QCA Art: Pricasso

Tony Blair and George Bush have both had a cock on their mouths a handful of times; at least while Pricasso was painting their portraits. You see, the renowned portrait painter, Pricasso (aka Tim Patch) has portrayed Sarah Palin masturbating with a rifle, Osama Bin Laden wielding a weapon of ass destruction, and many more irreverent portraits, landscapes, and nudes using only his prick. He creates his own paints, uses a “soft-backed canvass” to reduce wear and tear on his “brush,” and has made a name for himself painting elected officials and doing 20-minute portraits of folks at sex product fairs.
Painting nudes and landscapes with your prick may seem “artsy” or whatever, but why political figures? In some cases, Pricasso calls it “painting a prick with a prick,” though he seems more about poking fun than creating controversy. He videotapes the making of his every creation for authentication and once entered a painting for Australia’s Archibald Prize—the nation’s top award for portraiture. However, his cock failed to impress the judges.
“I dip it in the paint and then apply it to the canvas,” says the 56-year-old who grew up in England. “I began doing it at a party (on a dare) around Christmas time. I’d done it before, but I didn’t think I could get away with doing it in public. Now I videotape all my work, because sometimes people don’t believe me. I had to use my bum to paint in the background, because you have to have the occasional break. I use really smooth paper and I make my own paints. But [I can] last about four days before I need about two weeks off… You need to re-grow the skin, basically.”
Talk about suffering for your art. The guy’s not a bad potter, sculpture, or poet either. Check out a video of him doing a portrait of Barack Obama and John McCain as well as a funny poem of his called Porn Star after the jump!
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