below are a handful of vertical paintings i think represent this period. nobody clicks past the homepage, so that’s probably all you get

i painted 6 or 7 days a week for several years and was rather prolific during this time, fueled by a breakup that led to a dwi (0.09 bac, it happens). wake up & paint, do the work thing, come home & paint some more. don’t know that everything i produced was worthy of your attention but you can view more of my designs in my art postcard section or my prints section [NOTE: trying to monetize work is hard so i set everything out of stock]

this was really a period of exploration. you know when you grow your hair out (if you have), and there is that ugly stage where it doesn’t look good, but you just have to plow through it. that’s what some of these felt like, people putting obstacles in my path, me adding chips to my shoulder, looking back these years removed. in 2011 i probably had some impostor syndrome we all read about and have to plow through

maybe your muse got lost at the factory? do the work, that’s what i tell myself

not as into photographing one off plates (seen below), though those look nice. mostly i’m working on creating oil wheels and other custom analog effects, trying to find a style that is a little bit different than everyone else. my favorite part about this liquid stuff specifically, unlike painting etc, it doesn’t feel competitive. all the lighting guys i’ve ever met have been competitive, but not projectionists. look up liquid projectionists on instagram if you don’t believe me, i don’t have interest in social media but it’s really inspiring

i don’t even like these paintings. i came incredibly close to murdering myself in june of 2017, if not for some creative outlet who knows. the persons who these paintings are directed at are fully aware how their actions have and continue to impact me and that is what the are getting out of it

what's up with the drippers b?

these are individual, affordable, art pieces. some people think they are toys and that don’t bother me none. i never advertised them as toys or mass marketed them. many were custom color requests for someone on the spectrum. some people think i just copied an idea off the shelf

I would like to bring this back in a limited capacity, with a revamped formula using the original version i had. i think i have videos on vimeo, i have just one beta version left i’ll show what i mean. some of them were leaking due to the chemistry, it was literally eating the glue seams, but it had a more interesting design initially. there were two colors on each top, but the middle section remained clear and was fully immiscible with both the water element (bottom) and the oils (top), so you had 4 colors, but with the clear space, it was more visually interesting. i’ll sort this out it’s a truly novel idea

my ultimate ambition was to create a liquid kaleidoscope and i have been consistent about this. i’m not going to dedicate my life to filling pieces of plastic with mineral oil but i would like to do another run, raise a few thousand dollars for some anti-bullying charity. if you have a child on the spectrum, you know all about bullying

i only made about what you see here. i like the idea of working with this medium, everyone is doing the pour thing which looks really amazing, i want to do something intentional, incorporate dichroic glass, microbeads, microglitters, tiny translucent marbles & such under layers of shifting colors. if you look at the second from the left, it is embedded with various sizes of iridescent marbles and all sorts of glitter between the layers, it really captivates attention. it doesn’t photograph well, but i think these are nice

i haven’t worked on too many portraits yet, but i do want to separate paintings and more than just by year. i’m starting a series of Virginia landscapes, that i would keep separate, but i feel like these aren’t necessarily the same as abstract stuff

i don’t care for live music anymore, what a timesink, but i like this idea. what i wanted to do was get a big old welders tank of co2, and then use that to recreate concerts, as they are happening, using airpaint sprayers. i’m not sure how to create some of the effects without using spraypaints, with ink washes you can get some gradient but it won’t capture a concert setting

this was a semi-regular project where i tried to post new stuff every friday, the point being to force myself into a pattern. with the advent of ai generated art, kind of seems silly. i thought about messing with that, but it’s more of a curation process of how many adjectives and messed up backwards ways i can get some computer to create something. that seems phoned in. i am however using stablediffusion to give me ideas of portraits. i have multiple images i want to re-create, eventually. i talk a good game but i got too many ideas

All of my "fractals" are released under a 4.0 attribution-noncommercial creative commons

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