Grant Mercs
@rumiatted.bsky.social
Artist, renderer, and bloviating wordsmith in other venues.
Outside my place last night. Using an iPhone 12, they are not great at night time, but it's that not greatness that allowed me to capture this composition when I first saw it.
Alley Way
iPhone Photo
2025
Alley Way
iPhone Photo
2025
November 20, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Outside my place last night. Using an iPhone 12, they are not great at night time, but it's that not greatness that allowed me to capture this composition when I first saw it.
Alley Way
iPhone Photo
2025
Alley Way
iPhone Photo
2025
The drawing, perhaps, I have spent the longest time on. I started it in 2022, and worked sporadically on over the years until a few months ago when I had a sense of what I wanted. A think, feeling Monster, not the dumb brute of cliche.
Frankenstein 1931
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2022-25
Frankenstein 1931
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2022-25
November 11, 2025 at 4:28 AM
The drawing, perhaps, I have spent the longest time on. I started it in 2022, and worked sporadically on over the years until a few months ago when I had a sense of what I wanted. A think, feeling Monster, not the dumb brute of cliche.
Frankenstein 1931
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2022-25
Frankenstein 1931
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2022-25
For Halloween.
A drawing of The Monster from Frankenstein(1931) that I have intermittently been working on since 2023.
Tight framing in an attempt to give more of a sense of an inner life of him rather than a fuller portrait of a man in makeup.
Frank WIP
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
A drawing of The Monster from Frankenstein(1931) that I have intermittently been working on since 2023.
Tight framing in an attempt to give more of a sense of an inner life of him rather than a fuller portrait of a man in makeup.
Frank WIP
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
October 30, 2025 at 6:41 PM
For Halloween.
A drawing of The Monster from Frankenstein(1931) that I have intermittently been working on since 2023.
Tight framing in an attempt to give more of a sense of an inner life of him rather than a fuller portrait of a man in makeup.
Frank WIP
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
A drawing of The Monster from Frankenstein(1931) that I have intermittently been working on since 2023.
Tight framing in an attempt to give more of a sense of an inner life of him rather than a fuller portrait of a man in makeup.
Frank WIP
Pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
I'm Canadian. We grow up with a behemoth next door and some of pay acute attention. I drew this during his first term. I wish it weren't even more salient now.
October 8, 2025 at 4:44 AM
I'm Canadian. We grow up with a behemoth next door and some of pay acute attention. I drew this during his first term. I wish it weren't even more salient now.
Well, Trump posted that he wants to declare Antifa a terrorist organization. There is no Antifa organization, it's just a term for a loose group of left wing activists and organizations committed to anti fascism, hence the name.
I wish this series I did during his first term wasn't so prescient.
I wish this series I did during his first term wasn't so prescient.
September 20, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Well, Trump posted that he wants to declare Antifa a terrorist organization. There is no Antifa organization, it's just a term for a loose group of left wing activists and organizations committed to anti fascism, hence the name.
I wish this series I did during his first term wasn't so prescient.
I wish this series I did during his first term wasn't so prescient.
A portrait I did of her a few years back.
Ball point pen, oil stick, and acrylic glaze.
14 by 11 inches
Ball point pen, oil stick, and acrylic glaze.
14 by 11 inches
September 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
A portrait I did of her a few years back.
Ball point pen, oil stick, and acrylic glaze.
14 by 11 inches
Ball point pen, oil stick, and acrylic glaze.
14 by 11 inches
Well, the dementia addled man baby hasn't been seen in a few days and when you are THE NEEDIEST MAN ON EARTH that's saying something.
Hopefully a finger of bone is pointing at him.
So, how about one of the original 40 something portraits I did that I haven't re-posted in a very long time?
Enjoy!
Hopefully a finger of bone is pointing at him.
So, how about one of the original 40 something portraits I did that I haven't re-posted in a very long time?
Enjoy!
August 31, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Well, the dementia addled man baby hasn't been seen in a few days and when you are THE NEEDIEST MAN ON EARTH that's saying something.
Hopefully a finger of bone is pointing at him.
So, how about one of the original 40 something portraits I did that I haven't re-posted in a very long time?
Enjoy!
Hopefully a finger of bone is pointing at him.
So, how about one of the original 40 something portraits I did that I haven't re-posted in a very long time?
Enjoy!
A recent portrait, which I think preconfigures where he is headed.
August 30, 2025 at 8:24 AM
A recent portrait, which I think preconfigures where he is headed.
