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

eruption erupting - ugh

thank you, appreciate that pbkr! the evil imagery on the right was partly on purpose, partly temporary layers that i left behind. the flat yellow, i think, is from one of the very first layers i put down in summer 2021, just to put down a color and have something to work off of. and the figure, i think, was based off of this engraving by gustave dore, from his Genesis series:

https://i.imgur.com/ja26DkF.jpeg

i think that's Baruch, who is a minor character whose tale i can't remember. he maybe the son of a son of a son of a son of a more famous son. i was also looking at dore's dante's inferno engravings around the same time, and also thinking about hell and evil stuff a lot because of things in my personal life. i remember doing the quickest sketch with charcoal and then adding some color (i don't drunkenly paint now, but i did then, especially that night) and moving, figuring i had a ton more work to do. but i never touched it again! people reading this who think it is bad are probably like 'yeah buddy maybe you should have' lol, and i do think i could have (could still, but won't) kept working on it and changed it into something more concrete, but i got used to the way it looked there, and i like how feels (to me) like a piece of bad threatening past, still on there

so many typos, i'm just going to pretend like they're all on purpose

i got zero out of ten on my last spelling quiz
but my teacher gave me an 'A' for Affort

tangential humblebrag of the past - i won the school's spelling bee two years in a row in middle school, and "was one step away from ESPN" the second year, when i also won the regional competition. but autocorrrect ate my dog

anyway, thank you for saying nice things, i really do appreciate it and it always motivates me

additional umprompted lore, just because i've been looking at this thing for years and haven't really talked to anyone about it: it's funny that what turned into a david bowie look-alike on the boat started out as a version of chris killip's photo 'simon being taken out to sea for the first time since his father drowned'. i tried to do that kid's face so many times and then it became david bowie lol

https://i.imgur.com/MFdimJe.pnghttps://i.imgur.com/6gV8kqH.png

I thought it was a self portrait!

https://i.imgur.com/wx5L2jG.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/RsRbc6l.jpeg

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

https://i.imgur.com/JCyyJ4g.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/uZhmadX.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/uhhno2G.jpeg

https://i.imgur.com/uDzBfc8.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/0WkBfW7.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/G0rd9FX.jpeg
https://i.imgur.com/5wZcXgh.jpeg

those photo angles give it a kind of kenneth noland vibe -- dig it

thanks budo!

i'm almost done with this one!

https://i.imgur.com/NOiemT9.jpeg

it's painted over the top of this one, from a couple years ago

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

awesome!

Some real bangers here I hadn't seen yet. Thank you for the updates!

BTW, worth saying that this thread is an incredible (INCREDIBLE!) body of work. Took a scroll to the start and wowie-zowie you've got a collection here!

thank you H.P.! a scroll down memory lane is an arduous task in this thread, although photobucket/tinypic getting bought out and then taking all the images down probably helps a little. i believe the first image in this thread (and my first gif) was tom cruise eating shit on a loop! hopefully i saved that one somewhere, it was cutting edge gfx ;)

i think i finally finished the big one, so i'm getting ready to try to take some photos and document before it goes...above my bed i guess. a 70"x40" is a tough sell anywhere, lol, even my own apartment.

speaking of, sorry for a good news post but it's been a months-long process but i finally got my new studio space built up and ready to go at my new place! it's a very small room, but it has a window, a fan, nice light in the afternoons and evenings, close access to a sink, and a nice big mirror that's hung up at an angle to make it useful for figure references. also got a part-time job that's set up to just barely pay my living expenses and maximize the time i get to spend doing what i want to do (art and music).

i am out of paper towels, which means i'm done with this fucking painting *cheers*

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

i assume the paper towels were for wiping the sweat off your brow

looks great, kinda spooky

thank you!

paper towels are my cheap and lazy ass system to semi-clean brushes, really just re-using the same 3 or 4 brushes and palette knives for pretty much everything, so i'm always wiping them clean and dabbing excess paint left and right

Love your color.