• TOM BARNES

  • A Chronicler's Tale
  • Drawing On The Run, 2010 – 2022:

  • Work:

  • New Orleans Magic, '21–'22
  • Pirate's Cove, Winter '21
  • Nola/Seattle Muralists/Summer Fun
  • Soy Mexicano 1, '18 – '20
  • Soy Mexicano 2, '18 – '20
  • Truth, '16 – '18
  • On Pike and Nowhere
  • Seattle Celebrities
  • Super Models in the Studio
  • Seattle Burlesque
  • Vermillion
  • Street Life, '12 – '13
  • In the Beginning
  • Summer 2022 and beyond
  • Series:

  • Watching the War Drunk
  • Retards, Dante, and Me
  • Camus' Watercolors
  • Kine Muses and Zipolete
  • Foreign Corespondents Club, The FCC
  • Beatrice Women
  • Collage, Gun Girls, Odds And Ends
  • Archive: Black and White
  • Archive: Color
  • Artist at Work
  • Info:

  • Reviews
  • Contact
  • News

TOM BARNES

A Chronicler's Tale

Drawing On The Run, 2010 – 2022:

Work:

Pirate's Cove, Winter '21
New Orleans Magic, '21–'22
Nola/Seattle Muralists/Summer Fun
Soy Mexicano 1, '18 – '20
Soy Mexicano 2, '18 – '20
Truth, '16 – '18
On Pike and Nowhere
Seattle Celebrities
Super Models in the Studio
Seattle Burlesque
Vermillion
Street Life, '12 – '13
In the Beginning
Summer 2022 and beyond

Series:

Watching the War Drunk
Retards, Dante, and Me
Camus' Watercolors
Kine Muses and Zipolete
Foreign Corespondents Club, The FCC
Beatrice Women
Collage, Gun Girls, Odds And Ends
Archive: Black and White
Archive: Color
Artist at Work

Info:

Reviews
Contact
News
"The work is more than a little mad. The subjects—nearly all women—are messy and sexy. Blood-red, smeary pouts melt into faces with heavily-colored lids. They stare you down, at turns glowering or smoldering or gazing with insouciant, button eyes. They're imbued with the same almost-violent, grotesque sensibility of interwar-era German painters like George Grosz or Otto Dix. Ballpoint pen scribbles snarl across layers of paint with the urgency of a toddler’s grip."

Amanda Manitach

2 Pirates
sold
3 Swimmers
Cantina
sold
La Negrita
sold
Kiss Me
My Enemies Renew Me
sold
Pirates Inn
Zocolo Promenading (sold)
Afternoon Follies
Sabado, Sabado, Sabado (sold)
All Hands on Deck
Nothing but the Finest (sold)
Say Hello to my Little Friend
Mercado 60
Yucatan Princess
The Singer (sold)
Rumba Dancing
Showered in Sun (sold)
Shrimp [L]
Progresso [R]
Shrimp/Progresso [Diptych] 
Dia De Los Muertos
sold
Day of the Dead, Merida
Magic
Cuban Mischief La Negrita
sold
On Jungle Safari In Search Of The Ruins With Hunter S Thompson
sold
Who Killed Roger Stone
sold
afternoons on the plaza
sold
Jose And Pancho with Guitar
sold
"The work is more than a little mad. The subjects—nearly all women—are messy and sexy. Blood-red, smeary pouts melt into faces with heavily-colored lids. They stare you down, at turns glowering or smoldering or gazing with insouciant, button eyes. They're imbued with the same almost-violent, grotesque sensibility of interwar-era German painters like George Grosz or Otto Dix. Ballpoint pen scribbles snarl across layers of paint with the urgency of a toddler’s grip."

Amanda Manitach

2 Pirates
sold
3 Swimmers
Cantina
sold
La Negrita
sold
Kiss Me
My Enemies Renew Me
sold
Pirates Inn
Zocolo Promenading (sold)
Afternoon Follies
Sabado, Sabado, Sabado (sold)
All Hands on Deck
Nothing but the Finest (sold)
Say Hello to my Little Friend
Mercado 60
Yucatan Princess
The Singer (sold)
Rumba Dancing
Showered in Sun (sold)
Shrimp [L]
Progresso [R]
Shrimp/Progresso [Diptych] 
Dia De Los Muertos
sold
Day of the Dead, Merida
Magic
Cuban Mischief La Negrita
sold
On Jungle Safari In Search Of The Ruins With Hunter S Thompson
sold
Who Killed Roger Stone
sold
afternoons on the plaza
sold
Jose And Pancho with Guitar
sold