Original Works

This artwork is three in one.

The box/dual frame: I labored hard for well-over a week on the box, which is a very sturdy hand-built, hand-stained, hand-varnished, hand-waxed chunk of quality hardwood (heartwood select pine base and birch sides). It not only serves as a box (if you would want to use it as such a thing), but as a self-contained double frame fr both of the enclosed artworks (“Red Right Hand” and “Weaving Spiders Come Not Here”) which requires no wall hanging.

The box has two decorative hinges with a decorative patina on the spine edge if it; The latching mechanism is self-made from another smaller version of these hinges, combined with three solid brass model cannons from a model ship. The latch holds the piece securely shut, but opens easily when you want it to with a slight squeeze of the box and an easy flip of the thumb.

There is a *lot* more to say about this piece, and a LOT more images of this work to see.

There are closeups of both paintings, as well as better views of all the workmanship here: Red Hand Assemblage Images and Details

24 inches by 36 inches in acrylic on canvas; stretched gallery-wrap (back stapled and clean sides).

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Picture for example only. Engravings to be 8×10 on clayboard (archival tempered hardboard, coated in archival white clay, coated in India ink, with the image engraved onto the surface), done in a drypoint/needle technique, in a Dieselpunk style (think Metropolis, The Chrysler Building, etc.)

I will begin these works on May 30th and will complete three per week until they are done. I have a current commission to wrap up, and a convention at the end of may to gear up for, thus the delay – but also the occasion for which I am offering these cheap commissions. I need to raise some hotel money.

I will, if you give me a subject/object you would like an image of, do it in my own style as I think it would look best, and I’ll do a great job of it. I cannot however, do incredibly specific scenes… there is a degree of specification and management where it is no longer art. If you are unsure, just email me or use my contact form – we’ll talk :)

An unhappy sleepy deity wreaks havoc on a pesky lighthouse.
This piece is highly detailed, with incredibly fine linework.
The engraving is done on archival Ampersand Art Clayboard – a tempered hardboard surface layered with white clay and coated in india ink.
Size: 9×12 inches

A tiki-culture piece I did on my return from California
This piece is highly detailed, with incredibly fine linework.
The engraving is done on archival Ampersand Art Clayboard – a tempered hardboard surface layered with white clay and coated in india ink.
Size: 9×12 inches
 

Sophia, our Goddess…

What lambs are led to slaughter, are for the good of the flock; Who would keep them from the cliffs, were their stewards to perish?
This piece is highly detailed, with incredibly fine linework.
The engraving is done on archival Ampersand Art Clayboard – a tempered hardboard surface layered with white clay and coated in india ink.
Size: 9×12 inches

8×10 inches
I did a number of these engravings as a set, partially as a practice run at intaglio.
They were done on Ampersand Art clayboard: an archival tempered hardboard surface coated in white clay and india ink.
Though they were all done within the span of a couple of months, this one was one of the very first.

9×12 inches
I did a number of these engravings as a set, partially as a practice run at intaglio.
They were done on Ampersand Art clayboard: an archival tempered hardboard surface coated in white clay and india ink.
This one is a little bit 80’s, which I enjoyed doing.

5×7 inches. Framed in a solid wood fram hand-crafted by Myke Amend, total size Framed: 8×11.
I did a number of these engravings as a set, partially as a practice run at intaglio.
They were done on Ampersand Art clayboard: an archival tempered hardboard surface coated in white clay and india ink.
They were all done within the span of a couple of months. This was done on a whim, Lovecraft inspired.

9×12 inches
I did a number of these engravings as a set, partially as a practice run at intaglio.
They were done on Ampersand Art clayboard: an archival tempered hardboard surface coated in white clay and india ink.
Though they were all done within the span of a couple of months, this is one of the very earliest of them all – This was, I think, my 5th such go at engraving.
I was stranded in an ice storm in deepest, darkest Missouri at the time – power was out almost statewide, weeks I in our region. I was reading whatever books were handy, and thinking of someone who was on the other side of 20 miles of fallen trees, darkness, and panicked people. These particular scene out of C.S. Lewis’ Perelandra” struck an accord with me.

8.5×11 inches
I did a number of these engravings as a set, partially as a practice run at intaglio.
They were done on Ampersand Art clayboard: an archival tempered hardboard surface coated in white clay and india ink.
Though they were all done within the span of a couple of months, this is one of the very earliest of them all – my first being a remake of Gustave Dore’s “the Raven” (done to decorate my own wall). This was my third lifetime go at engraving.

