Hey, let me drunkenly animate your photos in about 25 to 60 days!

it can't possibly be worse than my last insurance, which was blue shield blue cross. i attempted to meet my Primary Care Physician 3 different times, and failed every time because they were "nearby" in the neighborhood. some intern managed to refill my depression medication for me by cutting a deal with the PCP who was shopping somewhere, or something, and then they would only send the Rx to the pharmacy via Fax, which didn't work. so i had to drive across the city to the shitty alley doctor and transfer the Rx to my pharmacy by hand

if i would have had a job, i would have had to ask off work like 5 different times in order to get the Rx refilled. just bonkers

Nothing makes me more angry than our current casino-meets-Kafka healthcare "system."

yes. i am very lucky in that my only current interaction with it is to beg for a refill for depression medication every 3 months. if i had to go for chronic treatment i think i would explode

i ran a very interesting instagram story "poll" last night (i'm at @zach_tbd there btw).

i asked people what kind of price range they would be most interested in, if they thinking about buy something of mine. instagram is kinda dumb so i could only have 4 options (and i had to pick a "correct" answer, lol), and there was no option to select multiple options or all of the above. but it came out like this:

7 - $10-$30 (zines, tapes, small prints, etc)
10 - $30-$100 (smaller works on paper; acrylic or watercolor)
9 - $100-$250 (smaller acrylic/oil works on canvas)
3 - $500+ (oil on larger canvases)

which was about what i was thinking it would be! personally, when i buy art, it's usually in that first or second category - rarely over $75. it's really useful to me to know the distribution, though, because i think i've been spending a bit too much time on large canvases, paintings that take me weeks and weeks and that i revise a million times. i'll still do those, but i need to pepper in more smaller, one-night paintings and drawings.

i am also going to start making prints, i think. not of paintings, though. i had a really good, long conversation with a friend of mine who adamantly against selling prints. i don't 100% agree with her, but i did come away thinking that while i would make prints of things that i make on my computer, or prints of sketches or drawings or whatever, i won't do prints of larger paintings, at least for now;

https://i.imgur.com/1sODJ4j.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/nGpT51l.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/VtGAFRd.jpg

i rehabbed my very first attempt at oil painting, which was a painting of the shed outside the cabin i stayed at up in stoner ridge WI. the background was interesting, the trees, but the shed was awful. so it felt really good to turn it upside-down and just paint over the whole thing. i feel like i did right by the ethos of stoner ridge, and it only took me a few hours and is small so i'll be able to sell it for less than other things! #feelinggood

really like that one!

i think i just fucked it up! :-o

i always keep going a little too far. i'm stopping now

the sad thing is that it all started by trying to sign the damn thing in the lower-left!

https://i.imgur.com/jh6eavC.jpg

but i am going to just stop for now, lol, and potentially "fix" it a bit tomorrow.

digging that broadway boogie woogie energy and happy you are head down in the making art phase of your life right now

https://www.twitch.tv/zach_tbd

live painting irl online no dcma live

No fair unless we get to hear what you are listening to!

I’m taking a Burger King break! I got kicked off Instagram live yesterday for listening to music! They are crazy with that shit

https://i.imgur.com/pA61XBX.jpg

sorry. this is almost the same, but not. i meant to post this

https://i.imgur.com/p9nSAkY.jpg

is that you as a championship trophy on the right?

I would never paint myself, because I would turn out to be some horrific beast! This is why I can’t take commissions that are portraits right now

i am doing an instagram sale in a few days. Thursday, 7pm US central time. @zach_tbd, but you can also contact me via ANY METHOD AT ALL, including just posting here.

smaller/acrylic things will be around $50-150, while larger/oil things will be $300-$1 BILLION. i will be taking "bids" during the day and then determining who gets what by the time i pass out. my way of making things ok is that if I get a large, life-altering bid, that life-altering bid will go toward mutual aid instead of me. so lurker, that 10x volume of the ilx poster, hypothetically, if you're out there and are wealthy, please just give me money so i can make a big donation. that is my "scheme" and i would love if white wealthy people would give me their money

almost everything is 24x18"/acrylic on canvas unless otherwise specified

https://i.imgur.com/JlOb672.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/1XyStCv.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/gcRUvyj.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/9EpSrGR.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/eit5doK.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/r9M39VC.jpg

24"x18", oil+acrylic on canvas. this was my first attempt at oil painting a cabin in the woods. it was bad. upside-down, painted over it the toher day. "It's All Over"

https://i.imgur.com/siV3Kc0.jpg

The Light was Like Darkness, 24x18", oil on canvas.

