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Brandt
Join Date:
2012-03-30
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1. DREGstudios! The Artwork of Brandt Hardin
Brandt Hardin is an illustrator and designer living and working out of Clarksville, TN. Brandt’s colorful creations are inspired by pop culture, surrealist art, comics, and alternative culture.
Tags: Art, Illustration, Movies, Pop Surrealism, Painting
Latest Blog Posts
- UNCENSORED: Queer Art and the ChurchFred Phelps: Burning Gay / 2011 / inks on bristol Last year, I took on the subject of one of the Lord's most insidious and demonic creations in Fred Phelps- a man who's life work is spreading his message of HATE (and the joys of bedding Capitalism w...
- Halfway Down the Zombie Walk of FameWell freaks and creeps, I'm only halfway down the Zombie Walk of Fame and I haven't grown weary of an appetite for the flesh yet. The undead stars of my new illustration series are coming to life in my own pop surrealist style. For shits...
- Spring Roll presented by Untitled Artists GroupSpring Roll was held last night at 5th and Main in East Nashville. Charles, Aurora and I drove down from Clarksville for the show and to do some live painting at this quarterly arts event which always has a unique theme. There was live music, dan...
- Live Painting THIS Saturday at SPRING ROLL!Untitled Nashville will present their SPRING ROLL show this Saturday at 5th and Main in Nashville. Roll your peppy, sprung self downtown Saturday night around 6PM and you'll find me painting LIVE with Jeff Bertrand, Ash Sivils and Ginny Edwards...
- Zombie Winnie the PoohColoring 101 zombie portraits for my Zombie Walk of Fame series is a daunting task and I've taken to social media these past few weeks to let the voice of the people be heard as they vote for which zombie incarnation I color next! Yesterday, I...
- SCIENCE FRICTION (Over Five Feet Long)Wolfie and I just can't stop a good thing from keepin' on keepin' on with our weekly painting sessions on our day off. The weather was on our side yet again this Sunday with perfect Tennessee weather as we busted out some monster and sci-fi ins...
- GREEN Art for St. PatrickHappy St. Patty's Day from DREGstudios! Growing up, St. Patrick's Day is a big deal being from Erin, TN. The tradition of an elaborate celebration of the holiday roots back to the Irish railroad workers who named the town when it's scenic lan...
- Dirty Words Come UndoneI spent this past Sunday morning painting with The Wolfman over at his house and recording what went down (in case we managed to make anything good.) We busted out another couple of panels which we had prepped months ago with colorful words and...
- A Taste of Spring LIVE PaintingAs promised, here is the time lapse of the LIVE Painting I did last Friday at Meet 'n 3 in The Nashville Farmers Market sponsored by Metro Arts! In the energy of an early Spring, I recorded ANOTHER painting with the Wolfman yesterday so stay tu...
- LIVE Painting at Meet 'n 3on Mar 10, 2012 in Meet 'n 3 Live Painting Emma Klingbeil Nashville Farmers Market Metro Arts Nashville Food TrucksTonight I joined a slew of local crafters (and a few more visual artists) for Meet 'n 3 at The Nashville Farmer's Market. Metro Arts has put together this unique event where a dozen local food trucks fill up one end of the Marketplace while liv...
- Zombie Richard Pryor ON FIRE!!!Zombie Richard Pryor! I've still been staggering down the Zombie Walk of Fame and getting a full helping of the undead this week as I've pounded through and colored another dozen of my 101 creepy celebrity zombie portraits for my upcoming se...
- Braaaaaaaaaaaaaains: Spinning Round an Early SpringWhoopi Goldberg Zombie Sorry Constant Viewer if I've been a bit quiet these past couple of weeks. I've been harnessing the powers of Mother Creativity for several different projects which this year has lined up for me and kids- I've go...
- King Sh*ts of Turd MountainThere are many times where art should just speak for itself and the commentary it creates; this notion certainly applies to the new time lapse painting video I shot with The Wolfman... Click HERE for my Videos page to see MORE of the Absurdity and...
- Shelbi in Burlesque and Her Lion (with a Third Eye)Earlier this week I finished up another very unique commission for a guy by the name of Jon who really likes the Third Eye concept in my illustration and wanted a drawing of his wife Shelbi done after picking up one of my books. Shelbi's a crea...
- Clarksville Trash: What is Art?We as visionary thinkers have fully swung in to an interesting time for the World of Art and what qualifies as higher forms of human expression. Every single day, the boundaries of what we call art are pushed even further by a self-glorifying s...
- Erasing Erasing Erasing ErasingEvery artist has a process and mine includes some elbow grease before I get to have fun and begin slinging colors all over the bristol board for my illustrations. For the record, I loathe erasing- you think this would be a very simple and trivial s...
- Art of HeartsHappy Valentine's Day! Here's some of the work I've done over the years with hearts in various mediums which I dug up to share with you today! Drop by the DREGstudios! Art and Design page on Facebook when you're finished looking to e...
- Nooga LoveSince Valentine's Day is this week, Aurora and I decided to take an impromptu overnight trip across-state to beautiful Chattanooga to celebrate ours while we could both get the time together over the weekend. It was the first chance either of...
- Zombie Walk of Fame SketchesCheck out MY TUMBLR today for some previews of my upcoming Zombie Walk of Fame Series with some of the initial sketches of Kermit the Frog, Larry King, Groucho Marx, John Wayne and MORE! Click HERE for DREGstudios! on Tumblr!
- HULK SMASH Music VideoTransformation of the Hulk / Acrylic on Canvas / 2012 If you missed My Hero | My Villain a couple of weeks ago, I presented four new Pop Surrealist paintings of Superheroes Spiderman, Iron Man, Batman and The Incredible Hulk. Each painting had...
