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Grumpster

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About Me


I started to paint again after over 15 years - I kind of had to. It feels fun and it's just something I do to keep sane. I'm comfortable with the following words to describe my works: expressionism, underground, lowbrow, pop art, rock'n'roll, punk, Kustom Kulture, kitsch - anything goes. Just don't call me a serious artist - I'll rather try to make people smile than add any angst and misery into the world!

"He's so cute now!" acrylics on canvasboard:
"Hot For Deuces" acrylics on canvas
A few of my paintings (more to come)...

My Interests

Art: some early expressionists, underground comics, Kustom Kulture and lowbrow art. E.g. artists like Egon Schiele, Edvard Munch, Lucian Freud, Keith Weesner , Robert Crumb, Gilbert Shelton, Sailor Jerry, Banksy , Lynn Paula Russel, Ed Roth, J.Tingler, Big Toe, Johnny Crap, pOOch, Juho Juntunen, Arno and Baron Von Evil. Painting myself too, but just for own fun.

I love motorsickles. Hope to get my bike chopped sooner or later. I love vehicles that looks wild and dangerous... ratbikes and rods - dreamin' about gettin' one... meanwhile I'm just painting 'em on canvas... and the best drink - it's coffee or old single malt Scotch!
Links
[Motorsikles]


Backstreet choppers by The Horse Magazine

One of the coolest bike sites on the net

Ugliest rats around the world

I'd like to meet:

Lemmy, Nicola Barker, Joe R. Lansdale, Stephen King and all you art lovers, artists, bikers, rockers, punks, whatever-billys, metalheads, motörheads, hippies, pin-ups, tattoists, freaks, geeks, outsiders, rebels, hot rodders, drag racers, surfers, race drivers, boozers, vagabonds...
Adding new friends
I don't add bands anymore without a good reason. There are simply too much bands here, most of them just collecting friends to get the number of friends up... You can still try - it's not impossible, but it ain't easy :) I'll sure add your band if you like my art - or even better - are interested in using my art... and if I made a request to your band - your band is one of the best f#¤%in' bands in the whole wide world!!!

I respect everyones personal faith, but I have less respect for any institutional religion in the world! I think the time of religions is gone and nowadays they only cause hatred and violence in the world. So don't leave add request to me if you just want to convert people into your religion!

My links:
[Kustom Kulture & some freaks]



Sickest rods, forum and cool pics

Name says it all...

Juho Juntunen, famous Finnish gonzo-journalist, tattoo-artist, illustrator, author, musician and freak by the Craze of God

Kustom Car Craziness of Ed "Big Daddy" Roth

Coolest author on the planet - horror and weird detective stories

Finnish Kustom Kulture - Primer Magazine, shop, kustom paint jobs, pinstriping, etc.

another hot rat vid

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Music:

Rock'n'roll, punk, rockabilly, surf, garage... - whatever if I like it: AC/DC, Backyard Babies, Bouncing Souls, Descendents, The Donnas, Eddie & The Hot Rods, Everybody Out!, The Flaming Sideburns, Flogging Molly, Francine, The Go Getters, Hard-Ons, Hellacopters, The Hives, Hybrid Children, The Jam, Johnny Cash, Misfits, Motörhead , The Others AKA 22Pistepirkko, Peer Günt, The Pirates, Rancid, Rhino Bucket, Roky Erickson, The Saints, The Sinners, Six Pack Jacket, Social Distortion, The Sonics, Stiff Little fingers, Stray Cats, Sweatmaster, The Thrashmen, Turbonegro, Willie Dixon etc.

Movies:

Lost In Translation, Groundhog Day, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Monsters Ball, Finding Neverland, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, The Elephant Man, The Big Lebowski, Where the Buffalo Roam, Young Frankenstein and every movie Clint Eastwood has directed. I love good horror and B movies with monsters and vampires, but no splatter or kung-fu flicks for me, thanks

The best bikemovies: Choppertown-the Sinners and Easy Rider

Television:

House Md., My name is Earl, Prison Break, MythBusters and Monster Garage. Happy Days, Ren&Stimpy and Alf are oldtime favs.

Books:

Nicola Barker, when will your next book be published? I love you, will u marry me??? :) Some other favourites: Dirt Music by Tim Winton, Tijuana Straits by Kem Nunn and basicly everything by Joe R. Lansdale, James Crumley, Magnus Mills, Raymond Chandler, Jim Thompson, Edward Bunker, Charles Bukowski and Hunter S. Thompson. Stephen King too, but not his fantasy-stuff...

Heroes:

Lemmy, Clint Eastwood, Earl Hickey and anyone, who tries to make this world somehow better place - by the means of art or the little deeds in everyday life. And the Finnish men, who fougt to save the independency of my country during WWII.

My Blog

New painting: "Living Dead Love"

Dream of an eternal love...
Posted by Grumpster on Sun, 07 Oct 2007 08:21:00 PST

"The ugliest painting in the world"

&at least according to my wife: "Rat Fighter Burnout", my latest painting. I have to say she has a point  it's definitely not one of the most beautiful paintings in the world :-) As my previous paint...
Posted by Grumpster on Thu, 06 Sep 2007 11:22:00 PST

Dragon Dancer

This one's a bit of a mystery to myself too. I had bunch of vague ideas and before I knew, it started to visualize clearer and clearer& it was like that girl had been there all the time, in a vase wit...
Posted by Grumpster on Wed, 05 Sep 2007 12:14:00 PST

New painting: "4-Stroke Hearts"

Ahhh... at last I had some time to paint. This was in my head for over a month, and now that I found time it was just two hasty sketches and three days of painting... it came out easy and was just fun...
Posted by Grumpster on Wed, 18 Jul 2007 07:21:00 PST

Eat your heart out Eddie!

"Eat your heart out Eddie!" In despite of the name of this painting, it's really my humble tribute to the other "original cool Eddie": Norwegian painter Edvard Munch (1863-1944), who was an importan...
Posted by Grumpster on Tue, 24 Apr 2007 09:04:00 PST

Two new paintings...

Here are my two new paintings I finished when I was in a flu this week (that might explain a lot). It's hard to find time for doing this "art" as I do have my dayjob.  When my wife saw ...
Posted by Grumpster on Sun, 15 Apr 2007 03:05:00 PST

Old paintings

Here's two of my old paintigs that still remains. I painted these when I was eighteen (now I'm 37 years old and I'm still pretty mean)  :) ...
Posted by Grumpster on Sun, 01 Apr 2007 10:32:00 PST

Story of my life...

I used to paint a lot when I was about 15-19 years old - big paintings like underground or pop-art style. But no one seemed to understand those bright colored monster paintings with things like ugly n...
Posted by Grumpster on Sun, 25 Mar 2007 04:27:00 PST