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This I made for Samhain/Halloween a few years back. If you look closely you can see the faces of those you made metal, punk, and goth well worth listening to...but who are sadly no longer amongst the living!

And before anyone yaps on about the flames or hell and other nonsense then...this picture is pagan and made in the pagan tradtion! Staring into flames has long been believed to be a portal into the astral plane including the death realm...and the dead return home at samhain thus the drinking hornes put out for them. So hell fire and horney devils poking people's naked asses...bullshit! *lol* This is a loving memorial!

Some of you might be wondering where Lemmy is: Lemmy was well and alive when I made this and since I no longer have access to Photoshop, he has not been included yet.

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On 2017-5-30 at 7:02 PM, True Belief said:

Alabaster - I'll see your Poison, Twisted Sister & Queensryche and raise you 1 x Madam X, Tuff & Vinnie Vincent Invasion.

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On 19/09/2017 at 7:17 AM, FatherAlabaster said:

Last one I'll get to finish before the show!

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I have to say, you're a pretty amazing artist. When I think how hard it is for me to even draw a house or a stick figure or something, this sort of thing awes me. You have a pretty extreme imagination too. 

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14 hours ago, Requiem said:

I have to say, you're a pretty amazing artist. When I think how hard it is for me to even draw a house or a stick figure or something, this sort of thing awes me. You have a pretty extreme imagination too. 

Thank you. :) I'm happy that this work is finally coming together. This is what I should have been doing all along, and I'm playing catch-up, but at least my education is no longer going to waste. 

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7 hours ago, FatherAlabaster said:

Thank you. :) I'm happy that this work is finally coming together. This is what I should have been doing all along, and I'm playing catch-up, but at least my education is no longer going to waste. 

I may be old fashioned, but I also have a lot of respect for people who can actually paint realistic figures. Most 'artists' these days just do those post-modern splotches and splashes because they can't actually paint. You can actually paint! 

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On 9/23/2017 at 2:56 PM, Requiem said:

I may be old fashioned, but I also have a lot of respect for people who can actually paint realistic figures. Most 'artists' these days just do those post-modern splotches and splashes because they can't actually paint. You can actually paint! 

Ha! The idea of being able to actually paint? That's so two hundred years ago. 

These days, it's not really about art; rather, it's about feeling important and unleashing your inner elitist. It's about who you know. Sipping expensive wine and hobnobbing with the wealthy and the superficial. Showing off your ability to see the sophisticated intellect behind seemingly random blotches of ink or the three-dimensional profundity behind a red 2D square. If you walk into an empty room and can only see a plastic spoon resting awkwardly on a blue chair as it is literally displayed, you've only revealed your inner limitations. 

 

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