a mixed media piece i made way back when. 2009? 2010? have i been making art that long??? this was for a gallery show at PhilaMOCA in philadelphia, when they first started doing their Eraserhood Forever shows? I put a few pieces in over the years, but this one is special because the gallery bought it from me, and (while i dont know this for certain) i think they had it up on display when David Lynch dropped by.
This was a shadowbox i got from a thrift store, and i printed out the eraserhead baby and mounted it inside the shadowbox. (cant remember if i made it dimensional at all) I scrawled the Fresh Prince joke with a paint marker on the striped backer board.
i definitely lose and rediscover this file year after year after year
Enjoy this crunchy filtered photograph of this piece i just touched up. I'm going to a bunch of indie shows mania weekend; this is ideally going to be gifted.
I heard Tumblr is training AI on all its user data and uploads, which would include all artworks.
I'm not a popular artist, i don't make merchandise or run a store, this is a hobby for me. I work mostly off photographs, but still i am loathe to even passively contribute to such a disgusting waste of energy and resources for the next worthless trend in art and technology.
I work off my phone and laptop, both of which are backed up by google (and no doubt already scraped by their ai), so using glaze or nightshade would be too much work for me. Along with that, i am extremely wary of uploading my work to another program; who knows what they could do with it when they change their plans.
I'm so tired of social media anyway. My father passed back in January and being on any of these platforms anymore runs me ragged twice as fast now. I don't have the patience to enjoy what i used to; seeing other people talk about these things gets me frustrated, i think less usage in general would be good for me.
I heard artfol banned all ai content from their app. Who knows how long this will last, but there are no ads and no traffic, i can drop my shit and go. I'm kinda loving that.
I'd like to keep posting here, but i can't promise anything. I haven't been nearly as productive as i was, and honestly i don't have the passion to create right now.
Anyway, this is largely a note to myself, since i doubt anyone else would scroll this far, but whatevs
i wasn't going to do this for a few reasons. i didn't want to "unmask" so to speak, but also ive had to ask a lot of charity already here, & im not nearly as active as i wanna be. all that said things are rough & tumbling with our move to chicago. so a friend made a gofundme for us (&wrote the description for us), so im finally gonna post it here. asking for help, reblogging does wonders. thank you.
a mixed media piece i made way back when. 2009? 2010? have i been making art that long??? this was for a gallery show at PhilaMOCA in philadelphia, when they first started doing their Eraserhood Forever shows? I put a few pieces in over the years, but this one is special because the gallery bought it from me, and (while i dont know this for certain) i think they had it up on display when David Lynch dropped by.
This was a shadowbox i got from a thrift store, and i printed out the eraserhead baby and mounted it inside the shadowbox. (cant remember if i made it dimensional at all) I scrawled the Fresh Prince joke with a paint marker on the striped backer board.
i definitely lose and rediscover this file year after year after year
tooting my own horn here/brainstorming, i keep seeing pepsi brand guidelines posted on one of the design accounts i follow on threads (logo archive? cant remember right now) and i think it would be sick as fuck to get my hands on one of those and just decoupage a bunch of punk sketches in blue and red like these all over it and turn it into an upcycled fan book or something- or even if i had a bunch of pepsi print ads that i could work on top of. weird extra shit like that keeps me up at night
ohh lookie loo a pdf of something similar
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Pepsi by the Pepsi-cola Design Group, 1997
Discover this and other brands at brandarchive.xyz
Design Threads
here's what inspired me, the PEPSI RULES at the top sent me into overdrive
I have a lot going on currently, and it's been difficult to do anything art related. I get notes for this occasionally, and it pushed me to dust off this sketchbook and lose myself in some mindless rendering for a minute.
i'm broke and have hospital bills to pay. in better news, i'm selling art!
sketches and small drawings on paper, size ranging from 5x5 cm to an A4 sheet. various mediums. price ranging from $10 to $30 US.
example pieces:
[image ID: six drawings in pen, oils, pencil and watercolours, three in each image. they are all relatively realistic. /.End ID]
disclaimer: being sketches, many of these pieces have miscellaneous text on the backside and/or were not painted on the highest quality paper. these sorts of issues will be handled on a case-by-case basis.
illustrations from my new skin for the old ceremony project, each the size of an A4 sheet. various mediums. price ranging from $35 to $50 US.
example pieces:
[image ID: four drawings in pen and oils, two in each image. each piece contains an illustration and sone handwritten text - the lyrics to the songs from new skin for the old ceremony. /.End ID]
larger paintings. oil on glass (approx. 70x100 cm), oil & watercolour on paper (100x140 cm), oil on embossed metal plate (approx. 55cm diameter). prices in the $200-$250 US range.
[image ID: an oil painting of two grappling figures, painted on a window. /.End ID]
[image ID: a watercolour and oil painting of two bare Chested figures, one lying down and the other kneeling. /.End ID]
[image ID: an oil portrait of Jon Moxley, painted on an embossed metal plate. /.End ID]
if you are interested in any of the above, feel free to contact me through tumblr DMs, email at [email protected], or discord at tzaraat. i'll show you which pieces are available, and provide all necessary information.
disclaimer: much of my work is done on medium-low quality substrates (i don't like dropping entire paychecks on supplies, and i am no longer in school) or on found objects (like the window and plate). in addition, i often work on improperly primed or entirely unprimed substrates, or experiment with paint chemistry and the likes. as such, i can't really guarantee archivability. if any painting seems to me particularly fragile, i will disclose it and we can discuss what should be done with it.
i'm open to negotiation re: pricing and the like. feel free to contact me even if you can't afford it right now, and would like me to reserve a piece for a later date.
i also have a ko-fi:
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