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Ty Martinez (they/he)
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Cover of the book - The Serviceberry:Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World by Robin Wall Kimmerer (author of Braiding Sweetgrass)
September 13, 2025 at 12:45 AM
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Because I haven’t posted in a while…

A thread of lastest art dabbles
Acrylic wash of mostly blue and yellow in an abstract human bust. The person is surrounded by pink and violet glow and black circles outline their frame. In large white letters “WHAT IF I TOLD YOU” is on the upper right margin. Inside their head in yellow/red blended letters “I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO SAY”. A cloud diagram is on their chest enclosing a heart and pi symbol.
May 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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I make beauty with these hands
Digital superposition of my hands, with splotches of bronze and fuscia paint. On one ring finger - a black ring and a swirling brown ring. On the other hand - a silver band with a braid pattern.
May 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
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Zuck: The average Anerican has three friends
Portrait of characters from The Princess Bride (1987 film) arranged vertically, from top to bottom: Fezzik (André the Giant), Inigo Montoya (Mandy Patinkin) and Vizzini (Wallace Shawn).
May 2, 2025 at 2:32 AM
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Wanted to share this especially to the young(er than me haha) elders at Vibe Check @theferocity.bsky.social @zachstafford.bsky.social @samsanders.bsky.social whose modern scriptures give me air to breathe (inspire, aspire)
New painting - collage of magazine text and images covered by acrylic and paint marker. Central figure is a person with blue pants and multicolored sweater wearing a pink and blue knit skull cap covering their head, ears, eyes. Another small figure is kneeling on their left shoulder, a speckled wong pointing towards the picture’s edge. The background is a wash of many colors and assorted phrases like “thinking out”, “never caged again”, “both side know”. The person is looking up to their right where a large butterfly is flying above a small silhouette image of palm trees.
April 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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Steps one and two in anew project
Wash of yellow over magazine strips. A figure is teaced in white lines standing with hands at sides. The phrases “Thinking Out” “Both Sides Now” “If the Box”. Now covered with streaks of red, green, blue. Wash of yellow over magazine strips. A figure is teaced in white lines standing with hands at sides. The phrases “Thinking Out” “Both Sides Now” “If the Box”
March 23, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Check this one
500 piece puzzle with very eclectically shaped pieces (such as hearts, hands, and romantic couples) to form an impressionistic image of a couple walking down a tree and lamp lined boulevard.
March 1, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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Working on…
Work in progress - collage of paint marker, acrylic wash, magazine clippings including the phrases “love is in the air” and “made to be well loved”. A purple bust, face in profile looking up to the left. Hair is made of magazine strips in black, green, red. ‘Smoke’ made of balloons is emanating from a crossed hole where the heart might be.
February 15, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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I know we’re all plenty occupied but is this something you would be interested in? Consider this a very slow request.

An example of my work:
Acrylic multicolor wash as background. Black marker outline figures and faces.
January 19, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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Made a piece for my nephew to hang in his dorm.
Collage- central image of a football player’s face framed by his helmet. It is surrounded by the words go, fight, win in blues and gray. There are additional motivating phrases clipped from magazines. Along the left edge are photos of car engines. The phrase “keep the motor running” is in red aligned with that edge.
January 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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Some new art bits
Mostly blue collage with images of car engines and paint marker text in light blue, dark blue, and red. Mostly blue collage with cutout words - champion - and several versions of the number 1 Collage with closeup of footballer player’s eye framed by helmet with text around the edges
January 3, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Somebody gon get these @victorlavalle.bsky.social books (three somebodies to be exact)
Three copies of Victor Lavalle’s The Ballad of Black Tom
December 5, 2024 at 4:02 AM
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Pieces of a bew piece
Collage - magazine clips, acrylic, and marker. Sea turtle on a wash of white, violet, and teal. A sliver of the word “SURFACE” in yellow at the bottom. Collage - acrylic, paint marker, and oil stick. Detail of eye ringed by a white circle. Shadong of gold on the left side Collage - acrylic, sticker, paint marker,oil stick. Blue and yellow wash. Light green letters “ep” and half of a circular sticker showing part of the phrase “go with the flow”
December 1, 2024 at 10:15 PM
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Working on a thing
Part of work in progress - abstract face (eyes and nose), half indigo/half yellow. A ‘moon’ is near the right ear like an earring Part of work in progress - clip of phrase from a magazine that says “under the sea” on a wash of white. Beneath is another magazine cutout of green coral reef. Part of work in progress - vertical wash of white, violet, and teal serves as background for magazine clips of yhe word FACE and neon-colored polyps
November 26, 2024 at 9:54 PM
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Meanwhile in Chicagoland
Photo through window screen of patio dusted with snow
November 21, 2024 at 3:53 PM
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Paint “sketch” - green wash background with white outline head and shoulders. Phrase in large letters - “sun wear beyond you see”. Within the body outline - “swim to the depths of your joy”.
November 18, 2024 at 9:04 PM
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October 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Posting some work in progress
October 24, 2024 at 3:11 AM
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Some art clips
July 1, 2024 at 3:29 PM
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January 11, 2024 at 11:30 AM
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Just finished one
January 5, 2024 at 4:18 PM
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Work in progress
December 28, 2023 at 5:46 PM
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Testing a new technique
December 21, 2023 at 2:38 AM
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December 11, 2023 at 3:38 AM
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Made a little book
December 11, 2023 at 3:37 AM