Indie Craft Experience (ICE) Holiday Shopping Spectacular 11/22-11/23/2014

This weekend I will be set up at the Indie Craft Experience (ICE) Holiday Shopping Spectacular!  The event will last both Saturday and Sunday (11/23 and 11/24) 11 am - 6 pm both days.  The Facebook event page is here.  This year it will be at the Georgia Freight Depot for the very 1st time.  I will be in Booth #22 in a great spot.  Come check it out and finish up your holiday shopping early!

When: 

November 22-23, 11-6 pm both days

Where: 

Georgia Freight Depot

65 MLK JR Dr. Atlanta, GA 30303

Cost

: 

$5 cash at the door. Kids 12 & under FREE

Parking:

GPS addresses for parking garages

75 Martin Luther King Jr. Drive                     

Atlanta, GA 30303

95 Martin Luther King, Jr. Drive

Atlanta, GA 30303

re: Little 5 Points Halloween Festival 2014

Thank you to everyone that made it to the Little 5 Points Halloween Parade and Festival this past weekend.  The weather ended up being great and the festival and parade was a blast.  Sorry to everyone that tried to use a card when the network was crashed.  If you weren't able to get what you wanted please send me an email.   Next up is the Indie Craft Experience Holiday Show!

Little 5 Points Halloween Festival - Sat 10/18

This Saturday I will be in the artist market at Little 5 Points Halloween Parade and Festival.  Come out and see the best parade in the city this side of Dragon*Con, awesome artwork, and great music!  The artists/vendors will be lined up on Euclid Ave.

http://l5phalloween.com/

Here is the band info:

JAGERMEISTER STAGE

(located in Findley Plaza)

12pm – Starbender

 1pm – The Wheelknockers

 2pm - Hothouse Peaches

 3pm – The Mystery Men

 4pm  PARADE

 5pm – Caroline & the Ramblers

 6pm – Cletis & His City Cousins

 7pm – Julea & Her Dear Johns

 8pm – The Higher Choir

 9pm – The Head

WRECKING BAR BREWPUB STAGE

(located in Star Bar Parking Lot)

 3pm – TBA

 5pm – Black Linen

 6pm – Zoners

 7pm – Daddy Issues/Wahya

 8pm – Momcat

 9pm – Stonerider

10pm – Til Someone Loses an Eye

re: East Atlanta Strut 2014

Thank you to everyone that braved the heat and made it to the East Atlanta Strut this past weekend.  The weather ended up being great and the festival was a blast.  Next up is the Little 5 Points Halloween Parade and Festival!

As always please send me an email if we talked to about a commissioned painting or purchasing something at a later date.  You can always go to my Etsy shop for select prints or magnets.  If you don't see what you were looking for them please let me know.  Thanks again!!!

East Atlanta Strut - Sat 9/27

I will be in the artist market of the East Atlanta Strut this coming Saturday (9/27).  Come check it out.  It's one of my favorite festivals of the year and always a blast.  As always there will be a lot of great artists, bands, and plenty of  booze!  I'll be on Glenwood again this year.  Not sure exactly where until that morning.  As soon as I find out out I'll post it.  You can find me on FaceBook & Twitter.

Here is the Facebook event:

East Atlanta Strut 2014

And here is the map:

Armando Show at the Village Theatre - Fri 9/19

I will be the host of the Armando show at the Village Theatre Friday 9/19 at 8:30.  I will be telling stories based on audience suggestions and the actors will make them funny by acting them out. There will be a mini art show with some additional paintings, prints, and magnets set up. Tickets are only $10.  Should be a blast!

Monstrosity Championship Wrestling Friday 9/12

Thanks to everyone I met at this past weekend's Drive Invasion.  Next up is Monstrosity Championship Wresting on Friday 9/12!  Big thanks to Phantom Troublemaker and Wrestling With Pop Culture for bringing me aboard!

Monstrosity Championship Wrestling in Hell at The Masquerade

9:00 PM / $10 ADV / $13 at the door / ALL AGES

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Monstrosity Championship Wrestling is joining forces with Atlanta Zombie Apocalypse, Chambers of Horror and Professor Morté’s Silver Scream Spook Show for the official kickoff to the haunt and Halloween season! See rivalries renewed as The Dark Mon takes on the cyborg from the future Logan Creed, the Kentucky Wolfman seeks vengeance upon the face of MCW Dragula, and the Chattanooga Wolfman goes after fan favorite Natureboy Paul Lee! Papa Marko summons the AZA zombies, theFrankensteiner Brothers emerge from the depths of the Chambers of Horror and Crash Dragon provides musical enterainment. Also in action, the undead football phenom “The Leatherback of Notre Dame” End Zone(with Quozzy Quozzbourne), MCW Champion Lethal Dose Stryknyn, the argyle assassin Drew Game, the purveyor of doom Trever Aeon and more. Plus, Needless Things‘ El Phantasmas and Miss Monstrosity will have horrific raffle prizes including tickets to upcoming shows at the Masquerade, Stardust Adult Stores gift cards, Wicked Training gift cards, comics and other prizes from Zenescope Entertainment, artwork by The Belligerent Monkey and more items to be announced. Get there early to see Atlanta Wrestling Entertainment's Keith Uno Dabethum Murder One take on "Do or Die" Chip Day as soon as doors open. It all takes place Sept. 12 in Hell! Doors open at 9 p.m. and tickets are only $10 in advance, $13 at the door for this all-ages extravaganza.

