The Lady of Decay

In the heat of summer day
Walks the Lady of Decay.
Her skin is pale like gone-off milk,
Her clothes are made of rotted silk,
Millipedes surround her face,
Her dress is trimmed with dirty lace.
With maggot pet and fungi’d hair,
She parades around the square.
She’s a sight from head to toes,
But whilst you look, hold your nose!
For nothing festers like Decay
In the heat of summer day.

14  colours, and the poem was written spur-of-the-moment when submitting to PixelJoint ;)

31st January, 2010 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments

All A-gaga-og

Sorry ;)

Not a fan of Lady Gaga, but I found her new video strangely interesting, and made a quick painting.

Not intended to really be a likeness, by the way.

30th November, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments

Left 4 Dead 2 anticipation!

Getting in the mood for this Tuesday with some quickish L4D fanart!  A hunter and a witch:

Is this the first man I’ve drawn in ages?  I do believe it is!

15th November, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - 1 Comment

The Man with the Strawberry Head

As finished as it’s ever going to get.

Notice what he’s eating :|

8th November, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments

LongWINDed

Well, I started this a long time ago and was making a good effort to fix it up according to some crits I got at the AGS forums (I did make some, I swear), but my attention turned elsewhere and looking at it now I know I will never, ever finish it ;)  I like some bits of it, though, so I thought I’d post it:

Will my next painting contain hands?  I hope so! ;)

15th October, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments

Gooooo!

Some quickish World of Goo fanart :D  It’s an awesome game, check it out!

28th September, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments

Pixel Roundup

Some small pixels I’ve done lately (and not so lately ;) )

First, a little beagle puppy holding a Cintiq stylus I made for Captain Binky’s birthday! (waaaay back in April!)

And now some minis, which I’m showing at 2x here so they can be seen more clearly :)
Ghostbusters for Nickenstien’s birthday! (also waaaay back in April!)


Some Dan and Ben sprites from Time Gentlemen, Please! (with accurate walkcycles! ;) )

And some Muse fanart! (made before my disappointment with their last album :(  Giving it another chance as I type)

27th September, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments

Recent Reads: The Information

Richard Tull and Gwyn Barry: friends/enemies since university; both writers; the first an unsuccessful, unreadable experimental novelist, the second a bland, populist millionaire.  Perhaps, given this is an Amis book, it is inevitable that Tull realizes what he must do: “a literary endeavor, a quest, an exaltation–one to which he could sternly commit all his passion and his power.  He was going to fuck Gwyn up.”  And so it begins. (more…)

26th September, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - No Comments

I’m Sensing… Some Fanart?

Ooh, it’s been a while.  I’m way behind on art updates, and I’ve read four books since my last post… anyhow, I was recently introduced (no, not literally) to the awesome and dapper mentalist/magician Derren Brown, and made some fanart :D

I’m a bit sad he seems to wear less purple in his newer stuff.  Magicians should always wear some sort of purple ;)

Making this reminded me of some of my old celebrity portraits I made last year that were a bit on the more serious side.  I still have some fondness for them, so I thought I’d put them up :)  Click on the jump to see! (more…)

23rd September, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - 2 Comments

Recent Reads: A Short History of Nearly Everything

I swear, some more art or game-related posts are coming up soon (a short preview: PAWS still chugging along, some paintings being worked on)  But for now, more bookish filler!

This may surprise anyone whose only exposure to me has been through my generally art-related (and/or ditzy posts) on internet forums–not to mention, this blog–but my background is science.  For true!  An Hon. BSc and everything ;)  And from my time at university, where I dabbled in areas from neuroanatomy to insect biology, it became easy not only to lose the forest for the trees, but to lose the trees for leaf spiracles.   Things have a way of getting dreary.  Sometimes, even now, I wonder how I ended up there… but Bill Bryson’s A Short History of Nearly Everything reminded me :) (more…)

1st August, 2009 - Posted by MashPotato - 3 Comments

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