The artist Michael "Pooch" Pucciarelli (38 photos)

As a child and teenager, Florida painter

Michael "Pooch" Pucciarelli was raised on a diet of Walt Disney World, Ray Harryhausen films, H. P. Lovecraft novels, Comics, and Florida tourist traps. Later on Pooch (as he goes by) was exposed to artists and illustrators such as Frank Frazetta, MC Escher, Dali and Bosch, complimenting his appreciation of suburban weirdness with artists who mined fantastic subject matter with equal parts technical skill and reckless abandonment to the imagination. Frequent trips to Walt Disney World with his family opened Pooch's mind to he world of imagination made tangible, which would manifest themselves later in his "rides" series. Images of the fantastic and surreal were forever ingrained upon Pooch's mind, and he spent countless inspired hours learning to draw. This interest in the unusual and his love of creating art led him to a successful career as a tattoo artist, which in turned honed the technique and discipline needed for his paintings…rendering each painting fully in pencil before picking up a paintbrush

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