Drive-Invasion 2014 - Saturday 9/6

This coming weekend I will be in the artist market of Drive-Invasion.  This year they moved the date (so as not to conflict with Dragon*Con) and moved the venue to Turner Field (521 Capital Ave, Atlanta, GA).   I'm super excited about this one and can't wait.

There are ton of great artists and bands.  You can tailgate all day long with your own food/drinks.  There will be a big area set aside for grills.  If you don't want to bring food there will be a big line of food trucks.  And then at the end of the day there will be 3 movies (The Horror of Party Beach, Jaws, and Mad Doctor of Blood).  

For questions go HERE.  Hope you can make it!

Whose EFF Is It Anyway? - Dragon*Con 2014

Here's the poster I worked on for the Whose EFF Is It Anyway? game happening Saturday night at Dragon Con. It was a collaboration done with the Phantom Troublemaker of Needless Things (he did all the awesome text and logos). He will be hosting this 1st annual erotic fan fiction reading contest along with Miss Lady Flex of Le Sexoflex. You should go and win prizes including some of my artwork. 

FACEBOOK EVENT PAGE

re: Grant Park Summer Shade Festival

Thank you to everyone that braved the heat and made it to the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival this past weekend.  I was very happy to show some new things.  I've got some more I should have finished in time for the Drive-Invasion on Saturday 9/6.

As always please send me an email if we talked to about a commissioned painting or purchasing something at a later date.  You can always go to my Etsy shop for select prints or magnets.  If you don't see what you were looking for them please let me know.  Thanks again!!!

Grant Park Summer Shade Festival 2014 - August 23 & 24

I will be at the Grant Park Summer Shade Festival this coming weekend (August 23 & 24).  The festival will be going from 10a-10p on Saturday and 11a-7:30p on Sunday.  I had a blast last year and look forward to another great time.  I will be in Booth #54 in the same place I was last year (on the loop that surrounds the big gazebo).  I have a ton of new stuff I can't wait to show off.  I hope you make it out!

Check out their website for more information:  http://www.summershadefestival.org/

And you can download a copy of the festival map here: Festival Map

DCW - Dragon*Con 2014

After many years of attending Dragon*Con, my friends and I finally checked out the annual wrestling event a few years ago.  The annual DCW (Dragon*Con Wrestling) event is now a staple in our Dragon*Con experience each year.  After a few years of attendance we decided that the obnoxious and drunken antics/chants/cheers weren't enough to single our group of friends out, so we decided on a name and matching purple shirts.  The last 3 years the DCW Hooligans have sported a group shirt during the event.  I've been happy to work on the last years and now this years.  Here is the new design:

And here is last years done with help from the Phantom Troublemaker:

New Work! Movies Edition

Here are 3 new-ish pieces in the high contrast style.

I'm working on some new ones and will post those when I'm done.

Phantom Troublemaker Logo

If you don't currently read the ranting and ravings of the Phantom Troublemaker then you should start now.  Check out NeedlessThings to get your sci-fi, geek, and luchadorkery fix.  I previously did a commissioned painting for Ms. Troublemaker which you can see HERE and you can check out the print on my Etsy site.  A little while ago we talked about me helping update his logo.  He recently unveiled it on his blog.  You can check it out below:

Thank You Dakota Blue!

All good things come to an end.  Yesterday I brought home all of my artwork that had been hanging at Dakota Blue.  They are closed this week while they do some serious remodeling.  They told me their plans and it's going to look fantastic when they're done.  Unfortunately for me, the new design calls for a permanent set of decorations to keep the look they are going for.

I want to thank Alan and Gigi for letting me display my artwork at their place for the past 2.5 years (and the 2 years back in 2007-2009).  They have been incredibly supportive of me, my family, and my artwork.  I can't thank them enough.  Go grab some food/drinks with the new look starting this coming weekend.

454 Cherokee Avenue Southeast  

Atlanta, GA 30312-3205

(404) 589-8002

Belligerent Monkey In The News

I was included in a small feature in today's print copy of the Atlanta Journal Constitution (6/05/2014). Unfortunately it's not on online so here is a scan of the piece.  Click on the picture to make it full size.

