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Artist creating paintings in gouache and sculptures mostly in wood. East Bay Area, California. More at johnruszel.com and ig at ruszeltime.
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A new #painting in #gouache. I’m really pleased with it. Makes me think of circuit boards and heat exchangers.

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I love waking up every morning, sitting in the dark, eating my tepid yogurt slurry and reading a short list of today’s new unimaginable crimes and horrors

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Well. What is there to say? Here is a larger #goache #painting from a couple years ago. Title: skeletal tokamak #art

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“Interlock study” #gouache #painting on paper over pencil drawing. The friend who ended up buying this spent a long time meditating on how and if the axles could turn. #art

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Another #gouache #painting from the archives. “Immiscibility study.” Sometimes I feel like I have made so much work in the last few years and in the same breath like I have done so little. #art

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

A small #gouache #painting from 2021 titled “cloud chamber.” One of my first #gradient pieces. My #art draws inspiration from scientific equipment and illustration to varying degrees. This one pulls more directly from its source than most.

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I am very excited to have sold this #sculpture today!

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I miss hope. Here is a #gouache #painting from a while back. #art won’t save us but it’s still nice. And what else is there?

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Once when I was a teen and W Bush was in office I asked my dad if things always seemed bad or if everything really was getting worse. He tried to soften the blow but I think we both knew. I think about that drive a lot.

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Another small #gouache #painting from last year. I couldn’t resist trying out the fluorescent acrylic gouache but it is surprisingly finicky. #art

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A drawing from today. Looking forward to paint next week

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

I don’t know if this is the app for me. But what the hell, here’s a #sculpture I made for my BFA show in 2009. Still like it. Still want to make #art in this vein.

submitted 38 days ago • 1 comment

So far on Bluesky I have learned that “art” means illustration and “fine art” means black and white nude photography. “Sculpture” is a toss up.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

A larger #painting in #gouache titled “stator.” Another attempt at fully occupying the paper.

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Digging in the art archives. A little #gouache #painting from 2022. “Drop study” I believe. I think this is when I started to hit my stride with color. Maybe it’s time to scale this one up

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I am still really enamored with this little #gouache #painting from last year. It’s little and cute and the colors are nice. Title is “flow study”

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A small #sculpture carved in #oak. I love #carving. It’s quiet and repetitive and meditative. And look at the grain!

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A fun thing when you join a new app is posting a bunch of #art work as if you are very prolific. Another #painting in #gouache from last year. Occasionally I’ll make a piece with the specific goal of densely filling a space.

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A #painting in #gouach. Do hashtags matter here or is it like Instagram where they were murdered? Anyway. #art. #abstraction.

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I thought I knew what this book was about but boy was I wrong.

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A recent sculpture. “Conduit 4”. This is a plywood framework covered with veneer. The interior surface is painted a dark blue

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Here’s a little painting I did recently. It’s titled “condenser”.

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