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

a hoy hoy to

sounds like you're in a good place, hope it all works out

loving the paintings AND the animations

a hoy hoy otm*

Here here, a hoy a hoy!

Zach, this one has a real Chagall vibe to me. Hopefully they has positive associations for you. Me likey.

a hoy hoy otm*

― corrs unplugged, Tuesday, September 12, 2023 2:30 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

i'm not very familiar with Chagall but i quite like what i've seen, thank you lavator!

taking another hiatus! if anyone wants to say hello i'm (hopefully) easily findable on instagram, and my ilxmail should be current

i should honestly do the same. take care z

This place ain’t the same without you but I can only imagine the impetus to take breaks and the experience of them as a healthy thing, so good on you Z!

busy 2 months!

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strangely, music is taking up a lot more time too! there's hardly time to paint because of music practices, and then...i'm out of money. so i'm in the middle of a job application right now. in the end, i was able to go almost 2.5 years without working a job, completely obliterating my savings. After rent on the first i am down to about $200 in my bank account! but I have boxes of records to sell, a part-time job taking tickets coming in January, and I've had some luck in selling some recent paintings and still have a kindling of hope that I can make it that way some day. i had money, i have zero money, i have zero regrets, i would do it again in the exact same way if it led me here

great to see you back zach, and to see your work evolving! love a lot of these

cosign, so many things going on!

if I were on your continent I would invest!

thanks so much!! :)

really enjoying the work in wip right now, it's the best place to be

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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

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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"

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

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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.

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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

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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 :)

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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! :)

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whoa