"Her Head in the Melting Sky"

By: Tom Martinez Jr.

Mixed Media

I was a bit intoxicated when I did this one. I felt this one out as I went along. I had the idea for the title first and drew her head, but I didn't know how I was going to depict the sky. My recent work has had grey skies in them, probably because of the turning of the season or my mindset right now. Grey skies for me have always symbolized morning, transition, cold and a stale state. Growing up in northern California, there were a good amount of days in the year where the sky was grey. What really stood out was the first day of school, walks on the beach in late afternoon in Monterey,CA and Santa Cruz,CA, and the potential of rain. I used alcohol to get the gradient in that segmented state. I used Prizma markers, Acrylic, Alcohol, Acrylic marker, and Sharpie.

Zombie Painting SOLD!

"The Horror"

Acrylic and Ink on Canvas By Tom Martinez Jr.

"Mother Nature saw the horror and asked Herself,

Who is the monster?

The living or the undead?"

Sailor Jerry style for my friend's new apt.

I am working on a whole series of artwork for my friend Alana. She just got a new apartment and she asked me to make it a home. She is a huge tattoo and punk rock fan, so the theme of all the rooms will be Sailor Jerry style tattoo flash. It is fun and a nice exercise to mimic a style but add my own flavor to it. I will be posting up some pictures as I work on it soon. This is a canvas painting of SJ's sailboat. I tea stained the canvas before I started painting on it to give it an old map look.

Los Muertos

I got inspired to do this painting from the frame that it is mounted to. I found this gold colored wooden frame with a red velvet inline border. It has a vintage religious look to it and it used to have some jesus painting in it, but I think it looks way better with this on painting in it. Probably going to hell for that one, haha. It's a shame you can't make out too much of the details but there is lots of tiny gold designs within all of the detailing. I have some people wanting to buy it, but I kind of love it too much.