Oh deer, a new print!

This Wednesday, May 21st (Mr. T's birthday) at 3pm Slingshot Press will be releasing a print of my painting "Black Forest Summer Camp". The print is limited to a run of 50 and each is signed and numbered by old man Ryniak himself.

Head on over and snag yourself one, there are only 50!

MUM-RAAAAAHHHH

Maybe I jumped the gun in celebrating my new eyes, for it seems that now I'm going to have to wear glasses for a few months to appease my left zombie eye. During the sugery, the doctor didn't want to be too aggressive with the amount of material that he lazer-beamed away because, well there wasn't much there being that my eyesight was SO bad. That being said, my right eye is 20/20..but my left eye is still myopic, and really blurry and red and gross looking...I know ladies..control yourselves. Anyway, they can go back in and fix it in six months, but I'll have to wear glasses with a prescription on the left side. PERSONALLY, I'm going to lobby for a monocle instead, because it would look fucking rad as shit with my gold tooth.

Enough Eye drama, here is a painting I did for a Charity show in July. While I got no beef with the Thundercats, this is NOT a painting of Liono, but if it helps to sell it, maybe it is.


ALSO, there are some rumblings going on in the merchandising future for some CMR gear...I don't want to jinx it, so you'll just have to wait, more details as they solidify.

gold teef for errbody

Here's a lil' shot of a deck I just finished for a show in HOTLANTA this summer.


I decided to put my kids' inheritance in my mouth permanently, So I'll HAVE to be dead for them to get it, or they'll have to fight me. yarrr

I have tons more stuff coming up, too much to talk about now, ask me again later.

I can see clearly now

3 days ago I had Lasik surgery to correct my vision, and HOLY SHIT, I can see!!! I've worn glasses since I was five years old, and before the surgery I literally couldn't make out detail of anything more than 4 inches from my face. It's really amazing that it's basically healed already. I'm still getting used to my new vision, I'm not used to seeing so clearly that it's giving me headaches...boo hoo, right? Anyhows, if you have the ducats and shitty eyes, I highly recommend this procedure. SURE there are about 5 minutes total of discomfort during the surgery, and a half day of itchy eyes that you can sleep off...but you'll be able to see!


So to celebrate being able to see, we went to outsmart some critters.

This watersnake would have been WAY too easy to catch, plus he was sunning himself and looked pretty happy, so I let him be.
This sucker fish, on the other hand, was totally asking for it. I've caught a handful of fish with my bare hands in my lifetime...it's just one of those " I wonder if I can pull this off" type of things. Les Stroud would have been so proud.
This is a Rainbow Trout I outsmarted, but this one was to be devoured by my family.
Pop Ryniak about to get his filet on. I don't eat fish anymore, but ever since I was a kid, I've always enjoyed watching my dad clean them. He's damn good at it.

I'm working on a handful of shows WITH MY NEW EYES, more info on that stuff later.

Happy spring.

PEW PEW!!!

In preparation for my LASER vision correction surgery, I had to have my peepers super- dilated. Look close, there's a brain in there.

Ben getting cheeky with some plasma.
Cleveland being swallowed by The Nothing.

Italia

Here's the info for the Rome show. So rad to be a part of this. I have to thank all around super nice and handsome guy, Nathan Spoor, for giving me the opportunity.

Smorkin Goat Neck

I swore that I'd never do another custom toy show, but the things always end up being a lot of fun to work on.

BEFORE:


AFTER:


In Natural Habitat:


So the show is "Down the Bunny Hole" Opening May 3rd at Rivet Gallery in Columbus Ohio.
I might try to make it to the opening, there are a bunch of great folks in this show, sort of rare for Ohio. for more info Check out the gallery site.