Grey Cross Studios Catalog of Art For Sale

LOVECRAFT'S DEMONS ($500.00 + S/H)

17" H x 8" W 

Materials Used:

• Metallic Acrylics
• 1 Quartz Crystal shard
• Stone Base

Primary Colors:

• Purple, Gold, Pink

The Art Form: 

• Death Sculpture 

SPECIAL NOTE: 

This piece of a wood was found in the same cemetery where HP Lovecraft is buried. The wood is very powerful. This cemetery is well maintained. The piece of wood was found along one of the odd hidden walkways of the cemetery. The tortured shape of the wood lends to the name of the piece.

The base is a stone brought back from the same cemetery.

WARNING:

These pieces have a very powerful spiritual energy. Use at your own risk. 

THE WHALE HUNTERS BONES

(400.00 + S/H)

24" H x 9" W 

Materials Used:

• Metallic Acrylics
• 2 purple Crystal Shards
• Stone Base

Primary Colors:

• Purple, Gold, Green

The Art Form: 

• Death Sculpture 

SPECIAL NOTE: 

This piece of wood (along with several others), was obtained at the Lamberts Cove Cemetery, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. There is a unique type of tree called the Beetlebung Tree. The local name comes from whaling days. A "beetle" was a heavy wooden mallet, and a "bung" was the wooden stopper or cork used for barrels. Workers used the hard, tough wood of this tree to make both items.

The base is a stone brought back from the same cemetery.

WARNING:

These pieces have a very powerful spiritual energy. Use at your own risk. 

SLAKE MY THIRST ($300.00 +S/H)

30" x 20"

Materials Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• 1 Faceted Crystal
• Acrylic Paint Pens
• 1/2" Foam Core Board

Primary Colors:

• Gold, black, yellow

The Art Form: 

This is an early example of Metamorphic art in the style of Tumultuism. Based on an original body painting by Grey Cross. 

THE TRANSUBSTANTIATION
OF INDRID COLD
($1,800 +S/H)

30" x 40"

Dimensional Features: 

• 9 real bone fragments
• 24 butterflies
• 2 usable lanterns (use only tea light candles or
• battery operated tea lights in them)
• 3 Angels
• 1 Snake
• 1 Aztec Calendar
• 1 All Seeing Eye
• 1 stone torso
• 1 glass crystal formed into a diamond
• 2 outer butterfly wings
• 1 Ankh
• 1 bloody hand with attached bone

Mediums Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• Acrylic Paint Pens
• Raised Acrylics

Primary Colors:

• All primary colors

The Art Form

For those who have heard of the Mothman Prophecies, this piece tells the tale of Indrid Cold
(The Mothman), his transformation from moth into butterfly. And the prophecy which surrounds his transformation. Even the smallest thing, has meaning. I leave it to you to decide what
that meaning is 

This piece took six months to create. Most of the sessions were done in a trance state.
So you may consider that I was not the creator or the one to make a decision on
each part of the painting. I was merely the facilitator.

NOTE: The close up photos I am not labeling or explaining. As I said, its up to YOU to decide what they mean.

THE DREAM CATCHER ($600.00 +S/H)

20" x 30"

Dimensional Features: 

• Wooden Immortal Statue
• Dreamcatcher with Wooden Frame
• Ceramic Lotus
• Wooden Dream Box
• Imagination Stone
• Ground Crystals
• Faceted Round Crystal

Mediums Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• Acrylic Paint Pens

Primary Colors:

Purple with Multiple Rainbow Colors

The Art Form

METAMORPHIC ART is art that presents with multiple dimensions, transforming an otherwise flat surface into something much more dynamic. Also known as a Sculpted Painting. Using the Tumultuism process the piece takes on a more dreamy quality. This piece was an original body painting, reproduced as a print and then recreated into this beautiful piece. 

THE STONED ANGEL ($600.00 + S/H)

20" x 30"

Dimensional Features: 

• Black Silk Flowers
• Celtic Cross
• Raised Acrylics
• Black Butterflies

Mediums Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• Raised Acrylics
• Paint Pens

Primary Colors:

• Black
• Red
• Gold

The Art Form

METAMORPHIC ART is art that presents with multiple dimensions, transforming an otherwise flat surface into something much more dynamic. Also known as a Sculpted Painting. Using the Tumultuism process the piece takes on a more dreamy quality. This piece was an original body painting, reproduced as a print and then recreated into this beautiful piece. 

NORMA JEAN ($600.00 +S/H)

20" x 30"

Dimensional Features: 

• Comedy and Tragedy Golden Masks with glitter highlights
• Golden broken Elephant and Golden Ass Signifying the politics that surrounded her possible affair with John F Kennedy
• Pills signifying her Overdoes
• Silver/Diamond chain signifying her her role in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
• Faded Purple Flowers signify the flowers laid on her grave
• Black Silk Flowers signify death 
• The Purple border signifies the constant eyes watching her whole life
• The inner background was a print of her USO Entertainers ID. It was offered as a poster at the 1984 Norma Jean Memorabilia Exhibition. 

