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Rusty Sherrill

Rusty Sherrill was born in Lakeland, Florida, much younger than he is now, and as the years passed, he eventually grew out of it. His childhood was your average middle-class upbringing. Sherrill notes that he was just like any other small, childlike person except for two minor details: he could move objects with his mind and destroy entire universes with his forehead! He then quickly corrects himself, “No, wait a minute, that was the kid down the street!”

Art entered Rusty Sherrill’s world when he entered the world. His mind has always constantly been in art mode. It doesn’t matter what’s happening. He could be in a really important meeting and he’s thinking, “This guy has a really strange head shape. He’d make a great monster. By the time the meeting is over I’m knee-deep in a painting where a swarm of tiny alien toasters are attacking a giant strange head-shaped monster. That’s why I paint.”

After graduating from Art School in Tampa and working briefly in his home state, Sherrill moved to California. His day job the last 20 years has been in the clothing industry. All his spare time is spent doing illustrations, painting, cartooning and working on Kid Nitro and the Sinister Slorp, his first novel, self-published in fall 2006. He has freelanced for the movie industry, comic book companies and advertising agencies.

Sherrill’s gallery pieces have been on display the last decade throughout Southern California. His art shows include “Everything but the Kitschen (sic) Sink” at the La Luz de Jesus Art Gallery in Los Angeles and “A Dark Carnival” in Santa Ana in 2005, the “San Diego Comic Con Art Show” (1997-2006) and the annual “Centered on the Center” at the Huntington Beach Art Center.

He paints in acrylics, but uses the Old Masters’ oil-painting method of transferring drawings to canvas or illustration board then doing a monochromatic underpainting before adding washes of color.

Sherrill believes art is in the eye of the beholder. “What I try to do is play with reality, with life. Jumble it up a bit, stir it around and see what happens. Life has a tendency to get in the way of living. Forget about life for a while and just live.”

Sherrill, 44, lives in Tustin, CA, with his wife Cathy. He is currently at work on his next book, based on his Robot Girl paintings. His art and an excerpt from Kid Nitro and the Sinister Slorp can be viewed on his website, www.rsartsudio.com.

Rusty Sherrill Rusty Sherrill was born in Lakeland, Florida, much younger than he is now, and as the years passed, he eventually grew out of it. His childhood was your average middle-class upbringing. Sherrill notes that he was just like any other small, childlike person except for two minor details: he could move objects with his mind and destroy entire universes with his forehead! He then ... More