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The Mighty Kräcken
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Oregonian.
I can make a whistle out of a piece of grass
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Me, after the brainwashing session
October 18, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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What's on your canvas?
An acrylic painting on canvas, a work in progress. Two on the road, one bending down, and one kneeling on either side of a third man lying in his back with his knees up and his arms folded over his head. He has blood on his abdomen. To the left is a bicycle on its side also in the road. In the upper part of the canvas is the support for an overpass on the right, and on the left is some greenery and another overpass, under which a building can be seen.
October 8, 2025 at 5:14 AM
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No shit?
Breaking news: Michigan church attacker is said to have held a grudge against Mormons
September 30, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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I might not say anything if I'm ever working in a creepy old basement, but there will be signs.
My face, next to a red sign that says, "WATCH YOUR STEP" If you can read this sign, you have already missed several important steps. The HELP button in the elevator of The Grand Theater.
September 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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A screenshot of Kash Patel with a nameplate in the foreground that says, "Hon. Kash Patel." "Hon." has been crossed out.
September 17, 2025 at 5:33 AM
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The man who shot Charlie Kirk couldn't be bothered to vote but picked up a gun instead. This isn't how any of this works.

There are no heroes here.
Nicholas Bogel-Burroughs Reporting on criminal justice The 22-year-old man accused of assasinating Charlie Kirk was listed in Utah voting records as unaffiliated with a political party. The records noted that he was considered "inactive," suggesting that he did not vote in the November presidential election, the first since he turned 18.
September 12, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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A line drawing of a person. They hold an egg in their hand, and a bunch of eggs can be seen in their head. Birds fly around in the background.
August 29, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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I suspect I might be done fussing with this one.
Acrylic on canvas. 20 x 16.
#PortraitPainting #AcrylicPainting #HugYourLovedOnes
Curt Cobain, painted from a still from his final interview. What can I say? I miss him. I wish he could have found his way out of the pit that he was in. I wish we could have known him as an old man, doing his thing.
August 29, 2025 at 1:12 AM
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What I've been working on today. Oak Grove, Full Summer. Acrylic on canvas, 20 x 16.
A painting of an oak grove in August. Tall grass has gone dry from the summer sun, which dapples its light here and there where the trees allow passage. Small spots of blue sky are visible through the leaves on the trees.
August 24, 2025 at 9:16 AM
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Old Ben Kenobi, explaining to young Luke, "Sandpeople always ride single file to hide their numbers."
June 14, 2025 at 7:17 AM
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ICE abducted Moises Sotelo today. He is a trusted vineyard management business owner from Newburg, Oregon, who has been in the US since 1994. He has a wife, three children, and five grandchildren who need him to be returned safely to them.
Moises Sotelo, arms crossed, looks into the camera. He is standing in a vineyard on a sunny day.
June 13, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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2 Show, 1 Make Music Day High Noon Durbin's Alley KMUZ Stage Quittin' Time Infinity Room June 21st Downtown, Salem, OR
June 11, 2025 at 11:09 PM
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Thank you! I've done a bit more to it.
A man and a woman stand in a downtown area on a sunny day, looking down at their phones. She is wearing a jean jacket. He is wearing a gray hoodie and a rubber alien mask pulled up off of his face.
June 8, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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It's 91 degrees out, and I'm in my garage working on this, an oil painting based on a photo I took during the UFO Fest in McMinnville, OR.
A man and a woman stand in a downtown area on a sunny day. They both look down at their phones. He has a rubber alien mask pulled up off of his face. Two more people stand in the background.
June 8, 2025 at 10:29 PM
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Still putting finishing touches on this, the fourth in my series of oil paintings from the 2025 UFO Fest in McMinnville, OR
A young woman in the street dressed in cowboy fashion hands a piece of candy to a child on the sidewalk. A crowd of onlookers are painted in a loose style in the background.
June 7, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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This painting is the third in a series I have done of the onlookers at the 2025 UFO Fest in McMinnville, Oregon. WIP
A woman in a sparkly baseball cap, dark jacket, and holding a balloon and soda can looks back at the viewer. There is a young boy to her left with his face down and eyes up. Behind him, a young girl looks off in the opposite direction.
June 3, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A four panel comic drawn in a simplistic but accurate style. Two small green tree frogs sit facing each other on two branches. The frog on the right says, "And while her husband was at work, Brenda totally - " but is cut off when a snake appears in a swoosh and eats the frog on the right. Both the frog on the right and the snake are gone in the next two panels, leaving the frog on the left alone. "Shit," says the frog on the left, "I'll never know what Brenda did." The artist is pleumier on Instagram.
June 1, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Best Star Trek crew, wrong answers only.
May 29, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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Someone on Lemmy had such nice things to say about this painting that I'm going to go ahead and repost it here,
This is lovely. The little girl looking so alien and so passive yet confused herself behind what could be a police tape, that you question her reality. She's seemingly alone, yet rather than feeling sadness or melancholy she is drawn to the spectacle of some curiousity beyond the line. She is the alien here, and yet she is living embodiment of every human child -Tetris11 on Lemmy
May 27, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Another painting that has kept me up past my bedtime
A young girl stands on the sidewalk behind yellow caution tape just after the Ufo Festival parade in McMinnville, Oregon. She is wearing a white long sleeve shirt, powder blue skirt, and white crocs. She's holding a doll by her side with one hand. She is standing in the sun, but immediately behind her is dark shade. Oil paint on canvas panel.
May 27, 2025 at 7:35 AM
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This oil painting has kept me up past my bedtime
May 24, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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What I'm working on today
An interesting spot south of where I live, painted in oil. A field, filbert orchard, and stream all come together in this spot.
May 16, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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This is a painting of a willow tree at Bush Pasture Park. It is oil on a cradled birch panel.
April 28, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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There was a native plant sale at Bush Park today.
A row of bright white market tents in the park.
April 27, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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During my residency, I have endeavored to capture a sense of place for Bush Park in the heart of Salem, Oregon. It's a place I've been coming to since I was a small child, and it's been wonderful to have this opportunity to spend quality time here!
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#fineart #oilpainting #landscapepainting
An oil painting with a view into a forest. The forest floor is dappled with sunlight. Eleven paintings of various scenes in Bush Park that I painted in the month of April, 2025.
April 25, 2025 at 9:30 PM