SEA MONKEY CAPTAIN PELBAM ART/ ALL WOUND UP/ EDDIE BREEN 

Eddie Breen is my 'brush-name'. Taking flea market and yard-sale paintings that I consider 'incomplete', I spiff 'em up by adding elements which will invigorate the works. Several years ago I toiled away in utter obscurity - yet - today I am perhaps one of the most prolific and well known painters today in the genre I call 'piggyback art'. I take standard themes of god, demons, ministers, nuns, aliens, flame people, skull ladies and sex, and tweak them.

I've sold paintings to collectors all over the United States and Europe. Articles about my art have appeared in major US newspapers and magazines as well as internationally in Vogue Italia, The Guardian and Lufthansa in-flight magazine(weird!). My art is collected by a Texas rancher, government workers, teachers, more than a few lawyers, a McMurdo station worker(Antarctic), movie producer, ad agency guys, housewives, artists and lots of other off-kilter individuals it gratifies me to know are out there. And many of these people haven't stopped at one, some buying as many as 30 paintings over the years.

If you want to know more about who I am, go to my ABOUT ME page, or just do an internet search on my name.

I fingerprint my art with ink so there is no doubt who painted it in future years. After I'm dead, instead of checking with some snotty art authority on whether your breen is authentic or not, just scan the fingerprint, and send it off to the FBI! They'll tell you - yeah that's the guy all right!

  My name is Eddie Breen, and I approve this art. 

Painting is about 21.5"X26", acrylic on oil or acrylic stretched canvas including painted frame, painted over an existing painting.


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This painting was originally shown in the local  Ipswich Art Show over a year ago.  But I have done a minor rebreen since, upgrading the text to: 'This painting will be quiet if you don't wind up the sea-monkey!' Normally, I don’t participate in local events and try to keep a low profile, a secret identity if you will.  My point of view has always been – I have a kid in this town, and I don’t want him to be shunned for MY oddity. But, as at that time, he demanded Mrs. Breen divorce me since I tried to enforce his bed-time, I thought, screw it, I’m coming out as a personal punishment to him.

I AM EDDIE BREEN! LOOK UPON MY WORK IPSWICH! YES, I’M THAT GUY! BREEN JUNIOR’S DAD!

That feels better.

The prebreen was/is a Pelbam sea captain painting and was safe for a while, since, after first painting the frame gold, I thought it then looked too fancy to breen!  But then I hatched this idea, and, well, no painting is safe in my house. This isn’t the first sea monkey captain I’ve done, but it is the first sea monkey CYMBAL monkey.  The text originally said ‘Do Not Resist’ which, oddly enough, was on the old comic book ads for sea monkeys! Do not resist our completely false advertisement! Buy the shrimp and try vainly to imagine them as tiny apes!

On the the original breen I pasted an off-center monkey face on the captain (note the pipe coming out of the side of his head), with the familiar cymbal monkey grimace. The effect here is that your eye darts around, off-balance, and you feel increasingly agitated, the way you would if the cymbal monkey was actually, annoyingly, slamming the cymbals together! Monkeys hook arms around the outside of the painting as they do in the barrel full of monkeys game, and a numerical code describes the meaning of the painting’s elements on the very inside of the frame. The pipe bubble gives the solution to this EXTREMELY simple code. Various Ipswich insects grace the painting including the greenhead fly, the mosquito and the deer tick(arachnid).

As this painting has been hanging on the wall for a year, I thought of many more phrases to hang next to this grimacing guy, until I realized I should just state was is plain fact.  That monkey will never slam it's cymbals together if you don't wind it up! So I renovated the work and am offering it up for sale! This is a premium breen from my private collection!

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Copyright 2010,11,12© by Eddie Breen, at least the part I did. All rights are reserved by the artist. Buyer is not purchasing the rights to the image. Any and all publishing and reproduction rights are reserved solely by the artist. I may end up making T-shirts or calendars or posters or other merchandise with this image someday or maybe I won't, I don't know.