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I made this image, and it makes me feel uneasy every time I look at it. Which is how I felt when I made it. Which is how I feel now. So, just, more uneasy, I guess.

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This is one of the all-time great Bluesky threads.

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I’ve been making these color studies of stacked painted paper and canvas held together with grommets as an alternative to collage. I really love how they look hanging on the wall. #colorstudy #domenicabrockman #abstractgeometric #geometricart #colorfieldpainting #postmodern #abstractart #collage

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By their bets, you can see what sort of society they hope we’re going to become.

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My art is developing in a way that may not play well here on Bluesky. I’m sort of allergic to the decorative. I make paintings that try to evoke emotional responses, and in these terrible times those emotions aren’t pretty. If there’s beauty here (not a given) it’s the ugly beauty of truth.

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My art is developing in a way that may not play well here on Bluesky. I’m sort of allergic to the decorative. I make paintings that try to evoke emotional responses, and in these terrible times those emotions aren’t pretty. If there’s beauty here (not a given) it’s the ugly beauty of truth.

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Delete Spotify.

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Leafing through another old sketchbook. This one from a board meeting of the Graphic Artists Guild in about 1989. I don’t remember most of these folks’ names, and my likenesses are not stellar. Pretty sure the first one is the great illustrator Simms Taback, veteran of Pushpin Studios and CTW etc.

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Leafing through another old sketchbook. This one from a board meeting of the Graphic Artists Guild in about 1989. I don’t remember most of these folks’ names, and my likenesses are not stellar. Pretty sure the first one is the great illustrator Simms Taback, veteran of Pushpin Studios and CTW etc.

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Avoiding the pix, because my dad was born in 1922 and his heroes were to me very regrettable, like Henry Ford and Charles Lindbergh (both for their politics)—and his own great-granduncle or some such relation (after whom he was named) who led a Confederate raid that captured a Union officer. So.

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I’ve followed Roy Edroso since his VV days. Now I read his Substack (I know, but dammit), Roy Edroso Breaks it Down, each weekday morning over my coffee. But not next week, when he’s having some apparently major surgery. If you can send good wishes, maybe do so? open.substack.com/pub/edroso/p...

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Betty Acquah, Ghanaian painter, Heart of innocence, 2021 #WomensArt

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side-eye. I feel like she’s looking at a guy who’s staring at her bosom. Look at how it’s rendered; not revealing except by implication—but designed via texture & composition to draw attention. [trying & failing to think like a painter here instead of the {decrepit} straight cis male that I am.]

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The Atlantic should be ashamed of publishing this nightmare piece from Liz Bruenig, whose callous dismissal of Adriana Smith's dignity is one of the most shocking things I've ever read.

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See Karl R. Popper’s “The Open Universe.” And, seriously, this is a nice painting.

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At The Traffic Light, My oil painting

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I am still striving toward something I have not yet attained in my art practice. I’m confident I’ll get there, and feel like I’m making progress, but not ready to show it here. So here’s a couple pages from a 30+ year old sketchbook. See ALT text please.

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I’ve posted artworks I made as far back as in the 1970s; now here is one from even earlier, when I was a student in the late Bill Davison’s printmaking program at UVM. I’m very privileged to have been able to make (and print) stone lithographs. No idea where you go to learn this stuff now; not UVM.

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I’ve posted artworks I made as far back as in the 1970s; now here is one from even earlier, when I was a student in the late Bill Davison’s printmaking program at UVM. I’m very privileged to have been able to make (and print) stone lithographs. No idea where you go to learn this stuff now; not UVM.

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Still not used to this guy speaking truth. Would be nice if my state’s Gov. (Republican but un-trumpy) would start speaking out, too. It’s not as if any of the fascist crap wasn’t happening here in VT. Come on, Governor Scott, your party is trying to destroy America (& VT). Time to break with them.

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details from wips. trying to figure something out. maybe sometime soon I’ll have some finished new works to show. maybe not. this isn’t easy.

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I usually try not to quote-post dunk and really this isn’t that—I can imagine the retro appeal of this stuff. But as an aged ex-graphic-designer who had to use it back in the day, I don’t remember it with any fondness. It was a half-assed solution to the problem of expensive typesetting... [more]

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Woodland scene (oil on canvas) ca.2022-present www.stephen-nolan.com #artist #art #modernart #painting

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The correct political tack here is NOT “oh good, maybe now we can get Elon to back some Democrats” It’s actually, “This convicted criminal sexual predator and his drug-addled Nazi billionaire just raped and robbed the US government and now they’re fighting over the loot.”

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If it has to be rainy for months of weekends in a row, I guess it’s a little better that the temperatures are solidly summery, the wind is still, and the rain is light. I’m not going to go out and sit on one of those chairs, but it’s pleasant to be out in briefly. (shot a couple hours ago)

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I’ve watched it at least a dozen times now and I think there’s something very revealing about equine minds here. ...but then I’ve never hung around horses—so probably obvious to those who have. Do not ask me to explain this.

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Short silly/sweet story for #TheCampfire (in alt)

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someone? anyone?

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this is a great photograph, in multiple ways

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on the verge of a small milestone...

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I couldn’t resist working this a little more; the left image is as posted before (except white point adjusted); on the right as it is now. Snaps were taken under different light conditions and I tried to make them match more closely (and accurately) via photoshop. Still not sure I’m done.

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