The Art of Skinner

MASSIVE MULTI PRICE PRINT RELEASE!! COLLECTION OF THE DAMNED!!!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Thu, 11 Apr 2013 16:44:00 -0700

In an effort to make my art as accessible as possible to all people, I am releasing over 30 new prints ranging in price from $10 for 5 by 7 inch prints, $15 for 8 by 10 inch prints, $30 for 12 by 12 inch prints as well as my $50 22 by 17 inch prints! Not to mention my new giant size Prints that are 24 inch by 36 inches for $150…I just want these hi quality Giclee prints created fresh here in the warehouse by Giclee printing wizards, Zerofriends, to be in the hands of people who love them…Let the bizarre energy they provide encourage you to explore the mysteries of life..AAAND. the First 20 orders who order $50 or more on prints will get a free silk screen vinyl sticker sheet! Here are all the pieces that are available now printed with archival inks on velvet cotton Fine art paper! Let's get weird kids, please look below and behoooold!

Visit my online store: http://shopcriticalhit.com/

Dead God Narcotic, Pollen Kaiser Release

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:35:00 -0700

If you do not know who Paul Kaiju is by now you must be hidden away underneath a rotten Mushroom behind a shanty barn or somethin' man, because he is a Demi-God and he creates the most incredible Kaiju Mutants on Earth. Well Here is my Micro Run Of these bad boys...DEAD�GOD�NARCOTIC!!� The residual cosmic growths left over from an infinite series of reborn prehistoric God deaths...They will get you real high man!! I painted these and taped them off and meticulously adapted them so that they will glow in the dark as phantoms who watch you sleep..The eyes that see, the teeth that nash, and the boots that kick! Kick I say!! kick you in your sleep! Ever kicking in a relentless rhythm of pain! Pain I say!! Your pain!!...Behold the Dead god Narcotic...A series of 4...available on my webstore: http://shopcriticalhit.com/ Monday April 15th at noon...$400. Be there or be bummed, man!

The ULTRUS BALROG! On sale this Monday, March 11th at NOON!!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 12:18:00 -0800

�� ONE BOG TO RULE THEM ALL!! THE ULTRUS BALROG!!

One of the chief minions of the shadowed Lords of Mordor! Sent to do the foulest of errands concerning the enemies of Morgoth, Sauron, and Melkor. Driving away Ungoliant, Battling Gandalf and keeping the unhallowed halls of the under earth clean of any good dwarven race. These smoldering, fire lashed Bogs have the heavy burden of the ring around their neck. The Elven tongue lazered into the steel ring is a reminder of the scalding birth it bore at the hands of evil in Mount Doom. This highly detailed piece is limited to a run of only 10 and is complete with the ring of power around its neck-- the precious that shall never leave its burning claws.

ULTRUS BALROG is priced at $300 and comes with a lazer engraved steel replica of the one ring to rule them all!�This Bog has been specially crafted and is an homage to the love Skinner has for Lotr and its genius villain! This limed run of 10 go on sale here this MONDAY, MARCH 11TH AT NOON!!!

VALENTINES DAY SALE!!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 17:14:00 -0800

LOVE! WHAT IS LOVE? BABY, IT'S THE ONLY THING THAT MATTERS!

The Lurker understands your loneliness! The lurker understands your obsessive nature and your neurotic fixations on those you can never have! The Lurker supports this behavior! The Lurker encourages you to focus your little psycho lazer of love on everyone around you while maintaining a very creepy distance and aloof demeanor that will have people concerned for their safety in no time!� He gives you the tools of love that help you show your affection for someone you have been staring at ceaselessly from behind a dumpster! A necklace that shows your true essence of insane commitment!

And as if the Pewter Lurker being on sale for only $35 a pop isn't enough, ANYTHING�purchased from Critical Hit over $20 from now until Valentines day come with a surprise, limited edition Valentines card printed on high quality cotton rag paper! These Valentines will make it clear that you aren't sure how to deal with your feelings, but you know damn well that the object of your desire will know you have them!

