Although it is a more stylized piece, this is an attempt for me to strengthen my skills at realism, since I’ve mostly been working in a comic illustrative style for the last few years. This is the second piece where I am trying to re-familiarize myself with conte as a medium, and I’m very excited with the results. 

I’m considering getting a color palate of conte, as well as some black to do some further experimenting with. Let me know what you think!

Pen and Ink on Paper, 11×14. Although still a bit in my more graphic style, I felt this was worth putting up. If anyone is interested in purchase of the piece, message me – 60$ (includes shipping) or best offer.  Also have my progress photos (although I forgot to photo my early pencils before starting ink 😛 ) posted for 5$ and above Patrons. 

Conté crayon on charcoal paper. This represents a return to using conté, a medium I haven’t used in about 10 years. In order to get back into the groove of using it, I’m doing a few experimental pieces that blend my love of cubism with some aspects of realism and portraiture. I especially want to thank Lissa Redshaw, whose purchase of several of my experimental cubist pencil works helped me buy the supplies for this present series.

Although I will be continuing much of the same illustrative and occult artwork I am known for, this will mostly be at my website, panikbedlam.com. Here on patreon, I am making an intentional shift to present my fine art. These are the pieces I normally create for gallery shows and grant organizations. However, I much prefer seeking out my support from my fans so I can tailor my work to your tastes as well as my own. 

I’d like to thank my current donors for their continued support, and would encourage new fans to help support my work as well. 

I Finished the initial carving of a project I’ve been working on. A ritual item I’m carving from a block of 4×4 I sawed off of a larger plank. I posted a picture of it when I only had two sides done in an earlier post, but now all the main carving is done. However, I still need to do some more specific shaping of the block, cleaning and deepening the carvings, and sanding it down.

once all the carvings look deep enough and all the block shaping is done, I’ll be filling the cuttings with colored wax (i.e. crayons) and then give it another sanding to remove any stray wax. Then I’ll be painting the sides with a dye, wrapping the grooves with gold wire and then sealing it.

I’ve been considering putting steel bolts on the East and West sides of the block, not only to anchor the gold wire; But also doing it in such a way that electrifying the block would create an electromagnetic field. I’ll need to do some research before deciding and it would likely require the inclusion of copper into the system.

Although this would likely not have any scientific or engineering use beyond creating interesting shapes with iron filings, this would turn the device into a sort of “wishing machine” with the block becoming the platform for the wishing focus. If this shows results it may end up the component of a larger device. If you want to know what a wishing machine is, here is William Burroughs talking about it. https://youtu.be/Q9kwcJpX_Zg

I’ve been a bit preoccupied with infilstructure stuff behind the scenes, but I’m hoping to get a better set up and delivery system for my work.  In the mean time, I’ve been practicing my music more and been fooling around with the Uke for a few months.  This is an arrangement of a Tom Waits song that I put together. Its not the whole song, but I’ll record a better version when I’m better at playing.

These are the pieces that I just randomly decided to work on one day, and made me decide to focus more on my fine art. They’re just pencil on paper, and show my cubist influences, particularly Georges Braque.