YES. it is time. i have been waiting so long to share this harvest with you all, my people. it is a great honor illustrating things for you. we have come to batch number TEN of third eye gear and materials. batch X. the freshest yet. as usual its all on:
owen-cyclops.myshopify.com
owen-cyclops.myshopify.com
truly feel like ive been waiting forever to post this stuff. had to get the test prints and calibrate everything perfectly. and now its here just in time for spring. in the shop its all easily found under the "new" tab. lets take a LOOK and see what we got going on here:
first up, in a dream i had a vision of washingtons classic "appeal to heaven" flag but it had a palm tree instead of a pine tree. sprung awake to pull this out of the aesthetic ether. the most aggressively spring summer sunstyle thing i have going on. comes as a 12x16 print also.
its a smidge lower and maybe a little fatter than those mock ups make it seem. it looks good, i have it hanging in my studio rn. had to print a few to get the colors right. comes on yellow and silver. also its called appeal to miami (just wanted you to know that). moving on...
next up is something ive been really wanting to post. worked really hard on this one to make it a suitable caliber, you could say. st herman is sometimes called wonderworker of the americas and in the orthodox church is often called patron saint of north america.
when making an image of a saint i try and take doing that seriously so, i went really hard on the details here. bottom left is monasteries he lived at in russia and an image of an elder he looked up to and talked about a lot. could pull up his name if anyone is into it.
top left is a scene from where he lived in alaska (thats a real building, they all are) and in the top left are some relics he left behind. theres an allusion to mary here as he had a miraculous healing associated with an icon of the theotokos.
top right theres this native who was named peter (herman was a missionary in alaska to these people, they knew each other im pretty sure) who was martyred and became a saint (peter the aleut). below that is a miracle he performed, stopping a flood by placing an icon on the shore
fiery bear = herman said he was tormented by demons that came in the form of animals where he first got to alaska. more scenes from where he lived. present day structure. ermine he was friends with. present day shrine in bottom right. its all here.
while i dont belong to a church yet (working on it) i made this for a few reasons. thought it was cool he is saint for north america, hes a wonderworker, hes just a cool guy, hes also part of the "lineage" (one way of saying it) for a guy i like a lot named seraphim rose.
theres saint hermans monastery on the west coast now that does some cool stuff as well, so, many reasons. may actually send them a print of this one. speaking of which that one comes as a print and a black shirt (it had to be on black obviously). speaking of alaska, nearby, .....
called this the russian angel shirt. i saw this very small detail in the corner of an icon from the 1200s that was this angel in a circle like this and thought it was really powerful. made a note of it, never forgot it, then made this graphic based on it. comes on blacks and reds
kind of interesting because the angel is from a russian painting from the 1200s and then i got the basic layout for this winged angel border from a russian painting from the late 1600s. the names of those images are in the description on my site. so, it is meta-temporal style.
next up is something im very pleased with. the [esoteric fishing collective] shirt. you may be familiar with this organization. just got the clear from the higher ups to post this and make it available. long sleeve and short sleeve for obtaining fish in cool or high temperatures
i included this photo of the actual shirt because its really more of a light color than the mock ups make it seem. its really "sand color" which i wanted for a variety of reasons, some symbolic (sand, the coast, fishing, etc.). but wait. theres more.
thats the solar edition. there is also nocturnal edition. for night operations, obviously. the graphic here with the 3 fish with one head has been in use for at least 1000 - 800 years, found it all over the world from java to china to middle east to europe. the eternal fisherman
last up, we all have something in particular on our minds at this moment. i drew this shirt for my avatar here and was like "dang thats actually pretty cool", and then a few people asked about it so, made this happen as well. explanation in next tweet ...
you may have seen some articles about how theres a st corona associated with protection from plagues and epidemics. there was one from sspx canada and a few other places. seems more like she is a saint from a place that then invoked her for that reason later on. however [...]
saints often do many things and those associations can change over time. more importantly im very attuned to the power of names and the association we have with them, and the power those names have and develop over time so, thats part of the reason why i made this.
although i enjoy deploying palm trees whenever i can, she was martyred between 2 palm trees so, the symbolism isnt arbitrary, her name also means crown. that one comes on black if ur leaning into the dark aesthetic or green if you need some more uplifting energy (green = health)
lol was just informed that a part of the cross on the st. herman shirt may or may not be backwards so, just for the record i fixed that. if you just ordered one gonna change it on yours also. i am only human.
anyway yeah thats the whole vibe trebuchet unloaded. been dying to post all that stuff and show you guys what i got going on for a while now. also gonna link back to the last thread here:
like i said i really love hanging around and being an illustrator here so thanks for being into it even you just like some of my posts and dont end up picking anything up. for anyone that doesnt know basically im "all in" on running my little theological art studio. [...]
so anything you pick up, any money i make goes right back into making more art and images and things happen. long story short we are all so saturated with negative or nefarious images 24/7 that i wanted to put myself in a position to broadcast something different so... now i do.
thats really it. ive really been able to scale up the output a lot recently, part of that is patreon which is like the fuel i can put straight in the art production engine, the shirts and prints help too, looking forward to summer of POWER with unprecedented output. yes. YES.
so yeah, repeating myself now but thanks for letting me hang and thanks for whatever capacity we interact in i do appreciate it. thats it and we now return to regularly scheduled programming. also painting show goes down at 7 if ur around chilling just saying.
just gonna post again that i fixed the cross on the st. herman image since a few people asked about it. ill also post the image since its easy to miss things in a large thread like this.
check it:
also since im pinning this tweet im also just gonna make a tie in to the rosary prints here. printing and sending these out progressively each weekend until i reach whatever limit i end up deciding on for the run, will probably match the previous edition
