yes!
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Wednesday, 27 March 2024 19:03 (two months ago) link
dude!!
― G. D’Arcy Cheesewright (silby), Thursday, 28 March 2024 17:36 (two months ago) link
this was the fourth or fifth oil painting i started, i think. i finished it (or stopped working on it) a couple months ago but didn't realize it was done until this morning as i thought about whether i should make space for it or not at my new spot. i don't have a nice camera and my lights are broken so i took 5 iphone photos and stitched them together to make this closeup
https://i.imgur.com/XUeYg3s.jpeg
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:42 (two months ago) link
uh depending on your .css you might need to open that image in a new tab
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:43 (two months ago) link
hello there, for scale
https://i.imgur.com/nK0t4Aj.jpeg
the one i'm working on now is at my foot there. i keep reworking the head - unsure what goes on the end of a torso twisted 180°
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:54 (two months ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/XdxPGob.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/t3gz70f.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/TSvvU4V.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/kS3IH4R.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/2BybOzP.jpeg
― z_tbd, Friday, 12 April 2024 19:56 (two months ago) link
Honestly amazing
― H.P, Friday, 12 April 2024 22:30 (two months ago) link
go man go!
― assert (matttkkkk), Saturday, 13 April 2024 00:06 (two months ago) link
thank you! it's been 'in progress' for so long that i can no longer see it, but i'm glad to move on! it's going to be rolled up in a closet for the foreseeable future but i hope to show it in some sort of covid exhibition some day, if there ever is one. i think one of my original thoughts was to do something brutally confronting, like with a hospital bed and characters and text for some of them. i'm glad that i gave it a ton of time and made it less direct
― z_tbd, Saturday, 13 April 2024 15:21 (two months ago) link
Love the color on this. That big yellow eruption on the far right makes me think of something violent erupting like dragon's breath.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Sunday, 14 April 2024 18:38 (two months ago) link
eruption erupting - ugh
thank you, appreciate that pbkr! the evil imagery on the right was partly on purpose, partly temporary layers that i left behind. the flat yellow, i think, is from one of the very first layers i put down in summer 2021, just to put down a color and have something to work off of. and the figure, i think, was based off of this engraving by gustave dore, from his Genesis series:
https://i.imgur.com/ja26DkF.jpeg
i think that's Baruch, who is a minor character whose tale i can't remember. he maybe the son of a son of a son of a son of a more famous son. i was also looking at dore's dante's inferno engravings around the same time, and also thinking about hell and evil stuff a lot because of things in my personal life. i remember doing the quickest sketch with charcoal and then adding some color (i don't drunkenly paint now, but i did then, especially that night) and moving, figuring i had a ton more work to do. but i never touched it again! people reading this who think it is bad are probably like 'yeah buddy maybe you should have' lol, and i do think i could have (could still, but won't) kept working on it and changed it into something more concrete, but i got used to the way it looked there, and i like how feels (to me) like a piece of bad threatening past, still on there
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:57 (two months ago) link
so many typos, i'm just going to pretend like they're all on purpose
i got zero out of ten on my last spelling quizbut my teacher gave me an 'A' for Affort
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 19:59 (two months ago) link
tangential humblebrag of the past - i won the school's spelling bee two years in a row in middle school, and "was one step away from ESPN" the second year, when i also won the regional competition. but autocorrrect ate my dog
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:01 (two months ago) link
anyway, thank you for saying nice things, i really do appreciate it and it always motivates me
additional umprompted lore, just because i've been looking at this thing for years and haven't really talked to anyone about it: it's funny that what turned into a david bowie look-alike on the boat started out as a version of chris killip's photo 'simon being taken out to sea for the first time since his father drowned'. i tried to do that kid's face so many times and then it became david bowie lol
https://i.imgur.com/MFdimJe.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6gV8kqH.png
― z_tbd, Sunday, 14 April 2024 20:08 (two months ago) link
I thought it was a self portrait!
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 15 April 2024 00:50 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/wx5L2jG.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/RsRbc6l.jpeg
― z_tbd, Sunday, 28 April 2024 17:45 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/njfTbfG.jpeg
― z_tbd, Thursday, 9 May 2024 21:07 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/JCyyJ4g.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/uZhmadX.jpeg
― z_tbd, Friday, 10 May 2024 17:03 (one month ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uhhno2G.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/uDzBfc8.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/0WkBfW7.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/G0rd9FX.jpeghttps://i.imgur.com/5wZcXgh.jpeg
― z_tbd, Saturday, 25 May 2024 21:14 (two weeks ago) link
those photo angles give it a kind of kenneth noland vibe -- dig it
― budo jeru, Saturday, 25 May 2024 22:46 (two weeks ago) link
thanks budo!
i'm almost done with this one!
https://i.imgur.com/NOiemT9.jpeg
it's painted over the top of this one, from a couple years ago
https://i.imgur.com/ynOtbMf.png
― z_tbd, Monday, 3 June 2024 23:26 (one week ago) link
awesome!
― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 06:47 (one week ago) link
Some real bangers here I hadn't seen yet. Thank you for the updates!
― H.P, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 09:08 (one week ago) link
BTW, worth saying that this thread is an incredible (INCREDIBLE!) body of work. Took a scroll to the start and wowie-zowie you've got a collection here!
― H.P, Tuesday, 4 June 2024 09:19 (one week ago) link
thank you H.P.! a scroll down memory lane is an arduous task in this thread, although photobucket/tinypic getting bought out and then taking all the images down probably helps a little. i believe the first image in this thread (and my first gif) was tom cruise eating shit on a loop! hopefully i saved that one somewhere, it was cutting edge gfx ;)
i think i finally finished the big one, so i'm getting ready to try to take some photos and document before it goes...above my bed i guess. a 70"x40" is a tough sell anywhere, lol, even my own apartment.
speaking of, sorry for a good news post but it's been a months-long process but i finally got my new studio space built up and ready to go at my new place! it's a very small room, but it has a window, a fan, nice light in the afternoons and evenings, close access to a sink, and a nice big mirror that's hung up at an angle to make it useful for figure references. also got a part-time job that's set up to just barely pay my living expenses and maximize the time i get to spend doing what i want to do (art and music).
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 16:09 (one week ago) link
i am out of paper towels, which means i'm done with this fucking painting *cheers*
https://i.imgur.com/xBlsCsJ.jpeg
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 18:25 (one week ago) link
i assume the paper towels were for wiping the sweat off your brow
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 5 June 2024 19:39 (one week ago) link
looks great, kinda spooky
thank you!
paper towels are my cheap and lazy ass system to semi-clean brushes, really just re-using the same 3 or 4 brushes and palette knives for pretty much everything, so i'm always wiping them clean and dabbing excess paint left and right
― z_tbd, Wednesday, 5 June 2024 20:08 (one week ago) link
Love your color.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Thursday, 6 June 2024 00:20 (one week ago) link