I met you at the blog bank.

Friday †he 13†h

2012-01-25T19:34:00.000-08:00

Thanks for putting up with this.

Two Thousand And Twelve

2012-01-15T17:07:00.000-08:00

Made this for the good folks at Passage Tattoo.

Skulls/flowers/fire.

2011 was a good one.

Anterior View

2011-12-13T12:33:00.000-08:00

It's been weird.

New Work

2011-12-01T06:00:00.000-08:00

Top one is due tonight, it's about Occupy Toronto.

Second one is work in progress †hesis piece about heart conditions. Scanned it b+g first in case I fuck it up cause it looked nice.

Have a good day.

"Hey buddy, shouldn't have had that last donut huh?"

2011-11-20T16:48:00.000-08:00

The only good †hesis piece so far.

About how men who are obese are more likely to suffer from impotence.

Real fun to research and make.

Shawty fly as we want to.

2011-10-31T05:37:00.000-07:00

Climate Change.

I should work for Greenpeace.

HAHA YEAH RIIIIGHT.

Thanks for looking.

You're so pretty when you're unfaithful to me.

2011-10-19T12:36:00.000-07:00

Finished this today. It's for Ben.

This is me on my Saturday night...

2011-10-18T13:34:00.000-07:00

Here's some shit I made recently.

Top two are †hesis pieces.

Bottom one is about clear cutting.

This computer sucks.

Phewwwwwf.

Breakfast of Champions

2011-08-13T08:14:00.000-07:00

A funny little series I made this week.

Based off of the coffee pot which is a straight copy of a Bert Grimm design.

My favourite is bacon and eggs.

Now framed and hanging in the living room.

Acrylic ink.

Breakfast of Champions

2011-08-13T08:06:00.000-07:00

Food process(or).

Gold Cobra

2011-08-07T14:50:00.000-07:00

Made this for my friend Chris Wellard. He works at Passage and has made many, many tattoos on me over the years. Hell of a guy.

Started as an appropriated Doc Forbes snake...then it turned weird. Acrylic ink and a lot of balls out experimenting.

Passage is located at 473 Church Street in Toronto 416 929 7330

Go get tattooed.

Hope to make more summer art before summer is DONE.

Insert I've-got-crabs-joke here.

2011-08-07T14:47:00.000-07:00

Made this to cope with my debilitating Deadliest Catch addiction.

Now hanging in the entrance of our place.

Acrylic ink.

Livin' On A Prayer

2011-04-28T15:56:00.001-07:00

More shots of my desk and look how cool I am *snore*

Acrylic ink on nice fucking paper.

ALABAMA, ARKANSAS, I DO LOVE MY MA AND PA

Love, Mary

JUST MY BUTT

2011-04-05T11:47:00.000-07:00

"SELF PORTRAIT"

Love, Mary

Only Kindness Matters...

2011-04-01T14:51:00.000-07:00

My hands are small, I know

But they're not yours they are my own

BUT THEY'RE NOT YOURS THEY ARE MY OWN

AND I AM NEVER BROKEN.

Acrylic ink.

Love, Mary

Deadly

2011-03-29T08:03:00.000-07:00

We go way back.

Love, Mary

777

2011-03-21T15:01:00.000-07:00

I got an A on this. Second one of my entire school career. Which is cool, I guess. But this was by no means hard, I made it on the computer and this movie is typical and I didn't pick it. Not what I'm about. But whatevs. I'LL TAKE IT.

I kinda got in trouble for the crucifix on his forehead...

†

I'm a fucking walking paradox, no I'm not.

2011-03-21T14:54:00.000-07:00

Gucci Mane with a fucking face tattoo of an ice cream cone.

Teacher likes my 'control of the media'.

aka

I'm awesome.

SELF PROMOTION DEALIE THINGER FOR A CLASS.

Came out cool.

Love, Marty

Spit Shade.

