Thursday, July 30, 2009

Monday, July 27, 2009

Obey The Kitty Painting, In Progress



I've been trying for the past two weeks to complete a painting of Chairman Meow with a pancake on his head for Kevin at Obey The Kitty. Late Tuesday there's a chance this will finally occur. You can see in this photo a new Michael Jackson portrait in progress as well.

Ray Noland of Run Blago Run informs me that the UPS parcel containing my portrait of Roy Blagojevitch with a pancake on his head made it to the front desk of his Chicago show at 10 AM on Friday, disappeared, and then reappeared once the show was over. Better pancake next time.

Daniel Tosh, The Comedian

An oil portrait of Daniel Tosh from Comedy Central's Tosh.0 with a pancake on his head. I call this painting 'The Comedian'-

Daniel Tosh, 'The Comedian'

Just before scanning this painting I realized I had forgotten the pancake, so I borrowed the pancake from my recent Robocop With A Pancake On His Head portrait and Photoshopped it onto Dan's head. I'll revise the painting with an actual pancake before listing it for auction on Ebay.

Unusual Paintings of Obama Naked with Unicorns - Wild Ammo

You can hear a new greeting I've recorded on the original HTML site.



I've decided that the painting looks just fine without the pancake-

Daniel Tosh, 'The Comedian'

Daniel Tosh: The Comedian - Ebay Art Auction

Thanks to Comedy Central and Greg for putting together a very nice segment on my paintings, as well as for the post on the Tosh.0 blog, where you are invited to offer insight on the Obama/Tosh painting which appeared on the program-

Sunday with Daniel and Barack - Tosh.0

Sunday, July 26, 2009

A New Barack Obama Nude On A Unicorn Painting In Progress



A new variation on my original 'Barack Obama Victory Unicorn' painting from last June of last year.

Friday, July 24, 2009

Run Blago Run

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Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Tuesday, July 21, 2009

Eiffel Doggie

A commissioned painting of Bradley's one eyed doggie wearing a beret in front of the Eiffel Tower-

an oil painting of a one eyed dog wearing a beret in front of the Eiffel Tower

Just an oil painting of a one-eyed dog wearing a beret in front of the Eiffel Tower.

Saturday, July 18, 2009

Micheal Jackson Teardrop

An oil portrait of Michael Jackson wiping away a teardrop with the fingertip of his sequined gloved hand -

Michael Jackson teardrop

Michael Jackson Teardrop- Ebay Art Auction

Comedy Central has commissioned a painting for the 8th episode of Tosh.0. The Drew And Mike In The Morning interview on WRIF had been rescheduled to air this Monday. Thanks kindly to both.

Thursday, July 16, 2009

Wednesday, July 15, 2009

A Michael Jackson Art Portrait

a Michael Jackson art artwork portrait

This is currently one of my more popular Michael Jackson art paintings; a portrait of Michael with his gloved hand to his head and a tear rolling through his mascara, turning from white to black.

I usually paint these in a few stages, first with an intial application of paint which I let dry for a day or two before reworking. I nearly didn't post this painting, thinking it really didn't work for some reason, but the response has been very positive.

Michael Jackson Tear Painting - Ebay Art Auction

A page with a few other examples of my Michael Jackson artwork.

WRIF Paintings

Drew Lane and Mike Clark naked on a unicorn over Detroit with pancakes on their heads

An oil painting of Drew Lane and Mike Clark of Detroit WRIF naked on a unicorn with pancakes on their heads. Thanks to Drew for suggesting the pancakes.

Drew Lane Mike Clark Unicorn Painting - Ebay Art Auction

Drew Lane as Michael Jackson, with Bubbles the chimp

An oil painting of Drew Lane as Michael Jackson with Bubbles the chimp.

Drew Lane As Michael Jackson With Bubbles The Chimp Painting - Ebay Art Auction

You can catch my WRIF interview this morning (Wednesday, July 15) here.

I have a few additional Detroit themed paintings in progress, which I'll post later today.

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

WRIF Paintings, In Progress

I'm working on a number of paintings in celebration of my appearance tomorrow on the Drew and Mike in the Morning Show on WRIF, including this new piece in progress featuring Drew Lane and Mike Clark nude on unicorn while sailing over the great city of Detroit-

Drew Lane and Mike Clark nude on a unicorn, in progress

A view of the city will be included on the bottom, left-hand corner of the canvas. WRIF will also be added to Penelope's forehead, with the horn protruding from the 'R.'

Drew has a special appreciation for the work of Michael Jackson-

Drew Lane with Bubbles the Chimp

I'll have a number of additional paintings posted tomorrow as well, including a few Detroit-themed suggestions from my friends at Portal Of Evil News. All of these painting will be posted for auction on Ebay.

I've been invited to participate in the upcoming Run, Blago, Run art exhibition in Chicago, to which I'll be contributing a new Rod Blagovitch pancake painting. Thanks, Ray!

Thanks as well to those who have recently posted my work on various web sites and blogs, including a post this morning from the Latvian Mango.

