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chiarascuro
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Artist, writer, accessibility editor, founder of dark mode press. #LGBTQ #ActuallyAutistic #Resist
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Beehives
#Art #Watercolor #Acrylic #Scratchboard #Illustration
Oblique view of a row of beehives against a green textured background. Bees are seen gathering near the hive in the middle.
July 1, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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A Good Person (The Human Spectacle)

#Art #Abstract #TextArt #Scratchboard #DigitalArt
Black and white abstract scratchboard drawing, vaguely resembling a landscape, digitally manipulated to add illegible handwritten text to create texture in the upper 3/4 of the canvas. The bottom is dark gray with black scribbling. Noise has been added to give it a grainy quality.
July 1, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Magic February (Love Machine Shorts #1)
#Art #BlueSkyArtShow #DigitalArt #Illustration
Nighttime landscape with big, bright stars rendered in roughg concentric circles, over a small red house with yellow light in the window. There is a road with a driveway leading to a dirt parking spot next to the house, where there is a purple car with white racing stripes with the hood open.
June 28, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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It Looked Like an Accident (the human spectacle)
#Art #Painting #Acrylic #Abstract
The background is white glaze over a mostly blue background. On the left, a dark blue shape with red accents connects with a blue trail, suggesting skid marks behind a a vehicle. On the right, there is a red oval around a blue patch of underpainting with a larger form underneath it in red, yellow, and blue. Both are connected to the form on the left with broken lines. Composition was made by selective glazing.
June 27, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Unseeing (Revival)
#Art #Portrait #Sketchbook #DigitalArt
Distorted portrait of individual in pastels and white, with indistinct features. Background is in muted shades of blue and violet.
June 26, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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The Challenge (Revival)
#Art #Acrylic #Painting #DigitalArt
It started life as a dropcloth, then as a backdrop. Red dominates a battle with green, yellow, and blue. The conflict is framed in a red glaze on the top and right sides and a white glaze on the left. The midground is composed of drips, smears, and incidental marks.
June 25, 2025 at 12:21 PM
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Running (Revival)
#Art #Acrylic #Painting
Highly stylized cartoonish figure in red, running across a meadow with a big hill in the background. Its arms are flung out to the sides, and it has rectangular eyes with Xs. The sky starts with orange on the left and transitions into light pink and then dark pink on the right. The ground on the left is green with rough features marked in dark blue, transitioning into orange and abutting a section of blue.
June 23, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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Pretty Girl (Revival)
#Art #BlueSkyArtShow #Abstract #DigitalArt #Acrylic #Painting
Orange and red color field with many colors visible underneath, including blue, purple, and green.
June 14, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Phthalo Blue Persuasion (Revival)
#Art #BlueskyArt #Acrylic #Painting #Abstract #DigitalArt
Background mostly blue broken by dark marks. Near the middle, a vertical swath of red with a small orange region, broken by the same dark marks and white and yellow highlights.
June 14, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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Oh, the Humanity! (Revival)
#Art #BlueskyArt #Painting #Abstract #DigitalArt
Irregular, vertical columns of violet, red, and yellow against a muted background mottled with faint colors. They resemble trees with horizontal runs cutting dark lines across parts of the canvas.
June 14, 2025 at 1:42 AM
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Naughty #9 (Revival)
This is a tribute to Schoolhouse Rock.