2011-02-18T11:55:00.000-08:00

Illustrating one man's phobia of keys and how it impacts his life.
This is supposed to be a narrative. But I made it symbolic so that it would look cooler.
Some of the best things I've painted to date.

Some jack was trying to be rude and said that it looked like Ed Hardy made them. But really, thanks for the compliment!

Love, Mary

HO-OH-OME.

2011-02-16T18:39:00.000-08:00

Chris and I.

Our living room.

Sketchbook assignment. Illustrate a daily routine.

All we do is watch televison, eat pizza and drink beer. And it's great.

Love, Mary

A seven nation army couldn't hold me back...

2011-02-16T18:36:00.001-08:00

...from using ink.

Traditional art wins every time.

Shit, I didn't sign this one...but you get the idea.

HEY NERDS.

2011-02-16T18:33:00.000-08:00

If you are reading this and you go to OCAD, come to the zine fair! It's a rad time.

Good Buddies.

2011-02-12T12:20:00.000-08:00

www.chriswellardtattoo.com

www.myleskarr.com

Thanks guys, you're both awesome.

Love, Mary

Do make say think.

2011-01-25T12:18:00.000-08:00

Made this for my buddy Myra. She likes girls, mustaches and has a growing interest in tattoos. Rad artist.

Bert Grimm sailor lady and I added a mustache.

I am starting to think I can do this 'painting' thing.

LOVE MARY

Long Live Awesome.

2011-01-13T15:20:00.000-08:00

"Lone Wolf. Four Eyes."

Kinda a big one (in size and importance)! I basically made it look nuts by sloppily mashing together a million 'tattoo motifs' (haha sounds gay) and tried to use some of my own original ideas (mainly just the zombie arms that I draw for every class). This was based on a shitty rough I made for my core class last semester, that was shot down. I'll try to get a scan of it. It will look THAT MUCH cooler!

The original use of this skull and banner. Finally painted it. I know that my shading make no sense, I'm just wingin' it cause it's really fun to do. I'll look at skull flash and try to get it right for next time.

Also, I'm clearly going through a 'red spot' phase.

Currently making some roses and a sailor lady.

Long live olive green, scarlet red and black.

Long live awesome.

Love, Marts.

Happy Holidayz, Nerds!

2010-12-18T02:57:00.000-08:00

YAY STAR TREK CHRISTMAS.

Love, Mary (Christmas)

OK HERE'S SOME COOL SHIT I MADE

2010-11-19T07:31:00.001-08:00

For school.

For Myles.

That effing skull took me 4eva!

Love, Marty the gypsy

One Trick Pony

2010-11-16T09:01:00.000-08:00

PAPER'S WET hence the wrinkles. Finished line drawing.

Light table euphoria.

Progress.

Album cover.

Band: 16 Horsepower.

No one knew that this band existed, but my classmates liked to pretend that they did by directly quoting the band's Wikipedia page in class.

JC said 'no roses'. Too bad.

Love, Marty.

CTC

2010-11-07T12:07:00.000-08:00

Marty Came To Party

2010-11-07T12:01:00.001-08:00

The new sketchbook. Ball point pen.

I want to make this book into a zine.

Love, Mary 'Marty' Johnsen

Don't be fancy, just get dancey.

2010-10-22T08:19:00.000-07:00

Benitis and Butthead. Drunk and bandaged.

What was under that bandage! All healed!

Myles Karr of Three Kings Tattoo made this.

That weekend in Montreal ruled.

Love, Marty

INK.

2010-10-15T08:15:00.000-07:00

Life drawing. Bob Berger rules because we can draw however we want.

Our model was Eli.

Homework for Bob's class. Ink portraits. The last time I drew Graeme for an assignment I got an A-. Chris is just lolz. I watched Hoarders for an entire day and made these. I love days like that.

Is it tattoo time? Maybe. Gotta make a consult soon.

Love, Martypants

Apparently, I should be a bird's nest for Halloween...