Monday, July 13, 2009

Barack Obama, Without Pancake

A new oil painting of President Barack Obama, without a pancake on his head.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama - Ebay Art Auction

Saturday, July 11, 2009

Barack Obama, With Pancake

An oil portrait of Barack Obama bowing with a pancake on his head-

Barack Obama head bow pancake

Barack Obama Head Bow Pancake Portrait -Ebay Art Auction

A Michael Jackson Portrait Page

I've compiled a few MJ portraits for a new Michael Jackson Portrait page.

A recent MJ portrait-

a portrait of Michael Jackson holding an umbrella in the rain

Michael Jackson holding an umbrella in the rain.

Michael Jackson Portrait - Ebay Art Auction

In a few days I'll start to post some Detroit themed auctions in anticipation of my WRIF interview on Wednesday.

Ben Heine has posted a few very nice Photoshop generated MJ portraits on Flickr.

Friday, July 10, 2009

Free Republic Thread, Recovered

Thanks to my friends at POE for retrieving the original My Opus: Sicko Michael Jackson Appreciation Thread originally posted and soon deleted at Free Republic.

Thursday, July 09, 2009

Mellifont Abbey Mass Card

Thanks to Mellifont Abbey in Ireland for using a recent Padre Pio painting on a mass card.

Padre Pio Mellifont Abbey Ireland mass card

Jackson 5

One of a set of five new Michael Jackson paintings posted today to Ebay-

Michael Jackson fresh

The Jackson Five (and others)- Ebay Art Auction

I've been blessed to land on page one of Google for 'Michael Jackson portraits' and 'Michael Jackson paintings' which has brought my Ebay auctions an intense worldwide vistorship. Therefore, I've been painting and posting as many MJ portraits as possible.

Therefore I've kept about a half dozen very patient people waiting for painting and portraits which are all 80% complete. What I normally do in a situation like this is send everyone a little something extra. I'll try to tie up ends in the next day or so.

Wednesday, July 08, 2009

Post Compilation Acknowledgement

A fan emailed me recently on Ebay to tell me something was wrong with the code on one of my posts; it was nothing but links to other sites. I told her that what she had seen was something I really don't have the time to do anymore, but which I try to find the time to do because I am thankful; and that is to post acknowledgements to the many followers of my artwork who repost and thereby promote my work online. Here's a partial list of said posts, collected from the past day. If you find an additional post or have made one yourself, please email me and I'll be happy to add it to the list-

http://spazio.libero.it/bramapaola/ Barack Obama prays painting
http://gawker.com/5309242/joe-jackson-pancake-painting-a-little-too-intense-for-corporate-america
http://mykicks.tumblr.com/post/137160638/hold-me-like-the-river-jordan You Are Not Alone
http://sade.tumblr.com/post/137162908/mykicks-hold-me-like-the-river-jordan-fuck You Are Not Alone
http://isitallovermyface.tumblr.com/post/137166425/discodazzler-mykicks-hold-me-like-the-river You Are Not Alone
http://discodazzler.tumblr.com/post/137163576#disqus_thread You Are Not Alone
http://www.buzzfeed.com/akdobbins/michael-jackson-pancake-painting-tribute Michael Jackson Memorial Ticket Pancake
http://www.defamer.com.au/2009/07/mj-related-pancake-painting-a-little-too-intense-for-corporate-america/ MJ Memorial Ticket Pancake
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=4494516&startid=52546679 Paintings
http://s9.zetaboards.com/The_IPWs/topic/7125226/5/ Paintings
http://www.hungangels.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=46893 MJ painting
http://sundaybreakfast.tumblr.com/post/137342536/michael-jackson-memorial-as-it-happened-on-twitter MJ painting
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=160&topic_id=35167&mesg_id=35167 ban
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2287517/posts ban
http://www.sling.com/blog/3935/Michael-Jackson-Memorial:-The-Internet-Tribute-Gallery Tupac Jackson painting
http://samueldean.tumblr.com/post/131730821/happy-accidents Faithmouse North Korean Rocket cartoon
http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php?action=printpage;topic=30725.0 Obama Unicorn link
http://profiles.friendster.com/merkuriusboy Faithmouse John McCain cartoon
http://altnews.blogdig.net/archives/articles/July2009/08/Nude_Obama_s_On_A_Unicorn.html
http://forum.svrider.com/showthread.php?t=105732&page=8 Palin pancakes
http://www.ar15.com/forums/topic.html?b=1&f=5&t=896512&page=1 MJ Memorial Ticket pancake
http://letsthinkaboutthat.blogspot.com/2009/07/new-art.html link
http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2009/07/deification-part-2.html Obama unicorns
http://tseecka.livejournal.com/15050.html Obama Unicorns
http://politics.randomplayground.net/2009/07/08/deification-part-2/ Obama Unicorns
http://www.artfagcity.com/2009/07/08/fresh-links-1644/ MJ memorial ticket pancake
http://embrodaq.tumblr.com/post/133212924/nude-obama-riding-a-unicorn-how-fantastic
http://thedebrisfield.blogspot.com/2009/07/nude-obamas-on-unicorn.html
http://gorightly.wordpress.com/2009/07/07/nude-obamas-on-a-unicorn/
http://forums.brainerddispatch.com/index.php?topic=331.msg836 Obama unicorns
http://www.fiveeightforums.com/report-pop-singer-michael-jackson-has-suffered-cardiac-arrest-t77581/index23.html?s=82680485868d1cb8151d1059eead5daa& You Are Not Alone
http://www.biomechine.net/mortaltears/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=1291&sid=9c08fa697ee55a9f8e15c2fd3408c0c2 Palin Pancakes
http://www.moonbattery.com/archives/2009/07/open_thread_300.html Broadway Obamas
http://twitter.com/mignews/status/2515753260 link
http://tampabaystyle.tumblr.com/post/137926245 Michael Tupac
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=453970&id=1492729534&ref=nf FR reference
http://www.myspace.com/yourecutewhenyouscreamm Elephant embryo painting
http://forum.ninjavideo.net/viewtopic.php?id=34194&p=2 MJ portrait
http://www.politicalcrossfire.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=126998 MJ portrait
http://www.houstonbeats.com/board/showthread.php?t=113147&page=3 Palin Pancakes
http://twitter.com/roomerholmes/statuses/2541593000 Obama Unicorns
http://beta.drivewesaid.com/thread.php?id=77&postNum= paintings
http://twitter.com/stewart23rd/status/2533318568 Obama Unicorns
http://nonylons.livejournal.com/8477.html#cutid1 Rahm Emanuel Bagel and Lox
http://twitter.com/greenatelier/status/2534093173 MJ You Are Not Alone
http://beta.drivewesaid.com/index.php The Final Battle
http://stumbleinn.net/forum/showthread.php?t=13646 Putin Pancake (from May)
http://www.wranglerforum.com/f6/breaking-news-33016.html You Are Not Alone
http://raleigh.craigslist.org/rnr/1260570379.html Palin winking pancake
http://www.tagged.com/profile.html?uid=5414019260 Barack Obama portrait
http://11-11.tv/phpbb2/viewtopic.php?t=2851 Obama unicorn painting

