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

haha, thanks! glad it strikes the right balance for you. there's also the balance between what is more or less 'finished" and what is quickly sketched. i guess those two things map are highly related to realism and abstraction, except that every once in a while a very sketchy flick of the brush creates something that reads as more realistic, while another part that comes off as an abstraction of what should be there takes a bunch of work and color adjusting. it is very confusing and, for me, easy to land in a weird space! haha. ok, time for bed lol

love those colors on the wall to the right, around the lamp

i learned how to do monotypes this weekend! probably a familiar term to most people reading this, but to me it was new. in short, it just means taking a painting that is still wet and pressing it against a dampened piece of paper to transfer the painting. "mono" in this case refers to it only being possible to make one unique print - as you can imagine, after smooshing two pieces of paper together, the original painting is altered and so it wouldn't look the same if you made a second monotype out of it. (if you do make additional monotypes, those are called "ghost prints".) it's also one-of-a-kind/unique in that the transfer of the paint or ink from one surface to another with this method is inherently unpredictable, since it depends on the thickness of the paint, how wet the original painting surface is, how damp the target surface, how you press the two surfaces together, stuff like that.

i wish i would have taken more photos of my original paintings, because after you make a monotype the original is forever altered. but here is one that worked out ok:

https://i.imgur.com/xeutK1u.jpg

and here's what the monotype looked like:

https://i.imgur.com/K8GqRKD.jpg

there was also another version (i didn't take a photo of the original) that produced a very uneven transfer, and i ended up liking that result the best of all:

https://i.imgur.com/oITuC68.png

er oops, the second image was supposed to be this

https://i.imgur.com/g4epoqk.jpg

most confusing post ever, sorry. all of this was with gouache on a fiberglass plate. lemme know if you're reading this and have tried other materials (like ink) or other methods!

interesting!

fun, quick, and a bit experimental too! I’m going to pick up a couple pieces of fiberglass next time I’m at the art store so I can make some at home. I like the dada aspect of having to destroy the original as part of the process

https://i.imgur.com/67rT0BP.jpg

added the figure in later on copying this https://www.famsf.org/artworks/seated-girl-ii-bather

did not mean to make baseball reference

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

https://i.imgur.com/DaKoX4j.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/ZA0YgD4.jpg

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

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

changed the face for the millionth time

https://i.imgur.com/bV18W1K.jpg

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

i have been trying and failing to "zoom in" more on figures rather than always getting the whole body. i accidentally did it with this one this morning, but only because the legs and feet and the bottom half in general were all so terrible that it immensely improved the composition as a whole to tear it off completely. what was left was "zoomed in".

*logrolls to finish line*

not sure I understand the zoom process but that is a great frame

oops, sorry corrs, didn't see that! by "zooming" i guess i just mean is that when you're painting from life you have to choose what's going to fit into the canvas. from the same perspective, you could paint an entire person from head to toe, with space all around them, or you could choose to paint only their torso and shoulders (or their face, or whatever).

i started with some charcoal today. the oil pastels are quick and fun but i feel like they are hard to mix so you just end up with the product palette instead of your own.

https://i.imgur.com/25hx4EK.png

these were meant to be dancers but i may have accidentally made a dunker! dancer slams it home. i like what charcoal does but the physical sensation of putting it on is very similar to chalk on a chalkboard.

https://i.imgur.com/vPDgGJH.png

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

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

wauw, great sunset vibes

thank you corrs! i wasn't thinking about it at the time but i have been looking at a lot of David Park paintings, maybe that is kind of filtering through

https://i.imgur.com/D6tMv8X.jpg

in tribute to my friend's new puppy walter

https://i.imgur.com/2jLzp10.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/2jLzp10.jpg

damn boy you are getting skilled as fuk

<3 aw, thank you cat. i'll show you something funny though. i reworked it a bit

https://i.imgur.com/1QT1s7c.jpg

and then realized how badly i had fucked up the arms of the chair. so i'm going to rework it again upsidedownsmileyface

https://i.imgur.com/qK3RXY6.jpg

i feel like i can undermine it all with the word pizza!

did someone order a deepdish pepperoni with cheese .jpg

kept going and glad i did

https://i.imgur.com/lQ1P9ci.jpg

yep yep yep

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

still more to go on this one but it's looking better than the version that's been in my living room the last few months

https://i.imgur.com/CQo0HU2.jpg

Is there a (preferably free) app I can download to my android phone or windows computer that would allow me to string together a bunch of still images into a longer animation? I want to create an animated music video.

i don't know one, but i bet there is! not sure about one that would be suitable for minutes of animation though - even at only 10 fps that's still 600 images per minute. animation is a giant pain in the ass

i recommend painting

i was looking through this thread looking for a specific image (non-moving) and ran across this one

http://78.media.tumblr.com/0b8606a058a6303f684b9b30d4892399/tumblr_p1shk2We5J1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

that one's gross but i still like it

here's what i was looking for (my first painting)

https://i.imgur.com/w4XnHkH.jpg

very cool!!

I love that painting a lot!

Wish I still had it! I don’t remember ever seeing it again after that day, it must have been lost or tossed in the trash

https://i.imgur.com/639hgYr.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/FZzJrs3.jpg

The color/composition on that one is outstanding.

thank you! i have some oil pastels with some nice colors, it always feels like the heavy lifting has already been done when using them

https://i.imgur.com/kqP5CtD.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/yUwBfz0.jpg

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

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

wauw that's a hella cool animation

thank you! it was kind of an old school gif in the sense that i had to drastically reduce the size and quality (the "lossiness" when saving a GIF) in order to get it down to a manageable file size