This sale is only good until Valentines day, February 14th, so scoop up something rad for the one you love and score a FREE 5x7 giclee Lurker print for your honey!�

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Pewter Lurkers limited to 15.
Bronze Lurkers limted to 4 and are on sale from $65 to $50!
Lurker Valentines are 5x7 giclee prints

Upcoming Release of BLART SIMPSON!!! FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1st at NOON!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Fri, 25 Jan 2013 17:56:00 -0800

Introducing...BLART & HIS SON ABORT!!! By Skinner X Coma21

This incredible bootleg is from...another dimension!! Yeah! You heard me right! I GOT�THIS TOY FROM�ANOTHER FREAKIN DIMENSION! How did that happen you ask? Gather round and I'll tell you the tale!�

It all started the other day when I was hiking around this enchanted forest with Kristie. We were looking around to find some cool stuff we could make some cool, earthy scvulptures for our garden. You ever seen like a cool wine barrel with a trippy little handmade waterfall in it, maybe some cool driftwood and plants hangin from it and it makes you think you could totally make one yourself if you went on a hike with Kristie to find stuff in the forest to make your own wine barrel waterfall thing? Well then you understand why I was out there! I planned to impress her by being a cool hippie guy and make some wine barrel waterfalls! So anyway, we were out there hiking around looking for stuff when all of a sudden I saw this strange, shimmery light on the trail in front of us! It turned out to be a fucking crazy-ass hole in the space time continuum!! "Trip out!" I yelled as I veered toward the strange light. Kristie yelled back at me,"Babe! Get the hell away from that dimensional gateway! You'll hurt youself!" But it was too late, I had already started walking towards the strange doorway and when I got closer I could see another weird reality reveal itself throught the door! My mind was completely blown as I saw what appeared to be, some kind of nether world flea market! It was full of mutants and bizarre misshapen humanoids shuffling around and making flea market deals in a united cocaphony of sounds and deformed voices! A hellish flea market full of poverty stricken demons and blue collar trolls! I yelled out, "HEY KRISTIE!!�THERE'S�SOME�COOL MUTANTS�OVER�HERE! COME CHECK 'EM OUT!" Kristie ran over just in time to see a strange little imp-man with a bent back and some shaggy rag clothes peering through the gateway door at me! He looked at me and we locked eyes! I felt frozen in time as he shambled towards me from the other side. I watched in my paralyzed state as he came closer, stopping just before the shimmering door between our two worlds. I watched him reach one of his straggly little arms behind his bent back and produce an ugly little toy! He passed the strange figure through through the dimensional door and into my hands. I looked down and in my hand was this BLART�SIMPSON! I asked him, "What in god's name is this wretched horror," to which he croaked, "Blart is number one top TV boy on cartoon screen! Eat more shorts he say always and more about the cow and always Blart does drive Home-dad so lunacy! Always shake a neck! Bootleg Blart 5 of MoxIco world. I buy and you give me weed from Earth town." Wow! I thought! This dude must be drunk on some netherworld moon shine!! I made a mental note to get me some of that, but in the meantime I think he just asked me to trade him some weed for some Blart toys! I started to think...Man, I could sell these bootleg netherworld Bart Simpson toys to some toy dudes who like to collect these freakish kinds of things! I mean, if they like to collect earthy toys, then toys from some other world has gotta be cool too, right? So basically, instead of being a total sheister with these toys and keeping them all for myself, I am going to sell them to you guys for only a $100 a pop, because I need the money to buy some wine barrels for my trippy waterfall project, OK!!!? You guys didn't forget about that part of the story, did you? So anyways, as we started back from the old bent man and his strange mutant flea market we noticed the shimmery door start to fade away. We plan to go back soon, but I don't know if the shimmery door will ever manifest again...

Blart Simpson goes on sale FRIDAY, FEBRUARY at NOON! Here on my webstore!!

The Release of THE WANDERER!!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:40:00 -0800

SOLD OUT!

Somewhere traversing outside of time, deep within wormholes of an unknown cosmos, a strange being walks...no he wanders!! Endlessly he wanders the halls of space and light. What odd murmurs exist within its shapeless mind? Or does it simply watch coldly with its ancient mind? What celestial ambition pushes it onward, ever traversing the palaces of the unknown? Unfazed and unfaltering in its quest...but a quest of what? To where? Does it know? Did it ever know, or does it just Wander...ever wandering....outside of time!

This project is in collaboration with David Healey who sculpted and created this resin piece. He is an incredible resin artisan who I will be collaborating again with this year so stay posted! This is David Healey's character Jin Baba, the Pakistani Boogeyman! I gave him a cosmic makeover...hope you like it!