Very bright, and redolent of the cheap and wonderful crap from my early years, redolent of low rent thrills to this very unformed and naive mind.
Halloween masks, comic ads, junk ephemera, etc; you know what I mean if you are of a certain age.
Cactus
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
10 by 8 inches
2025
Halloween masks, comic ads, junk ephemera, etc; you know what I mean if you are of a certain age.
Cactus
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
10 by 8 inches
2025
August 20, 2025 at 7:10 PM
Very bright, and redolent of the cheap and wonderful crap from my early years, redolent of low rent thrills to this very unformed and naive mind.
Halloween masks, comic ads, junk ephemera, etc; you know what I mean if you are of a certain age.
Cactus
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
10 by 8 inches
2025
Halloween masks, comic ads, junk ephemera, etc; you know what I mean if you are of a certain age.
Cactus
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
10 by 8 inches
2025
My first portrait of the neediest man on earth since his previous term ended.
Horns
Ballpoint pen and pencil on paper
17 by 14 inches
2025
Horns
Ballpoint pen and pencil on paper
17 by 14 inches
2025
August 17, 2025 at 5:31 AM
My first portrait of the neediest man on earth since his previous term ended.
Horns
Ballpoint pen and pencil on paper
17 by 14 inches
2025
Horns
Ballpoint pen and pencil on paper
17 by 14 inches
2025
This happened. A wee bit of agitprop with an art history in joke for good measure.
Trump's America
Mixed media sculpture
2025
Trump's America
Mixed media sculpture
2025
August 13, 2025 at 7:48 AM
This happened. A wee bit of agitprop with an art history in joke for good measure.
Trump's America
Mixed media sculpture
2025
Trump's America
Mixed media sculpture
2025
After a long sit down last night drawing away with my tiny lines it feels like it does not need anything else.
Not sure what to make of this; it really seems to occupy its own space in what constitutes as my oeuvre. Which is good.
Heart Colours
Ink and acrylic on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Not sure what to make of this; it really seems to occupy its own space in what constitutes as my oeuvre. Which is good.
Heart Colours
Ink and acrylic on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
July 17, 2025 at 11:15 PM
After a long sit down last night drawing away with my tiny lines it feels like it does not need anything else.
Not sure what to make of this; it really seems to occupy its own space in what constitutes as my oeuvre. Which is good.
Heart Colours
Ink and acrylic on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Not sure what to make of this; it really seems to occupy its own space in what constitutes as my oeuvre. Which is good.
Heart Colours
Ink and acrylic on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Some recent work, very different for me, with a very minimal colour palette but not minimal technique. Arranged like this to give a sense of what I am up to here.
All 14 by 11 inches.
All 14 by 11 inches.
July 15, 2025 at 7:32 AM
Some recent work, very different for me, with a very minimal colour palette but not minimal technique. Arranged like this to give a sense of what I am up to here.
All 14 by 11 inches.
All 14 by 11 inches.
Well, this seems done. On a beautiful warm and sunny Sunday your faithful, and faithless, bloviating renderer and scribe is indoors locked up inside a 14 by 11 inch painting who's meaning remains unknown.
It feels finished, but, who knows.
Ink, acrylic, and marker on wood panel
14 by 11 inches
2025
It feels finished, but, who knows.
Ink, acrylic, and marker on wood panel
14 by 11 inches
2025
July 7, 2025 at 2:23 AM
Well, this seems done. On a beautiful warm and sunny Sunday your faithful, and faithless, bloviating renderer and scribe is indoors locked up inside a 14 by 11 inch painting who's meaning remains unknown.
It feels finished, but, who knows.
Ink, acrylic, and marker on wood panel
14 by 11 inches
2025
It feels finished, but, who knows.
Ink, acrylic, and marker on wood panel
14 by 11 inches
2025
Well, with the shit flying fast and furious; the dementia addled diaper crapping man baby having to fuck up everything he touches, and his reach is global now, how about the ameliorating properties of a heart drawing as balm for the soul?
Orange Heart
Ink and pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Orange Heart
Ink and pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
June 23, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Well, with the shit flying fast and furious; the dementia addled diaper crapping man baby having to fuck up everything he touches, and his reach is global now, how about the ameliorating properties of a heart drawing as balm for the soul?
Orange Heart
Ink and pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Orange Heart
Ink and pencil on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Having a look through some old, very old, art supplies last night and cam across a small container of sepia ink for a Rapidograph pen. Which I do not possess.
So I did this with it.
InkBook #42
Ink and acrylic varnish on paper
8.5 by 5.5 inches
2025
So I did this with it.
