Baldessari said it best ...
https://www.thebroad.org/sites/default/files/art/baldessari_tipsforartists.jpg
― nickn, Friday, 13 August 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
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 :)
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 16:20 (two years ago) link
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 :)
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 16:24 (two years ago) link
I'm guessing you could combine your love of "horticulture" with your art and target a specific audience :)
― DJI, Friday, 13 August 2021 16:57 (two years ago) link
loooolif i ever do that...i guess...i don't know. that would be a new era for sure!
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
There are artists who make good money painting bottles of wine, so who knows?
― nickn, Friday, 13 August 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/273773662966
Thomas Arvid, Wine Artist - "Tour de Force", $51,999
― nickn, Friday, 13 August 2021 20:56 (two years ago) link
Zach TBD, "the whining artist"
might be able to trick some people :p
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
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!
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 21:09 (two years ago) link
heh, by chance i happened to see this just now:
https://i.imgur.com/HiAFtsj.jpg
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 22:42 (two years ago) link
Haha. Any acknowledgement of Baldessari's work? Or is it considered well-known enough that it's not necessary?
― nickn, Friday, 13 August 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
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
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Friday, 13 August 2021 23:12 (two years ago) link
you can lead a horticulture
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Friday, 13 August 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/CB8APjV.jpg
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Saturday, 14 August 2021 05:12 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/lvPP6K3.jpg
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Saturday, 14 August 2021 18:39 (two years ago) link
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.
― Read between the lines Zach (Karl Malone), Saturday, 14 August 2021 18:45 (two years ago) link
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?
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:14 (two years ago) link
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!
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 14 August 2021 20:36 (two years ago) link
Will do :)
― mom tossed in kimchee (quincie), Sunday, 15 August 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 August 2021 21:19 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 August 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Sunday, 15 August 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
Zach please don’t get paint in your mouth
― Clara Lemlich stan account (silby), Monday, 16 August 2021 05:10 (two years ago) link
i will whatever it takes
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 August 2021 05:13 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 August 2021 05:15 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 August 2021 05:19 (two years ago) link
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 August 2021 05:20 (two years ago) link
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
― Karl Malone, Monday, 16 August 2021 05:21 (two years ago) link
is this getting to satanic for a home (jaq not allowed to answer!)
https://i.imgur.com/nSkFMbR.jpg
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 August 2021 05:53 (two years ago) link
no such thing imo
― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Thursday, 19 August 2021 13:10 (two years ago) link
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
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
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
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Thursday, 19 August 2021 16:27 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/YxCv8dH.jpg
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 23 August 2021 07:23 (two years ago) link
nice portrait!
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 23 August 2021 12:52 (two years ago) link
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
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Tuesday, 24 August 2021 00:14 (two years ago) link
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
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
like, i don't know whether to frame it go about it like "so this painting is actually gallery-wrapped, so no need to frame this one, and it can just go up on the wall as is!", or "so, it turns out that you can't frame this one, due to the way the canvas is wrapped around the stretcher bars (link to stretcher bars, link to gallery-wrap blog from 2015). and, oh yeah, i think i'm going to have to find a big crate to ship this to you in?"
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:26 (two years ago) link
i guess i could offer a discount since i fucked up, but i already spent four times (2 full months) as long on it as i had originally budgeted/planned on (2 weeks!). i have very little to sell for the upcoming month because i've spending my time on this giant piece of unframeable garbage instead :(
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:27 (two years ago) link
my tactic would be to contact the buyer and share all of that information directly and frankly (including how you feel about the situation) and ask how they'd like to move forward. They may not care or they may be willing to pick it up/have it dropped off at a later date.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
it's just...SO much information. and in my previous communications i've made the mistake of just being WAY too much like myself, just talking way the fuck too much, too much, too much. i've been trying my best to just shut up and get to my point with them. but now i feel like i just opened up the most complicated situation, one that takes 5-10 minutes to figure out, and doesn't have a clear answer. it's not the end of the world and i'm sure it'll work out, it's just a big commission and i was really hoping they'd love the painting and tell all their friends etc. now i'm 99% sure it's going to be like a "funny story" (at best)
― professional anti- (Karl Malone), Monday, 30 August 2021 21:36 (two years ago) link
i've been feeling good, despite what i've been saying this. wrote this a couple weeks after my dad died
https://i.imgur.com/ZHdxEYV.jpg
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:00 (two years ago) link
just for context, my dad was named Earl Grey
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:01 (two years ago) link
dumb
https://i.imgur.com/WBlgZOo.jpg
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:05 (two years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/uGAfALL.jpg
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:08 (two years ago) link
not dumb. i like it. i want to stop thinking "dumb", i know others want that too, to the extent that anyone cares
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:15 (two years ago) link
i am, currently, at my low, at a sustained high, and out of control, and perfectly control. chicago bears fans are screaming down the street. the alienation is near-total, but also i have so many people around that always encourage me, and i feel very lucky. everything at once. arcade fire #whoasongs
― "HYYOOOOOOONK!" is the sound I make (Karl Malone), Monday, 13 September 2021 02:17 (two years ago) link
Your work is interesting to me!
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 September 2021 04:30 (two years ago) link
doing a sale on my ol' instagram (@zach_tbd) tomorrow evening!
this will be my second monthly sale (and 3rd total since last year), and i've tried to change a few things from last month. i'm only putting up 10 items, rather than 30, to start. last time i did 3 instagram posts with 10 pictures in each, with captions explaining that you had to go check out the other two independently, sorry, etc, along with taking 30 photos. holy shit, it was bad. this time, there are only 10, which will go in one single 10-image megapost.
if all goes well tonight and tomorrow morning (still working on stuff), i will have 3 new paintings for tomorrow, a couple older ones at a discount, a decent (i think) older one (december 2020) that i found behind a shelf last week, a couple new pastels and graphite drawings, a cool one (i think) that's pastels on a print of a painting from earlier this year, as well as a couple new prints
― typo hell #6: i really don't much at all (Karl Malone), Thursday, 30 September 2021 01:20 (two years ago) link