Art - Murder's Sign (Splatter)

Murder's Sign with wing splatter

Available sizes:

8.5" x 11" open edition print
11" x 14" open edition print

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About the Piece:

After being commissioned at Dragon*Con to produce Murder's Sign for a shirt, I decided that Murder's Sign wouldn't work well as drawn. The problem is that in order to be printed on a black shirt, you could either invert the colors, resulting in white birds with a black skull, or I could "frame" it somehow. After seeing a few other t-shirt designs online, I came up with the idea of a splatter of feathers and wings (and a few ink drops too). This shirt is now available as well.

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About the Artist:

Paul and his brother Michael opened Aradani Studios in 2002, selling both their artwork and costuming as they travelled all across the US. Paul’s medium of choice is charcoal, a passion he discovered in college. He loves the fluidity of it, the ease of moving it across the page with a simple gesture, and on the flipside, the challenge of it, such a simple gesture can also erase hours of painstaking detail. Paul’s work has won numerous awards around the country, including the prestigious Chesley Award in 2006, for Best Monochrome Unpublished for his piece Nightmare. He currently resides in Nashville, TN, where he, his brother, and sister continue to expand and build their elf ear empire.