#5 May

Iggy Pop

"I spent most of the eighties, most of my life, riding around in somebody else’s car, in possession of, or ingested of, something illegal, on my way from something illegal to something illegal with many illegal things happening all around me."

Acrylic on canvas.

#4 April

Johnny Cash

“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life...You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

Acrylic on canvas.
$Sold

Owner: Mitch Wood

#3 March

Bowie: Aladdin Sane

PLAYBOY: Do you consider yourself an original thinker?
BOWIE: Not by any means. More like a tasteful thief. The only art I'll ever study is stuff that I can steal from. I do think that my plagiarism is effective. Why does an artist create, anyway? The way I see it, if you're an inventor, you invent something that you hope people can use. I want art to be just as practical. Art can be a political reference, a sexual force, any force that you want, but it should be usable. What the hell do artists want? Museum pieces? The more I get ripped off, the more flattered I get. But I've caused a lot of discontent, because I've expressed my admiration for other artists by saying, "Yes, I'll use that," or, "Yes, I took this from him and this from her. "Mick Jagger, for example, is scared to walk into the same room as me even thinking any new idea. He knows I'll snatch it."

Acrylic on canvas.

$ Sold.

Owner: Frankie Mandeljc

#2 February

Debbie Harry, Blondie (Dirty Harry).

"Hi, it's Deb. You know, when I woke up this morning I had a realization about myself. I was always Blondie. People always called me Blondie, ever since I was a little kid. What I realized is that at some point I became Dirty Harry. I couldn't be Blondie anymore, so I became Dirty Harry."

Acrylic on canvas.

$ Sold.

Owner: Glenn Eve

#1 January

Bowie as the Thin White Duke.

Due to his cold personality, brought forth primarily from living on 'red peppers, cocaine and milk', he is quoted saying the Thin White Duke was a hollow man who sang songs of romance with an agonised intensity while feeling nothing, "Ice masquerading as fire.".

Acrylic on canvas.

$ Sold

Owner: Ryan Kennedy (http://sympathyfortherebel.blogspot.com/)

Resolution

It started with a new years resolution. 12 paintings, 12 months. I've always enjoyed painting, but never made the time to actually do it. This blog is somewhat of a motivator/inspirer for me. Feel free to leave comments or suggestions for future work.

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Russ

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