#Art #BlueskyArt #Painting #Abstract #DigitalArt
A nebulous "galaxy" of green, yellow, blue, and red color fields competing for their place in the center of the canvas. Blue wins. Broken shapes in various colors, created by incidental marks from the brush painting over the edge of irregularly shaped stencils.
June 12, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Magnitude 9 (Revival)
#Art #BlueskyArt #Abstract #Painting #DigitalArt
The composition is formed by angular brush marks in black, yellow, blue, and green over a red background, layered over each other between glazes of red and white scumbling. The broken color in areas with a lot of white are interrupted by a vertical column of red and are capped by a horizontal area of broken black, with two small bursts of orange at the upper left corner.
June 11, 2025 at 12:05 PM
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Love and Gravity (Revival)
#BlueskyArt #Art #Painting #Watercolor #DigitalArt
Abstract with a streaky blue color field on the top and a red one at the bottom. Lettering painted in a dark tone is partly obscured. The words "I'm not", "for" and "you" are sloppy, but still legible. There is block lettering barely visible at the bottom.
June 11, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Locked Up For a Minute (Revival)
#Art #Painting #Acrylic #Abstract #DigitalArt
A cacophony of colors, as this abstract painting began life as a dropcloth. Streaks, blobs, runs, drips, and smears of every color compete for attention on the canvas.
June 10, 2025 at 1:11 AM
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Incandescent (Revival)
#Art #Watercolor #Painting #DigitalArt
The top third of the canvas is a dark pink wash blotted away at the right, leaving areas of other faded colors and white. The upper left is taken up by a circle with a horizontal red streak through it, which continues to the right and off the edge. The top half of the circle is yellow with partially legible lettering in burnt orange. The letters "itc" in blue overlap the middle and right edge of the circle. The bottom half of the circle has blue at the top with the orange background filling in the bottom above the red outline. Other letters and words are visible in the background.
June 9, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Hidden (Revival)
#BlueskyArt #Art #Painting #Acrylic #DigitalArt
The background is rendered in mostly vertical brush strokes in pale yellow on the left and burnt orange on the right. There are several abstracted humanoid forms in various poses outlined in dark blue and partly filled in with lighter blue. They seem to be in a transitional state between non-being and being.
June 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Here's To Something (Revival)
#Art #Watercolor #Painting #DigitalArt
Abstract in shades of oranges and reds, made by covering a wet watercolor wash with a piece of plastic wrap and allowing it to dry. The areas where red pigment has collected reveals creases where the plastic wrap was not in contact with the surface of the paper. Three prominent orange forms were left untouched by red pigment, one roughly in the shape of a martini glass.
June 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Evil Tree (Revival)
#Art #Painting #Acrylics #DigitalArt
Evil-looking face on the trunk of a tree with huge, trapezoid-shaped red eyes. The grinning mouth is lipless, lined with a row of sharp teeth.
June 7, 2025 at 11:40 AM
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Another Twin Peaks blind contour.
#Drawing
Line drawing on notebook paper. There is a scribbled out 3-item list on the left. On the right there is an extremely distorted character sketch done without looking at the paper.
June 7, 2025 at 1:32 AM
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Composition in Quinacridone Magenta
#Art #Painting #Watercolor #Acrylic #DigitalArt
Mostly magenta background with hints of blue and orange underneath and rough smudges of white. Four haphazardly drawn globes that look like eyeballs line the canvas from left to right across the upper third of the composition. They are unevenly dispersed and unequal sizes. The ones on the far left and far right appear to be looking directly at the viewer. The third one from the left looks upward.
June 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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It's time to take back our country from authoritarianism and corruption.

On June 14, we're coming together to say No Kings in America.

Let's GO! This is OUR country.
June 5, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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The GOP's priorities are clear: tax cuts for the wealthy over basic services for working families. They're willing to slash Medicaid and food assistance just to give billionaires another handout.
#TrumpsBillWillKill
June 5, 2025 at 8:59 PM
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Reminder that Republicans don't care about YOU - only their billionaire donors.

#TrumpsBillWillKill
June 5, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Trump promised to "drain the swamp" but instead he's filling it with billionaire buddies who are getting a FREE RIDE on the backs of working people! The GOP tax scam is a betrayal of the American people!

#TrumpsBillWillKill
June 5, 2025 at 8:57 PM
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Chaos is Not Disorder (Revival)
#Art #Painting #DigitalArt #Abstract
Background resembles a light red-violet sky with nebulous lighter clouds giving way to a lower atmosphere of light orange. Nine rough, partially filled in circles in various shades of red and orange with narrow, empty ellipses underneath make up the foreground.
June 5, 2025 at 1:17 PM