gem /jem/ > noun a precious stone, especially when cut and polished.

 

scullery /'skəl(ə)rē/ > noun a small room near the back of a house or restaurant used as an overflow kitchen for cleaning, storing, prepping, and other messy kitchen work.

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THE GEM SCULLERY

By Brian Lipscombe

 

I create NFT art all about culinary-related objects embellished with shiny gemstones.

Why? It's beautiful to me, and highly distinctive within an overly-saturated NFT marketplace littered with fatuous content.

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Food, in all its possible forms and flavors will never go out of style, and neither will precious gemstones. Both attract, tantalize, are inherently valuable, and embody art on an organic and carnal level.

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What's the roadmap or utility? I'm glad you asked! These important facets will take shape as the understructure for The Gem Scullery continues to materialize. Fundamentally, The Gem Scullery supports blockchain technology, especially Ethereum. The Gem Scullery is singlehandedly managed, therefore the current focus during these early stages of development is to simply push out unique, intriguing NFT art that will grow in popularity, value, functionality, and become a noteworthy investment in the long-term.

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For value retainment, I prefer creating unique single NFTs over multiples or duplicates, and I will not turn any unique single NFT that I create and sell, into a multiple if it will dramatically decrease the value of the original NFT art.

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For additional incentive to consider investing in The Gem Scullery, I pledge to donate a percentage of profit from my end for every initial sale I make through 2024 of my own created NFTs, to either the Tunnel to Towers Foundation, the Wounded Warrior Project, the ASPCA, or a similar verifiable and legitimate charity, and will provide complete documentation.

I hope you choose to become a part of this journey with me!

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More questions?

Am I a chef? Maybe in another life.
Am I a jeweler? No, but a connoisseur of rare, digitally-crafted jewels...perhaps.
Do I eat gems? Only once, in a fever dream.

What makes me an artist? Art has been a passion of mine that dates back to around the same time the internet was invented. My first memorable rendering, well before the start of the 21st century, was on a piece of light-blue card paper. It was scribbled gems, patiently awaiting their mining as they protruded from the jagged walls of a dark imaginary cave. Outlined in graphite pencil and filled with an assortment of bright crayons, I crafted this impression as an offering for my kindergarten teacher at my elementary school located only a few miles away from the smoggy skyline of Downtown Los Angeles.

The years for me following this humble donation were turbulent, and food within my household wasn't always a positive topic. Very early on in my life, the nutritional goods my mother worked hard to obtain would often get ransacked during random home robberies. This eventually molded the idea of food into something for us to cherish and respect. Regular treks throughout Skid Row also kind of made the concepts of food and finances sort of a focal point within my developing brain.

About a decade later, I chiseled a couple dragons into a carving pad, and it ended up on display alongside other artwork in an empty mall corridor in Beaverton Oregon. Around that same time I entered an arguably prestigious graffiti-style logo contest for a street clothing store at another more densely-populated mall in the heart of Portland...and won!

A few revolutions around the Sun after that, about a handful of years after the 1992 L.A. Riots, southeast of Los Angeles, I ended up ranking as one of the top three artists in the 34th Congressional Art Competition for a portrait I reluctantly agreed to have displayed of Tupac Shakur in oil pastels. My enthusiastic art teacher tried her best to talk me into attending some popular art college in Pasadena, but I had other plans.

Between those personally noteworthy events, over the decades, I've created countless sketches and pieces of art in myriad formats, big and small. A large portion have sadly succumbed to the elements and some have been lost forever. Others seem permanently stuck deep within the confines of antiquated hard drives buried beneath mounds of dusty storage bins, to one day hopefully be resurrected.

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I've designed a little bit of everything, from popular superhero characters in color pencil, to dynamic cityscapes with acrylics on canvas, and from underground skateboard company cartoon art, to witty T-shirt designs. I've tailored numerous tattoo stencils, some of which I've personally administered during an illuminating stretch of backyard tattooing. I've even labored through never-ending storyboards for low-budget indie film projects, and also wore the hat of a cartographer for well over a decade, meticulously mapping huge communities and business districts of overly-sensitive filming locations in the City of L.A. before Google Earth was even a thing.

Now, I've come full circle to create a unique, stomach-growling, limited line of satiating NFT art, starting with my own gleaming renditions of some of the most sought-after gemstones on Earth, married with some of the most delectable and worldly, nourishing fare!

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Click here to check out my NFTs for sale on Rarible!

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Here's some of my other random artwork...some dating back to the late 1900s during the previous century: