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Artist // Hobbyist // Traditional Art
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My Bio
My name is Mike Duncan. I am a self-taught artist. I have always had a love for traditional, high-Renaissance masters and the impressionists but I prefer creating sci-fi, fantasty, and horror art. Drawing my favorite monsters and sci-fi heros is just a lot of fun. My first painting was all the way back in my sophomore year of high school. It was huge (for me), 24x48, full figure portrait of Pinhead from the horror franchise, Hellraiser. I painted it in egg tempura and was mildly satisfied with the result. It began a fascination with painting for me. My second painting was of my girlfriend at the time. This painting was in oil and also quite large (somewhere around 24x32). From the moment my brush traced though that paint I was totally sold on oils. My art teacher gave me that kit as a graduation gift and I still use it today! Through I have not always been as productive as I am today, it is my personal goal to add at least one new painting every two weeks to this gallery. I'll also post my sketches and as I foray into digital art, I'll post those experiments as well. If you like my work, please join me on Facebook. I'm working on a website, when I get there I'll update this.

Favourite Visual Artist
Brom or Guerney
Favourite Movies
The Goonies, The Gate, just about all 80s horror, Star Wars, Alien Franchise, Star Trek Flms.... genre stuff.
Favourite TV Shows
Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Firefly (for the visuals), Freaks & Geeks
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Elvis Costello, Rancid, The Clash, Lemonheads, I listen to Jazz or Radiohead when I'm painting.
Favourite Books
Chronicles of Narnia, Chronicles of Prydain, The Books of Redwall, The Books of Blood, IT, The Dark Tower, Les Miserables, The Story of Philosophy, Bible.
Favourite Writers
Stephen King (except his book endings suck), C.S. Lewis, Kurt Vonnegut, I'm actually a big fan of Shakespeare too.
Favourite Games
Monopoly? I used to play a lot of Magic: The Gathering and I still love the art in D&D and Magic and gaming in general but I'm not a gamer.
Tools of the Trade
Oils, Charcoal, Pencil, Canvas, Paper.... the usual.
Other Interests
The History of Theology, History of Philosophy, My degree is in Biblical Studies and I preachin the nursing homes in my home town.
I do sell prints of my work. I prefer to produce them myself on matte board instead of a simple glossy. In you're interested just send me a message.
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