Vikings Drawing: LB Museum of Art. Posted Vitaly.V.

Wow.

I had a chance to see such a spectacular painting which was created by Greg Simkins aka Craola.

Greg Simkins was born in Torrance, California. His artistic ambitions bloomed as early as age three. At the age of 18, Simkins began doing graffiti under the name “CRAOLA”. Graffiti drove his inspiration to create and gave him the confidence and experience to paint large scale works. It also taught him color theory and perspective while further developing his artistic skills as later demonstrated in his masterful work with acrylics. After graduating, Simkins went to work as an illustrator for a number of clothing firms before moving on to the video game industry where he worked on games for Treyarch/Activision such as Tony Hawk 2X, Spider man 2, and Ultimate Spider man. With blessings from his former bosses at Activision, he made the leap to full-time artist in 2005.

The painting that i saw calls 'The Pearl Thief'.

One of the most detailed paintings I have ever seen; it was like ten paintings in one.The atmosphere of this art charms you. Painting tells the story of a greedy monster, which travels the world stealing the imaginations of unsuspecting souls. The stolen imaginations exist in the form of pearl, but not the type of pearl that we are familiar with. In Simkins' world, the pearl holds much more value. "Inside of everyone's mind, there is a place which holds all the ideas, all the thoughts and creativity that a person will need for a life time. We have some notion of it from our dreams where it sometimes surfaces as a cloud of images jumbled together. In fact it is in the deepest part of our dreams where these confused clouds become most potent and luminous. This my friends is a Pearl. It is also what 'The Pearl Thief' lusts for the most and has devoted his entire existence to taking each and every one in to his possession, both as treasure and as currency."