Pure Mattness

08/07/2024

Hi everybody! So I've been telling myself "it's time to sell some of these paintings" for years now, but for some reason I always hesitate to take that leap of faith. I've been told it's a common problem among creators - we struggle to set a price and allow the world to decide if our creations are "worthy" - I guess it's understandable, after all, these are our labors of love/pain/longing/hurt/etc... Well, my creditors have told me in no uncertain terms that the time is now or never.

So, without further adue, here are 3 paintings looking for new "forever-homes". (prices are written-out in order to confound "the algorithm")

Pics 1 & 2) The Salton Sea (2023) - Acrylic on 10" x 10" canvas - ninety

Pics 3 & 4) Basilisk (2023) - Acrylic on 10" x 10" canvas - ninety

Pic 5) Stargazers (2021) - Acrylic on 12" x 12" canvas (this piece was jury-selected to hang at the Riverfront Arts gallery) - one-hundred seventy

In case you wondered, these paintings were built to last. I used archival-quality pigments in all of them (aside from fluorescents and glow-in-the-dark pigments, which aren't available in archival-grade but seem quite colorfast so far). I also spent a lot of time studying curation processes, so I'm confident my finishing process was up-to-par: After drying, I applied 2+ coats of acrylic clear-coat (the 'separation layer'), then allowed each piece to cure for 6-8 weeks. I washed the surfaces with a lint-free cloth and distilled water, then let the painting dry for 2 more weeks. Finally, I applied several coats of kamar varnish - this is a different medium from acrylics, which allows a curator to chemically remove the top-coat and replace it without ever exposing the pigment below the separation layer to air! TMYK.

DM for pickup/delivery options!

06/03/2024

I forgot this bubble sculpture in the freezer. Thankfully the ice didn't shatter the snowglobe. It did, however, break the swirls of pigment into distinct planes. (Untitled - macro stereogram photo pair, shot through DIY macro lens)

03/03/2024

Untitled, selected portion #1 - acrylic on canvas, digitally 'rotoscoped' (no ai)

01/03/2024

Close-ups of Untitled - Acrylic on canvas (entire piece is shown in my previous post)

01/03/2024

Untitled - Acrylic on canvas

16/02/2024

Macro photo of one of my 3D "bubble sculptures". I make these sculptures out of gel-pen ink, dichroic glass and other mixed media suspended in clear gel, all within repurposed glass snow globes.. Finally, to capture the photos, I use handmade mini-spotlights to light the piece, and I take macro photos through a DIY macro lens.

08/02/2024

Untitled - acrylic on 7" tile.
Photos taken under normal light, UV light and in darkness to highlight UV reactive & glow pigments. Professionally finished with self-leveling epoxy resin over an acrylic separation layer.

DM for sales and gallery enquiries.

07/02/2023

"Interference" - acrylic on 20" x 10" canvas

Created with , and colors and mediums.

Sales enquiries welcome via DM.

31/05/2022

Anyone who uses crypto, I've released a collection of generative art that features many of my macro photos and fluid acrylic works. It's on FXHash and you can own your own personal playable maze for $1.618 $xtz!

https://www.fxhash.xyz/generative/13925

25/03/2022

Just a friendly reminder: You are aMazing.

https://www.fxhash.xyz/marketplace/generative/10477

19/11/2021

Public service announcement:

If you get a random "free giveaway" out of nowhere, unsolicited, from anyone, anywhere in the cryptocurrency sphere, DONT PROVIDE YOUR PRIVATE KEYS OR SEED PHRASE! ffs.

Needless to say, NO, they have no $Banano.

25/10/2021

Live now on Hicetnunc2000
A Bugs Life 001
3 Editions
3.14 $xtz
http://hicetnunc.xyz/objkt/471180

First in a series of , this one is 2 shots combined into 1 pair!

Oh, did I mention that holders of an NFT for a still from this series may contact me for info on how to order a signed print, limited to as many prints as there are editions?

Another great reason to head to hicetnunc!

20/10/2021

"Before the Rapture" - Macro Photo (3D stereogram) mixed media in clear gel.

Just another of my upcoming series of on via the blockchain!

