3 posts tagged “royalty”

Bitter-Girl reminded me of what a strange night Friday was. Getting a few back-handed compliments about the show from a guy that looked homeless, and some dude making a big production of how the gallery was making money off him because he dropped a dollar in the donation jar and he knows how much a case of Black Label costs and we should be thankful. Class-ay!

I think I weirded out some guys when they went into a discussion about Harry Potter (they said I should take JK's place in fiction since she's done with the Potter books) so I of course told them all about the Alan Rickman as Snape fan art, which then led to the art Star Trek fans do that is also of a sexual nature. Remember the scene in the documentary "Trekkies" when Brent Spiner pulls out some fan art of his character Data getting it on with Tasha Yar? I find it fascinating, sorry if it is inappropriate cocktail conversation.

But the funniest part was the dead silence both myself and pal Shannon created in a conversation by waiving our "History Dork!" flags. When discussing these fake histories of my portraits, we got into some of the horrible and weird deaths of royalty that have really happened. Such as, getting a hot poker up the butt, dying from a monkey bite, and exploding in a casket during a funeral procession. While one person found it funny, and we thought it awesome, I think the rest of the group just didn't know what to say -- let alone was wondering how the conversation turned to bizarre horrible deaths of aristocrats.

Hey, I thought it was pertinent to the topic at hand; I've modeled all my bios for my paintings of anything I've read about royalty, aristocrats, social elites and so forth, and if there is one thing I've learned it is that nothing is ever all well and good for these people. Monkey bites, disease, infidelity, hunting accidents,  assassinations, amputations, insanity, poisoning, illegitimate children up the wazoo, murder, bankruptcy, becoming a recluse, being married to a homosexual or lesbian, having a daughter that is a obsessed with Hilter, having an angry mob fuck up your property....you get the idea. But they had some really nice clothes, and some fabulous homes now didn't they?

If you taught kids in history classes more about the weird and gruesome stuff, maybe they'd be more interested, and people like me wouldn't get strange "neeeeeerd!" looks for bringing it up. Well I'm sorry, go ahead then and turn around, continue talking about your i-pods or whatever.

Awww, don't they make a nice couple?

That's Franz the Earl of Elsso and his wife Annabel of Alia, 16x20". I hate the way digital photos make them look, but you get the idea. I just ordered some snazzy big gold frames for them too.

"Annabel of Alia, Countess of Elsso" 16x20 inches. She is going to look great in a big gold frame. This is my foray into doing a few larger pieces for the show in October. Though I now realize why I stopped doing larger works, it does a nasty thing to my back, neck, and arm. Anyways, she has a husband whose coming along right now. Back to work again...