First _completed_ oil on canvas. made out at Stoner Ridge, Purple Haze Acres, WI

both of these are huge, high-reslution images:

https://i.imgur.com/buxOzDf.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/CUD5ZmZ.jpg

both of these are for a commission, 60x40", oil on canvas. she's deciding between the two right now. I will probably be begging someone else to buy the other one for $700 soon

(this is on wood btw)

https://i.imgur.com/JlOb672.jpg

i am nervous for tomorrow. i hate that feeling when the "party" has started and no one has showed up yet. and then 15 minutes passes like that and you open up the second beer for yourself. but then, usually, sometimes, the party starts and it is ok.

i guess what i'm saying is i will probably be drinking during the "sale" because i am a nervous wreck

i'm doing my art sale now

https://www.instagram.com/p/CSfmTXANnjH/

go get em

I have learned that I need to be making more paintings of plants

Baldessari said it best ...

https://www.thebroad.org/sites/default/files/art/baldessari_tipsforartists.jpg

haha, yeah i've read that before! and make sense. one of my current sidequests is to hide some extremely morbid props inside of some lovely flowers and bright landscapes :)

4 different people asked to buy this one!

https://i.imgur.com/QziG4wm.jpg

so i let them know i'll have more plants soon :)

I'm guessing you could combine your love of "horticulture" with your art and target a specific audience :)

looool
if i ever do that...i guess...i don't know. that would be a new era for sure!

There are artists who make good money painting bottles of wine, so who knows?

https://www.ebay.com/itm/273773662966

Thomas Arvid, Wine Artist - "Tour de Force", $51,999

Zach TBD, "the whining artist"

might be able to trick some people :p

i did ok last night! i sold about $850 worth of stuff. that's definitely a bit below my living costs for the month, haha, but I'm reminding myself that when i started on this life/art scheme i told myself that it would probably take a least a year or two before i start breaking even each month. i feel pretty good about where i'm at so far!

heh, by chance i happened to see this just now:

https://i.imgur.com/HiAFtsj.jpg

Haha. Any acknowledgement of Baldessari's work? Or is it considered well-known enough that it's not necessary?

i think the latter, but i'm not sure. i only ran across stuff a few years ago, but i imagine he's probably in the standard art school curriculum? i have no idea what the kids learn

you can lead a horticulture

https://i.imgur.com/CB8APjV.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/lvPP6K3.jpg

about done with this one, i think, though as always i'm looking at it now and i see so much that i want to work on still. i've spent way too much time on it, though, along with its cursed twin, that green one on the right.

this is my first big commission that i started at my new (well, not new now) space, so i'm hoping they'll like it. but either way, it'll probably be the last of its size (40x60") because those are difficult (for me) to sell at the moment.

i will spam this thread with even more of that same damn painting in a few days, when i finish it up and take a photo of it with something better than iphone8

Would you do a photograph commission?

you mean, to take a photograph? i've never thought about it i guess! you have my email right? let me know what you're thinking!

Will do :)

quincie no worries but if you sent anything i didn't get it! i've changed emails a bunch recently but my current preferred address is tbdzach 4t the gm4i1 dort comm

in the next few days i thought i'd try to crank out a few different versions of these plants from different angles

https://i.imgur.com/nXGfSSP.jpg

i will paint like the wind - quickly, everchanging, floating, fast, invisibly, through porous objects, under the doorcracks, out of the windows, anonymously

but also, like none of those things, and with a brush, getting it all over myself in the process and then accidentally biting my nails and getting paint in my mouth, raving mad, drinking in the studio, smoking, and listening to master of puppets over and over while reminding myself that i don't really approve of this kind of paranoid, drunk raging pointing accusing hetfield persona of the era, but goddamn it's so good