Paper Collage on Wood Panel • 10″x10″ • Private Collection

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Paper Collage on Wood Panel • 10″x10″ • Private Collection

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Paper Collage on Wood Panel • 8″x10″ • Private Collection

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Hello, my name is Todd Marrone and I’m a quoteaholic. Ever since I can remember, I’ve been infatuated and inspired by bite-sized nuggets of wisdom. Enjoy a cluster of my favorites:

Famous People

“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
-Albert Einstein

“There are painters who transform the sun into a yellow spot, but there are others who, thanks to their art and intelligence, transform a yellow spot into the sun.”
-Pablo Picasso

“How wonderful yellow is. It stands for the sun.”
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Paper Collage on Wood Panel • 8″x10″ • Private Collection

I recently created a barrage of collage works during a graduate course at the University of the Arts. Each work was constructed by cutting, placing and pasting paper culled from old sketchbooks, magazines and a book about Paul McCartney’s paintings.

And in the end, the art you take… is equal to the art you make.

Ink on Stationary • 3″x6″ • Free to a Good Home

I filled a rainy day at the beach by filling a tablet of beach-flavored stationary with face-filled doodles. Tell me one good reason why I should put them in an envelope and mail them to you and I’ll put them in an envelope an mail them to you.

Computer Embellished Drawing

This concept sketch for Underground Arts depicts a drove of dirty dirt dwellers. Dig?

Pod Foul

Topics: Keeping Twitter Fun & Informative, Tweeting Comedians, Bad College Beer, iPad Flipboard Review, Todd Defends Foursquare and Gowalla, Russ Defends DJ Music, Jeff Reviews Scott Pilgrim, Arcade Fire Hype, Comedy Central Roasts, Viggo Mortensen, Frank Zappa, Poop Book, Thin Magazines and Cool Yeasayer Video and The Worst Song in The World (Hi, Train!)

Preview: “C’mon Todd, the band X! John Doe, Exene Cervenka, Billy Zoom??” “As far as I know you are making this band up.”

Playlist: Javelin, Bottomless Pit and The Young Veins

Play Now: http://www.usedwigs.com/pod/podcast78.mp3

iTunes: Download, Listen and Subscribe

Video: Watch Todd spill a beer and Russ clean it up! (24:39) Read the rest of this entry »

Acrylic • Underground Arts at the Wolf Building

Say “hi” to low res pics of a high profile piece painted in the lowest level of a high rise building. Stay tuned for more photos of this massive underground undertaking as more photos are taken.

Acrylic on Paper • 12″x18″ • Private Collection

These bacon paintings were prepared for a particular pal with a peculiar preoccupation with pork products.