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Cathal
@cathalpaint.bsky.social
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Artist, member of KIAC, Artcan. Hairy, northern Irish, loves hugs, shit puns, donkeys and ducks. Currently searching for good local friends, and community. Posts about things and art 🎨
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Glitchrait
On a rare night out in the Alder in neepsend. I dont mean the night is rare. It might be i dont know. It more that my nights out don't happen very often anymore.
I will have fun it is inveitable.
Stripy colourful glitch of my face.
January 30, 2026 at 7:33 PM
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Studio fun. Freezing fun. Cold cold cold paint won't dry , it might freeze but it won't dry fun. In other news selfie are hard.
A shot of my studio. I sit mid frame in two pairs of overalls. My head is missing. Cut off the top of the frame. Around the studio a few paintings can be seen. It's almost like a game of how many hexagons can you see.
January 29, 2026 at 10:03 AM
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Fluff Dino chonks to lighten your day.
An illustration of chonky fluffy dinosaurs. Text reads. Study reveals dinosaurs were fluffier, more bird like and chubbier than movies suggest.
January 26, 2026 at 10:23 PM
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An illustration of chonky fluffy dinosaurs. Text reads. Study reveals dinosaurs were fluffier, more bird like and chubbier than movies suggest.
January 26, 2026 at 10:21 PM
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Currently I'm really really stupidly chuffed with this. I sometimes forget how capable I can be. Despite my inability to get a clean run at things I can still impress myself.
#hexglyph
#labyrinth
#wip
A complex maze labyrinth like. Hexaglyphs, rest over the top in hues of red, yellow, gray and white It is still in progress. A hexglyph is a hexagon shaped cypher based around binary. A white path winds through the hexagons.
January 21, 2026 at 11:36 AM
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Blocks unnumbered
A4 pen on isometric graph paper.
These are not planned, just doodles. Doodles that are becoming a mindful practice. Breath work and number focus. I should look in to the traditions of meditative art creation.
#blocks dividual and individual in harmony.
#klee #doodle #sketchbook
Blocks unnumbered A4 pen on isometric graph paper. The image shows a complex composition of blocks. The outlines of the blocks are mainly orientated along the 60° axis of the isometric graph lines. There are 3 surfaces or faces. Flat or 'top' , left face and right face. The image is not intended to be viewed in any particular orientation. Each of the surfaces or faces have hatching on them. This helps to both distinguish the faces and add a layer of complexity. Some areas are left blank. These are restful to me. Whilst creating I think of Paul Klee and his dividual and individual theory. Mildly of MC Escher though my geometry is not impossible. It relates to Piranesi , his gargantuan impossible prisons and labyrinths. To the images from my childhood from childcraft encyclopedia. To binaries and computer architecture. My mind wants to wander its pathways. Im thinking now of digital cuthulu mythos and digital old gods.
January 11, 2026 at 4:06 PM
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More doodles. These are isometric and hexglyph ideas.
Ask if you're curious. Don't if you're not or if you are a cloud of metal shards from a future as yet unrelated.
Tired crashing hard.
Iso metric block drawing. Pencil on A4 isometric graph paper. Complex and busy. Hexglyph plan or composition A collection of hexagons. Each hexagons is of different sizes. They have some sections shaded in forming concentric rings of hexagons with in each. If translated this can be read. More Hexglyph ideas. This is in pen , and works as a more '3D' series of Hexglyphs. More complex to translate but still possible.
January 4, 2026 at 12:54 PM
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Only one resolution from me. Just to aim to try my best to be better than the day before, in whatever im doing.
Today I'm excelling in being very very tired.
I did doodle over the jingly season.
10 min marker drawing of Dangerous Clive, shortbread tin and a glass. The shortbread tin is devoid of detail. The colours used are gold, crimson and blue. Not much to add. A detail shot of the previous drawing. I just liked the shspes of the masses.
January 4, 2026 at 12:35 PM
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Not true my word of the year comes from Toto of Formula 1
"Determinated"
This year I shall be
determinated
#determinated
Word you land on is your word for 2026. Let's go. Green background White text your 2026 word Black text center. "Mid"
January 2, 2026 at 3:59 AM
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#HappyNewFriday

Message of hope for the upcoming 200+ days
December 31, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Bouse ummmm thesaurus are you having a AI moment?!

Best i could come up with is 'blivion
Which is cheating, but better than the nonsense the online thesaurus spewed
Bouse and Sleep Related words mutual synonyms Bouse Bouse verb Haul with a tackle. Show all Definitions Synonyms for Bouse Sleep and bouse are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Sleep" instead a verb "Bouse". Sleep Sleep verb To be in a state of sleep. Show all Definitions Synonyms for Sleep Antonyms for Sleep *** I have my suspicions this site has had AI 'help'. I can't work out how , haul with tackle even conceptually resembles to be in a state of sleep.
November 27, 2025 at 9:27 PM
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Major reconfiguration happening at my face. I say major. I mean ive cut my hair, shaved and trimmed my face fur.

