Hi there. Paintallica was founded by Dan Attoe, Jamie Boling, Cece Cole, Jesse Albrecht, and myself. I am a war veteran, having served a year in Afghanistan from mid 2004 to mid 2005. I teach drawing classes in New York City, and I've run a blog for four years, click here I also post for Beautiful/Decay. You can view a neat account overview by clicking on the DNA button:

artist statement:

These characters hover between traditional realism and cartoons, and feel uncanny in a half-real way like that for me too. They inhabited my daydreams as a child, and then again as an adult after I did a year in Afghanistan. Jung called myths "psychological stories," which completely resonates with me, and similar to the Trickster myth, these creatures represent something cryptic and mythical.