Matthew Roderick Weatherbee
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Matthew Roderick Weatherbee
@spicecity.bsky.social
Tattoo Artist since 2010
Black and Gray Realism
Pop Art
Comic and Manga Reproduction
Trashpolka

Owner of Spice City Tattoo

Illustration
Comic Artist
Acrylic and Watercolor
Succulent and Obscure Plant Guy
Curmudgeonly Millennial

spicecity.art
WIP on a fantasy landscape. Addressing some perspective problems and toning some clouds back next because my style is more vibes based than steeped in reality. Still I'm having a good time
#wip #acrylic #painting
November 5, 2025 at 12:59 PM
Like a moth to a flame.

(Been a second, shaking the dust off my drawing and design skills. This took maybe 10 passes to get here. Let’s make the next one a bit more streamlined. Practice.)
October 23, 2025 at 4:23 PM
Starting another overgrown landscape, now with 100% more recycled tattoo ink underpainting layer. Gonna Halloween vibe the shit out of this one and wonder why my walls only have ancient old work instead of minty fresh stuff.

#wip #acrylic #painting
August 26, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The goat!
August 17, 2025 at 12:25 PM
WIP landscape with a hidden passage out of this hellscape. Acrylic
August 16, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Wip.

Start of a crumbling landscape dying world spanning trees clinging to life, the hope of an exit to better things hidden behind an obscured path.

#acrylic #painting #art
July 26, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Getting ready for the fall with some flash.

My process admittedly sucks. Grabbed references of sailor Jerry pinups hyper rough sketched the outline, tossed the reference, traces the rough sketch, adding details for each movie character, traced a final draft, trace again with an AmTrad brush...
June 18, 2025 at 2:19 PM
Little before, little after.

I will be keeping my eyes open for dryads saddle from now on. Those were the tastiest savory steak-like mushrooms that I've ever made.

Need to get some wine into em next time.
June 2, 2025 at 11:33 AM
(hopefully this rotates)

Progress on the moebius inspired sandstorm piece. I am so loving how it's coming together. Acrylic ink washes.
May 31, 2025 at 9:59 PM
I feel like... I'm too tired to internalize feeling like such an idiot for not doing this sooner. I've had this piece in mind as a representation of my anxiety around not knowing what to do. Feeling aimless and lost in a sandstorm, directive clues clearly available but jumbled heavy and unsorted.
May 30, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I forget to post stuff here, mostly because of too much work and not enough spoons. We ate with this one yesterday though. Think I caught that shiny coat really well.

Thanks for looking.
#tattoo
May 23, 2025 at 2:25 PM
The progress she be progressing.

Planning on busting out the glazing liquid and reintroducing oranges into the swirls and tones, especially by the right middle and bottom. Pondering if I should line the contours of the cloud work with more substantiative lines or keep em nice and smooth.
May 9, 2025 at 3:39 PM
I had a no call and finally had the gumption to clean up my art room and get some sketching done. I hate that doing art isn't my main and first go-to to drive away the blues. Because it works. Art and nature.
May 6, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Ocelot warrior!
May 5, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Idk. Plant friends are keeping me happy.
May 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
Color coordinated.

#cats
April 30, 2025 at 1:23 AM
Duck Dodgers with a bass along with a healed up spitfire from last year sometime.
April 24, 2025 at 6:55 PM
She waits patiently. The time of snacks draws near.
April 12, 2025 at 11:52 AM
Big ol snake coverup. Hiding butterflies that spiral down the leg with a snek. Session 3 so far. As we hit the foot we're transitioning into more mushrooms and ferns instead of peonies. We might give her a skeletal snake as a counterbalancing element for the negative space.
April 9, 2025 at 11:10 AM
Here's a 4+ month healed Rocky. Retouched the blue in the name. What a good boy. One of the best, I hear.

#tattoo #healed #dog #doggo #portrait
March 19, 2025 at 7:52 PM
March 13, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Smugly telling the wife, who's currently on vacation out west, that we're doing just fine in the cold snow since she abandoned us.

#cats
March 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Keep on noodling with this piece.

#painting #wip #acrylic
March 6, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Cleaning up this rough for today.
March 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
God of War, blades of chaos.
February 27, 2025 at 7:40 PM