Today is difficult. This made me feel a bit better, but hasn't dealt with the issues.

Stuff below. Ill take 10 to write my woes out and then get on with the things.
Hair and beard clippings on brown laminate flooring The clippings are arranged in to a rough selfportrait. No eyes or mouth. As I decided they were to fiddly. Maybe that also says something about me. Actual photo of my face. Truthfully. I think i look sad with a hint of a smile. But a forlone one. I'm really feeling my isolation today.
November 27, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The Gazette here is railing the Joker's boner. In response, the Joker is pounding the gazette...
Old DC comic panels of the Joker. The Joker is angry that the newspaper is mocking his mistake. They call it a bones. The Joker is shown thumping the newspaper Text in the first panels MEANWHILE, AT THE JOKER'S HIDEOUT... S0.! THEY LAUGH AT MY BONER, WILL THEY?! I'LL SHOW THEM! I'LL SHOW THEM HOW MANY BONERS THE JOKER CAN MAKE The newspaper the Joker is pounding (pun intended fnar fnar) GAZETTE CHORTLE.... AT JOKER'S BONER In the second panel the Joker's face is set in a black circle against a purple background Text is THIS EMPHASIS ON BONERS HAS GIVEN ME AN IDEA FOR A NEW ADVENTURE IN CRIME! GOTHAM CITY WILL RUE THE DAY IT MENTIONED THE WORD BONER!
November 19, 2025 at 10:24 PM
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There are 4 types of guys online no exceptions
Image if the inside of a 5 guys restaurant. The text says FIVE GUYS. in white on red
November 19, 2025 at 5:28 PM
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Picture a church. In ser picture of a person in a sheet . Text reads "MAN HAS BEEN FINED FOR PRETENDING TO BE A GHOST AND SHOUTING 'WOOO' AT PEOPLE IN A CEMETERY"
November 17, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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Looking at this post like
November 12, 2025 at 7:41 AM
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Not the best meme, just the one at the top.
Split photo. Top half shows a child in a blue checked shirt. Laid on the ground a boot is squashing his face. The bottom reveals that the child has placed his own arm in the boot and is squishing his own face. Lesson on selective information or seeing the whole picture. How the media shows x y z to support their bias. So on so on so on
November 12, 2025 at 7:38 AM
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These are a few images of the life drawing done on Wednesday night.
#lifedrawing ✏️
#practice
2x 5 minute charcoal studies from life. A 21 minute study from life. With a roughed in block building behind. A 21 minute study from life in charcoal on newsprint
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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Some work from yesterday on my hexglyph labyrinth.
The first image shows a section that bamboozled me. The rest are detail shots and an overview.

#painting 🖌🎨
#hexglyph #hexcypher #labyrinth
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A close up of a section of my painting. Id just about finished for the day when I realised the section pictured was stuck in a loop. I had to reconnect it to the wider labyrinth. My brain found this difficult as it had dropped out of my arse for the day A white line wriggles over blue hexagon segments. The line is roughly painted on. A close up of a 3 ring hexglyph. The paint work is much neater but still needs some refinement. A white line wriggles through hexagon segments painted in dar and plae blue the background is a pale warm brown. The board is scored in lines that have the internal angles of a hexagon. A wider view of a problem area with the path of the labyrinth loosely painted in. th/tr/j/ct/ry/v/rt/m//sp/s/t/v/ 60cm x 60 cm Oil on board An overview of the days progress. Showing the whole painting.
November 8, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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This morning the world seems to be burning and fighting on. I guess it's the same as it ever was.
I am about to start into my hexglyph paintings.
Details in the alt text
The title just reminded me of hope.
#writingasart
#painting 🎨🖌
#wip
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th/tr/j/ct/ry/v/t/m//sp/s/t/v/ 60 cm x 60 cm oil on mdf 6 hexagons on a pale seinna background. The hexagons are mainly painted in blue hues. Segments of each hexagons contain a complex line that takes a single path through the hexagons. The line is partly painted and partly drawn in white chalk on charcoal. The whole image is a cypher. The line passes through the '1's of a binary code. Part of a series of six.
November 7, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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Image of 3 van pedals as found in a manual transmission. Stick drive for my American friends. The pedals are labeled from left to right as VAN CLUTCH VAN STOP and a picture of VAN GOGH
November 3, 2025 at 11:58 PM
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All we are is shadows and suds...
November 2, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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If you see this, post a vampire who isn't Dracula
October 30, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Everyone needs to now and then. Especially at the moment *waves hand at world

But there are also donkeys
October 27, 2025 at 10:05 AM
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October 23, 2025 at 6:25 AM