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

dumb

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

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

not dumb. i like it. i want to stop thinking "dumb", i know others want that too, to the extent that anyone cares

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

Your work is interesting to me!

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

this is the pastel on print. i like this idea, in general, of being able to draw over old paintings, and also it's a way to take a print that didn't sell (like this one, which was in the third in an exclusive series of three) and throw stuff at it

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

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

this was the biggest one, 60x40", and i was lucky to sell it before it the sale

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

one more

https://i.imgur.com/z0lsQlt.jpg

inside your head is drippy, i like it

That last yellow thing is immensely powerful

thank you both, so much.

forks, i keep starting new paintings with the idea that i'm going to be very formal and draw some straight lines. rarely turns out that way in the end, but some day soon i'm going to do something strict with masking tape and play by the rules!

jonathan h.m. thank you! that's an iphone pic so zooming in is pointless, but this afternoon i'm going to take a fancy camera shot of it. there are some interesting details in it, i think, because it started with pressing/imprinting newspaper photos/headlines into wet oil. first time i tried that (second time was a disaster, but i learned a lot!) but now i think i could have more control over it for the next time

playing by the rules is highly overrated unless it comes natural

The two things i've done with stuff I'm not happy with:

1. tear into squares and stick (in the original formation) onto some randomly/rapidly painted shapes
https://i.imgur.com/aJeUjPm.jpg
Yeah, still hate this one

2. Just paste some bakeproof paper over the top to obscure the details (like mumbling the poorer lyrics in a song you wrote), throw some new paint over the parts you're particulary ashamed of. It may even be possible to pass this off as a deliberate statement, ahah yes uncomfortable memories as seen "through a glass, darkly", so deep
https://i.imgur.com/yyhPlyN.jpg
Actually find this one much improved

yeah i like the second one! face silhouettes on the lower-left are like keyholes to language :D

throw some new paint over the parts you're particulary ashamed of. It may even be possible to pass this off as a deliberate statement,

i do this all the time and enjoy the cliche of it. it's one of the best parts about painting, taking something that you spent so long on and just covering it up or scraping it off or whatever. i have had long had a kind of self-destructive/impulsive tendency, and i find it matches up really well with working on a couple paintings at a time, because there is ALWAYS something that looks bad or i think could use a change or two.

Also just DESTROY the ones I really like, or more often give them away to some random person I know I will never see again, deliberately no tdocumenting them beforehand. Like, the idea that I will leave nothing when I die, but somewhere in ughLondon some family will have something of mine on their kitchen wall, "who painted that Mammy?" "I dunno, some boy I once met..."

Except The Big Green One, no-one would take that, either too big or too green. So I hung that one until Cat ripped off a corner, then put it in a cupboard. Then when Cat is dead hung it again, New Cat is eyeing it up though so maybe a repeating cycle

I think it's my greatest work, though I may be confusing the etymological meaning of Great=Big. Certainly my biggest work, painted on the back of some wall lining paper, cos we do what we can with what we have available
https://imgur.com/a/Shqe8gi

damn i fucked that up, wait a minute

https://i.imgur.com/HvrK4w2.jpeg

how large is it??

also, is Cat one cat (feline), the idea of any cat (feline), or a person (human) named Cat?

you don't have to answer any of those questions, i'm just throwing them out there :)

Maybe not as big as I may have accidentally implied, like 24"x50" Cats were assumed to be specific felines, yes

ok, doing the sale on my instagram now, with this main hub post with everything listed and the prices

phew, sold a couple early on. feels good to get past that "no one is showing up at the party" phase

I'm doing my Monthly sale right now! If you use Instagram just refer to this main post with all the details: https://t.co/ifSLqi3yNE

If not, I'll post the 9 pieces that are for sale here as well and you can DM me here if you're interested. I'll edit the thread as things sell. <3 pic.twitter.com/6FQqbZyiiD

— Zach TBD (@weinventyou) October 1, 2021

in the spirit of openness and honesty i will say that the universe will someday end

this art is formally normally known as PRINTS

come on

i was working overtime

GODDAMMIT

this art is formally known as PRINTS

*long shot of people walking around all normal like*

i am still angry that this awesome pun isn't trending but here are some prints

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

so, i got divorced and then moved to St Louis. i've been busy building my new studio, which is another way of saying "i've been building wall-easels on my living room wall so my dog doesn't lick the paint"

i'm starting up a small cassette label. i dub them all on my own. so yeah, it's that level of quality. at the same time, i sell them for as cheap as I can, and I get to make the art for it. this is for the first release (probably the only), which is a collab with me and C. Vadi. soft drive, four of horses, cover something like this:

https://i.imgur.com/xS0SZ7l.jpg

it's improvised synth but i swear it's good

That’s a lot of news! Cool painting. Everything ok?

oof, just hanging in there tbh. this release is a point of pride for both me and c. vadi. shitty yeah, but we're going to put this out in the calendar year 2021 anyway, damn the torpedoes.

did anyone buy Modified Associates from the september sale? i need it. i NEED it. and would you like a tiny 4-track because i’ve been trying to offload mine since kind of forever, n.b. i have no idea if it still works it’s just been sitting around making me feel guilty for like a decade and needs a good home.

did anyone buy Modified Associates from the september sale?

that was a dismal sale :o, but someone did buy that one! a guy in STL actually, who I didn't know. I moved here a few weeks ago and drove it over to him. he was nice!

cool, if you could just tell me his address so i can drive across a few states to sneak in his house and get my painting?

sorry the sale was bad ;_; but at least your pup gets to be surrounded by art, many dogs are aesthetically deprived to a tragic degree

that's nice that you wanted it though! just knowing stuff like that helps keep me going. plus, i hope to always make the next thing my best thing, every time. i'm gonna do something similar with modified associates for next month (painting over a print of an earlier painting). i have 2 extra of chicken coop, the print from a couple months, so those will be edited very soon :D

i also bought 2 clocks for $11. they were supposed to be "silent", "non-ticking" clocks. incorrect! so i am painting over them and will sell them for major profit

that painting is gorgeous and fierce and vital, i wanna drink up its energy like an ocular vampire <3 thank you for creating such phenomena! the world goodness index bumps up a little with each beautiful* thing that you make/do.

* ‘beautiful’ isn’t exactly what i mean here, more like a genuine expression of one’s unique humanity, but without sounding so douchey/stilted/cliche? ionno, it’s late, my words have mostly drained away

and loud clocks are bad, i will not suffer a loud clock

update when more art!!!!!!!!!

thanks cat! that makes me feel really good :)

i am at my slowest time right now, just with the move and everything, but getting ready to turbo boost again, i hope

Karl pls come to CA and paint my horse. I mean do a portrait of him but you can also paint on him, I have paint for that and he doesn’t mind! I will pay you and also we have superior tacos here

lol!

just painting a horse and eating tacos! that sounds fucking amazing

in general i'm very bad about drawing or painting specific objects or things, particularly animals. but for some reason horses are ok! cats and dogs are impossible, horses are ok

could you would you paint a horse on a horse

ztbd died on a monday morning. he was painting a horse on a horse and it kicked him

I love you cassette cover horse!

i will answer from the perspective of the horse, using the same cheerful voice i use for all god's beautiful creatures:

"TANX!"

this weekend I'm working on the other side of the j-card (4 song titles, a small amount of text)

I don't want to spoil it, but there are going to be...EVEN MORE HORSES!!

HORSES: *cheerful neighing*