My name is Jim Ether, I have a website called perisarc . I am an artist from Massachusetts.
I am the artist painting these paintings.

Foodpeople are 5x7 acrylic paintings on canvas board.

You choose which food I paint and I create a painting for you.
The finished product will be a surprise, much like my mystery paintings.


If you would like to help me promote the foodpeople, please copy and paste the below code into
anywhere that accepts HTML. It links to the foodpeople front page. Thank you!

The finished product will be mailed to you via the USPS using priority shipping.
The paintings will be completed and sent out (on average) in two weeks
(unless they become very popular in which case I will paint them in order of being received)

When/if 50 foodpeople have been painted they will be formatted into 2.5 x 3.5 trading cards will a full color front
and black and white back. My goal with the foodpeople is to have them carried in comic book stores and specialty shops.


If you would like to help me promote the foodpeople, please copy and paste the below code into
anywhere that accepts HTML. It links to the foodpeople front page. Thank you!

 

Much of my past artwork can be found here and here.
If you would like to see people who I've painted/sewn for in the past look here.

If you have any questions or comments I'm always an e-mail away
my name is Jim Ether and my e-mail address is
perisarc at gmail dot com


If you would like to help me promote the foodpeople, please copy and paste the below code into
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About the Foodpeople cards
by
Jim Ether

 

When I was a young man around 9 or ten years old I lived in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
Up the road a few miles in Kingston, the next town over sat an establishment called "The Hobby Barn".
Inside this magical place which carried models and paints, miniature metal figurines and 12 sided dice
they also carried a brand new kind of trading card put out by Topps called "Garbage Pail Kids".

The year was around 1985 or 1986. The home computer, a Commodore 64, the internet. What's an "internet"?
The artwork on these cards was like nothing I had seen before. Bright colors, brilliant images and terrible gum
which shattered into powder the moment you tore into it. I don't know about you but when I was 9 I didn't have a job
which put a damper on how many packs of Garbage Pail Kids I could buy at once but man oh man, I wanted all of them.

As the years went on I kept an eye on The Garbage Pail Kids. There was something weird about the later series
of cards, you could tell something was different. The first series of GPK cards were created mainly by an artist
by the name of John Pound and that was the stuff that really captured my attention. I could credit Mr. Pound as
a very inspirational force for my desire to draw. When I began painting characters I would think about
the Garbage Pail Kid art often. I never copied the art, I've just been trying to recreate how the art made me feel
with my own work (if that makes sense).

Flash forward to the beginning of 2009. The great global recession turns me into a recipient of a pink slip.
While looking for a job I tried to earn extra income by painting $6 mystery paintings which were 5x7 acrylic
paintings on canvas board. Over the period of about 2 months I did a lot of painting. I painted 197 of them
to be more specific. I ran out of ideas and stopped offering them. They were a fantastic experience though,
I managed to cram in a fair amount of practice in a very short time.

So here we are, May of 2009. Out of curiousity I picked 50 of my favorite mystery paintings and
shrunk them down to trading card size, added a border, printed them and cut them up. Holding that pile of
cards in my hand felt cool, it felt ..slightly magical, like the way it felt to hold a bunch of Garbage Pail Kids
when I was 10 except I painted these ones myself. Could trading cards be the answer to my problem?
Could trading cards be my new job? Not these trading cards, they are too random.

One evening I was discussing trading cards with a friend and expressing my
frustration over not being able to decide on a theme for them. I was given the suggestion

"Why not paint food people?"

And at that moment the idea for the foodpeople cards were born.
The rest of the story..is the future.