Live Streamed Skull

I don't do a lot of daily things but every day I do things. I'm trying to blog my days over on patreon, and talk more about the thoughts behind some of the art. This skull, first you tube live stream painting ever. 

Chip

One of the newest zombie paintings from byron rempel
http://thehorde.storenvy.com

nighTmare KoleckTOR

Repurposing an old paper that once contained a minimalistic portrait sketch the brain shut down so art could be arted, and lo an old god and it's collection of skulls started to appear. It looked a little weird with a big round bald head so horns sprouted and spots appeared. The colour combinations are a bit out there and if I really studied it I'm sure I could find dozens of areas that I could improve ... but would it improve the whole piece?

So it's finished and I think I am going to call it a nighTmare KolecKtor because spelling common words in weird ways is fun.

Way more vibrant in real life ... those tentacle suckers should be a super bright pink ... available at:

http://thehorde.storenvy.com/products/24239085-nightmare-kolelcktor

OHK ... we're all ohk

Reworking and tweaking older drawings and paintings that needed tweaking and reworking. This skull is sitting on a mostly black background with orange trim. That orange is way more vibrant in real life.
And that's OHK
original available here: http://thehorde.storenvy.com/products/24206610-ohk-skull-artwork-by-byron

Know Second ...

Who knew it would be so easy?
Just do it ... just fucking do it and see what happens.
There's always a second option but that doesn't mean the first choice is wrong. If it doesn't work out all you've spent was time, but if it works then BOOM! You're golden.
Even if the worst happens, you'll learn something for next time.

Unless this is the zombie apocalypse, then the worst is getting bit and dying a slow agonizingly painful death only to become a zombie as well.

So stop second guessing yourself and get started, and no matter what happens, don't give up.
Everyone that matters to you wants you to succeed.
Easy

Know Second
4" x 6" mixed media on paper

buy the original here: http://thehorde.storenvy.com/products/24191661-know-second

get a print or a tshirt on RED BUBBLE

Say 10

You don't have to say much, just say 10
original black and white painting is available for purchase, its about 3"x6" mixed media on watercolor paper. Contact us if you're interested in owning, otherwise ... check out redbubble for shirts or stickers.


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Man, what a day yesterday was. Woke up in a half decent mood and then it all started unravelling. It's stupid and it happens every fucking day. By itself it's just life right? Ups and downs ... the problem is that when I start feeling down and spiralling out of control, I take others down with me. 
I hate that ...

but life goes.
And as much as I want to have a one man pity party, nobody really gives a shit so whats the point.  My self pity solves nothing and nothing gets done, making matters even worse. 
whatever
The goal is to be consistent ... 

Cya tomorrow 

Zombie River

We find outselves once again at a crossroad in life, and the old ways of panic and post are fighting against 'thePLAN'

It feels futile in a time limiting sort of way ... the struggle continues and the blood flows and nothing stops for anyone ... is there a point ... should we wade hip deep through all the shit that life keeps throwing our way or should we just submit an surrender?

Let's find out together ... shall we?

original artwork for sale at http://thehorde.storenvy.com/ ... reasonably priced ... go ahead, support a horror artist

Melted and Remade

For a while in December I was on a major skull drawing and painting kick, partly inspired by the late great Jed Leiknes, who sadly, suffered from depression which caused him to take his own life just before christmas. His death hit me harder than I expected, and I didn't even know the guy ... had only just started following him on instragram a few months prior, but damn he had talent.

I am now starting to paint skulls on canvas, this is one of my first 8x10 mixed media on stretched canvas
It's up at http://thehorde.storenvy.com for $75, includes trackable shipping

murderous mind

This is a self portrait from the time leading up to the whole Christmas holiday season. Much feeding to the inner Troll was done, which caused what seemed like unending stress and anxiety and depression.

It took hard work but I had my wife fighting beside me, and together we stopped that troll long enough for me to see what I have in front of me.

Even posting this is a bit of a mind fuck for me but I'm trusting myself that it's okay. Weird right? Fucking brain is trying to kill me. Am i feeding the troll ... ?
crazy



Anyways ... all that depression caused some big mistakes to happen, so if you don't see me online for a while, don't panic.

It just means I'm trying to make enough cash to pay the phone bill.

December was all about robbing Peter to pay Paul ... freaking christmas ....

well it's the new year and Peter wants his money.

Part of my new ethos is about owning my mistakes, and taking care of them. Fixing them and hoping to never repeat them again.

This first one will be a test because I have to admit to my kids that I screwed up, sorry no wifi ... not cool but it's a first world problem that I hope becomes a growth lesson for everyone.

Anyways ... not to beg for help but rather to point out something ... I am trying to adopt out 50 zombie cats and I'm doing it for just $20. The reasons make a lot more sense than just 'Byron needs some cash' ... it's more about me entering a new phase of my life as an artist, a father, a husband and even as a person. I'm valuing things differently, I'm doing things differently and above all I'm trying to live differently ... and by differently I mean better.


So I'm selling off these little bits of my past to people that really love my work and could not afford it so that it can be spread to 50 different people in 50 different parts of the world. It's a huge challenge for me to get mail out on time but I'm making this 'sale' and the whole adventure of adopting these cats out a learning and growth experience.

I'll start to post the rest of the journey on the daily zombie now since I hope to mail them all out on Friday. The envelopes are made, just a bit more tape then they're all ready for stuffing with whatever zombie merch I have lying around. Then the lucky ticket needs to be made and all of them getting sealed, mixed up, addressed to 50 different people and mailed off.

It's a bit weird to think that I might never paint zombie cats like these 50 again ... but that's growth and I would rather know that part of my growth is out in the world, rather than in a storage bin under the stairs.

who wants a piece of my growth? :P

I'm part way there, hoping to do the actual mailing on Friday.
If you want to take part in this, the link is : https://payhip.com/b/TUg8

Whoever gets that lucky ticket also wins this

anyways ... this turned out to be a longer blog post than i expected

time to go get some more work done

thanks for reading, have a great night.