Pulp

I really should have been a pulp artist. There's really no other job where you can paint such outstandingly ridiculous subject matter and get paid for it, with the possible exception of concept artist. It's also interesting to note that it's nearly impossible to try to mock the genre because whatever dumb idea you're thinking of, some poor uncredited shmoe in the 30's already did it, and dumber.

On another note, it's been ages since I've painted anything this directly in photoshop-I highly reccomend it...no filters, gradients, or masks..just one layer and your favorite brush. Just like in the good old days, except without the toxic chemicals.

On an yet another unrelated note, I seem to have acquired the power to conjure Lee Van Cleef at will, so I have that going for me too, which is nice. I hope this power comes in handy some day.

Gardens of Babylon

I have gazed on the walls of impregnable Babylon,
    along which chariots may race,
    and on the Zeus by the banks of Alphaeus.
I have seen the Hanging Gardens and the Colossos of Helios,
    the great man-made mountains of the lofty pyramids,
    and the gigantic tomb of Maussollos.
But when I saw the sacred house of Artemis that towers to the clouds,

    the others were placed in the shade

    For the sun himself has never looked upon its equal outside Olympus.

                                                                          - Antipator of Sidon,

                                                                                c. 2nd Century BC