zach's old animations and new visual art, updated every 25 to 60 days

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

Zach please don’t get paint in your mouth

i will whatever it takes

silby is now the owner and proprietor of conferencecall.biz. i just work here these days

silby, btw, <3 <3 <3

i was having a convo with someone the other day who was like "yeah no one buys digital art", and i was like hell yeah you're fucking right, but then, in my head, i thought "but silby did, and i really appreciate that", and then i said a version of that out loud afterward

i share these early sketches in the same spirit that i shared my earlier gifs in this thread, now lost to the blackhole of tinypic.com

https://i.imgur.com/5yxl3PX.jpg

i will whatever it takes

in my head, i thought "but silby did, and i really appreciate that", and then i said a version of that out loud afterward

and you know what, a priceless thing was that for once i had a counterpoint to the "digital art is worthless" thing, both for myself and form them. that's what really felt good (and also weird!) at that moment <3 <3 <3

is this getting to satanic for a home (jaq not allowed to answer!)

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

no such thing imo

achievement! first larger painting sold to someone i didn't know at all! it's the "It's All Over" one i finished just last week

or excuse me, i forgot that i titled that one "chicken coop at stone ridge" since that what it was before i painted over it

STONER RIDGE

https://i.imgur.com/YxCv8dH.jpg

nice portrait!

thanks forks! it's always weird with pastels because at any second you can just blow off all the excess chalk and powder and it completely changes everything. i took the piece of paper above and blew the biggest chunks off of it, kind of spotted in with a paper towel in some spots, and put it up on the wall. and then it's weird to decide whether or not to spray it with fixativ at that point or keep it like it to keep adding to it

i finally finished my first big commission, one i had been working on since june. and i just realized i fucked up something, at the very beginning, when i bought the canvas. i bought one brand new, first of all - that was a mistake because it's much less expensive to stretch your own. secondly, i accidentally bought a canvas that was "hand-splined", also known as "gallery wrap".

the vast majority of canvases are the normal "stretched canvases" with staples on the back. it's the default. you can easily take these canvases off the stretcher bars for shipping (rolled up in a tube, the easiest/cheapest way), and they are suitable for framing. looks something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/u65xlpc.jpg

instead, i accidentally bought a "hand-splined" canvas, which is to add insult to injury, is more expensive. this method uses a minimum of visible staples and instead the canvas is tucked down into this little gap around the stretcher bars, including a little plastic "spline" tube that goes around the perimeter. looks like this:

https://i.imgur.com/LzCUP2a.jpg

you can't really take these canvases off the stretcher bars. you, can but it's apparently a major pain in the ass. plus, the way they treat the corners (the "gallery fold) means that they made cuts to the fabric in order to get it to lay flat. this means that even if you did manage to get the canvas off the stretcher bars (for shipping or framing), it will be more difficult to re-stretch because it's missing chunks of it that were previously cut out. this is hard to explain.

in short, i finally finished this bigass painting, and now i have to tell them that it can't be framed, that the shipping is going to be really expensive, and that if they want to try to take it off the stretchers it's going to be a pain in the ass.

i just feel destroyed