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Where we're at now.

You may think this is a bucolic scene, but it is actually a portrait of neurosis, obsession, and occasional paralysis. 🙃

#art #artsky #painting #wip #oilpainting #oils #birds #traditionalart
Still flying pigeons and a popsicle hand, but now the sky is blue.
October 9, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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More progress! I'm learning a lot. Unsure what's going on in the background still. 🤷‍♀️ #oils #oilpainting #artsky #art #painting #wip #workinprogress
Oil painting of a hand holding a popsicle with flying pigeons in the background
September 26, 2025 at 12:07 AM
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More progress. The core composition is wrong, but I'm learning things, and the thumb-knuckle and top fingertip are masterworks.

#oils #oilpainting #watermixableoils #painting #artsky #art #birdpainting
Oil painting of a hand holding a popsicle with flying pigeons in the background
August 30, 2025 at 5:56 AM
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An axolotl eating tater-tots, drawn for a friend who seemed like she needed it.

#artsky #art #drawing #coloredpencil #gouache #watercolor #axolotl #weirdart
Drawing of an axolotl in a leather jacket eating tater-tots on the patio of Eli's Mile High Club
August 1, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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Painting over a mediocre candies-and-pastries still life from college. Just intuitive doodling. It's a lot of fun.

#intuitivepainting #artsky #oilpainting
Oil painting of pastries and candies and a dark void with daffodils and probably monsters
July 30, 2025 at 8:43 AM
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Hmmm what's the common thread
Bluesky screenshot: "we have to agree with her" "on this and Epstein only"
July 29, 2025 at 2:37 PM
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Sometimes, ads are insane enough that I actually really like them.
Image of a mouse on a cutting board next to some onions with text: "do you have mice in your house? Try this"
July 16, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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Seeing ET in this car
Lil alien face
June 7, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Evidently, Sailer himself is squicked by Trump's authoritarianism.
Steve Sailer substack reply: "Personally, I'm an American, and we Americans haven't done kings for the last 249 years."
May 15, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Exquisite corpse!

Head: me
Torso: Gene Zielnicki
Legs: Keith Joe Dick
Feet: Lyubov Vasilyeva

See more 👉 linktr.ee/exquisitecor...

#exquisitecorpus #exquisitecorpses #exquisitecorpse #surrealart #surrealism #cadaverexquisito #cadavreexquis #monsterdrawing #coloredpencil
Creature with a dragon head, a car driving up its neck, a robotorso, skelelegs, and bright red feet
April 20, 2025 at 11:28 PM
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New exquisite corpse with Lyubov Vasilyeva (head), me (torso), Gene Zielnicki (legs), and Keith Joe Dick (feet).

See/learn more 👉 linktr.ee/exquisitecor...
Collaborative artwork with an eyeball for a head, a wooden body, and power plugs for feet
March 19, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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Exquisite corpse with Keith Joe Dick (head), Lyubov Vasilyeva (torso), me (legs), and Gene Zielnicki (feet). 🐐

#exquisitecorpus #exquisitecorpse #surrealart #surrealism #artsky #coloredpencil #weirdart
colored pencil drawing of a goat carrot with flower-legs in heels
March 11, 2025 at 6:51 AM
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Exquisite corpse with Gene Zielnicki (head), Keith Joe Dick (torso), Lyubov Vasilyeva (legs), and feet by me.

#exquisitecorpse #exquisitecorpses #surrealart
March 9, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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#teslatakedown Teslatakedown.com
Protest sign that says "nope"
March 2, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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The work of Ben Shahn (1898 – 1969) feels very relevant to the national mood. www.wikiart.org/en/ben-shahn
Person with head in hands behind a row of clarinets, including one painted with clowns Person on ground, pushed down by a big red hand Painting based on Sacco and Vanzetti execution. "In this large-scale canvas, Shahn vividly portrays all the characters: Sacco and Vanzetti lying dead in their coffins; the unsympathetic commissioners who upheld the death sentence after years of appeal; and Judge Webster Thayer, who presided over the trial and passed sentence, taking an oath in the courthouse. Two members of the committee proffer lilies, a fraudulent mourning gesture in light of their decision. As a well-known symbol of the crucified Christ, the lilies also suggest that Sacco and Vanzetti are martyrs, punished for sins they did not commit." (Whitney Museum) "Fourth of July: Orator" features men in suits on a stage surrounded by a large empty red expanse
February 21, 2025 at 1:09 AM
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Anyone else photograph shadows constantly? Love these little guys.
Metal fence shadow with delightful angles Car shadow with tinted glass Absurd plant shadow that looks like an alien creature This shadow only happens when car headlights are positioned *just so* and disappears as soon as they move
January 28, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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People don't talk enough about Léon Spilliaert.
Painting of a woman and dog on stairs looking at a swirly sea Dark painting of a woman on stairs with wind Silhouette of the artist against lace curtains Painting of the artist in his studio at night
January 26, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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Excited to be kicking off a new round of our exquisite-corpses-by-mail project. Some past favs below. See the full body of past work here (& a form for requesting to join us): linktr.ee/exquisitecor...

#exquisitecorpse #exquisitecorpses #art #artists #exquisitecorpus
Black pen drawing Colored pencil drawing Colored pencil drawing Drawing on toned paper
January 9, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Important update. #mushrooms
Huge fly amanita mushroom Red slimy mushroom. Redhead russula? Fly amanita mushroom
January 6, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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Some fun mushrooms on our neighborhood walk. Usually the Bay Area isn't damp enough to get anything this exciting.
A splatter of tan mushrooms Mushrooms on a tree Bright red mushrooms Mushrooms in a fallen tree
January 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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More progress.

#oilpainting #painting #art #oils
In-progress painting of a hand holding a popsicle, pigeons, and branches
December 29, 2024 at 9:28 PM
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Claudia from "Interview with the Vampire"
December 27, 2024 at 12:08 AM
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🔥 New favorite poem.

Christina Rossetti's "Goblin Market" (1862) tells of two sisters' encounters with mysterious goblin merchants.

Feverish, sensual, eerie. The excerpt in the image is only to entice viewers to read the piece in full.
www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44996/...
Evening by evening Among the brookside rushes, Laura bow’d her head to hear, Lizzie veil’d her blushes: Crouching close together In the cooling weather, With clasping arms and cautioning lips, With tingling cheeks and finger tips. “Lie close,” Laura said, Pricking up her golden head: “We must not look at goblin men, We must not buy their fruits: Who knows upon what soil they fed Their hungry thirsty roots?”
December 20, 2024 at 11:07 PM
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In progress, having fun. First time using water mixable oils, which are revelatory. Eager to get two new tubes soon so I can mix purples and greens that don't look like garbage. :)

#oilpaints #oilpainting #painting
Painting of a hand holding a popsicle and pigeons flying in the background
December 18, 2024 at 6:29 AM
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It's personal.
Wikipedia >> Trump proposed Patel as a potential leader for either the FBI or CIA in early 2021 following the 2020 United States presidential election. Trump had considered installing Patel as either CIA Deputy Director or Acting Director, which would have required firing the existing Director Gina Haspel. This proposal faced significant resistance, including from Attorney General William Barr, who wrote in his memoir that Patel would become FBI director only "over his dead body"
December 4, 2024 at 12:47 AM