Introducing the Bad Day Gallery

I'm not really into fantasy paintings, but I can't seem to get away from making a few every once in a while. There's something about the mystical and mysterious that I'm attracted to that comes through in these works.
This particular painting is one of my favorites. It's called 'Enchanted Forest'. The scene is illuminated by an full moon sky revealing the gentle death of the 'Golden Goose'.

The lady vampire is immersed in the ectasy of the kill.
Life fades from a living fairie tale.

All that could possibly be left from this unthinkable moment is a lasting sadness; but the moment itself captured in oil is an intimate portrait of horrific beauty.

To me fantasy isn't just about magical creatures or places. It's about encountering something intagible that talks to us about the mysterious.

Changes are just part of living. When I see something new or remember something from my past, it always seems to find a way into my work. I think that happens to everybody, we're kind of made up of what we grew up with and the things we see everyday. To me that's what Urban Art is about. It's our story as it's molded by our present.

That whole concept really comes out to me in this fairie illustration. It's not like most fantasy images that you come across on posters and t-shirts. It's kinda more like a Folk Art image in alot of ways.

I really like that it's a fantasy image that looks like Folk Art. That seems to me to be the best style to represent something that is based on stories that were orginally passed down for generations. There just seems to be something honest about it.