Moving On...

In order to help keep life simple I will not be posting here any longer.

I encourage you to spend your valuable time at Colors of the Dark.

Black White Red will stay up in it's current form as a sort of historical record.

I won't be posting random videos anymore but I will keep adding to the Malsonus YouTube page.

Thanks, -Jonathan

Napalm Death on a 1989 BBC Kids Program?!?!

"The Angel of Decay" - Finished Painting

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Here's the final version of my painting "The Angel of Decay." This is my first painting with a traditional "proper" title since I started painting seriously in 2007. I'm not going to make that a habit but it was appropriate to this piece.

Soon it will be on it's way to it's new home in the Land Down Under.

The above photo was taken by Scott Kinkade. He also took some great promo photos for me which I will post soon.

The Angel... in progress

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A while back my friend Chris Groves (from Cipher Productions / Night Science Magazine / Chrysalis) commissioned me to do a painting of the Angel of Decay "Bleeding on the Flowers" cover.

The original artwork was a sloppy pencil drawing done on scrap paper before I started taking art more seriously.

This is a (bad) photo of the work in progress. It's actually going to have a distressed red and black background and a lot of texture in the end. Chris and I are both happy with it so far.

Of course I will post a good photo once the painting is done.

Since we're on the subject, a certain Milwaukee noise entity known as Custodian has the same artwork tattooed HUGE on his arm but he won't send me a picture until he gets the black darkened up more. If that photo ever shows I will pass it on.

Nightmares Zero Tolerance article

Here's a scan of the recent Nightmares interview in Zero Tolerance Magazine (click image to enlarge). Thanks again to Calum Harvie and Scott McKeating.

Angel of Decay - Live Video

It's not the most exciting or high quality video in the world but... hey. It's the only decent live video of an Angel of Decay performance. Enjoy.

New Painting - Composite 2.15

Here's another new one titled "Composite 2.15." This is an itty bitty little 6 x 4" canvas. I have done a few this size but this is the first one I'm totally happy with.