This is where it all started, for me; not everything, I mean, but this is the first way I hoped to sell my artwork through the World Wide Web.
In the late 1990's I was doing plenty of artwork with digital tools. Although it had been ten years or more since I'd been a painter it still bothered me that I no longer had originals. The work I did now seemed ephemeral when I compared it with the solid reality of the paintings I used to make.
It took a few more years to find a way to offer these prints. They've joined all my other merchandise now and I'm very happy that they're here.
are priced slightly higher.
Here’s a little bouillabaisse of Lovecraftian horror and Celtic art. A marriage not made in heaven, obviously, but given the subject - well, that’s just fine.
Cthulhu, known among necromancers as "The Elvis of the Great Old Ones", is possibly not dreaming here - as we hope he continues to do - but its hard to be sure with those pearly eyes. Anyway his tentacles divide and dissolve into bands of Celtic knotwork in a way that pleases me.
The digital painting (Photoshop) was created for a T-shirt design for my newly relaunched Saga Shirts site, where I’m now doing a new line of full color shirt designs, rather than the silkscreened shirts I had there before.
The print version is a high resolution image full of eldritch detail and oddly batrachian textures. It’s the perfect accent, I think, for that eighteenth century basement you’ve got; you know, the one with the odd wooden hatch bolted over what looks like some sort of well. With the scratching noises.