Scott J Bailey - Original Art & Reproductions

What's on this page?

The bullet points in this text are a crude index for this page—barring a few surprises. The artwork here is displayed in sections, which are mirrored in a photo grid [below]. Scroll down to see individual plates and prices. The sections here are as follows:

• The Drug Series - my opus - long term manifestation - easy to postpone - currently looking for active studio space to resume this work.

• Cereal Box Crucifix - a cereal box, #11 exacto and gorilla glue... what can I say? I'm sorry?

• Pixel-Bear - an experiment in pro-gay propaganda, pop art for an audience of gays and their allies, with the intention of opening hearts and minds

• Medicine Work - wet on dry watercolor technique - abstract art expressing time, evolution, entropy, balance, life, living, dying, air, earth, fire, and water
• Ecstatic [part 1] - peyote flowers and life bursting inside everything, 3-dimensional medicine wheel, intellectual art manifested with "craft"

"the drug series" · work in progress

I've presented this first because the iconography is bold; I look forward to finishing them and finding a new opus. I can only paint them with lots of room and when my bills are paid. It's a full-time job for sure. There's no money in my family except one rich aunt, and she's not buying any of it. ba-dum-tshh :) I have a few more of these paintings that are still in the sketching/comprehensive stages: Yoda with peyote buttons; a Troll Doll with LSD; and a very large painting of a very small Rick offering you a massive crystal of DMT. The paintings are huge. They range from 3x3-feet to 6x6-feet. If you want to support the creation of this work, purchase one from me, we'll call it a commission and I'll get back to work straight away. The paintings are shown partially complete because it gives you a sense of the craftsmanship to expect on the rest of the paintings.

oil on wood panel — 48 x 48 inch — [work in progress] [horrible photo! please replace A.S.A.P.]

$11,520 — unframed original oil painting on 3/4" wood panel [all work is priced by square footage]

[full size and half-size CANVAS Gicleé reproductions will be available when the work is finished]

"FROG: watercolor study" — 9 x 9 inch — 2001
watercolor on arches rough block paper

$450 — original watercolor study framed - 14 x 14 inch box-frame

PAY WHAT YOU CAN (asking $20 minimum, reg. $112)
— Gicleé reproductions on arches watercolor paper — 14 x 14 inches
[9 x 9 inch image with 2.5 inch white border]

[work in progress] — 42 x 42 inch — oil on wood panel

$8820 — original oil painting [all work is priced by square footage]

[work in progress] — 36 x 36 inch — oil on wood panel

$6480 — original oil painting [all work is priced by square footage]

[full size and half-size CANVAS Gicleé reproductions will be available when the work is finished]

"WOODLAND CREATURES: watercolor study" — 18 x 18 inch
watercolor on arches rough block paper

SOLD — unframed original watercolor "study"

$486 — full scale Gicleé fine art reproduction [18 x 18 inch]

PAY WHAT YOU CAN (asking $20 minimum)
— Gicleé reproductions on arches watercolor paper — 14 x 14 inches
[9 x 9 inch image with 2.5 inch white border - below]

$18000 — 60 x 60 inch, oil on wood panel

[watercolor study shown here. This oil painting hasn't been started yet. In fact the panel it will be painted on hasn't been built. That alone is several hundred dollars expense. This is one of only two 5' x 5' paintings in this series. If you wanted to own this 5-by-5-foot oil painting, you would pay me outright, or in installments, and I would deliver the painting in 4-6 months. There are 2 months of drying involved.

$11520 — 48 x 48 inch, oil on wood panel [this OIL painting hasn't been started yet. IN fact the panel it will be painted on hasn't been built. That alone is several hundred dollars expense. If you wanted to own this 5-by-5-foot oil painting, you'd be me outright, or in installments, and I would deliver the painting in 4-6 months. [There are 2 months of drying involved.]

$18000 — 60 x 60 inch, oil on wood panel

This oil painting hasn't even been started yet. In fact, the panel it will be painted on hasn't been built. That alone will be several hundred dollars expense. If you wanted to own this 5-by-5-foot oil painting, you'd pay me outright, or in installments, and I would deliver the painting in 4-6 months. [There are 2 months of drying involved.]

If you've never seen a peyote button, they are GORGEOUS! There's a photo on my instagram. Peyote buttons get there names because they have these 'button holes' on the inside of the dried cactus flower. These little spots are white and comprised of super fine, tiny hairs. The top of the 'button' gets a random pattern of spots where the fur seems to be growing through the button. The top can have a lot, or very few, spots.