This 4 inch tall mini megalith costs $75, is limited to 10 and will be released on JANUARY 18th at NOON on my shopify site!

New Custom Sticker Packs!!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Fri, 04 Jan 2013 17:03:00 -0800

STICKERS!!! They have shaped the world in ways we will never fully grasp. Legend tells of many mighty kings, queens and emperors who used stickers to forge great kingdoms. They can be powerful adhesive tools for domination or they can be flimsy, crappy, sticky fail slaps! You must decide! And so ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the first series of incredibly high caliber silk-screen masterpieces by Stickerobot! These are insanely high quality reproductions of my more intense paintings in a series that will help you forge your own empire! This sticker pack holds 10 epic multi-colored silk-screen masterpieces: 5 images, 2 of each! Order now and let these stickers lead you down a passage that the gods themselves have willed for you!

Series 1 Product Details:

Each pack contains 10 super high quality stickers, sealed in snazzy packs!

Stickers are screen printed onto thick white vinyl with heavy backing!

3 coats of clear UV protection so you can leave them on your car for daaaaaaays!

Custom sticker printing by Sticker Robot!

Mixed-Parts Mega Bog: SOLD OUT!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:28:00 -0800

THE ULTRUS BOG! The most powerful vinyl toy in the history of vinyl toys! 6 colors! 12 bogs! No survivors!!! White, blue, black, green, yellow and orange! You wont see a mixed parts vinyl toy with this many colors AGAIN!!� Each bog is unique and in the spirit of Christmas the one you order will be a surprise!! THANKS TO EVERYONE WHO ORDERED! WE ARE OFFICALLY SOLD OUT!

The DARK CALL OF KRAMPUS Print RELEASED!!!

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 12:31:00 -0800

You know, Christmas isn't always the warm,cozy and joyful holiday event that we'd like it to be. No, in fact it can be a time of materialistic obligation and mindless occupation of malls and stores you would rather not frequent to begin with. Sometimes I look around myself and think," Is there any way that I can show my disenchantment with mindless holiday consumerism? Is there any way I can punish the very people I am obligated to buy things for in a way that still honors the traditions of old?" Well if its punishment you seek to inflict, then look no further than this DARK CALL OF KRAMPUS print! This haunted 5 color silkscreen print embodies the dreaded ring of the Christmas devil's bell which kept children in line since the days of old! Punish your friends for wanting something expensive and technological with this Krampus print that promises an old timey birch branch ass whipping may soon be coming your way if you don't shape the hell up and appreciate what you have instead of wishing for something fancy from the goddamn fancy store! This print is perfect for a hideous child, a bad boyfriend, or an old burn out family friend who may or may not like to smoke pot and listen to Black Sabbath in your garage!

This 12″ x 12″ five-color screenprint on French's Old Green Speckletone paper, has a limited edition of 50 and costs $40. All prints are signed and numbered! The DARK�CALL�OF�KRAMPUS is ON SALE NOW!!! It will also be shipped out with a FREE BUTCHER KINGS manifesto book featuring myself and Alex Pardee because I want to be a sweet Santa and not a Krunchy Krampus! That's right! The butcher kings book comes FREE with this amazing print! So click here to buy!

Amazingly printed by artists: Curtis Readel and Zach Schrey!

So Remember....
Santa brings a special glee, a sparkle to the eye
But brats take haste, the Krampus
Comes, to darken up the sky
A jolly old soul with a heart of gold,
Santa Claus is coming
With cloven hoofs and goatish horns,
the Krampus sends em' running
As good Saint Nick, will fill with toys,
His magical red sack
The Krampus has a birch club,
Strapped across his back
�� - Kenneth Widman

Get in the spirit with this Krampus parade video!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSFAUyZVfdQ&feature=youtube_gdata_player

SKINNER x ALEX PARDEE x L'AMOUR SUPREME | Halloween Masks

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 14:31:00 -0700

HERE YOU INSANE HALLOWEEN FREAKS!!! COME TROT DOWN THE DARK ALLEY WITH YOUR BAG OF HIDEOUS CANDY!! You see I have some nice masks for you!!! The Aroma,by the coffin fiend ALEX PARDEE!!! The Cyco ape mask by CHARNEL SKULL RIPPER L'AMOUR SUPREME! And the Gaping Maw by YOUR GHOULISH GNASHING HOST, SKINNER.. These masks are made by Hollywood HORROR sculptor, PAT GIERHART from ATOMICVOMIT! Who meticulously sculpted and painted and otherwise hideously doctored up these dimensional beings from the specific visions of Alex, Lamour and I.. These masks are all high quality durable masks hand painted and cast by Pat specifically to your order.. Only 10 of each run.. They can be worn, and fit nicely and snug on a human head, or hung up as a limited art piece..All of these masks are available for $500 and it needs 4-6 weeks from the time of order to get to you! Place your orders now!!

