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About Me

Ascetic hedonist, lowbrow intellectual and saturnine victim of Peter Pan syndrome, David Aronson observes the nightmare of history from his oneiric bathysphere and brews up potent, chthonic images in his alembics and retorts. Once thought to have been born fully grown from his father’s left temple, it is now known that he spent his early years in a traveling minstrel show and petting zoo. His mother was a tap dancer and professional mourner, and his father a black-face clown and noted kabbalist. As a child, Popeye cartoons revealed to David the secrets of the Tao. David is a militant agnostic, a disgruntled, cynical tree-hugger, and an unrepentant, closet subversive, forever peeing in the cultural soup.
I'm an artist/teacher/healer/witch/poet, intelligent, articulate, friendly, down-to-earth, spiritual, quirky and intense. I am an illustrator, digital artist and fine artist (drawing, painting), a certified hypnotherapist, 2nd degree reiki, and integrated energy therapy master. I am a semi-professional astrologer and tarot reader. I teach adults and children drawing, oil painting, watercolor and cartooning. If you'd like to see my work, go to http://www.alchemicalwedding.com

My Interests

I'd like to meet:

Creative, intelligent, open-minded people who live outside the box. Iconoclasts, spiritual rebels, visionaries, people who are quirky and offbeat and who think for themselves. Psychonauts, witches, sorcerers, dreamers, shamans, artists, musicians, poets, writers, performers, healers, psychedelicists, free spirits, people on a path of healing, transformation, self-actualization. People following any kind of creative calling. People with integrity and depth. People who are open and not afraid to reveal themselves.

David Aronson's quirky, offbeat drawings, paintings and illustration combine traditional media such as watercolor, ink, graphite and colored pencil with digital media and digital collage. His work ranges from whimsical to fantastic, from highly stylized to realistically rendered, and has been called unique and highly imaginative. It mixes lowbrow with fine art elements and often employs unusual juxtapositions. Thematically, David often delves into the realms of mythology and psychology. He has created art for CD covers, music posters and tour t-shirts. David is also an oil painter and has completed several public and private commissions. His digital animation has been featured on MTV2 and Fuse and his drawings were featured regularly in BigNews, the New York journal of art and literature. He is an art teacher, working with both children and adults and teaching several different media, and was once the sole owner and operator of a small art school in the Philadelphia suburbs. He is also a certified hypnotherapist and a published poet.

My Blog

Bipolar Illo for Minneapolis City Pages

Illustration for Minneapolis City Pages for a review of the book Madness: A Bipolar Life.
Posted by on Sun, 13 Apr 2008 19:28:00 GMT

Akiko Visits The Natural History Museum

Akiko Visits The Natural History Museum
Posted by on Mon, 07 Apr 2008 11:20:00 GMT

Dr. Seuss Visits A Brothel

Dr. Seuss Visits A Brothel
Posted by on Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:13:00 GMT

New Illustration

Heartland -- a riff on American Gothic by Grant Wood.
Posted by on Fri, 21 Mar 2008 17:42:00 GMT

Mock CD Covers

Two self-promotional "mock" cd covers.
Posted by on Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:24:00 GMT

Kali Tattoo Design

Design for a tattoo I will be getting in the next month
Posted by on Sat, 23 Feb 2008 09:33:00 GMT

New Poem and Drawing

Number 4 in a series. Ink on paper.------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------High Colonic of LoveYou remember the pastthrough shit-colored glasses;a watery brown-ou...
Posted by on Thu, 31 Jan 2008 23:13:00 GMT

New Drawing - Black & White 3

Number 3 in a series. Ink on paper.
Posted by on Sun, 20 Jan 2008 13:38:00 GMT

New Drawing: Black & White 2

Number 2 in a series of 6. Ink and ink wash on paper.
Posted by on Mon, 07 Jan 2008 10:22:00 GMT

New Drawing

Black & White 1 - The first in a series.
Posted by on Thu, 27 Dec 2007 13:23:00 GMT