Journal

Bad Signal, Good Transition hand-signed art print by Paintranger, two sharks in a glowing pink room, an example of trippy cyberpunk art in the Candy Decay style

What Is Trippy Cyberpunk Art? Why Someone Filed...

Someone described my work as cyberpunk trippy and I couldn't argue as well as I wanted to. Here is what trippy cyberpunk art actually is, where the neon and the...

What Is Trippy Cyberpunk Art? Why Someone Filed...

Someone described my work as cyberpunk trippy and I couldn't argue as well as I wanted to. Here is what trippy cyberpunk art actually is, where the neon and the...

Strawberry Graveyard hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a colorful skull and cake painting influenced by sugar skull visual traditions

Día de los Muertos and Sugar Skull Art: An Hone...

A respectful look at where Día de los Muertos and sugar skull art actually come from, and the honest, limited way that visual language has influenced skull imagery like mine,...

Día de los Muertos and Sugar Skull Art: An Hone...

A respectful look at where Día de los Muertos and sugar skull art actually come from, and the honest, limited way that visual language has influenced skull imagery like mine,...

Cat Acquisition Unit 78 hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a collectible character style artwork in the spirit of designer art toy culture

Why Candy Decay Works Like a Designer Art Toy, ...

From Kidrobot to blind box culture, here's why collectible designer art toy culture shaped the Candy Decay Collector's Club more than traditional fine art collecting ever did.

Why Candy Decay Works Like a Designer Art Toy, ...

From Kidrobot to blind box culture, here's why collectible designer art toy culture shaped the Candy Decay Collector's Club more than traditional fine art collecting ever did.

Fried Egg hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a colorful surreal breakfast scene with hidden narrative details in a comic panel style

How Comic Book Storytelling Shows Up in a Singl...

A look at underground comix and how panel-by-panel storytelling can get packed into one still image, hidden jokes and all, without ever drawing a second panel.

How Comic Book Storytelling Shows Up in a Singl...

A look at underground comix and how panel-by-panel storytelling can get packed into one still image, hidden jokes and all, without ever drawing a second panel.

Cloudy with the Chance of Frogs hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a whimsical storybook style painting of frogs floating through the sky with umbrellas

Why My Paintings Look Like Pages From a Childre...

From Maurice Sendak to my own frogs falling out of the sky, here's how children's book illustration shaped the way I paint, and why the darker edges never actually left.

Why My Paintings Look Like Pages From a Childre...

From Maurice Sendak to my own frogs falling out of the sky, here's how children's book illustration shaped the way I paint, and why the darker edges never actually left.

Ricochet hand-signed art print by Paintranger, a theatrical zombie-cute unicorn painting hit by an arrow, a camp aesthetic Candy Decay artwork

What Is Camp? Why My Art Is Deliberately Too Much

A quick guide to camp as an aesthetic, from Susan Sontag's famous essay to trash horror movies, and why Candy Decay's theatrical excess is exactly the point rather than an...

What Is Camp? Why My Art Is Deliberately Too Much

A quick guide to camp as an aesthetic, from Susan Sontag's famous essay to trash horror movies, and why Candy Decay's theatrical excess is exactly the point rather than an...