Bonethrower


Certain colors and tones just don’t make sense to artist David Cook.Despite his acute color blindness, the Los Angeles-based illustrator, skater, music lover, and compulsive collector of small trinkets, best known by his moniker, Bonethrower, has found that what most people would call a disadvantage is actually quite the opposite. Using the trusted color labels on paint cans, Cook knows enough about color theory to know what would happen when he puts certain colors next to each other. However, his offset perception of color tonality has called for countless hours of trial and error and experimentation that eventually spawned a color palette of his own. Bright yellows and hot pinks sit alongside beaming corals and cool mint greens, psychedelically drawing eyes to his geometric, pattern-driven paintings of smiling skulls, slithering snakes, and a ragtag cast of mystical creatures that don everything from radiant cloaks, to bondage and nipple piercings. Whether it’s his subject matter or color scheme, it’s all weird, it’s all hilarious, and it’s all uniquely his.