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Artist // Professional // Traditional Art
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My Bio
ARTIST formerly known as Michael Pucciarelli is ressurecting Pooch Island from dismantled rides, discarded icons, and forgotten Gods...
Raised on a diet of Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, comics, Walt Disney World and other Florida tourist traps, Pooch paints images that seem to exist in a bizarre afterlife. His art is a visual cocktail of these influences—with a shot of lowbrow culture—shaken and stirred, then served up in a souvenir tiki skull on the Day of the Dead. A self-taught artist, he owes much of his painting skills to over fifteen years of daily tattooing and drawing at his studio Altered State Tattoo in West Palm Beach Florida
His newest work reflects the current concerns of forms of energy, mainly in transportation, by offering up an alternate reality in which steam power is utilized. Drawing upon the visual influence of Jules Verne's renegade submarine, the Nautilus, these steampunk inspired characters are seen at the helm of various ornamented animal like machines, in a sort of symbiosis with nature. Meaning aside, Pooch’s paintings are created to hold the viewer’s attention, which is quite a challenge in today’s TV and computer age. Pooch’s technique is intensive, he paints the devil in the details. His earliest influences were artists like MC Escher, Dali, and HR Giger. Holding the old masters in high regard, Pooch has a strong respect for painters of the Flemish age such as Bosch and Van Eyk--plus modern artists like Todd Schorr, Joe Coleman, Mark Ryden, and Robert Williams, all of whom honor the tradition of highly detailed symbolic works. Pooch's work has been shown at galleries such as Copro Nason in Los Angeles, Roq La Rue in Seattle and Cpop in Detroit.

Current Residence: Florida
Favourite genre of music: metal of all sorts
Favourite photographer: Ross Halfin
Favourite style of art: surreal and lowbrow

Favourite Visual Artist
Pushead, HR Giger, Breughul,
Favourite Movies
city of lost children, Naked Lunch, 300, Alien
Favourite TV Shows
The Walking Dead, Dexter
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
black sabbath, celtic frost, goatwhore, clutch, Dio, Metallica
Favourite Writers
HP Lovecraft
Favourite Games
Rage
Favourite Gaming Platform
Xbox360
Tools of the Trade
paint, pixels and pigments
Other Interests
Metal, Skynyrd, surreal art, steampunk, lowbrow art, tattooing
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saw Prometheus twice, yes lots of Giger inspired designs, not sure how much he contributed, but I got the book and it's all done by other artists. They used an an old design of his from the original Alien film of a rounded pyramid structure, and I see they took a design he did for the unrealized Dune movie, and put it on top of the structure
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awaiting Prometheus, will there be designs by HR Giger??? I hope so...
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Wonderfully imaginative drawings! I'm astonished by the level of detail and creativity you put into them ;D
Another year to congratulate you, to wish you joy and fun in your birthday, you receive the warmth and affection of everyone you love, you have gifts that the best is still life and share it. You give your dreams and illusions. Get fondly many kisses as do years!


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I looked at your gallery then read your deviantID and the whole time I was viewing your gallery I was totally seeing the influences of all the artists listed in your Bio. You have combined them into a style that is uniquely all your own, and truly fantastic. Please keep up the great work!
I love your Thrill-ride Pictures. Cant you do one based on Hieronymus Bosch?
Spectacular gallery!
Your art is bad-ass! Too Cool!
 
Keep up the incredible work!