraines. Needless to say I had a lot I wanted to let out artistically, but (for many, many reasons) I didn’t know how to start, where, why, or even when. In post-secondary, painting class was where I learned how to do just that.

My teacher said, ‘Don’t paint something made up, paint something you know’. A lot of my peers were confused by this statement, wanting to paint unknown and fantasy worlds. I painted the abstract, the confusing, the unknown, but I knew it all too well. I painted exactly what I saw growing up.

This particular painting is of a house just outside of Tillsonburg that my grandparents used to live in, and of one particular night-terror I had of it.

~ 13.5” x 12” | Acrylic paint on shaped masonite | $800

As stated for “Looking Back”, I grew up with night-terrors, and this painting is a crude interpretation of one of my earliest ones. One that certainly stuck for a long time.

I had a fever, and I will never forget closing my eyes to sleep, continuously dreaming of this disk spinning and a ticker hitting the disk every mili-second, it made me nauseous….

It still does.

~ 11” x 14” | India ink on Bristol Vellum | $400

This illustration is a depiction of what Dot the Robot goes through in Book 3, a story I have written but have not worked on just yet.

The title is a reference to a song, "“She Speaks” on my album, “A Split in the Sun”, most of the song references what Dot must go thru in the third book; climbing The Northbound Mountain and undoing what would be known as, The Fading.

~ 11” x 14” | India ink on Bristol Vellum | $200

A portrait of Dot during the final events of the Wendy and the Sprite comic series which is currently running, we won’t see this version of Dot for a while.

~ 11” x 14” | India ink on Bristol Vellum | $120

Inspired from the Bloodborne and Dark Souls series. The SoulsBorne games and the manga series, Berserk are huge inspirations for my inking style, story telling and lore-rich elements in my work.

A snow person named Wendy and an Ice Ball named Sprite embark on an adventure together to search for their long lost tribes. As they traverse their snowy “Grey Planet” they must endure The Fading, as their planet and themselves lose colour and memory.

For all ages.

Thousands of years after Wendy and the Sprite, 4 creatures who live in a world completely dull and grey, find an ancient underwater world filled with life and colour. They begin to explore below as they come across large sea creatures, relics, robots, and the reason they grew up so grey and Faded.

Joeseph, a little boy who receives a doll for his birthday, named, Sleepy Joe, gives this toy everything it could ever want. They play at the park, they go to school together, and they sleep together. But sometimes, Sleepy Joe is left ton the floor, and the monsters under the bed want him for themselves…

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India ink and brush on Bristol Vellum.

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Chisel marker and pencil on newsprint.

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Acrylic on wood panel.