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Ocean Dropout original artwork by Paintranger, hand-painted surreal mackerel on a strawberry ice cream with an Omega 3 pill, Candy Decay painting on a wooden panel

Ocean Dropout: The Fish That Left the Sea, and ...

A mackerel climbs out of the ocean and sits on a strawberry ice cream where it absolutely does not belong, because it felt like the outsider among its own kind....

Ocean Dropout: The Fish That Left the Sea, and ...

A mackerel climbs out of the ocean and sits on a strawberry ice cream where it absolutely does not belong, because it felt like the outsider among its own kind....

Strawberry Graveyard hand-signed art print by Paintranger, cute creepy strawberries and cream with hidden skulls in bright Candy Decay colors

The Story Behind Strawberry Graveyard (And the ...

I painted Strawberry Graveyard as a metaphor: something sweet with death hidden inside it. Then somebody pointed out that for a diabetic the painting is not a metaphor at all,...

The Story Behind Strawberry Graveyard (And the ...

I painted Strawberry Graveyard as a metaphor: something sweet with death hidden inside it. Then somebody pointed out that for a diabetic the painting is not a metaphor at all,...

The Creation of Temporary Things hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a surreal mouse with strawberries in bright Candy Decay colors, contemporary pop surrealism about impermanence

What Is Contemporary Art? And Whether I Count a...

Contemporary art is not a style, it is a time frame. Which means the question was never whether my paintings look like the things in a white gallery room, but...

What Is Contemporary Art? And Whether I Count a...

Contemporary art is not a style, it is a time frame. Which means the question was never whether my paintings look like the things in a white gallery room, but...

Save Point 11:59 hand-signed art print by Paintranger, colorful pixel gaming nostalgia artwork with a skeleton and bright candy colors, painted glitch art energy

What Is Glitch Art? A Guide to Broken Images as...

Databending, datamoshing, magnets held against a television. Glitch art is the practice of treating an error as the artwork, and it explains more about my paintings than I expected it...

What Is Glitch Art? A Guide to Broken Images as...

Databending, datamoshing, magnets held against a television. Glitch art is the practice of treating an error as the artwork, and it explains more about my paintings than I expected it...

Until the Lights Go Out hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a skeleton flamingo painted in glowing pink and orange against darker color, an example of making colors glow in a painting

How to Make Colors Glow in a Painting (Without ...

Glow is not a pigment, it is a relationship. Here are the eight things that actually make a color look lit from inside, from chromatic darks to why your brightest...

How to Make Colors Glow in a Painting (Without ...

Glow is not a pigment, it is a relationship. Here are the eight things that actually make a color look lit from inside, from chromatic darks to why your brightest...

Ricochet hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a zombie-cute unicorn in bright candy colors, an artwork people have labelled pastel goth, lowbrow and cute creepy

Every Label People Have Given My Art (And Which...

Pastel goth, lowbrow, kawaii goth, camp, cute creepy, trippy cyberpunk. Other people handed me all of those. I only ever invented one myself, and that one is Candy Decay. Here...

Every Label People Have Given My Art (And Which...

Pastel goth, lowbrow, kawaii goth, camp, cute creepy, trippy cyberpunk. Other people handed me all of those. I only ever invented one myself, and that one is Candy Decay. Here...