NightCrawler 2019 collab. with Atom St. George (Patreon)

Finished in 2019 but started way back in 2017. I was taking a painting class at Otis College in Los Angeles. I was inspired to find interesting surfaces to paint on other than the standard sizes and materials at the art stores. I came across this craigslist listing that said "free shipping pallets. just take them. don't ask questions" so I pulled up to this pile of shipping crates outside of a warehouse in my old Honda CR V tossed as many as I could fit in the back. thinking of all the masterpieces I'd make. Well...only this one became something.

The wood on Shipping pallets turns out to be a horrible surface to paint on. But I had this roll of unstretched, unprimed canvas. I covered a pallet with a thick solution of wood glue and water, then a layer of matte medium and water. that took me the better part of a day to evenly cover the surface so that it would be sealed off from the elements and decay. then I spent a day stretching the canvas over it the pallet and gessoing it. It was a ton of work so I've just gone back to art store canvases.

I started working on this as a project for that painting class. It morphed into the basic city scape with a wavy kind of dragon looking thing in the front.

About a year later I was moving and I had too many paintings to bring with me. so I took some of my favorite of my least favorite (if that makes sense) paintings to my friend Atom's house. I figured he would give them some fresh eyes and bring some of his more detail oriented approach to them.

Atom is a visionary/ surrealist artist from Riverside,CA. he started painting full time after being diagnosed with MS. his work is very detail oriented and psychedelic. so with my big broad style of painting and his willingness to get in the weeds, we created some very interesting collaborations.

We had a show for the collaborations in march of 2019. And we still have a lot of the work. I just put the ones I have in my Etsy shop. I hope you enjoy them.