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Carsten P. Dietrich
@zehpeh.bsky.social
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Visual artist/illustrator based in the west of Ireland. https://zehpeh-art.com/

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“FOSSILIZED” - ink/acrylics/digital - October 2025

Happy Halloween, everyone!

#art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork #halloween
A painting; a bizarre, abstract, perhaps subterranean environment. Contorted, vaguely anatomical shapes twist across the frame and mingle with strata of rock and stone. Pallid motes of detritus drift idly. Heavy, sepulchral shadows dominate.
October 31, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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“FORAY” - acrylics/ink/digital - October 2025

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork
A painting of an abstract, warped environment in tones of blue, warm grey and hints of pale red and green.
October 22, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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Just finished reading this one last night. A beautifully unhurried, quiet kind of book. Fantastically tangible, characterful artwork by @fdesanthemes.bsky.social
A photograph of the cover of the graphic novel/BD "Le Secret de Présentine Ramondore".
October 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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"SEETHING" - acrylics/ink/digital - September 2025

#art #abstract #abstractart #visualart #painting
A painting: an abstract tableau of colourful, interlocking shapes. Bright lights; dark shadows; nooks; reflections.
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
zehpeh.bsky.social
Nauseating.
"Lupfer, who notably produced "Assassin's Creed" and the toon TV franchise "Raving Rabbids" while at Ubisoft," argues that "European cinema has the opportunity to use AI to distinguish itself from American productions." He says that while “the film industry is still based on artisanal processes, we at The Media Company are part of a new generation of producers who use the latest tools: "
August 30, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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“SUNKEN LANDS” - acrylics/ink/digital - July 2025

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #artwork #painting #strange #atmospheric #landscape #environment #abstractlandscape
An abstract painting in largely moody, green tones. Dark shapes and jagged pathways converge on a semi-translucent, shady cluster. Traces of warm red dissolve into the background. Implied reflections and/or a calamitous abyss make up the foreground.
July 30, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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“A SHADOW OF ITS FORMER SELF” - acrylics/ink/digital - July 2025

#art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork #abstractlandscape
An abstract painting. Dark, fractured, quasi-industrial shapes furling before a pale, yellowish background. Harsh, strong red colour spurts from points unknown and diffuses into the ether.
July 1, 2025 at 5:31 PM
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"ABRADED" – acrylics/ink on watercolour paper (+digital) – 2024

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #artwork #painting
An abstract painting; a fractured landscape in sober blues, greys and shades of sepia. Industrial shapes, cables, shadows, reflections, overlapping blocks of colour and the vague suggestion of fading architecture.
June 2, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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"SERENITY" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2016

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork #landscape #abstractlandscape
A semi-abstract painting in tones of blue, cream, sepia and dark red. A landscape of spindly, fragmented, architectural shapes mirrored in calm water. Reflections are haphazard and intentionally vague. Neutral, pallid light is filtered through sail-like shapes protruding into the sky.
May 19, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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"DISTORTION" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2021

#art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork #strange #atmospheric #abstract #landscape
A largely abstract painting: a landscape of distorted, jagged, dark fragments beneath a blue and purple sky streaked with glitchy artifacts and blocks of angular red. Two small figures are walking along the horizon, their silhouettes mirrored in pools of liquid that inconsequently reflect their surroundings.
May 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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"TRIBUTARY" - acrylics/ink/digital - April 2025

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #illustration #artwork #painting #fantasy #scifi #landscape
A semi-abstract painting of a waterlogged landscape scattered with fibrous patches of warmly red vegetation - lichenous, mosslike, possibly mycelial. A group of four people can be seen from a distance, crossing the image from left to right via a narrow strip of land amid the shallow waters. Behind them: a dramatic sky and dark mountainous shapes. Insistent blue-white light seeps into the frame from the upper right-hand corner.
April 24, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Saru's GITS looks unexpectedly cartoony and true to the OG manga - I like it!
A character design/pre-production sheet culled from the new GITS teaser trailer.
April 12, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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Apparently it's #portfolioday again(?)

I'm Carsten, a visual artist based in Ireland. My main focus is on abstract and semi-abstract artwork and paintings as well as illustrations and comics. Available for work and open for commissions etc!

#portfolioday2025
A semi-abstract painting of a distorted, futuristic, dystopian(?) cityscape dominated by interlocking, black architectural silhouettes. A melange of bright colours illuminates the scene from within and via the background, where a calm rose hue shines in from the left and mingles with more aggressive yellows before vanishing within an acrid green vapour. Cool blues pulse amid inky detritus. A painted illustration: An apparently subterranean, deteriorated space in shadowy hues of blue and black. Light seeps in from the upper left, highlighting an assortment of thick tubes twisting downwards from the same direction. Parts of the tubes are patterned with bright red stripes. Beneath them, on a walkway leading alongside what might be a canal, a figure in a warm yellow/orange coat silently observes the scene, standing on the brink of a softly illuminated slipway or drain. A largely abstract painting in tones of orange, red, blue and black. It shows a deconstructed urban environment, a street or thoroughfare going centrally past shadowy stalls and half-guessed architecture. An ambling figure's silhouette is seen on the horizon, either approaching or moving away A comic panel. A lone girl is seeking shelter from the raging waves of a diverted river flooding the area. She's perched atop the trunk of a desiccated tree, holding on to one of the truculent branches. Tufts of pale foliage sit at the end of each branch. A ridge of rock can be glimpsed in the background. The water is black and dirty brown, foaming and spraying, breaking against the trunk.
April 8, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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"CIVILIZATION" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2022