2010-09-29T20:25:00.000-07:00

Media Studio Assignment 1.

This is the traditional/original version. The final version is a shitty live traced thing I made in Adobe Illustrator. This is composed of three individual layers: illustration board background, tracing paper banner/gravestones and bond paper Hunch-bro. No more hunchbacks for a while.

TA-DA.

Don Nolan eagle circa 1969.

I wanted it to look kinda old-timey so I used watercolour paint instead of ink. This features Alex's favourite tattoo motif, the sun-orb. Lawl.

The stippling is something I borrowed from a few people; Melody, Mohawk John and that guy who sits beside me in core, to be exact.

Practicing my painting whenever I can.

LOVE, MARTY

Killustration.

2010-09-18T06:19:00.000-07:00

Some shit I'm working on for school. These are for a few different classes. I am becoming obsessed with giant bond paper and Sharpies.

I'm a one trick pony, but my teachers kinda liked these roughs.

They like it rough.

Uh...ok thanks for stopping by.

Love, Mary

Get Fighted.

2010-09-13T08:35:00.000-07:00

Never Forget The Ice Cream Years.

A Henry Rollins hunchback.

As if the world needs more Henry themed shit from me.

Some ghosts I made.

Love, Mary

Tattoo U.

2010-09-07T07:35:00.000-07:00

Watercolour assignment from second year about reoccurring dreams. One of the first tattoo inspired things I ever painted. This is a really shitty picture of it. The real thing is framed and hanging in my living room beneath the Born In The USA album.

Shrew Woman.

One of the best things I have ever painted. I don't know how or why it turned out so good. I think it was a combination of listening to Henry Rollins talk about the Ruts and Kate pressuring me to finish my picture.

I start school today. Trying to stay inspired.

Love, Marty

Slip It In...my mouth.

2010-09-07T07:26:00.000-07:00

All this was made possible by Kate.

Great weekend. Thanks dudes.

LOVE, MURPHY

Gypsy...

2010-08-29T21:23:00.000-07:00

...Punk.

Even Cowgirls Get The Blues

2010-08-11T13:50:00.000-07:00

For my dad for his birthday. I wonder if he reads this?

I really rocked out the black this time...in my mind anyway.

I am so bored.

LOOOOOOOVE, METAL MARTY

Self Involved.

2010-08-11T13:38:00.000-07:00

Turning shit into solid gold...SOLID GOLD.

2010-08-02T09:02:00.000-07:00

Morning painting practice. I watched X-Files and my coffee got cold, pretty typical. Is it totally fucked up that I want school to start again? Yes. Yes it is.

I want a dagger tattoo so bad. They're all I have been painting and drawing lately. Doc Forbes has such clean designs.

LOVE, MARTY

Holiday Pt. II

2010-07-29T09:27:00.000-07:00

This prompted my mom to say 'Is this how you see the world? So, is that the universal hand sign for Slayer?' Good grief.

LOVE, MARTY

On a holiday, far away. Let's go today, in a heartbeat!

2010-07-29T09:13:00.000-07:00

Once a teacher described my drawing style as 'so bad it's almost good'. He basically just gave me the go-ahead to draw like a moron.

Chris may have a black brother after all. My obsession with 90s basketball runs deep...well actually, I just have a five tape boxset chronicling the Chicago Bulls' championship extravaganza, which I used to watch religiously as a child.

'The bucket noise' is this TERRIFYING sound that I hear out the window of my bedroom at my cottage and I heard it again this time. A great coping mechanism is to face your fear head-on, so I illustrated it. The other guys are wildlife conservationists (!)

My arsenal and a funny dagger.

These are from my mini-vacation in Northern Ontario.

LOVE, MARTY

My out of style is coming back!

2010-07-27T08:38:00.001-07:00

Chris Robinson predicting the future.

American Slang.

2010-07-13T12:25:00.000-07:00

Drippy watercolour paint got me a lot of praise and a lot of A's.

Practicing drawing flowers.

