Author: Jaime Margary

Bird In My Window

by Jaime Margary

In early 2012, I was standing in the shower letting the water run down over my head as I felt defeated from a break-up and various other personal matters. I wanted to just… step out. Not in a morbid sense, but I needed to step out from it all and take a deep breath. I realized I felt a lot like an illustration I had made not too long before, where an astronaut was being chased by a monster Earth. That image became more vivid in my head to the tune of a song I’d been singing all day, until I had to run out of the shower and, still wet, write it all down.

A scene from “Bird In My Window.”

I got the singer’s blessings for the project and, six months later, I got together with the band to show them what I had done up to that point. It became the official video to the song. The video was officially released on February 2nd, 2013, and premiered at an art show/concert/costume party titled “The Ghost Choir Art Show.”

A scene from "Bird In My Window."
A scene from “Bird In My Window.”

The video was created using a variety of mediums, including watercolor (the Moon), clay and acrylic (the Earth), pen illustration (the Astronaut), and vector graphics (the Sun), all animated in Flash. The entire project took about nine months.

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Prices:
8″ x 10″ – $60
12″ x 16″ – $100
18″ x 24″ – $150

Pakku Rotundus (AKA Realistic Pac Man)

by Jaime Margary

Pakku Rotundus (clay, acrylic, 2010)The Pakku Rotundus sculpture is, to date, my best known piece of art. Every now and then a new friend will go “Wait… you’re the Pac Man guy?”

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I based the eyes on shark eyes and the mouth on a human/snake/bearded dragon hybrid. The skin was a mix of human, reptilian and elephant skin. The colors were based on fruits, mostly banana and grapefruit.

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It was rather ghostly without paint.

Photo Booth Bert

by Jaime Margary
'Photo Booth Bert' Acrylic on canvas
“Photo Booth Bert” Acrylic on canvas

Bert enters BBQ Bar alone, grabs a PBR and proceeds to sit by the balcony. The cheap, hipster-flavored beer is downed almost as fast as his clothes soak up the smell of cigarettes permeating throughout the place. He gets up for another but someone recognizes him and then asks about Ernie. Bert answers “Ahh… well, we don’t talk anymore.” He never gets that next beer, his desire to drink spoiled by the unshakable memories dug up during his one brief conversation of the night. Before leaving, he decides to go into the photo booth for a new profile shot, but can’t hide his foul mood from the camera. He keeps the photo, but hides it away, in a futile attempt to hide that old scar.

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Prices:
8″ x 10″ – $60
12″ x 16″ – $100
18″ x 24″ – $150

Piranha Plant

by Jaime Margary

Piranha Plant and Vincent (clay, acrylic, 2009)     Many years ago, I had a crush on a friend who was really into Little Shop of Horrors. As a last minute coming home gift, I tried my hand at sculpting and made her a replica of Audrey II. That one broke so I made her a new one, this time with more detail and less of a rush. Seeing this, another friend commissioned me to do a piranha plant from Super Mario Bros. Though it was meant to be a cute replica of the iconic plant, I had a lot of fun putting in extra detail on the tongue. I wondered what it would have looked like if I wasn’t under a time constraint, so I decided to start a new, fully detailed one with an “it’s done when it’s done” attitude. Six months later, I ended up with this.   Piranha Plant Mouth (clay, acrylic, 2009)     I followed it up with a much simpler, softer, and brightly colored baby version.

In the end, I was reduced to a sleepless, shaggy-haired zombie, but it was worth it.

Conversations With My Brain

by Jaime Margary
"Conversations With My Brain."
“Conversations With My Brain.”

For the first time since my teen days doodling comics, I decided to make a simple piece as a break from a busy art month. After I posted it on Facebook, for the next several days people kept bringing it up and asking when I’d do another one. So I decided to follow it up and it just became a thing. Surprisingly, it became my most revealing and personal work.