20/10/2021

Another sweet inadvertent 3d pair! Really glad i kept an archive of past shoots, and that i shoot dozens if not hundreds of shots in a session!

This one's part of my "bubble sculpture" project which has been ongoing for almost 5 years now. It's a photo of a deliberately shaped and positioned air bubble in acrylic paints, oil and clear gel. It's also part of an upcoming btw :)

18/10/2021

I've been going back through old photo sessions, looking for inadvertent stereo photography. Success! This one's a cross eye stereogeram. Thanks to this dragonfly for holding so still, and thanks also to the wind for shifting the subject 1/2 inch between shots!

13/10/2021

I just wrote this after a friend drew out my "inner nerd" by being willing to talk about "paint drying" (lol, sometimes that's all it takes).

These are tricks I use to add depth to my paintings, figured I'd share:

(image: "Sh**un", acrylic on 12" x 12" gallery wrapped canvas)

Trick 1:
After a pour, when the paint is glisteny but would tear before it flowed, I re-wet the BACK of the canvas to get it really tight. I find areas in the piece where I'd like more detail, and I *tap* firmly from below, making the canvas vibrate like a drum! When it's quiet, I've actually heard tiny clicks coming from the piece -when I do this. I think that's the sound of *two colors separating*, revealing new colors below!

Trick 2:
No joke: I literally hold a painting upside-down 5% of the time I'm working on it! I watch for big drops, hold it level to prevent runs, and flip it one second before I lose paint. I do this because some pigments (tit white) are really dense and tend to sink out of sight. Others (bone black) tend to cover everything. Flip a piece and they'll flow the other way, which can really improve the look of a piece!

OK, one more...

#3, my latest trick:
The last time I poured, all the best bits seemed to be at the edges while a muddy bit covered the center. To make things worse, this was a board. Boards warp when wet, so stuff on the edge almost always falls off... So, I tried something new: I took a metal tube (straw sized) and pushed it HARD into the center of the board, pressing against the warp... I tilted the tube slightly to one side, and *carefully* used my cheeks to draw up ~1/4 tsp of the bland paint... I was very careful not to draw into my mouth, I never filled more than 1" of the tube before blowing it into the bin. I learned to tilt the tube deliberately to remove specific layers of paint... It's kinda like "liposuction for pour paintings" lol! Anyways, with the center trimmed up, the edges flowed back in to fill the voids!

TLDR: Seriously I don't think I've eaten breakfast before I touched paint, not if I wake up to a pour glistening in my tray. Sooo that prolly makes m,y work dry faster than normal 🙂

13/10/2021

Conspiracy - (cross vision 3d* photo) acrylic on tile.

* in these 3d photos, the camera angle is the same for both sides; only the lighting, which is crisp and set deliberately low on the horizon, changes from one eye to the other. This amplifies subtle changes in the height/thickness of the paint, producing the perception of great depth where only tiny changes occur in the actual piece.

12/10/2021

Untitled (Midwest 1) - (3d photo) acrylic on tile.

Another teaser for my upcoming series "Coast to Coast". Digitally augmented fluid acrylics that portray the good, the bad, the pretty and the ugly across this vast continent!

PS some of the physical pieces are for sale also. DM for inquiries.

11/10/2021

I love Hansa gold over crimson and ultramarine blue!

Untitled - acrylic on tile (wip)

06/10/2021

This guy's using the surface tension of the droplet on his right hand (paw?) to act as a sponge, collecting the dust particles he combs from his eyes with his other arm's hairs! Does this count as 'tool use'? If so, we may have to update our opinions on animal and insect intellect!



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05/09/2021

Pleased to meet you, too!

22/08/2021

Yup, surface tension is no joke when you're 2 cm from head to tail.

19/08/2021

Surface tension looks like a pain in the thorax when you're a dragonfly. This guy spent most of the morning battling the dew drops to free its wings and limbs.

17/07/2021

" Elon Musk in 'Escape From Planet Earth'"- acrylic on tile.

16/07/2021

"Puppetry" - acrylic on tile.

12/07/2021

"We Met in Better Days" - Acrylic and water in wine glass.

11/06/2021

Whaddya know, he's a lefty!

07/06/2021

It's hard to overplay a shot when it looks this cool.

04/06/2021

03/06/2021

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