Ardabus Rubber
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Biography
Born in a small town in Maine, I spent most of my childhood watching my Mother paint colorful characters for a series of childrens books and playing on a farm. I moved to Southern California when i was 13 and have since melded the simple life of my early years with the harsh environment that I live in now. In my canvas' and custom toys, I take the ideas of freeness and color from the abstract side of art and combine it with interstellar graffiti-like textures and cartoonish madness to create a unique and interesting style.
I have been painting for over 10 years in a mostly private capacity, but recently started branching out and trying to get my foot in the door, so to speak. Currently, I spend all of my time painting and trying to grow as an artist, always looking to find new platforms of vinyl that would be appropriate for my style and experimenting with new techniques, as well as trying to find a gallery or forum to show my work.
I've had no formal training, and I firmly believe that teachers can turn creativity into commercialism, so I taught myself how to paint from constant review of my many Salvador Dali and Ralph Steadman books, as well as countless hours (and gallons of wasted paint) experimenting with different mediums, colors and techniques.
Designed Toy Releases
Toy Series Participation
- Dunny - 3" "Ruck" Dunny 2013, 2013
Customs & Show Pieces
- Bohna Skully - custom for the Bohna Skully Custom Show, 2015
- Doublethink - custom for Dichotomy, 2015
- Piece(s) for Art Without Borders, 2014
- Wandering Misfits - "The Watcher" custom, DCon exclusive, 2014
- Aleppin Sane - "One of Us", DCon, 2014
- Piece(s) for The Art of Love, 2014
- Piece(s) for Art Without Borders, 2013
- Fonzo - custom for Fonzo Loves California, 2013
- Piece(s) for Game On, 2013
- "Jar9" for 99 Deaths of Jar Jar, 2013
- Pollen Kaiser - custom for the 2013 Anniversary Custom Show, 2013
- RAAR! - custom for The Custom Raaar! Show, 2013
- Fonzo - 6" "A Pernicious Mongoloid" custom for Fonzo Love NY, 2013
- Android - customs for the Dragatomi SDCC Edition Custom Android Blind Box Series, 2012
- Lil'g Mini Boombox - custom for the Boombox-tastic Custom Show, 2012
- Playsam custom for The Playsam 500, 2012
- Piece(s) for Kozik, 2012
- Dunny - 3" "Rapture" custom, commission, 2012
- Dunny - 3" "Trainwreck" custom, commission, 2012
- Dunny - 3" "Euphoria" custom, commission, 2012
- Bellicose Bunny - "Fancy Blast: I'm Insane and It's Cold..." custom for Bellicosity, 2012
- Qee - 8" custom for the So So Happy Custom Qee Show, 2012
- Dunny - 3" "Hypoxia" customs, 3 pieces, 2012
- Steven the Bat - "Petulance" custom, 2011
- Dunny - 3" "Petulance" custom, 2011
- Dunny - 8" "The Spastic Zoomorph" custom, 2011
- Dunny - 3" "The Spastic Zoomorph" customs, 4 pieces, 2011
- Dunny - 3" "Sketch Dunnys - Phase 1", 6 pieces, 2011
- Dunny - 3" "As Above, So Below" custom, 2011
- Dunny - 20" "Thermal Equilibrium and The Light Declines" custom, 2011
- Dunny - 3" "The Neon Imposters", 10 pieces (each different), 2011
- Qee - 5" "Breakfast in Pakistan" CTU Project Bear custom, 2011
- Labbit - 5" "Raul, Postmaster of Haste" custom, 2011
- Miao - 8" "Temporal Fred" custom, 2011
- Dunny - 3" "The Circus is Burning" custom for The Almighty Dunny Show, 2010
- Qee - "The Orchestrated Smear" custom for 15th Anniversary DIY Qee Celebration, 2010
- Chaos Monkey - 7" "The Grand Guignol" custom, 2010
- Labbit - 1.5" "Amalgam Labbits", 3 pieces, 2010
- Dunny - 3" "Pumpkinhead" custom, 2009
- Kaniza - 5" "Orgo the Ringmaster" custom, 2009
Images
Production Pieces
Dunny 2013
Customs & Show Pieces
"Raul, Postmaster of Haste" Labbit
"The Orchestrated Smear" Qee
So So Happy Qee
"Breakfast in Pakistan" Mini Qee
"Petulance" Dunny
"The Circus is Burning" Dunny
Bellicosity custom
Fonzo custom
Aleppin Sane custom
Two Faced Hazel custom
"The Watcher" Wandering Misfit
for 99 Deaths of Jar Jar