InkBook #42
Ink and acrylic varnish on paper
8.5 by 5.5 inches
2025
June 19, 2025 at 5:05 AM
Having a look through some old, very old, art supplies last night and cam across a small container of sepia ink for a Rapidograph pen. Which I do not possess.
So I did this with it.
InkBook #42
Ink and acrylic varnish on paper
8.5 by 5.5 inches
2025
So I did this with it.
InkBook #42
Ink and acrylic varnish on paper
8.5 by 5.5 inches
2025
It feels finished now. I have no idea where it came from, other than the tiny inkling of an idea that I wanted to do something based on an eggplant. And, as per usual, it went sideways, very sideways.
Eggplant
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
12 by 9 inches
2025
Eggplant
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
12 by 9 inches
2025
June 16, 2025 at 6:33 PM
It feels finished now. I have no idea where it came from, other than the tiny inkling of an idea that I wanted to do something based on an eggplant. And, as per usual, it went sideways, very sideways.
Eggplant
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
12 by 9 inches
2025
Eggplant
Acrylic and ink on wood panel
12 by 9 inches
2025
I can’t seem to leave certain pieces alone.
I added more colour to give it a slightly decaying organic sense around the edges and quite like it.
Documented in the beautifully effulgent late, long light of pre-dusk day.
Blue Balloon
Ink, pencil crayon, and brush pen on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
I added more colour to give it a slightly decaying organic sense around the edges and quite like it.
Documented in the beautifully effulgent late, long light of pre-dusk day.
Blue Balloon
Ink, pencil crayon, and brush pen on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
June 15, 2025 at 5:52 AM
I can’t seem to leave certain pieces alone.
I added more colour to give it a slightly decaying organic sense around the edges and quite like it.
Documented in the beautifully effulgent late, long light of pre-dusk day.
Blue Balloon
Ink, pencil crayon, and brush pen on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
I added more colour to give it a slightly decaying organic sense around the edges and quite like it.
Documented in the beautifully effulgent late, long light of pre-dusk day.
Blue Balloon
Ink, pencil crayon, and brush pen on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
And, the end is nigh.
June 5, 2025 at 11:46 PM
And, the end is nigh.
A portrait I did of this grifting ghoul a few months back. Draw the man within. Also, how many people have died because what he and his ghastly minions did to USAID?
May 27, 2025 at 3:33 PM
A portrait I did of this grifting ghoul a few months back. Draw the man within. Also, how many people have died because what he and his ghastly minions did to USAID?
So, insomnia big time recently.
An acquaintance mentioned seeing art done with coffee and charcoal.
Sleep deprived and trying my hand at this. Here is the result.
Insomnia.
Coffee, charcoal, acrylic, paper collage, and pencil crayon on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
An acquaintance mentioned seeing art done with coffee and charcoal.
Sleep deprived and trying my hand at this. Here is the result.
Insomnia.
Coffee, charcoal, acrylic, paper collage, and pencil crayon on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
May 27, 2025 at 3:26 PM
So, insomnia big time recently.
An acquaintance mentioned seeing art done with coffee and charcoal.
Sleep deprived and trying my hand at this. Here is the result.
Insomnia.
Coffee, charcoal, acrylic, paper collage, and pencil crayon on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
An acquaintance mentioned seeing art done with coffee and charcoal.
Sleep deprived and trying my hand at this. Here is the result.
Insomnia.
Coffee, charcoal, acrylic, paper collage, and pencil crayon on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
I finished another one of my ink heart drawings I've been doing so that's good. Two shades brown ink, red ink, and black ink, a somewhat softer tone that I like.
Brown Heart
Ink on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Brown Heart
Ink on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
May 24, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I finished another one of my ink heart drawings I've been doing so that's good. Two shades brown ink, red ink, and black ink, a somewhat softer tone that I like.
Brown Heart
Ink on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
Brown Heart
Ink on paper
14 by 11 inches
2025
I have spent years trying to properly document this 20 year old painting and today I got as close as I have been, by some margin. What a strange thing art can be.
White
Acrylic, ink, and staples on wood panel
72 by 48 inches
2005
White
Acrylic, ink, and staples on wood panel
72 by 48 inches
2005
May 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
I have spent years trying to properly document this 20 year old painting and today I got as close as I have been, by some margin. What a strange thing art can be.
White
Acrylic, ink, and staples on wood panel
72 by 48 inches
2005
White
Acrylic, ink, and staples on wood panel
72 by 48 inches
2005