$ 300.00
I did the first one of Mary on a TWENTY-FOUR hour deadline, as Justice insisted that’s how under the wire the production was. But then she liked that one so well, she asked for one of herself, that I tuned over in another Godforsaken twenty-four hour time period. It turned out the Mary didn’t like her portrait, despite being dolled up from the scant reference available, as she envisions herself as a youthful beauty queen as well. And it turned out the publishers had zero obligation to go with them, so that was all she wrote. These are small, and on canvas board in acrylic, 2018. To me, they’re tainted by a sour deal gone bad and the extreme stress that came with it, as I still tattooed that entire week without missing a single appointment, but my clients always asked about them and tried to buy them off of me, so here they are!
If you’re interested, the book that was published is ‘Justice Howard's Voodoo : Conjure and Sacrifice.’ $300 for each, or $500 for both.
Johnny ’Thief’ Di Donna has worked in the visual arts since 1985, in the printing and publishing industries by day, promoting straightedge drug rehab benefit shows by night. He’s best known for screen printed concert posters, created with Jeff Wood of Drowning Creek Studios, that appeared in the Guitar Hero video games, Hard Rock Cafes globally, and the omnibus ‘Art of Modern Rock: The Poster Explosion.’ For twenty years, he's owned and operated Seppuku Tattoo, painted covers for industry magazines, and judged tattoo conventions internationally.
His publishing history includes the #1 Amazon best selling horror anthology ‘The Monsters We Forgot’ (Soteira Press, 2019). Followed by 'Demonic Classics: Once Upon a Debacle’ (Battle Goddess Productions, 2020), 'Jester of Hearts' (Terror Tract Publishing, 2020), ‘Soulmate Syndrome,’ 'Murder On Her Mind,’ ‘Masks Of Sanity’, ‘Halloweenthology: Dia del Muertos,’ and ‘Halloweenthology: Witches Brew’,’ (Wicked Shadow Press, 2023-24), ’They Hunt By Night,’ (Camden Park Press, 2023) and 'The Devil You Know Best’ (Critical Blast 2024). He's also an alumn of The Kubert School, and a member of The Horror Writers Association.
Johnny and Jeff have been comrades in art since the early 90s, when Johnny freelanced designs for Surf The Earth and found that Jeff was the only freelance employer who actually paid in a timely fashion. They we instrumental in the start up of Island Screenworks, a 100,000 sq. ft. screen printing monstrosity in Myrtle Beach, where they took their underground concert poster flyers and adapted them to the screen printed format. Since then, the two have collaborated on projects that ranged from High Times cover art, a video poster for MTV, several lines of T shirts, a Ford-Harley Davidson ad campaign, as well as attending a host of events, such as the first annual Hell City Tattoo Convention, and TRPS Festivals in San Francisco, Woodstock, and Atlanta.