Eyefish in their native habitat of chaotic skywater. Green, blue and black with yellow and orange.
Posts by Rhetorical Square
Image: a one-panel cartoon. Top title: “SPECTRUM” in large, striped letters, “by A Girl Named Earl” written sideways Panel: A big faucet with the word “CAPITALISM” is pouring out water. Seven people are in the water, barely keeping their heads above the waterline while an eighth person who is already sinking only has one hand raised up, fingers outstretched for help. One of the people in the water has a word balloon and is saying, “What is the world COMING TO? It’s like nobody wants to TREAD WATER anymore!” Bottom caption: Steeped
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(And not a drop to drink.)
An abstract landscape with fog and faces. Mostly green and grey.
A two panel cartoon arranged vertically, meant to be a play on the popular "buttons" meme, where the guy is trying to choose between two options and sweating about which button to push. In this variation, the buttons are at the top and colored in red, as usual, with a finger poised as if trying to figure out which one to push. The words above the left button read: "Save the planet and its people." The words above the right button read: "Save the systems that got us here." In the bottom panel, instead of the usual character shown in the buttons meme, it is a cartoon drawing of Uncle Sam with the top hat and stars and blue coat and red bow tie. He is sweating and holding a handkerchief up toward his hat. There are red stripes as part of the background, and he is clearly sitting in the control seat. (Words along the side of the cartoon, in small letters, read: "a man named sam, by a girl named earl")
Decisions, decisions.
A green bell pepper with carrots, snakes, and faces. Green, purple, orange, and white. Belle may be moving from one continent to another.
An abstract painting featuring textured, organic shapes in shades of cornflower blue and earthy brown set against a creamy, off-white background. The central focus is a large, rounded blue form that appears to balance atop smaller, rectangular shapes below. Delicate, scribbled pencil lines and faint cursive text are etched into the background, adding a layer of subtle, sketch-like detail to the heavy impasto textures.
Elaine Smith
@elainesart.bsky.social
Balancing Teacups For Posterity
Acrylic, mixed media on stretched canvas
36″ x 24″ x 1.5″
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Old work in a new guise
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Old work in a new guise
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A blob with thick appendages, face full of ghosts and demands. Grey, with white and light blue on black background. Rising or sinking, the blob guards a sketchy stairway.
Two young faces. One seems over-embossed, the other barely there and burning. Dark green on light green with tan and flames.
Scorch
Teal, moss, chartreuse, yellow, gold, black, and white abstract sort of a landscape. High and low areas full of weird, hiding creatures and ghosts. Intuitive/automatic drawing.
Andscape 4
#art #humanart #abstract #landscape
Abstract panel in quarters. A stained and grafittied wall. Is this the place? For story, read counterclockwise from bottom left or from light to dark. Mustard yellow, brown, grey, black, orange.
Piles of stuff including buildings, small appliances, empty boxes, a spatula, a hamster wheel, costumes, scales, a lamp, a bicycle, stairs, and a clock. Ghosts and goblins rummage through it all.
Green Bell Pepper
Watercolor on paper
#watercolor #art
#Artcontemplations #drawing #design #contemporaryart #original #graphics #art #artist #contemporary #abstract
A page full of sketches of elsen and burnts. The top row shows several pastel burnts and a regular burnt, the rightmost having a pastel burnt about to bite a regular elsen's head. The bottom half of sketches are mostly nervous regular elsen including one getting their head bitten by a spectre, a headless elsen, and an elsen with a lab coat holding another seemingly dead elsen.
March 20, 2026
#abstract #abstractart #art #artcollector #artist #artgallery #gallery #dailyart #dailypainting #digitalart #digitalpaint #fineart #paintings #procreate #artlover #patreon #patreonart #modernart #ipadart #contemporaryart #outsiderart
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Abstract digital figurative. - FOR SALE AS NFT - Deets on website.
┤BURNED BEYOND RECOGNITION├
Not enough love for this one 😕
#abstractart #contemporaryart #outsiderart
Completely painted over now. Easy come, easy go.
Deleted realms continue to taunt me with their arrogant impermanence.
#abstract #painting #outsiderart
Fun little array from my last sketchbook. Ink on paper,
2025
abstracted image with large yellow face with green metallic around eyes and blue lips at L; green radiating ovals at bottom; two horizontal rows of multicolored buildings and blue bands at top; squares and circles of various colors at L; metallic gold linear repeat of same image in ULC in margin
Irinaland over the Balkans https://collections.artsmia.org/art/104796/
"dj
Vijay
no jd
okie"
what's in those cluster sparkly things
Blue JRR Tolkien
Watercolor on paper
#watercolor #painting #jrrtolkien
ouch ouch ouch.
well, it’s almost friday i guess.
A stylized illustration of a leaking box of human brains labeled as damaged goods.
I still struggle w/ perception as to what kind of #artist I am. It’s a repeating question that prompts many changes & shifts in my work. However, the incessant & unrelenting nature of social media continues to complicate & exacerbate that struggle. #art #life #illustration #cartoon #painting #dada
to overpaint or not to overpaint #painting #contemporaryart #abstractpainting
A photo of The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded.
Photo taken by Naomi Shihab Nye, who also blurbed The Importance of Being Feeble-Minded. I'm loving each opportunity to visit with students around this collection and see all their enthusiasm and curiosity!
This looks swampish to me. Reptile shapes and textures, murky greens and grey bordering a body of water. Lots of creatures hiding but they haven't done anything wrong. Q: What about the green, roughly hexagonal shape near the water? Is that an apple? A gem? Maybe a pod to collect the wrongly imprisoned and shuttle them to a better place.