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the lightning rod salesman

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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The Lightning Rod Salesman. Pastel on toned tan paper.

It’s no secret Ray Bradbury made a huge impression on me and brought me hours of enjoyment with his stories. In the beginning of Something Wicked This Way Comes, a man selling lightning rods comes to town. He warns some boys, the protagonists, of an approaching storm. In Bradbury’s novel, he is friendly and entirely human — albeit a bit odd. It’s only his ominous warning about the storm that lends an air of creepiness to the scene.

This fanciful pastel rendering of him revisits one of my old Sculpey creations. Unlike the demons of 1998, he seems off-beat but not unfriendly. Maybe it’s the dreadlocks. Created in 2002 in Las Vegas, he incorporates several metal objects, pebbles, and glass found on desert excursions.

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A big chunk of Ray Bradbury stories that appeared in EC Comics are available in theĀ Ray Bradbury archives andĀ EC Comics archives. Enjoy!

pastel hellhound

22 Thursday Aug 2013

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Pastel Hellhound. Pastle and ink on toned tan paper.

Cerberus: the mythological hell hound guarding the gates to the underworld. Usually he appears with three heads. Hercules had to get past the hell hound on one of his heroic missions.

Our pastel version revisits one of our old Sculpey figures. Sculpey is a synthetic modeling clay you can bake in a regular oven instead of a standard kiln. Hippie chicks like to make beads out of it. We made some motherfucking demons. They had bits of scrap metal in them, usually from old electronics, nails, and wire. Sometimes just things we’d find on the ground. The metal not only acted as a skeleton for the Sculpey but also gave them features like spines, spikes, and claws.

We stopped using Sculpey as a medium because, well, it just doesnt seem wise to bake your food in an oven that smells like cooked plastic. Maybe if we had two ovens! Our small collection of Sculpey figures is long gone, but they had good lives. Here’s little Cerberus on display at a group exhibit at the Dreamland Theater gallery in Ypsilanti, MI, 2002. He wasn’t very big, maybe half a foot tall, the size of a hefty action figure. A scan of a print of a scan of a print of a crappy photo, it still makes a decent reference for drawing.

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