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Good news! The wait is finally over. I've opened up shop for posters of Long Live Queen Freddie!

http://seakae.bigcartel.com/

Only sold paintings will be posters. There are limited runs, dictated by demand. After printing, once they're gone, they're gone.

Paintings have been professionally scanned to scale, meaning there is no loss of quality.

Unsold paintings are available at discount.

Go forth and own a piece of Queen Freddie.

Also for sale is this Tali piece, dedicated to Ryan Davis of Giant Bomb.

Long Live Queen Freddie! :: Completed Edition

Heads up! The series you've all been anticipating is finally coming to life! That's right, Long Live Queen Freddie! is going through it's final stages and coming to a wall near you. There will be two different shows, one in Seattle and one in Tacoma, to spread the love around and to coincide with each city's Pride events.

  

The series has been in production for about 9 months. The works are all portraits of Freddie Mercury dressed as famous queens throughout history and pop culture. What started as a silly idea a year ago has become so much more to me. It's definitely a fun series first, but I'm also trying to say something that I hope you'll be able to appreciate, understand, and possibly love so much that you'll walk away owning a fun conversational starter to hang on your wall.

There'll be 11 (or more) oil paintings, a couple smaller mixed media drawings, posters, and a limited edition print. The paintings will be roughly $900-$6000. For those with a tighter wallet, the drawings, posters, and prints will run you between $10-$200. There will also be a payment option for the larger pieces. Getting in is free. But if you happen to purchase something, 5% of my profits will go to an LGBT organization (most likely HRC), with the Ghost Gallery also contributing 5% of their profits to the It Gets Better Project from the Seattle show.

Both show openings are set to be pretty fun. There'll be music from DJ Melanin*. He'll be familiar from our wedding. The Seattle show will be at a bar, and we're working on acquiring a special event license for the Fulcrum show in Tacoma, so we can get you some booze while you peruse. If you're bringing kids, come to the Tacoma show, as they won't be able to get into the Seattle bar.

  

If you can make it, it'd be really great to see you at one of the shows. If you can't make it to an opening, you can still see the series for a couple weeks following each venue's reception. Be mindful of Fulcrum's gallery schedule (Wed & Fri, 12-5pm).

In the meantime, if you haven't already, please RSVP to these two events on Facebook. Or follow my page for more general updates (facebook.com/SeaKnigge).

Seattle party
Friday, June 28, 7-10 p.m.
St. John Bar and Eatery, 719 E. Pike St. Seattle
Facebook invite: http://tinyurl.com/queenfreddieseattle

Tacoma party
Friday, July 12, 2013, 7-10 p.m.
Fulcrum Gallery, 1308 MLK Jr Way, Tacoma
Facebook invite: http://tinyurl.com/queenfreddietacoma

Also please, forward this to like-minded folks. Tombl it. Tweet it. Facebook it. Do all those things. That would be extremely helpful.

Thank you guys so much for the support, and I hope to see you soon.

-Chuck
seakae.com

Killer Queen II

Hey y'alls. Long Live Queen Freddie! is still a go. This past week and a half has mostly been me, adjusting to my new self-employment and getting into the groove of making art, non-stop. I've been retraining my mind to work during the day (it's fuggin HARD), entering contests, watching videos about painting WHILE painting, and finishing up some stuff that's been sitting around for far too long. Like this piece.

This is a show poster. So whenever I figure out a time, place, and all that jazz, all that info will go in the upper left. This is also the second poster out of two I'm doing for the show. The first has yet to be shown, but it's been finished for quite some time now. It's far more simple. More design. More iconic.

If you haven't gathered, this image is an interpretation of the lyrics to Queen's hit Killer Queen. Here are the lyrics. Have fun finding stuff!

She keeps Moet et Chandon

In her pretty cabinet 

'Let them eat cake' she says 

Just like Marie Antoinette 

A built-in remedy 

For Kruschev and Kennedy 

At anytime an invitation 

You can't decline 

Caviar and cigarettes 

Well versed in etiquette

Extraordinarily nice 

She's a Killer Queen 

Gunpowder, gelatine 

Dynamite with a laser beam 

Guaranteed to blow your mind 

Anytime 

Recommended at the price 

Insatiable an appetite 

Wanna try? 

To avoid complications 

She never kept the same address 

In conversation 

She spoke just like a baroness 

Met a man from China 

Went down to Geisha Minah 

Then again incidentally 

If you're that way inclined 

Perfume came naturally from Paris 

For cars she couldn't care less 

Fastidious and precise 

She's a Killer Queen 

Gunpowder, gelatine

Dynamite with a laser beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Anytime 

Drop of a hat she's as willing as 

Playful as a pussy cat 

Then momentarily out of action 

Temporarily out of gas 

To absolutely drive you wild, wild. 

She's all out to get you 

She's a Killer Queen

Gunpowder, gelatine

Dynamite with a laser beam

Guaranteed to blow your mind

Anytime 

Recommended at the price 

Insatiable an appetite 

Wanna try? 

You wanna try...

As you can see, not everything is in there, but gorram nearly enough. It was quite the process. I took some snapshots along the way.

 

I learned a LOT about process. Moving forward with images that are this elaborate, I'll be saving a massive amount of time by eliminating erratic experimentation with color, value, method and texture.

For those interested in learning even more about my process, I'll have some details on an event later this month that'll be all about just that. In the future, I may even go so far as to live stream some stuff.

Long Live Queen Freddie!

     Long Live Queen Freddie is a series that celebrates and remembers the greatest voice of Rock, by playing dress up with the most memorable queens of history, fiction, and pop culture.

     Like most of my projects, this one emerged from a thought that made me smile a little bit. Whereas most of these thoughts are fleeting, this one was persistent. It ticked away at the back of my head, until one day I finally pulled the trigger and decided to do something with it. And I thought someone would have done a series like this by now, but apparently not. At least, not that I could find.

     On average, I'm able to put out about 1 Queen Freddie painting per month. I have 4 done. Currently working on 3. I still have a day job, as well as other projects I'm working on. But what I'd really like is to put out 4 a month, and have a show of at least a dozen by spring. I have no idea how or if I can make that happen, but I'll keep you all in the loop.

Elizabeth II

Bruni (technically not a queen)

Amidala

Here's a little tease of a painting I'll be working on soon.

Frost

I was considering doing a run of 4 color prints of this at 10x14.

Of Clubs

If you would be seriously interested in buying a print, either let me know here or on MY FACEBOOK PAGE, sos I can build a general headcount.