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork #dystopian #urban #landscape
A semi-abstract painting: a noxious, multicoloured, urban tangle of architecture and industrial excess haemorrhaging waste into a dying landscape. Cables, hoses and wires twine before a warm, yellow sky. Angry black shadows cling to the sprawl.
April 7, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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"INTERLOPER" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2021

#art #abstractart #abstract #illustration #atmospheric #gloomy #ominous #fantasy #visualart #artwork
A painted illustration: a gloomy passage; an amalgamation of stone and probing, twining roots; of quasi-industrial metal and shadow. A lone figure in long robes, carrying a staff, picks its way across pockmarked rock and slivers of twisted metal. Anthracite tones dominate.
March 20, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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If you see this, post your green art 🍃
"A BIT OF RAIN" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2024. A painting of a rocky hillside overgrown with moss and grass, caught in scattered rain as fog and mist waft around it. The sky is overcast and cloudy and blends into the fog. An ominous, dark rift splits the hill centrally.
March 14, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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"FAR FLUNG" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2020

#abstract #art #abstractart #painting #artwork #visualart
#scifi #landscape
Tumultuous, heavy, industrial abstraction; black shapes before a quietly raging, ochre-yellow backdrop. A pair of minuscule, dark, human silhouettes gaze at the distant unknown.
March 12, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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“JOLT” - acrylics/ink on watercolour paper (+digital) - March 2025

#art #abstractart #painting #urban #urbanlandscape #visualart #cityscape #cyberpunk
A semi-abstract painting of a distorted, futuristic, dystopian(?) cityscape dominated by interlocking, black architectural silhouettes. A melange of bright colours illuminates the scene from within and via the background, where a calm rose hue shines in from the left and mingles with more aggressive yellows before vanishing within an acrid green vapour. Cool blues pulse amid inky detritus.
March 5, 2025 at 6:33 PM
zehpeh.bsky.social
Using one of your comic panels, show us where you are mentally.

#art #comics
A comic panel featuring a female character, underwater, getting hit in the head by a piece of falling debris slashing in from above. "ONK!" proclaims an onomatopoeia hovering next to her pained face.
March 5, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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"BRUTE" - acrylics/ink/digital - March 2025

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #artwork #painting #nature #landscapepainting #texture
An abstract painting: a bleak, crusted, cracked landscape of layered stone with a focus on texture, painted in greyish earthen hues and stark blacks. Facets of warm, lichenous red are sparsely scattered all over.
March 1, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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"EGRESS" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2021

#abstract #art #abstractart #visualart #painting #artwork
A strongly abstract painting in shades of green, red and black, suggestive, perhaps, of an underground landscape; of dark passages; of stone; of interwoven forms and hints of distant light.
February 28, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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"ENMESHED" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2023

#abstract #art #abstractart #atmospheric #artwork #painting #visualart
An abstract painting. An archaic urban, industrial arrangement: dark silhouettes; struts; beams intersecting and overlapping before a hazy greyish background that suggests unseen, enfolding architecture. A possible dawn is announced by a faint, pale glow. Restrained flecks of soft, wan, yellowish light draw occasional attention.
February 24, 2025 at 11:46 PM
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"ITINERANT" - acrylics/ink/digital - 2021

#art #abstract #abstractart #painting #artwork #illustration
A largely abstract painting. Intermingling, multicoloured, architectural shapes suffused with dark shadows stretch across the picture. They arch over a patch of exposed ground which is a partial mirror of its surroundings; greyish shapes comingle with elements of simple white and pale green. An indistinct shape lours before a greenish sky. Centrally, the textured silhouette of a wandering man can be seen making its way beneath grasping trails of ink, cape billowing away behind it.
February 21, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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Spontaneous homage to @decassette.bsky.social 's
"A Garden of Spheres".
Ink/acrylics/digital, Feb. '25.

#illustration #art #artwork #comics #agardenofspheres #agos #volcanic #cacti
An illustration: (a version of) Linnea Sterte's Un-maker/Wanderer character ambles casually along a ridge of dark, possibly volcanic rock beneath a bright blue sky, obliquely gazing towards the viewer. White clouds amiably creep along the horizon. The scenery is dominated by clumps of non-specific, outsized cacti in tones of warm red, greenish yellow and grey. Beyond the central array, a white, dirt-speckled sphere lies half-buried in the earth, waiting to release whatever type of god it may contain. Various bits of grassy vegetation lean idly in the sun's diffuse light, blasting in from the left. In places, green lichen or moss speckles the stone.
February 20, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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“THE GALAXY IS AT PEACE(?)” - ink/acrylics/digital - 2024

#artwork #art #illustration #metroid #nintendo #supermetroid #samus #samusaran #retro #games #ink #acrylics
An illustration inspired by Nintendo's METROID: in front of a black background sprinkled with occasional bits of texture, Samus Aran (intergalactic bounty hunter lady; bio-mechanical red-and-yellow hardsuit; cannon attached to her right forearm) stands at the very top of a large bit of rocky scenery protruding centrally into the frame. The rock is overgrown with multicoloured bits of alien vegetation and grasses, and casts strong, dark shadows on itself. Samus is seen extending a probing finger towards a trio of small, acrid-green Metroid larvae (peacefully?) floating immediately above her head.
February 15, 2025 at 6:20 PM