Rich Pickins
axiomatixx.bsky.social
Rich Pickins
@axiomatixx.bsky.social
🇦🇺🇨🇦🗽Random humanoid and artist, Painter of purdy pictures, professional malcontent&amateur whinger.Adhd, PTSD spectrumy, cancer survivor ,weed enjoyer& advocate of sillyness.
@buckwheatnjehosaphat on threads, insta
Social justice /disability/art&stuff
#canberra
The weather here has been so rubbish, nearly blew my beanie off yesterday 😑 Makes what to wear a crapshoot, but Im not looking forward to the heat exactly either. These monster trees in civic would be just the ticket for a backyard, I've got a balcony garden, 🏡,not exactly homesteading🫠
November 12, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Been taking an extended ADHD break from painting, as in, well just haven't. Busy 🫠bit of inspiration, some of the great pics ive taken over a few years, so cool to just be able to do that with a phone so easily.
Remember the 90's? When the first digital cameras were shit?
October 29, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Nice job! I saw this dramatic wildlife scene at a roadside stop, took a pic and felt compelled to try and paint it, this is the result -ant vs caterpillar!!
Can you feel the tension? 😦
October 23, 2025 at 7:47 AM
So , hopefully this coming week I'll actually finish a painting, wouldn't that be something! 😂
#adhd #ptsd
Id love to make a start on some new ones, i don't know how i get anything done. I start heaps of paintings, yet never seem to finish any, and yet ive a stack of beautiful finished paintings 🦥
September 12, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Scored some free jade plants, awesome!! Only thing I've been able to grow reliably is another crsssula ive got. And scored some dirt cheap stencil brushes, never used them. But I'm hoping to solve an issue with dabbing coverage . All very technical and painty you know. 🤨
#paintingtechnique
September 11, 2025 at 11:48 AM
Geezuz, dicky knee's back, and hes grown a hand!
On the bloomin leugue coverage no less. Well, there ya go 😜
#dickyknee #nrl #jonathanthurstonisadag
September 6, 2025 at 9:29 AM
Picked up these albums today, sweeeet. Best of sabbath, rip Ozzie, and The black Keys el camino, which ive heard good things about; noice. #classicalbums #ozzie #blackkeys
Also included, some pics of the light reflecting like demonic eyes off the cover, just because it's so damn appropriate.🤘
September 6, 2025 at 9:24 AM
👉 Straya.
Some of this shit needs to change.
Seriously .ibs gotta go for a start. They are traitors now.
I haven't been to Parliament house at night, but it wouldn't surprise me one bit if the neon coat of arms blinked or fizzed, or had a section out like those dodgy looking massage places.
September 3, 2025 at 11:49 AM
On the easels, block in of #Canberracroquetclub , basically finished #sunrise @ #tednoffsparkcooms , and a couple others, update stuff later anyway 😜 and me in front of an epically seen better days tree. Why not just remove it, it will never look any good after that can it? #treesurgery
August 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Absolute sunrise craziness, ripper this morning, had it all. Even better, the mist diffused the light so well i got foreground colour and extended light to take pics.
August 26, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Got some magic sunrise shots this morning 🌄 so good. Just on soec to, just opening a blind because its that time of day, voila, our the door with my phone 🤳 sweet 😊 now that's a good start 🙂
August 25, 2025 at 9:14 PM
And here's when it did fish out the solids, finding room for the broccoli and mushrooms. And it's spectacular, i think. Noice ! 🤤
August 20, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Oh, and the latest crop of paintings on the easel 😛 forgot about that somewhat. And pain meds. Not passion meds. Wtf. Aaargh. And heres another bewt slow cooked delicacy. Lamb strips, fennel, , sweet potato ,fav herbs and spices.
I'll fish out the solids and add mushrooms & broccoli&dal.
August 17, 2025 at 1:39 AM
Up at 3.30am, been a regular thing for a while now. No idea how that happened, but it actually works ok for me! Decaf, sit in my comfy chair, ponder stuff, consider going back to bed, to up my passion meds, which admittedly may be why I'm getting up mostly. Still plenty of rest of seems.
August 16, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Did someone say, lovely sky colours? 🫠😃 I get to wake up to this view every morning.
Sooo good 😊
August 14, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Maybe it's just me, but I'm not so sure native animal squeaky dog toys, really send the right message.
Yet another ripper sunrise this morning, so good. Current works in my studio, moving along, slowly but surely. 🫠 feeling good 👍#acrylicpainting #artstudio #sunrise #Brindabellas
August 5, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Got out this morning for a recon trip tuggeranong, and a neat pic from my window 🫠 sweet
July 20, 2025 at 6:51 AM
Came across these. Silicon oven mittens, absolutely fantastic!
Not for the oven so much, but for my left hand, which has a degree of #lymphoedema .i was just putting a damn xl glass sandwich bag over it, aaaaand let me tell you, that sucks and is a rubbish solution. This, will work a treat 🫠@Coles
July 20, 2025 at 6:45 AM
On the shadow of "king George" , from the citizens of Australia, celebrating his "reign" no less.
A statue of making who didn't want to be a king, overlooking a people who didn't want one, by a people whom also didn't want one. Yet his statue still stands, in all its impotence and absurdity.
July 11, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Today's flag report, yup still there. Just filthy weather early this morning, no way is very the pics I was after, which is fine, want feeling up to it anyway 🫠
So the flag pole itself is lopsided, due to me, but I'm intrigued how large sections, structural elements , vanish before my eyes 👇
July 10, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Sweet, what a game, Maroons first conversion. Intense, and only going to get more intense by the looks.
Latrelle Mitchell has looked ominous already I think.
July 9, 2025 at 10:31 AM
These pics are from the aboriginal #tentembassy in #canberra , a long standing, and long completely illegal and unrecognised but tolerated I guess, testament to the utter bastardry of our, and various other "governments" and their traditions. 👇
July 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
And here's me, standing in front of various things around the old parliament house lawns, turns out there's some pretty drab and genteel areas for doing various very little things adjacent to the old house. Tennis courts, grape vines, rotunda variations, a croquet or bowling green by the looks. 👇
July 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
Got out getting some pictures this morning, very foggy. Very. Looking toward civic, and some of old parliament house, was hoping for a dramatic pic of mt Ainslie appearing through the mist, but not quite.
July 5, 2025 at 10:40 AM
And here, is #mtarapiles #rockclimbing #rockclimbingvictoria #kachoong , an iconic "Raps" climb.
June 28, 2025 at 9:57 AM