Alligoose (rhymes with Pamplemousse)

Here's the Alligoose all put back together by Ryan,
after he varnished the whole head/neck.
I think his plan is to take it off the driftwood,
and have it standing on an old tire, instead.
(there's something too beachhouse/housewifey about driftwood, you know?)






















Here's the neck in progress,
while he was carving it out of spray foam.
Again, Ryan did everything on this project,
I just painted the neck and tongue.
I'm just excited about it,
because I know that it's just the start of many more.
If anyone has crappy taxidermy that they want to donate to the cause,
please let me know.
We'll give it a new life, for sure.

A different kind of 'Painting Monday'

I don't know what other people do on their days off,
but here at Louderhorn Inn,
there's always something absurd going down.
(and it usually involves Ryan)

I spent today doing my taxes and mail art and rogue taxidermy.
Ryan is combining an alligator head with a goose body,
(both from old, broken mounts)
and he had to make a new neck for it.
And since he only does the manliest kind of art-making,
he ignored paper-mâché and clay and latex molds,
and made the neck out of spray foam installation instead.
That actually isn't even the whole story, it's worse than that.
He also used glue and sawdust.
No kidding.
And it looks so good.
But it was all yellow and gross colored,
so he asked me to paint it to look alligator-ish.
I think it came out pretty well,
and I can't wait to see the finished mount.
I believe that after we take some professional glamour shots,
this beautiful creature will be up for sale.
I'll keep you posted.

Beautiful Day

Yeah, it's been a minute since I posted on my blog last.
I've been busy,
but don't have too much to show for it yet.
Started a lot of new fun tattoo projects,
but haven't really finished much.
Those bigger pieces are slow going, you know?

Today was the start of my weekend.
Ryan took Meryl and I out for brunch,
then we hit up the Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
and saw the AMAZING paintings of Margaret Wall-Romana
(she's my new favorite artist)
and then headed to the NE to talk about upcoming art projects.
(skunk apes on the horizon)

But the best part of today is that it's Jaime's birthday!
She's so rad.
Her and Amy flew out from Northampton, MA
just to help us put up the NQNS show.
(and it turned out she was an expert at putting cardboard siding on birdhouses)
You really can't ask for better friends than that.
So "Happy Birthday, Jaime!"
I hope you had a beautiful day.

never quiet, never soft (and never ending)

Adam wanted a little reminder of the NQNS fun last week,
so right before closing time Saturday,
we ate a bag of Joe-Joe's and then got busy with some lip action.

NQNS Show, Round II

Here's another upload of photos from the NQNS show.
I'v also collected some of the best ones on Meryl's Flickr page,
which you can see here.
There might be more coming soon,
since we haven't gotten Amy and Jaime's photos yet.


One of the big heads peeking out from the dark forest corner.















Playing with fire.






















Jackie of Brute Heart, and Marshall of Dark Dark Dark,
playing Saturday the 12th.















Another big hed, this one in the staircase going downstairs.















Close up of the book-shingled roof of the big birdhouse.















And then,
the very next day,
it all went away.
Albie flew home to New Hampshire,
Amy and Jaime flew home to Massachusetts,
the Cucch flew to Canada,
and Rebecca, Adam, Ryan and I took down the whole show.
Here's Rebecca getting busy with a paint roller.

Never Quiet, Never Soft

Damn, kids.
I'm one tired, happy little dude.
The show went so well.
Why?
Cause my peoples came out and brought the thunder.
Albie Rock and the Cucch flew in from New Hampshire,
Amy and Jaime came from Northampton, MA,
and there was introductions and high fives with my Minnesota folks.
Ryan, Rebecca, Casey, Adam, and Meryl showed up and got busy
with paint, cardboard, duct tape, and power tools.
A billion thanks to them,
without whom there would be no art show.
Especially Ryan.
No kidding.

