Lady Geodon

 Lady Geodon is a lady who will make you twist and turn while you look behind your back. She is not a good friend of mine while she sets you on fire.

Pocket Pill Portrait

It has been an up and down summer. There have been medication changes, switching of doctors, deaths in the family, and little experiments. I was playing around with these small wooden plaques from Michaels Craft Stores and found them an okay surface. I think I might use a bigger plaque next time.

The Paxil Twins

I completely forgot to post about the Paxil Twins when I completed the painting last month. So here it is the Paxil Twins, they are usually taken in multiple doses unless you have the Paxil XR then you only need one of these ladies.

Divine Inspiration

Our Lady of Lithium 

Work has given me a new and inexpensive surface to paint on when I want to make Byzantine inspired work  with pill people. Its just foam insulation covered in a clean foil backside. It cost me around $14 for an entire sheet that was cut down into 4 sections. Not a bad price to make faux religious art.

Oh yeah about the art... A lot of people treat medication like it is the end all solution to everything, sorta like how religion is to me at times. We rely on one thing too much when a combination of things are needed.

Belles of the Ball, Runner Up Miss Meth.

Belles of the Ball, Runner Up Miss Meth. 

Meth is more of in what we call the "county" part of the area I live in so it becomes a runner up. 

Belles of the Ball, Chastity Promise Ball Queen, Dropped Acid.

Chastity Promise Ball Queen, Dropped Acid.

Yes you read it correctly, the chastity prom queen dropped acid.

Belles of the Ball, Homecoming Court Ritalin

Belles of the Ball, Homecoming Court Ritalin

Ritalin is more of an over prescribed medication to children and teens so it deserves a place on the home coming court instead of a crown.

Belles of the Ball: Home Coming Queen Roofie

Home Coming Queen Roofie

Even more of the Belles of the Ball, this one is the roofies passed around at the home coming dance.

Belles of the Ball

Prom Queen 'Tussin

I've been working on a small series of watercolors taking a stab at the south, where I live of course, and chastity balls but each "belle of the ball" will be named after a different drugs teenagers like to dabble in to get high and the pledges had to "sign" every year around prom season which promised we wouldn't do drugs, drink, or have sex. (The sex part of the pledge was a part of the catholic school I attended pledge for prom season)

Class Clown NyQuil

Class Clown NyQuil, watercolor on canvas board, 9 x 12 inches. 

Class President Sudafed

Another children's medication and another stereotypical school picture background with Class President Sudafed.

Lil' Miss Children's Tylenol

I've been working on canvas board that I have laying around the studio for a few paintings. I forgot how i prefer to work in watercolors on these things. They just work much better.

OKay here is the low down about the next few paintings. I'm taking a stab at horrible school pictures of childhood and the medicines I had to endure. Lil' Miss Children's Tylenol is sitting on one of fake benches with the horrible fountain background. I really hated children's tylenol in any form, especially the liquids and the chewables, I still shiver from even thinking about the taste of them.

Anyways I have been watching a lot of documentaries about medicated america, and the one that stuck out most recently to me was Generation RX, about over medicating out children with psychiatric drugs. Sooo... now I'm going to make a few paintings of children in bad school pictures as their childhood medications.

Governess Cialis

Coverness Cialis will take care of all your needs while you recover.

Mme Pristique

My newest Pill Doll, Mme Pristique. She's a very high and mighty antidepression drug, she high and mighty that I had a bad reaction to her when I took her once. I've noticed a trend, I see medications, especially the antidepressants as fancy ladies.

Klor-con Self portrait

The first real self portrait I've created as a pill person. This is my self as my Klor-con. I actually cannot go without my potassium pills for more then a day or so my other medication's side effects become very strong and annoying. The background is based upon the backyard at the home I grew up in. We lived on the bottom of a large hill and we had a large yard ourselves. It was a great home but we eventually left it because of a drive by shooting and the area going down hill.

Frick and Frack Paintings

I was thinking about the good and bad of medications and old cartoons from the 1950s. I feel like all I am missing now is a wascally wabbit.

Frick and Frack with strawberries

Two small canvases for two lil pill people I call Frick and Frack.

My Little Pill Pony with playsets

I decided to take the Pill Ponies to another level and give them all playsets they are permanently attached to improve their visibility. They seemed like they were lacking in something and when I went to the craft store the other day I found these round wooden discs and they were perfect bases for the ponies. If you notice closely the tress are actually old prescription bottles and yes those are expired prescriptions on the trees. (Hey candy can grow on the trees in the original, why not pills in my version?) I am quite happy with my pill ponies more then ever and I'm on the hunt for more My Little Ponies to appropriate into Pill Ponies.

Klor-Con Self Portrait Painting Sneak Peak

I just wanted to share a quick little painting on wood I'm completing. This one is more of a self portrait with myself as Klor-Con, or potassium pills.