A Brief History of Thangs
In 1982, I started drawing. I was pretty terrible at it but I never stopped or slowed down. In fact, for the first 5 years, I pretty much just drew explosions. In 1998 I went to art school and spent 4 years getting a lot better at it. I continued making weirdo art on my own for about a decade in different parts of the country while working an assortment of day jobs ranging from suburban lumberjack to paralegal.
In 2015, I decided to make a real run at being a full time artist and I came up with the idea of Two Thangs. People give me two pieces of the outside world and I mash them up into original paintings. Basically, you whittle your interests down into two pieces of information and as long as their not "MY dog" or "MY mother" we can work with them and make a painting together. People have chosen movies, musicians, books, vocations, iconic places, philosophies and pretty much anything under the sun and we've made some weird stuff with it.
By re-selling the images as prints, pins, coloring books and a ton of other stuff, I keep the costs of the original paintings pretty low and affordable. I'm up over 150 paintings made with all kinds of people from all kinds of places and I hope to keep it rolling till I run out of thangs.
