This is my personal favorite of all the drawings I've done in the last few months, and I really don't care if I sell it. "Tainted Love" featuring Harley Quinn and Joker from Suicide Squad movie. 18" X 24", Sharpies on paper, $120
Michael Jackson, 18" X 24", Sharpies on paper. This one is in the front window of Studios at 625, in the heart of the Trade Street art scene here in Winston-Salem. $250 FIRM.
Other than Michael, I'll wheel, deal, and bundle the drawings in these last 5 posts. I'm looking to raise/earn $3,000 in the next couple months to turn my art thing into a legit little business. You can email me at stevenemig13@gmail.com , or PM me on Facebook if interested.
This is the second version of Winston-Salem's tree mural, now on Liberty Street. The original was on Trade Street, on the front of the building where The Sweet Potato restaurant now resides. I have absolutely nothing to do with this mural, but it's a landmark in the W-S art scene, centered around Trade Street downtown. I'm finally getting into that scene after years in this area.
To those of you in the know, White Bear Creations, the likely future name for my Sharpie art/writing business, has moved back to Winston-Salem, NC, and now resides in a less than lovely tent in the woods. In other words, I'm homeless again. But I've got a bunch of unique, "scribble style" Sharpie drawings to do, and I've been working on them all day.
Last night, after a friend helped me move my tent to a more secluded location, and went beyond the call of friendship helping me struggle to put it back up, I cleaned out the tent. As a rule, I don't have food in my camping area when homeless. But I had some pudding cups left in the tent when I got arrested for buying donuts, and spent three days in jail, a couple months ago. Something (animals? kids?) got in there and spilled pudding all over the floor of the tent. That may not sound like a big deal, but a tent smelling like vanilla pudding is way to attractive to local critters.
When I got settled in last night, I thought sleeping in a tent on a night the temperature was going to drop to 26 degrees (F) would be the biggest thing to deal with. I had enough covers to stay plenty warm, much to my surprise. But the four different critters scratching at the outside of my tent, trying to find that damn pudding, turned out to be the biggest issue last night. What can I say... neighbors be buggin'.
I spent the day today working on my Sharpie drawings indoors and getting grilled by a local snitch. As homelessness goes, that's more exciting than I like my days to be. Got a bunch of drawing done, though, far more than when I was sleeping on a couch in a nice warm, but drama-filled, apartment recently.
This is my latest drawing for the show at Earshot Music in Winston-Salem. It's up on the wall now, and selling for $120. If anyone here on the interwebs is interested, I can facilitate the sale, and I'll pay shipping (USPS 1st class in continental U.S.). Sharpies on paper, 18" X 24".
Earshot Music is at 3254 Silas Creek Parkway, Winston-Salem, NC. It's in the shopping center across Hanes Mall Blvd. from Hanes Mall. It's the place with Marshall's, Toys-R-Us, and A.C. Moore, next to Marshall's. Stop by and check out my work and all their music.
This is a drawing of Bob Marley I just finished a few days ago. What can I say, I've been doing creative things my whole life. I've been drawing since somebody put a crayon in my hand before I can remember, like many of you. But I'm a late bloomer. So now, in my 50's, my drawings in my unique "scribble style" technique with Sharpies. My first solo show at indie music shop, Earshot Music in Winston-Salem, NC, opened a couple weeks ago. Here's the Winston-Salem Journal artist profile that came out just before the show, written by Lisa O'Donnell. I gave props to my BMX and action sports roots, and named a handful of the creative people who inspired me. There was no way to list everyone, but a few of you are named in the article. Thanks to all of you other former "dirtbags" of the action sports world for showing me that getting art out to the world is actually possible.
I'm on a couch right now, not fully homeless. I'm looking to sell enough drawings to get a cheap room as soon as I can.