Contact PAT GIERHART at
Atomicvomitkills@gmail.com

You won't be sorry kids and ghouls!!

Frenzy Brother's Cannibal Collection release...This Thursday

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 14:47:00 -0700

(Left)THE�CANNIBAL�PHANTOM�- It's a bad guy...the worst...the worst bad guy. You know the story about how if Bill Gates drops a thousand dollars on the ground, that it wouldn't be worth his time to pick it up? Well that's how The Cannibal Phantom is about evil. He doesn't even have time to rape you...frankly that's old hat to him. Who has time for that type of behavior anyway? This guy doesn't! (points to Phantom Cannibal). Don't you want a bad guy around to kill the good guys?

(Right) Appalachian Inbred Cannibal Dad - Alright look, this is your dad. This is YOUR dad! The one you've been hiding. Don't be embarrassed of your cannibal dad from Appalachia. Everybody knows you're inbred anyways. There's a certain translucency to skin, that you just cant hide my friend. All the little blue vein and arteries are kind of ruining your chances of getting laid frankly. Don't be ashamed of your father, for he is not ashamed of you and your little blue veins you try to hide. Congratulations...you have a cannibal dad.

These will go on sale Thursday, Sept 20th.

Appalachian Inbred Cannibal Dad - http://nvy.gd/SuJPDz
The Cannibal Phantom - http://nvy.gd/SuGEvN

L' Amour Supreme X Skinner: Installation for Mishka

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 11:09:00 -0700

L' Amour Supreme X Skinner: Installation for Mishka

Outside Lands Mural time lapse

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 14:38:00 -0700

French Children have always loved me...

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 15:51:00 -0700

Feature from Be Street French Urban Magazine

SANTA CRUZ X SKINNER X ESPN =?

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 12:30:00 -0700

The answer equals = Not getting sued for interpreting Jim Phillips' art...but getting paid instead. Here's what the moving parts look like.�

SDCC INSANITY

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:00:00 -0700

Well...SDCC, the insane amorphous mass of quivering nerdist intent is popping off starting tonight and ending sometime in the mass exodus Sunday evening...For this particular level of hell i have made 4 custom Ultrus Bogs.."The devils Bodyguard" a series of only 4..painted with Monster Kolor and $300...if you want one of these guys you have to find me pretty much..I will be hanging around and checking in with the Color Ink dudes who also have a sort of final release of the Resin Lurkers we have been releasing intermittently for the last 2 years..There are 14 gold edition lurkers..at $30 these are priced cheaply to show appreciation to people and collectors who have been fans of the Lurker releases...There will be a few black with glow in the dark eyes but i dont know how much those are...the next Lurker release you see very well may be a vinyl version of the prototype we had at the last year Comic con...these are all sculpted by David Arshawsky whom you ninja turtle nerds may recognize as the sculptor of some of those ninja turtle figures from so long ago...its an honor for sure...I also have a shit ton of rad Customs I did for the lulubell % and dime show Friday night...Grody Shoguns, Grody Heads, En Men and more...oh yeah Sea Gools! Paul kaiju for president!...I will also be giving out a shitload of free buttons that were made by my buddy gabriel at Buttonlab!...button-lab.com�� I will be doing a signing at Color Ink Booth 4934� from 3-5 then Im going to see DethKlok play on an aircraft carrier
Saturday i will be at ZeroFriends booth 5502 from 1:30-3:00...I will sign your book or draw you a sketch! come meet me and Alex's weird asses! Ok!! when I get back I will be doing Ultrus Bog Customs for anyone who missed out at Comic con...PEACE!

The Great Race! Lovecraft Education Project Release.