Framed in a solid wood fram hand-crafted by Myke Amend, total size Framed: 8×11.
This fine engraving depicts a rather Lovecraftian creature of the deep embracing a submersible craft, much like the Nautilus of Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.Atop the oceanic mountain in the far background rests an ancient and forgotten temple, marked at its entrance by the sigil of Dagon.Though small, these engravings are so incredibly detailed, that no web image could ever do them justice. Rest assured, this is a very fine piece of work, and very skillfully crafted.Properly matted and framed, it would make an excellent addition to any space.These engravings are done on archival claybord – a thick, tempered archival hardboard layered with archival white clay and india ink, all acid-free. The archival rating on these pieces is 200+ years.

Painted at 49×32 inches, in acrylic on rough canvas this original painting from Myke Amend is a beautiful, serene, and equally strange piece, with bizarre lighting and shadow effects which make some objects and figures seem to lean out of the painting.This surreal piece is heavily-influenced by “Spirit Walking” (“long-term sleep deprivation” as we like to call it).

A lonely cliff scene (Half Moon Rock in the Historic Daniel Boone Forest), serene and violent at the same time. A silhouetted figure throws roses into the wind brought by a not-too-distant storm on the horizon.
Acrylic on Canvas

This is the Latest painting and the eighth work in the collection “Airships and Tentacles” wherein Vernian and Lovecraftian influences intermingle.
The work was commissioned for Cherie Priest, Author of “Bone Shaker”, for her new book “Clementine”, and it includes the Clementine sailing away from a stranded group of pirates after a strange air battle.
It is 36 inches by 24 inches in acrylic, on canvas.

Solid Wood Frame Hand-made by Myke Amend, making for a total size of 8×11 inches.
One of three really tiny paintings I did to pass the time for a smiley-themed set.
That collection is still building.
These pieces are more whimsical, for fun pieces which I may someday make little rhymes for and assemble into a book, despite that I have been urged to never, ever, rhyme again. They are painted on 5×7 canvas board in acrylic paint.
 

Solid Wood Frame Hand-made by Myke Amend, making for a total size of 8×11 inches.
One of three really tiny paintings I did to pass the time for a smiley-themed set.
That collection is still building.
These pieces are more whimsical, for fun pieces which I may someday make little rhymes for and assemble into a book, despite that I have been urged to never, ever, rhyme again. They are painted on 5×7 canvas board in acrylic paint.

Solid Wood Frame Hand-made by Myke Amend, making for a total size of 8×11 inches.
One of three really tiny paintings I did to pass the time for a smiley-themed set.
That collection is still building.
These pieces are more whimsical, for fun pieces which I may someday make little rhymes for and assemble into a book, despite that I have been urged to never, ever, rhyme again. They are painted on 5×7 canvas board in acrylic paint.

Solid wood frame hand-made by Myke Amend, painting Acrylic on Canvas Board, 5×7 inches. Total size 8×11 inches. Part of a three painting series, which is a part of an ongoing series of mini-works (“Smile”), made in sets of three.

So much did I love my memory of her, that I could not bear the thought of this thing she had become, starving for all of eternity in a stone casket with those who took her from me.

Now, all that remains of my family – a lonely field of shattered bones and turned earth, and this sad and broken shell of a man, who will someday soon become her final meal; This, my penance, my payment, for the horror I have brought into the world.

8×10 inches.
I did a number of these engravings as a set, partially as a practice run at intaglio.
They were done on Ampersand Art clayboard: an archival tempered hardboard surface coated in white clay and india ink.
This was one of the earlier ones of those.

Solid wood frame hand-made by Myke Amend, painting Acrylic on Canvas Board, 5×7 inches. Total size 8×11 inches. Part of a three painting series, which is a part of an ongoing series of mini-works (“Smile”), made in sets of three.

Solid wood frame hand-made by Myke Amend, painting Acrylic on Canvas Board, 5×7 inches. Total size 8×11 inches. Part of a three painting series, which is a part of an ongoing series of mini-works (“Smile”), made in sets of three.

This engraving is 5×7 inches on Ampersand Art Clayboard Black.
Though small, these engravings are so incredibly detailed, that no web image could ever do them justice. Rest assured, this is a very fine piece of work, and very skillfully crafted.Properly matted and framed, it would make an excellent addition to any space.These engravings are done on archival claybord – a thick, tempered archival hardboard layered with archival white clay and india ink, all acid-free. The archival rating on these pieces is 200+ years.

9×12 inches on Ampersand Art Clayboard Black. Archival life: 200+ years.

This engraving was done as the cover for issue #8 of the GateHouse Gazette. It is 5×7 inches on Ampersand Art Clayboard Black. Framed in a solid wood fram hand-crafted by Myke Amend, total size Framed: 8×11.
Though small, these engravings are so incredibly detailed, that no web image could ever do them justice. Rest assured, this is a very fine piece of work, and very skillfully crafted.Properly matted and framed, it would make an excellent addition to any space.These engravings are done on archival claybord – a thick, tempered archival hardboard layered with archival white clay and india ink, all acid-free. The archival rating on these pieces is 200+ years.