Blocktronics ANSI Piece

Here I'll cut and paste an email from RaDMaN (founder of the ACiD art group I was a part of as a teenager in the 90's) to introduce a really cool ANSi collaboration in development:

There is an ANSI group called Blocktronics, they're the only persistently active ANSI group of the 21st century.

They're doing a tribute to ACiD in their next pack, and the name of that artpack is "Blocktronics: ACiD Trip".  It will be released the end of October.

 We have a PabloDraw server up.   I don't think you've ever used PabloDraw, so I will explain it like this: Imagine an IRC chat room plus a 10,000 line ANSI/ASCII art canvas that anyone can edit.  

On a busy night we get about 12-16 of the old veteran ANSI artists showing up and drawing.  I've attached some examples of that massive work in progress.  It's a record setter.  By a landslide.  It's 2,500 lines long.   We're actually pushing the boundaries of what PabloDraw can even do (on Windows, at least).

Everyone is invited and encouraged to draw.  Even if you don't think you have the knack any more, by all means please stop by the server and say hello.  Lord Jazz, aXd, and Spear are logged in right now, drawing. 

And here is the piece they're working on -

Click to see the level of detail.

Nathan Phaneuf - Angel of Death

Giving this piece away to a good friend of ours, John Whaley, whom we met when he redid our bathroom. Best contractor we have ever met - always going above and beyond and very reasonable cost wise. He always liked this piece which was just collecting dust in my basement.

It's six feet wide - one of my largest pieces. Now it will hang in his house!

See if you can spot the Danzig skull!

Nathan Phaneuf - Courage is Grace under Pressure

Finally finished this piece - taking things in a new direction -

Started off like this -

Broke down some wooden pallets and stained the wood.

Progress shot

Nathan Phaneuf - Creighton Mixed Martial Arts

Painted the doors at the gym where I have trained since 2006.

Nathan Phaneuf - Luchador Masks

A set of Luchador masks I did for my sister.

Another ANSi - Nathan Phaneuf / King Midas

Another from 1996 -

Another ANSi - Nathan Phaneuf / King Midas

Another piece from 1996.

Nathan Phaneuf - Portrait of Ashley

One of these pieces went to the model - the other was stolen from the gallery! Having a piece stolen was more of a compliment then having one purchased!

I think my friend may still be dating this chick....

 

Nathan Phaneuf (n8p) Tag piece - with a photo filter

By the way I'm just posting stuff here that isn't on my art website (www.nathanphaneuf.com) or my Deviant Art account (n8p.deviantart.com)

Commission piece for my friends band

For their last record...

Can't see the detail real well on this pic but here is just one of the pyramid stencil layers -

Old ANSi Artwork - Nathan Phaneuf / King Midas

I'm going to post some of the art I did when I was 15-17 years old - back when I was a full fledge computer nerd. This is before the web came about and we would utilize our modems to call into BBS's. these are the graphics you would see on those sites.

Not sure how to long story short this - but I got involved with making artwork for BBS's and eventually joined a group of local artists. As my art got around I was recruited by ACiD (see Rad Man - he still has a big online presence), a national art group. Anyhow this art was my life for this short period of time.

Here's a detail of one of my pieces (1996?) 

And here is the full image (keep in mind this is small because we had much less resolution back in the day - and only 16 colors to work with!)

Just to show you how dumb I was at 16, here is the tag at the top of the graphic (my handle was King Midas)

I'll post a few more of these.

Me / We show from Beep Beep Gallery (2011)

Here is an article that details this show with a favorable write-up of my pieces: LINK

Anyhow they are collaboration pieces between two artists. My artist partner was Sarah Daly.

Here is her oil painting - which was a bit of a problem for me since I can't put acrylic paint (spray paint) on top of it -

So instead I had to go with cut paper. Here was my solution:

I actually found that particular building by using the street view of Google Maps. What city did I look in? Detroit of course!

So here was my piece that she had to add to:

And here was her addition to it (pretty cool!):

Both of our pieces sold, so that was a good show. Super fun to collaborate in that fashion with other artists and I hope the guys at Beep Beep do it again...

Alchemy artwork from Beep Beep Gallery shows - 2011 and 2012

2011:
 
2012:
 

Nathan Phaneuf on Soundcloud - The Filthy McNasty

Don't forget to check out my most recent music project on SoundCloud!

Breakfast of Champions.