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 20:34:00 -0700

The Great Race! Those cosmic scientists who have made their races work, to research every living being by exchanging consciousnesses...they take your mind and put it in their body and you can scurry about their great libraries learning about any planet at any time in history ever...as they put their vast intellectual and curious mind in your body and set about learning and taking notes about the scientific aspects of the natural world and its inhabitants...to be taken and recorded in the library of cosmic understanding and history...the Great Race welcomes you to stay awhile so that they may use your body to learn of your world...your friends may see a strange transformation in your behavior as you are now not whom you appear to be!!! these figures go on sale monday june 25 at noon! here is the link to the webstore so you may purchase it! the second to last figure in Jay222 and my lovecraft education project...the last one is coming out next month!

http://nvy.gd/NKSvZi

Adult Swim Issue of Juxtapoz with my weird ass in it...

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 22:36:00 -0700

Adult Swim and Juxtapoz have both been very fun and good and nice and important art entities and they teamed up and I did a triptych for this issue that just came out...a very bizarre Heironymous Bosch triptych featuring the boys of DETHKLOK!...here is the art for your face, Enjoy....

http://shop.juxtapoz.com/detail.php?id=434

Viz-Hun Animation Short Film

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 14:52:00 -0700

This is a film I got to make with an amazing film maker/artist, Marcella Ernest and my animation buddy, Walter Parenton who Is an artist in his own right...He has helped me with the Wisdom of the Lurkers cartoon and the Ultrus Bog promo from awhile ago...he does great things...Marcella asked me to participate in the making of this piece for showing a museum she works with...... I then showed it at my opening in New York, where people got to be enthralled with its general weirdness and otherworldly narrative...Marcella's part is a really gripping style of photo stop motion type of film sculpture, where the moments inbetween the actual frame are just as important in creating a stuttering kind of flow...its sort of an Occult kind of dream lapse into a cold corner of the wilderness wrapped in a sort of David Lynchian nightmare sequence..needless to say, I love it...Walter did an amazing job sequencing a weird animation of symbols and Kochina chase scenes...psychedelic overtures and texture make it fit right in with the incongruent splintering of reality that the film demonstrates...The music is sections of my band out of sequence and providing some of the weird atmosphere...Marcella's music is a stark series of creepy noises which are perfect... I did all my art for it with these Copic Markers that were sent to me by the kind people at Copic who made a sort of Skinner Color set...

Without further ado, Here is the video...check it out, Share it and feel weird...

Marcella Bio and Viz-Hun statement

Marcella is a video artist and experimental filmmaker. Her award winning short films and video projects have exhibited at galleries and film festivals both nationally and internationally. As an artist Marcella tries to articulate the private and the public self through site and sound. Using video as a tool to physically create a sense of place. Her works create images and movement with resonance and Native language that reveals emotion of life and culture; not as stagnant and individual, but as an amalgamation, or a complex mixture.

In 2012 Marcella will have numerous screenings and art exhibitions at such places as the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C, the Seattle International Film Festival, Museum of Arts and Design in New York City, Spain and Nepal. The short film, Viz-Hun, created in collaboration with SKINNER and Walter IV, was produced for the Museum of Contemporary Native Arts ongoing Vision Project. Sponsored by the Ford Foundation, Viz-Hun is an experimental animation project that negotiates ideas of cultural taboo, apprehension and meanings of fear projected through images. In winter of 2012, Marcella and Skinner worked with Walter IV to create this complex nightmare of imagination and sound; graphic design and artistic production support was in collaboration with the artist Jolene Yazzie, and original music was provided by Ugoliant.

The Deep Ones

skinner@theartofskinner.com (Skinner) — Thu, 17 May 2012 15:54:00 -0700

The Deep Ones!!! New Lovecraft Release!

Being released on Monday May 21st at Noon! $100 plus $10 for shipping, $15 for out of country...These 6 inch tall Cthulhu worshipping denizens of the dark waves of the worlds ocean are ready to come for you. Pull you down into the depths so that you may join them in the Call back to the ancient Lair where Cthulhu lays dreaming...awaiting the Stars alignment when one day He will rise and take the world back as his own...what will he do with the world once he awakens? who knows...probably just walk around and scare the dogshit out of everyone...Thats what I would do anyways...ok so heres the link where you can buy these...

http://www.storenvy.com/products/361506-the-deep-things