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

https://i.imgur.com/dZxE2VM.jpg

gorgeous

is that... digital art?

thank you! it's for a music release later this week (a couple songs on bandcamp thing for a new project called orange foods), a goauche+pen on paper automatic writing experiment (aka i just closed my eyes and drew curving lines with a pen for a few minutes; it's hard to tell but there are really faint pen lines in there, under the gouache). the digital part is from an ascii text generator, then stretched, doubled, color shifted, etc

i heavily respect that ilx still supports gifs, and as a gesture in the direction of 1.0 practice i have reduced the file size of this 105-frame gif by turning dither way the hell down and lossy way the hell up, then cutting the dimensions to less than 10% of their original, all in the name of getting it down to 3 MB

https://i.imgur.com/kCget57.gif

very cool!

it's for a music release later this week (a couple songs on bandcamp thing for a new project called orange foods)

we put that out today! slowcore https://orangefoods.bandcamp.com/album/earthquake-pulled-a-rabbit

in other news i have a job interview for really cool position, a part-time thing but well compensated and interesting work. if i can get it i think i could finally stabilize my financial situation (cut to video of a plane nosediving for 14,000 terrible feet before just barely pulling up before smashing into a lake), which would be very important right now! interview is on tuesday *sweats*

i have a painting from last year that didn't sell and i don't particularly like it, so happy to paint over it! it was and i guess will still be my largest one, 70"x40"

https://i.imgur.com/2cGGzzq.jpg

my goal with this one is to try to make one big dumb shape

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

still working on it

in good shape!

Great work

thank you! i've let it dry for a few days (so still pretty wet) so i can rework some areas more easily. it's been a while since i worked on something so large, i had forgotten how long it takes! but i'm so glad i painted over the old monster. my living room already feels much better lol

took a quick photoshop break during lunch

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Love the transition of color from left to right.

https://i.imgur.com/Awa72DY.jpg

thanks pbkr! it’s still a big ol mess but I’ve enjoyed having it around

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this is gorgeous! how big?

thanks! it's 11"14", gouache on paper on elmer's glue on paper :)

also made this collage from a 1984 natgeo hologram/laser special issue the other night

https://i.imgur.com/cr2pWfy.jpg

it's hard to tell but there's a metallic eagle hologram in the middle

damn! very cool stuff keep up the good work

oh thanks, appreciate it! the collage stuff feels like a goof right now but that's part of the fun of it, it's very low stakes. my partner's very into collage to we do it all the time, it's been a great new genre for the nu-era! :)

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to market to market to sell a fat pig

Particularly like the second one, a slightly abstract expressionism with 60s stained glass leanings

appreciate that, glad you like it! i'm working on something in a very similar style right now. the other night i got a free copy of a book of about 11,000 illustrations from 1851, so i've been doing little ink + watercolor/goauche versions of some things on little 6"x9" pieces of thick paper. the small format has been good -- i don't mind working on things across weeks/years, but occasionally it's fun to start and finish something in the same day, too :)

https://i.imgur.com/g9duMb0.jpg

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

symposium

sorry i can't just keep telling you how much i love your work (i do) so instead i'm free associating on your pieces. feel free to tell me to stop lol

Oh not at all, can’t overstate how supported I feel and how much it means every damn time. I’m really glad you like it! :)

https://i.imgur.com/814BOvw.jpg

whoa

i love that. somehow it just hits. not that i'm some authority on your work or art in general, but maybe my favorite thing i've seen you do! doesn't seem like you have any trouble selling your paintings, but i would definitely buy that and display it prominently!!

thanks so much! the last few i've made and posted here have all been 9"x6", smaller than what i usually work with, and loosely based off of plates in a book a friend recently gave me, "the complete encyclopedia of illustration", from 1851. that last one started from this:

https://i.imgur.com/hewrh03.jpg

i initially included the double arc/rainbow and the plants on the left, but the rainbows looked cheesy and the plants were monumentally horrible so i covered them up with a box :)

doesn't seem like you have any trouble selling your paintings

minor correction: i definitely have tons of trouble selling my work!! ooof. honestly, for every piece i sell (not that many), there are generally 2-4 false alarms where someone is very interested and then sobers up the next morning and realizes that no, no they are not. lol! hey, i've been there.

but most of that trouble is on my end, lacking the willpower and confidence to continually push things out to people to sell. i did sell a decent amount when i first got started, but a lot of that was that i was out of my mind and dropped a lot of inhibitions, which led a lot of just "please buy my art, it costs this much" kind of sales. (heavily related - i think the other part of my early success was that i was going through a lot in my personal life and my friends wanted to help me out and support me through buying my art. i don't discount that at all - i think, at least for people who aren't rich, it's common to start off with heavy support from friends).

but necessity is the mother of invention doing what you've been putting off forever, so i think i will have to try to sell stuff this month just to get by. i have an awesome new part-time job (media archivist!) i'm starting in a few days, but it's only 15 hours a week so it's kind of a subsistence job, and unfortunately i completely emptied out my savings/retirement account to $0 over the past 2 years, so i don't have enough money for rent on feb 1 :( hence, if you follow me on instagram or whatever you'll probably see a renewed entrepreneurial spirit (blllllegggh!!!) over the next few weeks lol!

the good news is that if i can make it through the next 30-60 days i think i'm going to be in a good spot moving forward! and honestly, if i can sell just one of my larger paintings for $700-1200 i will be all set, i think.

(sidenote: goddamn, even a modicum of universal basic income would be a LIFECHANGER for so many people)

That piece is FANTASTIC zach. Bravo.

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

just made my third flyer! this is the 'censored' version

https://i.imgur.com/s16j4XH.jpg

i am doing a big sale this afternoon on my instagram (zach_tbd on there), about 10 works on paper (mainly gouache and oil pastels) and 10 on canvas (mainly oil), if anyone is interested. if anyone has friends who might be interested in my art and are in a financial position to purchase something, please send them my way, it would be a huge help!

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nice quickie!

yeah, it was a 10-minute pose! enjoying a new life drawing group, we all just take turns posing so it's free <3

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great as always, love the vibe

https://i.imgur.com/kshwH6W.jpeg

love it
color palette
middle distance stare

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