Saturday, July 27, 2013

Friday, July 26, 2013

Commission piece for my friends band

For their last record...
Nathan Phaneuf

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

Thursday, July 25, 2013

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?) 
Nathan Phaneuf

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)
Nathan Phaneuf

I'll post a few more of these.

Wednesday, July 24, 2013

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:
Nathan Phaneuf Sarah Daly
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:
Nathan Phaneuf

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

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:
  Nathan Phaneuf
2012:
 Nathan Phaneuf

Friday, July 19, 2013