I made about a billion mistakes while I was painting this...uh as you can tell by the fact that I cut her face out. Her new face is pretty rad though. I made it out of pages from my Ed Hardy desk calendar. I am working on my shading. It's hard! But this turned out kinda alright and I might frame it. Haha.

Got a new little skully on Saturday. Thanks lady!

New Black Flag poster. I guess we are all subhumans.

LOVE, MARTY

I want YOUR skull.

2010-06-28T13:08:00.000-07:00

Canadian Tire went on lockdown yesterday, so we all got sent home an hour after the store opened. I went home, had a beer and drew this. Then, I booked it to Parkdale to hangout with Kate, Derek and Tom and JUST missed the weird Queen + Spadina shakedown.

Newly arranged bedroom wall. It used to look like this. I bought a Black Flag poster today, so I guess that will get put in the mix at some point. The dude at the store said that Black Flag shit is hard to come by. I should invite him to my house and he will see that that's not true.

Bulletin board of inspirational shit. Not one of those dumb 'inspiration boards' from The Secret. Mine's got the edge.

I recently purchased a glow-in-the-dark Misfits shirt...

LOVE MARTY

Swayed By The Cool

2010-06-22T22:19:00.000-07:00

Just fucking around.

The real thing is bigger and also says "We're just a minor threat".

The big headed guy (that's kinda his official title) has evolved into a hunchback, which I quite like. He's more of an outcast now. Power to the people. I am going to do more hunchbacks. But I am going to stay away from pencil crayon. In the words of JC they are "a bitch tool" (JC being one of my illustration professors, not Jesus Christ).

I am in the process of changing up the shit on my walls.

FSU.

LOVE MARTY

Tit for Tat.

2010-04-23T14:28:00.001-07:00

MJ10 ©

Some cleaned up Bob Shaw flash.

Watercolour and acrylic ink on watercolour paper yo.

Somehow this font is different than normal...

2010-03-16T12:31:00.000-07:00

MJ10 ©

Fuck Shit Up

2010-02-09T15:25:00.001-08:00

What I'm up to these days.

I am thinking of breaking into the greeting card business.

Never fall in love at the Jersey Shore.

2010-01-18T19:39:00.000-08:00

MJ10

H.M.S. Calgary

2010-01-08T09:19:00.000-08:00

The tip of the holiday drawing iceberg.

Shaded with markers.

Start Choppin'

2009-11-24T11:53:00.000-08:00

That's an A-. What's up?

These pictures are about as big as my crush on Ethan Hawke, so click at your own risk. This was a brilliant waste of time but now I need to start my Think Tank (Dink Stank) presentation.

Turnip Farm is a great song.

I am nuts for this guy.

2009-11-02T15:08:00.000-08:00

Excerpt from That Summertime Sound read by J Mascis.

Freakscene

2009-11-01T21:33:00.000-08:00

God(s).

Not Homework.

2009-10-04T19:21:00.000-07:00

Bones bones brittle little bones!

ABBA is playing right now.

2009-09-28T14:05:00.000-07:00

This shit sums up my entire existence.

In my room, I feel safe. No one laughs about my waaaaays!

Sry, these pictures are massive. Don't click on them.

I'm a troublemakah.

2009-09-15T12:47:00.000-07:00

The gay type collage. Graphic Design for Illustrators is the worst class. Rivers is the best. Special thanks to Gerad for a) liking metal and b) putting up with my depressive attitude.

Long live the 90's!

2009-07-13T18:07:00.001-07:00

This was no boating accident.

Soon I will be the village idiot.

2009-04-09T18:46:00.000-07:00

My souvenir spoons better suit this place!

Two sides of the coin to choose from!

2009-03-20T13:35:00.000-07:00

Chris Wellard @ Passage Tattoo

Fun timez!

Snowsuit Sounds.

2009-01-20T19:10:00.000-08:00

Princess Liea watched over us this holiday season.