My First Time-lapse Using An Actual Tripod Set-up. I’ll Continue To Document Progress On This Painting

Gonna be selling these 4x4 vinyl stickers at the Short Run Comix & Arts Festival in Seattle on November 4th.

Will post more info soon about where my table will be and what else I’ll be selling.

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Figure Study 2023

Work in progress pictures can be seen here

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Caela by Liturgy

72"x13.5", synthetic and natural fibers, vinyl tubing, 2024

detail one

detail two

detail three

This piece came about as an attempt to visually depict how I experience music. Possibly due to my Autism, I do not seem to listen to/experience music the way other people I have discussed this topic with experience music. I recognize that there is an underlying meter, a rhythm, a beat, that allows a person to "follow the music;" the beat is also what people follow when they dance. I can force myself to identify and follow a beat, but it requires significant concentration on my part, is not what comes naturally to me, and is not how I enjoy listening to music. My attention often skips back and forth between different sounds, following the bass sounds for several moments because I enjoy that specific section, then switching focus to the crescendo of a violin, to the sound of the singer's voice, the drums, back to violin, bass, voice, a new sound.

By connecting colors, patterns, and material to specific aspects of a musical piece, I have attempted to create a depiction of my experience of the music.

(I also decided to leave the edges of the different photos I took, to give an impression of the number of images needed to create a decent representation of this weaving.)

Was looking over my old posts and had a moment where I was like “Dang, I am actually a pretty good painter and this is a pretty cool painting.”

Only took four years distance from the actual creation of the piece to feel that way about it!   ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

“Pretty Bunny/Ugly Hare”

acrylic and stickers on canvas board, 14 x 18

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Something of a continuation on the theme of “fuck your fascist cuteness standards.”

Inspired by the Playboy Bunny as a restrictive concept of American female beauty, the different connotations of the words “bunny” and “hare,” and overhearing a pregnant woman discuss her fears that her unborn child would be born with a “hare lip,” because that had “just ruined” Joaquin Phoenix’s face.

Slightly dissatisfied with this painting, actually. I have a tendency to push shadows darker than I would like, and that happened in this piece. I want to develop an ability to work with paler palettes.

However, this is the first time that I’ve really tried mixing a more deliberately stylized look with traditional painting, and I am very pleased with how that turned out.

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"Alone and Forsaken" by 16 Horsepower

roycevomit said: this looks finished to me, it’s really beautiful regardless.

Awh! Thank you.

That's one of the things that I really like about your art -- you seem to know exactly when to stop. Your pieces aren't overworked or fussy, they feel straightforward.

I have a hard time stopping on my pieces. I keep working them until I look at them and go "Shit, I should have stopped, like, 8 changes ago." I've been trying to work on that, giving myself "assignments" or guidelines designed to limit my obsessiveness.

For instance, in the painting that I'm working on right now, I'm not allowing myself to use brown or black. That means I can only get a certain level of shadows and depth in the image, so that's one thing that I'm not stressing about.

I mean... WOULDN’T YOU??

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just needs some varnish and then I can do a high-res scan!

doing some painting

Hand of Benediction

elderflower

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