- Add Friend
- Add Note
- View friends feed
- Track User
- Send V-Gift
-
-
Rabidly Whimsical Tenacity
turning the pictures in my head into a roof over it...
Basic Account, Created on 20 February 2001 (#60752), Last updated on 21 May 2013 [Gift]
- 743 journal entries
- 10,192 comments posted
- 15,580 comments received
- 53 tags
- Name:
- marrus
- Location:
- New Orleans, United States
- Website:
- Marrus Art
- External Services:
- Schools:
- Virginia Commonwealth University - Richmond, VA (1988 - 1992)
- Interests: (91)
- 9th ward, anais nin, ayn rand, bdsm, being fucking fabulous, being joyful, belon oysters, bindi, body painting, boots, brutal comebacks, bulldozing reality, bywater, cats, ceviche, chai, childfree, christopher walken, cilantro, cirque du soleil, cons, costumes, ctrf, dave mckean, debauchery, dragon con, dragoncon, dreams, extrasensory perception, face painting, fantasy, film industry, freaks, free speech, french quarter, frolicon, hannibal lecter, hans bellmer, hedwig, integrity, ivan albright, jackson square, jean-marie poumeyrol, kink, knives, leonard cohen, lightsurfing, linguistics, lucid dreaming, lug soles, marrus, marrusart.com, mind reading, mindfucks, motorcycle boots, my silver streak, neuro-linguistic programming, new orleans, new york city, nyc, oil painting, painting, polyamory, polydactyl cats, pomegranates, precognition, pro-abortion, psychothrillers, rebuilding new orleans, renaissance faires, renaissance festivals, s&m, sci fi conventions, sci-fi cons, scotch, shiny things, stained glass, storyboarding, surrealism, sushi, swing dancing, teasing, the bywater, the upper ninth ward, topiary creatures, truth, uni, whips, windsor newton series 7, yay!, ♀♂♂
- Bio
Three weeks after finishing college, I caught a one-way Greyhound bus to New York City. Despite a successful (but thankfully short) stint selling animation to some of the world's top advertising agencies, I began illustrating for Valiant & ElfQuest, painting book and album covers, and creating interior illustrations for various magazines and entertainment companies.
After twelve years, three burglaries, two terrorist attacks, and one fire which left me homeless on New Year's Eve, I’d had enough of the Big Hard and relocated to New Orleans, just in time for Katrina. If I've learned anything, it's that opportunity lives where most fear to tread, and so I bought a flooded house in the 9th Ward & put it back together under the direction of my amazing partner.
Now, I travel the country selling my artwork and decorating skin at renaissance festivals, sci-fi cons, BDSM conventions and anywhere else people are bored with paintings of landscapes and flowers. I also storyboard for the film industry.
You can see my paintings (and purchase lithographs of them!) here. Thank you for visiting!
MY BOOK "Lightsurfing: Living Life in the Front of My Mouth" is an illustrated, anecdotal, autobiographical journey of what it takes to carve your own path in the world, and even make a living at it. You can order it on Amazon!
I'm Miz Marrus on Facebook, or you can sign up as a fan.
I use this blog to do Four Things: Inspire. Catalyze. Entertain. Educate. Kinda the same things I use my art for. And my life. Wait, they’re they same thing. Thanks for visiting. I’m hoping one of my Four Things makes you laugh or cry or think. Enjoy reading!
