As promised and/or threatened, here are twenty of my favorite pieces of art that I’ve created for PopCult over the last twenty years.  You will see a variety of styles and techniques and media. I have not yet, as an artist, decided to pick a lane and stay in it.

Keep in mind that these selections represent a little less than 2% of my output over the last two decades. If I had to pick them on another day, it’s possible I may choose twenty different pieces.

From August, 2019, this digital painting was my first attempt at imitating the work of Edward Hopper. I wanted to learn how he painted light and shadow so I could apply it to surrealist works. Someday I will take this to canvas.

A digitial abstract called “Krome.” Sometimes when you’re just messing around, you can come up with the coolest-looking stuff. This is from November, 2017.

This was a digital abstract that I called “Scape.” For reasons lost to me, I did endless variations on this thing. It’s here because it was created the day before I started PopCult.

This was a sketchbook doodle that I scanned and colored digitally. It was one of the last pieces of physical art I created before undiagnosed Myasthenia Gravis forced me to work digitally for well over a decade. Because I am a smart-ass, I called it “The Persistence Of Wondering Aloud Whatever Became Of The Wankel Rotary Engine.”

This is a digital painting of Casi Null, based on a frame-grab from her performance of the song “Blue Haze” on Radio Free Charleston,in 2008

A photograph I took in Charleston in 2006,. run through multiple filters

My part-time muse, Kitty Killton, dressed as a Geisha for Halloween, I think in 2007.

In January, 2022, I spent the entire month imitating Hopper, this time with physical paintings. This was based on a photo I took in Chicago from the L.

In June, 2023, I had regained the use of my hands and had enough free time to create this ultra-detailed painting of the view from our very cool hotel room in Manhattan. Years of working digitally had carried over and made me a better painter once I was able to hold a brush again.

In October 2023, I applied that new technique to a painting based on the rather clostrophobic view across the street at a hotel in Chicago. It was mainly an excuse to make a joke about “Windows 12,” but it actually came out pretty damned good.

This semi-abstract mixed media piece was originally titled “Picasso Gets Ver Klimt.” Then I decided that joke sucked and just called it “Abstract Pin Up.”.

From July, 2023, my favorite physical art attempt at imitating Hopper was called “Next Stop” Inspired by several pictures I took in Chicago, all combined into one image.

An early digital painting based on a photo I took of Virginia Street, this one dates back to 2005, before Monday Morning Art began, and I just ran art pieces at random here in the blog.

From October, 2011, “Ghouls Night Out” was a digital painting over a photo taken at Dr. Sketchy’s Anti-Art Show. I miss Dr. Sketchy’s.

“Feedback Cross” from 2009 was purely digital. I probably couldn’t remember how to recreate it now.

“Double Yolk,” another purely digital creation, originally ran, untitled, along with three other digital designs back in May, 2013. The other three weren’t this good.

From June, 2013, “Robot Face” was a digitally-colored Sharpie drawing I’d done twenty years before. This was from the same batch of Sharpie drawings that gave us the recent “20 Nekkid Penta Costals” band logo.

“Industry” is a digital “watercolor” based on a photo I took on Route 2, between Moundsville and Parkersburg in August, 2012.

Kitty Killton appears again, this time relaxing  halfway on a sofa, in November, 2012.

Finally, from May, 2013, we have my first pencil sketch in nearly a decade. I still hadn’t been diagnosed with MG yet, but I forced myself to draw this picture of the Cyclops, from “The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad” as a tribute to Ray Harryhausen, who had just passed away. It took me the better part of a week.