Big thanks to Jonathan with JTPhotography who set everything up and took the photo.

re: Kirkwood Spring Fling 2014

Thank you to everyone that made it to the Kirkwood Spring Fling this past Saturday.  After a brief rain it turned into the perfect day.

As always please send me an email if we talked to about a commissioned painting or purchasing something at a later date.  You can always go to my Etsy shop for select prints or magnets.  If you don't see what you were looking for them please let me know.  Thanks again!!!

Kirkwood Spring Fling - 5/17

I will be at the Kirkwood Spring Fling this coming Saturday May 17th. Come by and say hello. I will be in Booth #36 on the corner of Ridgedale Rd and Norwood Ave . Hope you can make it!

Facebook Event Page

Festival

Saturday, May 17th: 10am-8pm

Bessie Branham Park

2051 Delano Drive NE, 30317

5K Road Race

Downtown Kirkwood: 8am

1963 Hosea Williams Drive NE, 30317

Kids’ Area

Bessie Branham: 10am-4pm

Music

Bessie Branham: 11am-8pm

Downtown: 8pm-11pm

BBQ Competition

Bessie Branham: 12pm-4pm

Tour of Homes

Saturday and Sunday: 12pm-6pm

re: Inman Park Festival 2014

Thank you to everyone that made it to the Inman Park Festival this past weekend!  It was a blast.  Saturday was a perfect day and Sunday was pretty great too until the torrential down pour.  At least it was at the end of the day and it looks like I made it through relatively intact.

As always please send me an email if we talked to about a commissioned painting or purchasing something at a later date.  You can always go to my Etsy shop for select prints or magnets.  If you don't see what you were looking for them please let me know.  Thanks again!!!

Next up for me is the Kirkwood Spring Fling on Saturday May 17th!

Inman Park Festival 4/26 - 4/27

I will be a vendor at this coming weekend's Inman Park Festival.  I will be set up all weekend April 26 and 27, 2012 (Noon – 6:00pm)!  I've got a ton of new stuff that I can't wait to show off.  I will not be in the same spot as last year and I won't know officially where I am until Saturday morning.  Once I know where I am I'll be posting info on my Facebook page and Twitter so keep an eye out for updates.  Hope to see you there!

Epic Sci-Fi Foosball Game

Sleaze-Staxxx is a great local Atlanta band and you should definitely check them out.  I previously painted a painting for him a few years back.  I was stoked when he asked for another one.  This was acrylic paint on a 24"x36" canvas.  

I've got a print of the painting on Etsy.  Check it out here: Epic Sci-Fi Foosball Game Etsy Listing.  I will have the prints with me next weekend at the Inman Park Festival (4/26 - 4/27).  Hope to see you there! 

Billy Dee as Two-Face

Tim Burton's Batman included a couple odd or questionable casting decisions.  People freaked out when they heard Michael Keaton was cast as Batman.  Critics were proven wrong as he nailed it and went on to be the best Batman for the next 15 years or so until Christian Bale (arguably) took over the title.  Another odd casting was Billy Dee Williams as Harvey Dent.  It's only odd because the character has historically been white.  As everyone knows by now Harvey has an unfortunate accident and becomes Two-Face.  People were speculating how that would look in the sequel if Billy Dee was brought back.  Unfortunately no ones knows because when they did get around to including Two-Face as a villain in Batman Forever, they ignored Billy Dee and brought in Tommy Lee Jones.

Phantom Troublemaker recently posted on FaceBook that he was curious how it would've looked and asked someone to show him.  I quickly volunteered and then promptly procrastinated for a couple months.  I went for a more comic book-y look with the orange and plaid suit.  I was stuck deciding on a background (as I usually am) and came up with 2 choices (see what I did there).   So here they are:

Homegrown - Decatur, GA

I'm very happy to announce another spot in Atlanta to get your Belligerent Monkey fix.  You can now see some of my stuff (along with a bunch of other great artists) at Homegrown! Homegrown is a co-operative style artist market in Decatur, GA.  Go check out the awesomeness Monday-Saturday 10am-9pm, Sunday noon-8pm.

412 Church St, Decatur, GA 30030(404) 373-1147

Homegrown Facebook Page

New Painting! Ron Swanson!

Here's a new painting I just finished of Ron Swanson from Parks and Rec.  It's acrylic paint on 24"x24" stretched canvas.

"I’m a simple man. I like pretty, dark-haired women, and breakfast food." - Ron Swanson

New Work! A Mutant Lion Monster!

Here's a new painting/print I just finished.  It's a little more cartoony than normal but fits in with my bat guy and 3-eyed horned monsters.  But I liked the way it turned out.  I think I should do another one with it playing with a big ball of string. 

The painting is acrylic paint on a 16"x20" canvas.  And the print is available from my Etsy site.

DC Signature Collection Review

My review of the DC Signature Collection I did for the Phantom Troublemaker is up.  Check it out HERE.  It's got a lot of photos that I had a blast taking the other night.

Go check it out!