Sexy Booty Painting

An oil painting of a sexy booty -

Sexy booty, male nude art

Another in my series of male nude art paintings.

Sexy Booty - Ebay Male Nude Art Auction

Tuesday, July 07, 2009

My OPUS: Sick Michael Jackson Appreciation Thread

I now have the honor of being banned from both Democratic Underground and Free Republic. I had actually emailed FR twice earlier in this year asking to be banned, but I never received a response. The FR ban was personally administered by Jim Robinson, the founder of FR, himself-

My OPUS: Sick Michael Jackson Appreciation Thread

The 'My Opus' and 'Sick' wording in the title was added after the fact.

Michael

An oil painting of Michael -

Michael

Michael- Ebay Art Auction

Monday, July 06, 2009

Michael Jackson Memorial Ticket Pancake

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Sunday, July 05, 2009

Steve McNair, Titan

An oil painting of former Titan quarterback Steve McNair -

Steve McNair, Titan

Steve McNair, Titan - Ebay Art Auction

Saturday, July 04, 2009

Michael Jackson And Tupac Shakur Painting / Only God Can Judge Me (Now)

An oil painting of Michael Jackson and Tupac Shakur in heaven titled 'Only God Can Judge Me' after the Tupac song-

Michael Jackson and Tupac Shakur painting

Michael Jackson Tupac Shakur Painting- Ebay Art Auction

I see some similarity betweeen these two Black artists, both battling critics within their own racial groups and the media at the same time, both being very spiritually centered and choosing to express their faith as a unique statement through their work, but both eventually consumed by a haunted past they could not escape.

So, God bless them both. It's nice to think of them both together and eternally at their most hopeful.

Friday, July 03, 2009

Sarah Palin Picture / Original Pancakes



My original picture of Sarah Palin from last year, which I call "Palin Pancakes." Apropo, considering that Sarah has just announced that she will be resigning as the Governor of Alaska at the end of this month.

Thanks to Fark, which has displayed a number of my pancake portraits during the past year-

GOP sources: Palin won't run for relection - Politico

Sarah Palin To Step Down As Alaska Governor - Fark

Michael Jackson Painting

My most recent Michael Jackson painting-

Michael Jackson art and artwork

Michael Jackson Painting - Ebay Auction

Michael from his Thriller period.

My previous oil painting of The King Of Pop Michael Jackson-

Michael Jackson in concert painting

The King Of Pop In Concert- Ebay Art Auction

This oil portrait of Michael Jackson performing in concert is taken from his 'Bad' period.

Thursday, July 02, 2009

Al Franken As The Joker With A Pancake On His Head

An oil painting of Minnesota Senator Al Franken as The Joker-

Minnesota Senator Al Franken as The Joker

Minnesota Senator Al Franken As The Joker With A Pancake On His Head - Ebay Art Auction

Thanks to Charlemagne Tha God, who discussed my Michael Jackson, You Are Not Alone painting on his show on FM 1003 The Beat in Philadelphia last Wednesday.

Wednesday, July 01, 2009

Rio Rita

Rio Rita

The Rio Rita painting I started about 14 years ago and just recently finished for a former Rita I worked with in Las Vegas. Some commissions take a little longer than others.