Thanks to everyone who came to the two days of gallery hours,
and to Adam Hough for the photo taking the first night.
I also stole a photo or two from Molly's blog.

outside the gallery





















amy and jaime in front of the nqns






















the sexy intro/info table,
with so many good cookies made by amy.
(some of them were acorn shaped, of course)






















the big book-shingled birdhouse downstairs





















excuse, guys?
excuse me?
this is the Cucch.
he's EXPERT







this birdhouse-faced guy rocked the southeast corner pretty hard






















dolls and birdhouses














dead bird oil paintings














to the right of the dead birds,
more dolls (89 displayed in total)
and the foresty corner














Rachel the harper.
so good





















burnt up birdhouse
from the spat hot fire





























trumpet-playing donkey



















































































Friday night had an awesome turnout,
where as Saturday was slower, but still steady.
I am going to try and get all the best photos collected,
and I'll do up a little flickr page or something.
(i still haven't seen any photos from saturday)
I will also get real photos of the oil paintings I did.
There's two other animals playing instruments that I didn't get photos of
(not even funky-angled arty shots).
So much fun,
from the set up art-making
to the closing time vegan cheesecake eating.
I don't think I've ever laughed more in a week,
or cut so much cardboard.
Or stuffed my face so hard with food.
I'm not sure how it all really happened,
but it did.

It's all over, now.
The show is taken down,
spackled and painted over,
people are back to their respective time zones,
and it's back to work tomorrow.
Hope everyone had fun.
Stay loud and hard, folks.

never quiet, never soft

GOLD PLATED BANANA II

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When taking a run of these frames and sub frames to our finisher, we originally wanted a brass finish. Due to the darkness of the steel frame parts, the finisher recommended a gold plating. This is real gold. It turned out way better than we could ever have expected. The already beautiful lines of this machine look thousands of times more impressive in the highly polished gold plating.

We only had 8 made and are selling this limited run machine for $600.00 each.

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7 days till.

So the art show is less than a week away.
Why haven't I been posted all about it for the last week?
I got hammered by some evil plague,
and I was too wiped out to paint.
Or do anything other than sleep,
and try to outlast my fever.
All I know is that I rarely get sick.
So rarely, in fact,
that I believe that when I called out sick Tuesday,
it was my first sick day, ever.
I mean, I've called out before.
Just never from being too ill to work.
I'm hopefully almost better now.
(i certainly don't have time to not be better)

I'm way behind with this art show stuff,
so instead of showing hints and teasers of my stuff today,
I'll show the 5 boxes that arrived at Identity Tattoo from Albie Rock.
Yeah, they are taller than me.
6 feet of boxed up art.
awesome.























You know those sexy art dolls Albie makes?
(like the one on the front of the flier)
Well, we got tons more of those for the show.
And these are so dope.
I've never seen any of these before,
(almost nobody has)
so i'm glad they made the trip out to MPLS.
Bring your wallets, kids,
so that they don't have the make the return trip.
Traveling is a bitch.

LOW SKILLED WORKERS - FUNHOUSE TATTOO.

Not many artists can go from this panther:



to this realistic black n grey feather! It's skill and it's technical ability. Sasha's talents are limitless.

The shop is full of this greatness. Really. Where else can you go where ALL the artists are equally as good. It's hard to say... isn't it. I usually get there before everyone.., and I watch em all walk in, one by one... like the rock stars that they truly are. It's so great cuz I know at the end of our work day, they will have done pieces that exceed the client's expectations and our high reputation and standard has gone even higher.



Ask Fester for a snake and skull and you'll leave with something like this... unless he has a real snake or human skull handy.



Speaking of hands, Who tattoos hands? we do. Fester did this diamond on a hand... look at the perfect lines. That part of the hand is not easy to tattoo!



Mark usually does dragons all day, everyday. Try and find someone to do em like this!!



Or maybe you want a story book style tree. Mark can do it all.



Juan has a style of his own. I don't know any artist who can use an old school whip shading technique and make it look good on a realistic image except for juan.



... and yet do a realistic 3 d image with smoooth shading as well.



I did this boxer...



and this angel... stuff I'm proud of.

We understand technique.. we are all capable of great things and not only that, we do 'em everyday. We know how to get from point A to point B with no stops in between. It is an art. The are some government offices which consider tattoo artists as "low skilled workers"... people who go to college and get degrees are considered high skilled workers. HAHAHAHAHA!!

Explain that one to me... come down and get some low skilled art from some low skilled workers.