Stand in line at Oilcan Harry’s and chances are you have met the gatekeeper known as Glenn. Late into the night he keeps the minors waiting in check and greets the V.I.P. clientele with a smiling “Gentlemen, please come on in.”

But behind that grin is an artist with a heavy heart. Glenn Eaddy is in mourning for a longtime friend who only weeks ago lost his battle with AIDS. That pain has turned into a collection of art on display this month at Halcyon.

Eaddy feverishly created forty plus incredibly bright, sharp and intimate pieces in only three and a half weeks. “It helps me deal with the emotions that I haven’t dealt with yet,” Glenn tells me as we sit in the quiet kitchen below Halcyon’s noisy main room, “I sit down and draw, it’s like prayer.”

Drawing is nothing new to Oilcan’s longtime front man. He learned to express himself on canvas long ago. Dyslexia had robbed him of the ability to read until the age of 30 and he found art gave him an outlet for expressing what he couldn’t do so in words.

In 2001, Eaddy picked up a torch from Austin philanthropist Colonel Bob Collins and became the driving force behind an annual toy drive for children living with HIV. The event coincides with his birthday (This year Glenn marks 46 on the second Sunday of September.)

This art show running through May at Halcyon is also a benefit; proceeds go to Project Transitions, an organization who helps people with HIV and AIDS with living expenses.

The collection titled “Boneheads and Bitches” features skulls, bones, women and also pets brought to life in vivid pastels and Indian ink. The skeletal figures are dressed in various attire with a common thread - a heart drawn inside the exposed chest. When I ask Glenn of the artistic remains his familiar grins reappears offering a light hearted explanation, “I think everyone is a bonehead. And every bonehead has a heart.”

“Boneheads and Bitches” is on display for sale through May 30 at Halcyon, 218 W 4th St. Prices and sizes vary. Proceeds benefit Project Transitions.