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wildebeast71 · #1 01-21-2010, 04:19 PM

An artist from Pittsburgh named Cliff Maynard, that?s also a tattoo artist, is making portraits by using marijuana joint ends. The portraits are of famous people like Bob Marley, Snoop Dog and John Lennon, to mention a few.

#2 01-21-2010, 04:21 PM

impressive!

i expect brodiemaxx to reply soon

FortySuz&Two · #3 01-21-2010, 05:06 PM

i wonder who's smokin all those joints? some lucky bastard.

TheSNakE · #4 01-21-2010, 05:12 PM

"marijuana joint ends"? Does that mean he used a roach as kind of like a charcoal? If some hard ass wanted to bust him they probably could because there must be weed residue on the canvas.

Fever · #5 01-21-2010, 05:27 PM

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Unfurled roach papers/blunt ends.

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wildebeast71 · #6 01-21-2010, 05:32 PM

also his myspace page for those interested

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Throughout history and particularly in the last century, artists have used less-than-legal substances as inspiration in their creative ventures and explorations, and have even gone so far as to pursue said creative activities under the influence of said less-than-legal substances. But it's a rarity when an artist actually uses her or his illegal past-times to make the art itself.

Enter Cliff Maynard, a 37-year-old Pittsburgh native, whose website, Chronic Art, and Myspace page detail his use of spent marijuana roaches to painstakingly piece together various portraits of rappers, recreations of the old masters, and Jesus (pictured). Maynard collects thousands of the little buggers (the website does not detail exactly how, cough, ahem, cough) and then, using an Exacto knife, carefully (an 8x10 inch piece takes up to 70 plus hours) cuts out tiny little "puzzle pieces" to be fit together like, well, a mosaic.

Maynard explains on his website:

I was studying mosaics in school. I just remember sort of making this connection in my head between the tiles and roach papers.

TheSNakE · #7 01-21-2010, 05:34 PM

Now that is cool.

BleacherCreature420 · #8 01-21-2010, 05:55 PM

I approve!

wildebeast71 · #9 01-21-2010, 08:30 PM

here's a couple more

brodiemaxx · #10 01-21-2010, 09:13 PM

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I want this in my house!
P.S.-I love weed