Ticklish Art

I am a British artist and writer who started getting steady work making art and writing thanks to recent shifts in the way these things are valued.

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The art I made in 2022 - a stunning year for me artistically. I got to sink my teeth into all sorts of new media and approaches. A huge thank you to my supporters and fellow-travelers. Music is 'Pretty as a Picture (Bonita como el cuadro) by Bob Haring and His Orchestra (1924)

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Drawn Runners - commissioned pieces for people who fancied seeing their Chain Runners rendered in watercolour. I had a lot of fun making all these characters and loved working with each person to bring out their Runner's personality.

Chain Runners are licensed under CC0.

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Dripmap 037 - Selected Blit 1003 'Selected Blit,' is a watercolour using the composition 'Selected' by to_tal_ly and the palette of 'Blit' by dom. All original and sibling Blitmaps are licensed under CC0.

This work was painted Khadi cotton paper. It was minted on 29 December 2022 by Ticklish.

[glitchphotography]

Trash Solstice

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Dripmaps - Rose palette I'm at an early stage in a long project to paint all 17 palettes of the Rose Blitmap family in oils on the same canvas.

Over Christmas I started on 'Rose Moderator' in navy, red and white. I really like reviewing the journey this canvas has been on so far. When all 17 palettes are finished it will be so tall and the layers of oil on it will be very thick. This latest one is drying, and I will probably glaze it after that. So I'll only be ready to mint it in three weeks or so. In its previous forms, Rose is available for sale, Rose MeltMan is held by revraS, Rose Reset is held by flashrekt.

[bluretina]

‘B + E + A + T + O + N’ 💀💨🔥

Editions now available on OBJKT! 👈

WHEN IT'S DARK,

WHEN IT'S LIGHT,

WHEN IT'S AFTER MIDNIGHT!

WHEN YOU ARE LOST,

WHEN YOU FIND IT,

WHEN ALL STOPS,

WHEN NOTHING STOPS,

JUST FOLLOW IT.

THE BEAT. (((🫀)))

2400 x 2400 px .GIF / BLURETINA 2022

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Watcher 89

This is the 13th in my Dripmap series - a painting of the Blitmap, Watcher, in watercolour and ink. Watcher was created by Dom Hofmann as an on-chain 32x32 pixel piece. Dom's piece has this sinister immediacy that is a challenge to recapture. The imagery of a figure silhouetted in the doorway, a halo of strange green light, an ambiguity of rescue and capture.

I minted this painting as an NFT on ethereum in September 2021. It is currently available for sale.

All Blitmap artwork is licensed under CC0 and is free to use, remix, appropriate or steal.

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Immature Purple Heron Diorama (2021)

A portrait of a taxidermied bird in watercolours, with digital embellishments. It is possibly one of my favourite of my own paintings.

It was minted on the gloriously indie ScreenSaver World, on the Polygon blockchain. There was a beautiful run of months where an amazing Chilean man called Felirami held weekly auctions over Discord and CryptoVoxels where fresh artworks were sold. The indie art scene that was nourished by the overspill of the NFT explosion has been cut back now, but I believe it is only resting.

[cryptopom]

On protesting.

I'm really proud of my latest piece, and I FINALLY have the space where I can really go into depth about it, so let's hit it.

So, I'm half Chilean, and half Scottish, and to be honest, both of these cultures have a fairly extensive history of civil unrest (in different ways). While in Chile, we had Pinochet's military dictatorship, in Scotland, we are currently seeking independence from under England's heel (obviously depending on who you ask, of course, but I'm fairly sure that after next year's IndyRef, the world will see Scotland's discontent).

Now, I happen to suffer from both panic disorder and agoraphobia (the two are inexorably linked, ofc, and stem from the same roots). As such, active protesting (out in the streets like a badass) isn't the easiest for me.

But you know what comes easily to me? ART.

And for fuck's sake: Art can be protest. Art can be revolutionary. Art can spark movements. Art can inspire and art can condemn. But gah, trying to sound poetic always makes me laugh, because WHO TALKS LIKE THAT, hahahaha. You get me, though. Hopefully.

In any case, this piece is digitally illustrated, but I actually experimented with some AI-generated (Midjourney) background elements to create the chaotic, riotous feeling. In Chile, you can often smell tear gas on the streets when times are rough, and I wanted to evoke that mood, of a young woman caught up in a righteous protest.

So, what is she protesting? Take your goddamn pick. It would be easier to ask what my imaginary character ISN'T protesting, given the current global circumstances.

Thanks for reading. God, it's fun to be able to discuss my work in long-form like this!

"Protest" can be found over at SuperRare (clicky clicky for link), for a reserve price of 2.6 $ETH.

[anoakeye]

VOXEL TOMB

cryptombs.rip

[crypt0warr10r]

"THE CURSE"

250/250 0.005 ETH

MANIFOLD CLAIM

LInk below ⤵️⤵️⤵️

The Curse - Abstract acrylic and spray paint on canvas. 4000 x 3000 px, Crypto Art NFT.

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Daily Bag: 119

Her body pulled along by the Ring’s inexhaustible sense of justice, While her mind lingers on the wars she almost won Back when she was splendid. Her club is wearing down to a nub And the locket containing her mother’s hair Has not been opened for years. -- Loot is licensed under cc0

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RealmsFolk

Four charcoal portraits made for Thomas Radio's upcoming RealmsFolk project. This will be a collection of 500 ordinary folk that inhabit the Realms of the world of Loot.

I'm mostly drawing these from photographs I've found among the excellent Smithsonian Open Access archive. It is an absolute treasure trove.

[crypt0warr10r]

My work is on TV!!!

On the NFT Shopping Network Channel 🔥 🔥🔥

Thank you so much!!

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Jupiter Jamboree.

I have been commissioned to paint Jupiter twice. Both paintings were based on the 'Jupiter' Blitmap, a 32x32 on-chain pixel art piece originally created by Totally. The first was 'Jupiter Overloaded,' and the second was 'Jupiter Hillside.' One of the features of the Blitmap project was that people could mix the composition of an Original Blitmap (the Jupiter piece) with the palette of another, in this case, Overloaded and then Hillside.

My 'Jupiter Overloaded' Dripmap painting was minted as an NFT in August 2021, a commission for NiftyPins. 'Jupiter Hillside' was minted in October 2021 for mrhammn. Throughout early 2022 I experimented with DeepDream to breed both Jupiter paintings with other paintings I had made. I assembled these experiments into an animation, with added moons and original music by Raiments. I minted that animation as a short film in April 2022 under the name 'Jupiter Jamboree.' All Blitmap designs and art are licensed under CC0, available for anyone to use, remix, reinterpret or steal. My three pieces here are just a scratch on the surface of that idea.

[foodmasku]

Orange you glad I didn't start with a banana?

🍊🎃🥬

The internet knows me best as foodmasku. I make meals into masks and then eat them. This is my official foodmasku tumblr. You're welcome.

[maxcapacity]

THEY WERE INVOLVED IN THEIR COMMUNITY. (by Max Capacity +)