Cereal Box Crucifix: the power of crunch compels you

What can I say? I'm sorry?

Look, these are ridiculous. As if every three bowls of corn pellets needed this much cardboard for presentation to the world.

There is a website where you *can* buy these from me. I put it together because it was the easiest way to answer the question, when friends would ask which one I have now. I currently have about 18 from a recent show. Plus I have a few dozen preserved older cartons here and I will adapt to new cartons as well, however, these early versions are built of of sturdier cardboard. You'd think they'd just stop packaging things like this, but no, they never do.

And finally... I ask for $120 for these because that's what I think it's fair for my time and work, but I also accept any payment for them. I literally just want everyone I know to have one. I've been paid $200. I've been paid $60. I'll take $20 if I know you're like me and understand the meaning of the hardship. There is no shame in having, or not having, disposable income. It's a shame if you don't share yours with me, by hanging this in your space and smiling along about the absurdity of humankind.

"FRANKENBERRY" — 14 x 20 inch — 2002

$120

Pixel-Bear: an experiment with pro-gay propaganda and Pop Art iconography

The very scary think tank of billionaire war profiteers called the Atlantic Council recently [May 2018] came out saying the American people should be propagandized “for our own good.” The nerve of these people. Pixel-Bear is my attempt to propagandize humanity, for their own good. Homosexuality is natural. We are innumerable individuals and we are equals, in every respect, to any and all other human beings throughout history and in every future imaginable. Humankind is not even capable of dissuading nature's homosexuality. Individual's like Mike Pence are the humans that are actually expressing what will become known as a human deficiency. Their inability to love thy neighbor currently makes them appear liars and frauds. In the future this deficiency will be seen as a mental illness.

Pixel-Bear is designed for adults to give to their kids. It’s for adults who understand humanity will benefit from positive propaganda. And from being propagandized to embrace and celebrate diversity. Pixel-Bear is for parents who want their kids to grow up understanding that the alt-right suffers from a dark and misguided "pro-homogeny" mental illness. Pixel-Bear is for people who want to combat dark forces they see harming our world these days.

Pixel-Bear is very much “okay for kids!” They will never be exposed to anything greater than the simple message “Pixel-Bear is Gay. And That’s Okay!” And only that when you let them. Kids will become adults and eventually appreciate the deeper meaning in the artwork. I like to imagine adults 30 years from now thanking their parents for raising them right around what was known then as 'the gay issue.' I like to imagine Pixel-Bear being part of the propaganda that resolves it.

"Pixel-Bear" — 18 x 24 inch watercolor — 2015
on arches block paper

$2160 — unframed original watercolor

$270 — full size unframed Gicleé reproduction (18 x 24 inch)

$68 — half size unframed Gicleé reproduction (9 x 12 inch)

"Husbear" — 18 x 24 inch watercolor — 2015
on arches block paper

$2160 — unframed original watercolor

$270 — full size unframed Gicleé reproduction (18 x 24 inch)

$68 — half size unframed Gicleé reproduction (9 x 12 inch)

"Bearfriends" — 20 x 14 inch watercolor — 2015
on arches block paper

SOLD — unframed original watercolor

$175 — full size unframed Gicleé reproduction (24 x 18 inch with a 2-inch white border)

$44 — half size unframed Gicleé reproduction (12 x 9 inch with a 1-inch white border)

"Rainbow Pixel-Bear no.1" — 22 x 30 inch watercolor —2015
on arches rough half-sheet paper with deckled edge

$3300 — unframed original watercolor (framed 'as is' $3500)

$495 — full size unframed Gicleé reproduction (22 x 30 inch)

$125 — pint-sized unframed Gicleé reproduction (11 x 14 inch
with a 1.5 inch white border

"Pixel-Bear is Gay. And That's Okay with Papa Smurf!" — 2017
— 30 x 22 inch watercolor
fine art reproductions are printed on arches watercolor paper

SOLD — original watercolor

$495 — full size unframed Gicleé reproduction - with a deckled edge

$125 — half size unframed Gicleé reproduction- 14 x 11 inches
(8 x 10-1/2 inch image w 1.5 inch white border - below)

promotional poster - let me know if you'd like one!