Mediums Used:

• Acrylics
• Acrylic Paint Pens
• Liquid Blood

Primary Colors:

• Purple
• Teal
  Gold

The Art Form

METAMORPHIC ART is art that presents with multiple dimensions, transforming an otherwise flat surface into something much more dynamic. Also known as a Sculpted Painting. Using the Tumultuism process the piece takes on a more dreamy quality. This piece was an original body painting, reproduced as a print and then recreated into this beautiful piece. 

THE CLOSETED GOD ($500.00 +S/H)

20" x 30"

Dimensional Features: 

• Raised silver paint in hair
• Raised silver paint for the pendant chain
  
• Japanese Demon Pendant
• Raised paint for blood

Mediums Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• Raised Acrylics
• Paint Pens
• Chalk
• Pastels

Primary Colors:

• Black
• Silver
• Rainbow

The Art Form

METAMORPHIC ART is art that presents with multiple dimensions, transforming an otherwise flat surface into something much more dynamic. Also known as a Sculpted Painting. Using the Tumultuism process the piece takes on a more dreamy quality. This piece was an original body painting, reproduced as a print and then recreated into this beautiful piece. 

The Oracle of the Subconscious
($400.00 +S/H)

10" H x 13" W 

Mediums Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• Ceramic
  
• Iron Ewer

Primary Colors:

• Brown
• Blue Holographic Paint
• Green Holographic Paint

The Art Form

SCULPTURE - Place your hands on either side of the face. Clear your mind and ask the Oracle your question silently. Keep your mind clear and listen for the answer to your question subconsciously.

The Bird of Paradise
($400.00 +S/H)

21 1/2" H x 14 1/2" W 

Materials Used:

• Acrylic Paint
• Chain
  
• 7" Amber Crystal Shard
• Amber Crystal

Primary Colors:

• Blue, copper and silver metallics

The Art Form: 

• Death Sculpture 

SPECIAL NOTE: 

This piece of wood (along with several others), was obtained at the Lamberts Cove Cemetery, on the island of Martha's Vineyard. There is a unique type of tree called the Beetlebung Tree. The local name comes from whaling days. A "beetle" was a heavy wooden mallet, and a "bung" was the wooden stopper or cork used for barrels. Workers used the hard, tough wood of this tree to make both items.

The base is a stone brought back from the same cemetery.

WARNING:

These pieces have a very powerful spiritual energy. Use at your own risk. 

A Redefinition of Hyper-Surrealism

 Hyper-Surrealism is defined as surrealism with photo sharpness as is Hyper-Realism. I say thats crap. All that definition does is take surrealism to a slightly medium based concept. Surrealism was NEVER meant to be about anything looking real. Its about stepping out to a new artistic universe where nothing is as it seems. 

So lets redefine it. 

Hyper-Surrealism is taking something already surreal and taking it to an even higher level of surrealism. 

One of my favorite examples is Mardi Gras in New Orleans. To experience Mardi Gras, you have to be willing to step into this surreal world which is defined by costumes, giant floats, lots of liquor and a respect for traditions that have very little to do with reality.

Lots of people photograph at Mardi Gras. I did the same many times when I was still a photographer and not an artist. I would wander the countless parades and activities and think to myself, there is no way I can make a photo represent what this is really is. 

Then it came to me one day that the only way to change something so surreal was to think in terms of hyper-surrealism. An art form that blasted past the limits of what is surreal and begins to see things in a totally new way. 

I admit, a lot of this comes from the basic definition of what Tumultuism is. Tumultuism is defined as: 

 A theory of art which is disorderly, fractured and dreamlike in its presentation. It may exhibit a confused state, akin to looking through a piece of fractured glass at the subject of the art, similar to an acid trip or lucid dreaming. The subjects are often out of focus. It sometimes exhibits a similarity to cubist art, but is not always about strait lines to view and interpret the subject through. The form is determined by the Abstraction Point. This is the point where the subject goes from a recognizable state to a state of total anarchy and abstraction. This is also part of the attraction of Tumultuous art because viewing close up to the image it breaks apart into an abstraction. The further back you step the more the subject of the art jumps out. The concept also utilizes the artists theories in "harmonic Dissonance". Where many layers signifying different levels of color, texture and design are brought together in harmony. Tumultuism may also include strictly monochromatic art where color is totally removed from the equation. 

 Everything in my art world now is defined in this way.

So why bother with another definition?

Simple. No one understands Tumultuism (yet). Sometimes we need alternative labels for something we understand but no one else does. By redefining Hyper-Surrealism, we introduce a definition that helps the viewer to understand it easier. Its a simple idea.

So why bother with calling it Tumultuism at all? 

Because in the term Hyper-Surrealism there is room for misunderstanding also. By using Tumultuism it takes the actual art form out to a new place where those really interested, other artists, art scholars, etc are forced to learn a new term in order to not mix it up with any other terms. Hyper-Surrealism or Mega-Surrealism is merely helping the lay person to begin an understanding of everything I create.