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A quote from Welsh's official website explains his methods of creating his art: | A quote from Welsh's official website explains his methods of creating his art: | ||
<blockquote>''"Welsh attacks his canvases with pure spontaneity and aggression, almost never using a brush and preferring to work only with his hands and fingers. This technique gives him the opportunity to get as close and "inside" to his paintings as he needs to be. For him, this is a necessity. Welsh also works in sculpture, working with found objects. Constructing creatures out of broken and dismantled chairs and furniture, to vacuum hoses, tupperware | <blockquote>''"Welsh attacks his canvases with pure spontaneity and aggression, almost never using a brush and preferring to work only with his hands and fingers. This technique gives him the opportunity to get as close and "inside" to his paintings as he needs to be. For him, this is a necessity. Welsh also works in sculpture, working with found objects. Constructing creatures out of broken and dismantled chairs and furniture, to vacuum hoses, tupperware{{sic}}, wire, and rope. All painted with his usual explosion of color.”''</blockquote> | ||
His artwork was featured on a line of snowboards for the manufacturer Burton Snowboards, in a line of entitled "The Farm."<ref>Polston, Pamela. "Burton and Artist Mikey Welsh Team Up on New Snowboards" ''Seven Days''. 13 August 2008. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/burton-and-artist-mikey-welsh-team-up-on-new-snowboards/Content?oid=2134537</ref> He also painted the album cover for the album ''[https://twinberlin.bandcamp.com/album/there-goes-my-virtue There Goes My Virtue]]'' by the band Twin Berlin, as well as the covers for the albums ''[https://www.allmusic.com/album/fall-in-love-with-the-concussions-mw0002541248 Fall in Love With The Concussions]'' and ''[https://www.discogs.com/Concussions-Break-Up-With-The-Concussions/release/5585413 Break Up With The Concussions]'' by the band The Concussions. | His artwork was featured on a line of snowboards for the manufacturer Burton Snowboards, in a line of entitled "The Farm."<ref>Polston, Pamela. "Burton and Artist Mikey Welsh Team Up on New Snowboards" ''Seven Days''. 13 August 2008. https://www.sevendaysvt.com/vermont/burton-and-artist-mikey-welsh-team-up-on-new-snowboards/Content?oid=2134537</ref> He also painted the album cover for the album ''[https://twinberlin.bandcamp.com/album/there-goes-my-virtue There Goes My Virtue]]'' by the band Twin Berlin, as well as the covers for the albums ''[https://www.allmusic.com/album/fall-in-love-with-the-concussions-mw0002541248 Fall in Love With The Concussions]'' and ''[https://www.discogs.com/Concussions-Break-Up-With-The-Concussions/release/5585413 Break Up With The Concussions]'' by the band The Concussions. | ||