The 7 Deadly Sins Series

So my last painting is in the works...Lust. ;) Then I start on the 7 Heavenly Virtues!

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Sloth

Sloth: After a week or two of painting my buns off and promoting art shows and looking for work I got a job and I was tired! Sloth was easy and this is what came of my laziness.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Wrath

After my bottle of whiskey, broken heart and a hang over later I made Wrath. Vengeance would be mine no matter what! My wrath would not come from a knife or a gun but my my weapon of my power of determination. I'd move on but the ripples my pond were made and my blood spilled from my fingers for i'd ripped my own heart out and tossed it in that damn pond.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Gluttony

McDonald's home of the Big Mac and the best fries a fast food joint has to offer. Also home of Gluttony fatty goodness. Its fucking sick I can choose the size of my value meal and the age i'll die from eating all this. No one forces me to eat this cruddy goodness but no one slaps that XL chocolate shake out of my hands. And if they did they get my wrath! So here is Grimus eating so much he ate his pal Ronald McDonald and as he munches on that red hair and blood coming out of his mouth with tears running down his face you can clearly see Grimus has a binge eating problem. I'm sure that was on the extra value menu.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Envy

A few days just before a big art show I was having in Feb 2010 a guy i adored back in Phoenix told me he "Loved me but he was moving in with the guy he had been dating for months now." This made angry as hell because what i saw was mine was being taken from me. And the fact that he told me that "he loved me" made it worse. This painting was supposed to be Lust. My lust for him but due to my anger and some whiskey it was my Envy.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Greed

The next in the series wasn't hard to cover. Greed! The person for this paint was good ol' Mayor Sam Adams himself. Sam Adams lied about an affair with his intern so he could get elected. He played the gay card and said he was target because he was gay. No Sam you were the target of someone's wrath because you ex lover/intern broke a man's heart but before braking his heart he told his ex love all the dirty details of your affair. But the point is you lie because you wanted to be Mayor. And I have to say a lot of us would because we're greedy just like you Sam.

The 7 Deadly Sins Series: Pride

I started a year ago to cover the 7 Deadly Sins via Abstract design. The first painting to come out was Pride. I was unemployed last January and was walking through Macy's and I noticed that they were changing all the clothes on the manikins. They were all nude and poising their with perfect bodies with no imperfections to show. Yet the women that were showing were far from perfect but yet beautiful. But let one of them women with their imperfect body stand tall and proud in the dude and they would be laugh, stared at in discussed and called names. My manikin stands proud with her uneven breast, her cottage cheese thighs and her double chin all worn with Pride. A sin we do not forgive large people to be proud of their bodies.

At last an update!

So I won't lie! I've been lazy with the updates and posting so one of my new goals for the new yr is to update more. Here is the new news! I landed a consignment dead with Benham Designs Concepts. You can see my page at www.benhamdesignconcepts.com/FrankieOlivo/. I also applied for an artist grant working with reusable items for art from the Portland City dump. If i get it i will get $1000 and to show my work a year later with 5 other artist. I should find out any day soon. I'm pretty nervous because I'm one of 46 artist who applied. Let's hope that the fact that i work with animal bones sets me a side from other artist.

I also got my first art studio this month. It's under the Hawthorne Bridge! it's so awesome too!

I'm also in the works of making a website for my art. So more updates coming soon!