"Pixel-Bear is Gay. And That's Okay with Hello Kitty!" — 30 x 22 inch watercolor — 2016
fine art reproductions are printed on arches watercolor paper

SOLD — unframed original watercolor

$495 — unframed Gicleé reproduction - 30 x 22 inches with a deckled edge or without

$125 — unframed Gicleé reproduction - 14 x 11 inches
(8 x 10.5 image w 1.5-inch white border - below)

"Pixel-Bear is Gay. And That's Okay with Andy Warhol!" — 2017
A 9-image, no-follow-back, as-permanent-as-instagram, art installation.
Follow @pixelbearwarhol to express your love for this piece of digital art.

(This is available on a few silly 'print-on-demand' products in Pixel-Bear's Threadless Artist Shop. Visit www.pixelbear.threadless.com to get this and other Pixel-Bear designs on clothes, shower curtains, mugs and phone cases.

"Untitled" — 2017 — 30 x 22 inch half digital / half watercolor
limited edition digital art - prints on arches watercolor paper

$288 — 22 x 30 inch unframed Gicleé print - with a deckled edge

$66 — 11 x 14 pint-size unframed Gicleé print

A link from here will take you to where you can by teeshirts, but I have to figure that out. If you're reading this I haven't got to that yet. Feel free to email me and ask for the link.

abstract watercolors

The paintings here date back to the summer of '95, when I first started using the watercolor medium to express ideas. Achieving the effects of airbrush with tight hand skills using the wet-on-dry technique.

From the very first time I sketched the crosshairs with the concentric circles, I was representing masculine and feminine energy, and the results of their dynamic in balance. The place that they cross is where their combined love manifests something new, be that children or ideologies like "gods" and "monsters." The concentric circles express both time and evolution. Spaces collapsing inward represent entropy and manifest themselves in the paintings as figurative. Because of this some are named after what has become manifested, for example the first image again is a girl carrying water, because it manifested itself as that. I simply allowed that to happen, especially if I see it coming like I did with the water bearer.

Enough about these. Please ask me if you have any questions. Some of this work is still available and I strongly encourage understanding it's roots and the philosophies surrounding medicine wheels and four-sided mandalas in Tibetan and buddhist cultures as well. Follow my Instagram for sketches and diagrams.

[photo grid below, scroll down for individual plates]

"GIRL CARRYING WATER" aka "dakota" — 2002

14 x 20 inch watercolor on arches block paper

$1400 — original watercolor painting

$210 — Gicleé reproductions are available

[detail below]

"DON'T HOLD YOUR BREATH"

30 x 22 inch watercolor on arches half-sheet rough paper

SOLD — original watercolor painting

$990 — Gicleé reproduction on arches watercolor paper with deckled edge

[detail below]

"MATADOR"

22 x 30 inch — watercolor on arches half-sheet rough paper

$3300 — original watercolor painting

$990 — Gicleé reproduction are available

[detail below]

"IN A CHORD"

22 x 30 inch — 1998 — watercolor on arches half-sheet rough paper

$3300 — original watercolor painting

$990 — Gicleé reproduction

[detail below]

"UNTITLED"

22 x 30 inch watercolor on arches half-sheet rough paper

$3300 — original watercolor painting

$990 — Gicleé reproduction

"UNTITLED"

20 x 14 inch original watercolor painting -1996

$1420

"UNTITLED"

20 x 14 inch original watercolor painting -1996

$990 — Gicleé reproduction

"PIMPLE"

16 x 12 inch original watercolor painting on arches rough block paper

$960 — original watercolor painting

"ecstatic" - a solo exhibition

There will be introductory copy here.

"ecstatic" solo exhibit gallery show

"GENESIS"

18 x 18 inch — 2002 — plastic sequins, wood, glue

$1620

"GENESIS" [detail]

"LIVING IN OBLIVION"

20 x 9 x 7 inch — 2003 — Swarovsky crystal, glue, lava, n-scale painters and diarama on the back of the piece [shown below], piano string, various carved plastics

SOLD — [thank you!]

"LIVING IN OBLIVION" [detail]

"BUBBLICIOUS #3"

64 x 44 inch — 2003 — acrylic paint and bubblewrap

$14520 — original analog 'painting'

"BUBBLICIOUS #3" [detail]

"LIGHT AFTER DEATH"

self portrait/cremation urn — 8 x 8 x 8 inch — 2003

Swarovsky crystal, glue, hand-made walnut box with a flocked interior and a removable bottom held with four, countersunk, finely threaded, 1.5" deep, brass bolts

$12000