Although you'd think all he does is sit at home smoke weed and glue little ends of spliffs on paper, but surprinsingly, he is one of pittburgs best and most reputable tattoo artists. He started his art merely as a hobby, which later caught the eye of thousands of stoners and like-minded individuals around the world.
He attended the art intitsute of Pittsburg where he claims remembering studying mosaics, and after smoking a j one day, he made the comparison of roaches to the tiles of mosaics.
His first creation was of Jesus, as he is a catholic. His second was a recreation of Michealangelos famous "creation". He has created other works of notorious rock star stoners, such as Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon, Jerry Garcia and even rappers such as snoop dogg and method man.
"I'm always a little worried that I may run in to some trouble for my art," Cliff told Mids Magazine. "That's why I didn't take my work public sooner. I think times are changing though. The marijuana movement has been winning battles left and right."
Maynard has only created 420 copies of each print, each comes proffesionally matted and framed. Originals can take over 200 hours to finish, Maynard told us. "An 8x10 portrait is about $2,000 and the larger pieces start at around $3,000," Cliff said.
It is slightly ironic how much effort and time is required to make just one of these art considering the amotivational stereotype that is so oftenly associated with marijuana usage. You can't define or label Maynards art as it is unique and very non traditional. Maynard in the future hopes to do a series of portraits of activists such as Marc and Jodie Emery. Roaches are commonly disregarded and thrown in the trash ... his way of turning something so disregarded into art is inspirational, or as tommy chong puts it a very "creative way of disposing roaches man!".
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