I just acquired this piece from my friend, the artist Germs...
Title: Leopard Sharknado.
Acrylic on canvas: 29 7/8" width X 47 7/8" height - 31 5/8" w X 48 5/8" h framed size.
Germs web site:
https://www.Germs4U.com
He does not really update the site much anymore as he uses Instagram to promote and sell his new work, but there are lots of images of his work going back over more than 15 years, along with pictures from different gallery and museum shows.
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...probably around 100 pieces.
Most are small to medium sized.
This is one of the larger ones that I have, but he works larger - 7-10 feet in height, 4-5 in width, plus he has done a number of murals on walls both indoors and out.
I started collecting his work around 17 years ago, when he was basically unknown, and his prices were very affordable.
I have also collaborated with Germs on some stuff, most notably the Germs Lamps (below) which were first shown at the Vincent Price Art Museum, and I have done a lot of digital art for him when he needs it. I've also done a few limited edition print runs of Germs art, so, for my "service" I typically get the half-price deal if I can afford it.
...I wish I had that one.
The car depicted in the painting is the Gilbert “Magu” Luján car. Magu was one of the original Chicano Art pioneers.
One of Germs' collectors was able to acquire the car after it had basically disappeared and then reappeared on Ebay after the passing of Magu. It was in bad shape, so he had the car restored, and loaned it to the Peterson Automotive Museum in Los Angeles as part of their Low Rider show. He also commissioned Germs to do a Germs-style painting of the Magu car, which was then sent around the world on a global museum tour.
Too bad you passed on the pop art prints back in the day, but at least you got one.
My greatest regret was allowing an actual Campbell's Soup Can drawing by Andy Warhol - signed and dated 1974 on a page of my 8 x 10 drawing pad from art school - to completely deteriorate into literally a frayed, torn, almost completely faded, stained with ink (my loony art student girlfriend threw a bottle of ink at me, but hit the Warhol instead) total piece of shit. Ten or so years ago, a similar Warhol drawing on paper, exactly like mine, was worth $10,000.
Heartbreaking on your Warhol drawing. Please share he came to be drawing in your sketch pad! My favorite of his is his camouflage series. They really hit me and I wanted one of them, but the gallery would t break the set.
You must be an artist as well?
Funny how some of one of my favorite pieces took a lot of saving and some one only cost $20. I got it when I worked in Shanghai for a few years. Here are two favorites, you guess which is the $20 one. You can’t tell by the frames haha. I had them both nicely framed.
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Back around 2006 or so, I commissioned Germs to do the cover art for a CD I produced.
This is the original 12" x 12" art, the print is actually larger, approx 15" x 15" on an 18" x 20" paper size.
I only printed four of these, and they are signed/numbered by Germs.
If you want #3, let me know. I'll throw in the CD, too.
I’d be delighted to have it! 
I’ve always loved the skeleton motif. The celebrations of the Day of the Dead has always appealed to me. I painted some skeletons dancing and boozing when I was 11 years old. The theme was a favorite of mine. Always has been.
