Abstract expressionist painting on clear plexiglass hanging on a red-maroon wall. The painting contains a cacophony of colors in a mix of intentional and accidental shapes, including drips, circles, rectangles, blobs, and a handprint.

Letting go of being right co-evolves with letting go of wanting to convince others.

Deprecated: shame of being wrong, defensiveness, fear of mistakes, ranking human worth

New features: confidence, vulnerability, forgiveness, honesty, accountability, respect

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Art with the lights on,
Art with the lights off

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Abstract expressionist painting in many colors, notably shades of blue, beige, red, grey, white & more on a canvas leaning against a carmine red wall on a parquet pattern wood floor

Too much talk about have to & obligations
Not enough talk about want to & love, growth, universal improvement
The oppressors always on attack put us on counterattack & defense
When do we get to share the vision for a better world for all
We have to make time for that
Always

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Close detail from my latest abstract drawing & painting session. Shades of green, blue, red, yellow, orange, brown, and cream are visible, primarily in bands of color stretching horizontally in a slight arc. This image is zoomed in close enough to see the texture of the canvas showing through as raised bumps, mostly retaining the light color of the under painting.

I'm not necessarily speaking with clarity here. 500 characters demands omissions. Concision is what enables ease of communication here yet prevents thorough accuracy. At least for me.

The only arena in which I'm fully comfortable expressing is abstract expressionism.

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A mostly light blue background is covered in scribbles and patches of color from paint and crayons making an abstract expressionist mix of colors.

Created today during livestream at https://humanissome.org approx 80 cm by 58 cm

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Detail of Humanism Blue abstract painting. A large irregular field of light blue covers the majority of visible space with some specks of other colors including a white drip horizontally in center. The periphery of the detail includes paint marks in pink, white, and green. On ecru colored natural canvas with clear gesso.

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I'm heading to bed before sunset, playing radiofreefedi comfy popup. Feeling in pain as usual but moderately content. Thanks, fedi!

I had a vision the other day of this painting incorporated into a potential book cover for my very potential […]

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Colorful abstract expressionist painting Humanism 1 62 by 54 inches (157.5 by 137 cm) Recommended Donation Range: Was $1500- $3000+ / NOW: $800+

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Close up detail of an abstract expressionist painting on canvas in a wide variety of shapes and colors

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Long narrow abstract expressionist painting on canvas. Busy. Muted. Messy. White. Yellow. Cream. Blue. Rose. Black. Magenta. Grey. Green. Drips. Circles. Dashes. Drips. Negative space. Unstretched & stapled to the wall. Shoe print & brush prints in white. Blue tape. Birds against the moon? Galaxies of stars and nebulae? Everything & nothing.

Newest finished work

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A horizontal abstract painting of mostly green with blue and white and touches of black and reds in abstract shapes, no pattern, no definite meaning. Below the image the title, A Game In Green (from Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons) 24 by 36 inches (61 by 91.4 cm) Recommended Donation Range: $400- $1000+ (crossed out)/ NOW: $225+ [empty space, then side by side:] At left an abstract painting image in teal, white, yellow, reds, black, and more. At right the description: Vitality 48 by 30 inches (122 by 76 cm) Recommended Donation Range: $600 $1500+ (crossed out) / NOW: $375+ Browser bar: https://humanissome.neocities.org/PaintingSale

Many of my paintings I like in horizontal or vertical orientations. But not all. I turned one, but not the other. Vertically Vitality would have taken up the whole screen so I put the description to the side. Layouts used to take me a long time & I'd belabor […]

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Abstract expressionist painting of white, pale green, and rosé background with blue blobs and marks in red and peach on top. No pattern. Like life. And yet a finished work of pleasing balance that came to be over a long period of time, with beginning, development, new beginning, decision making, and eventually satisfaction. Like life. I hope.

I think about why I share
The response I get is positive, even called sometimes brave,
Yet I can feel selfish, attention seeking
I share
I think
I'm on a journey. I asked a poll here a while ago to see if others feel like they are progressing on a journey. Most […]

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Detail of abstract expressionist painting titled Humanissome Blue with many paint colors on canvas primed with clear gesso. Applying a white ground is the most customary preparation when starting a painting. For a change I tried some with the base color as canvas beige instead of white. Paint absorbs into the surface more than when it sits up on white primer, giving the background a gradient quality. Paint colors in this detail include green, yellow, grey, white, pink, black, and a bright baby blue.

Detail of Humanism Blue

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Center detail of abstract expressionist painting titled Humanism Blue. At top center I used a thick red marker to make a shape like a partial Christmas tree, a backwards 3, or a stylized capital "E." Marker adds a temporary aesthetic to a painting. Several centimeters below the mark described above is a similar color in paint. The paint remains vivid while the maker fades. I enjoy creating work that changes over time after I've walked away from it.

Abstract expressionist painting titled "Tag" for the red marker scribbles that resemble graffiti signature tags in my mind. I can also get the feel of a multicolored plaster wall when I look at some parts of this painting. Besides the fading & covered over red marker tags, this painting features slate blue, bright blues, yellow, peach, light pistachio green, grey & black, & more, with thick white oil paint blending many colors together.

Detail of another abstract expressionist painting that includes red (and green) marker. White paint interacts with the marker to change the red to pink. I love experimenting with materials & producing instability in my work. A fellow artist once expressed shock that my methods are "not archival," meaning the finished work is not stable, fixed in appearance. I say that choices made by me continue to change the painting even after I stop touching it. I think that's bad ass. (At the bottom of this painting there's a strong suggestion of an image that often appears in graffiti. If you see it I'm sure you won't believe me when I say that I produced that shape entirely unintentionally by making lines!) Like so much of my work, this painting detail includes so many colors and shapes without much pattern... very difficult to describe in words, made to escape language.

Detail of an abstract painting mostly in muted purple grey, with green, rose, and bright peach brush marks scattered on the top layer. In the center on top of a peach brush mark written in black sharpie: ANYTHING.

#ScribesAndMakers 20 March: Do you like graffiti? Do you have an example? Yes.

I love the word.

See @RadicalGraffiti

In summer 1989 in alpine Zermatt, Switzerland, I was surprised to see "Fuck The World" on a side street. The message seemed incongruous to […]

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Abstract expressionist painting of orange red blobs in the bottom left corner "reaching" toward brown grey and magenta paint marks in the upper right. The background is a shimmering white with silver and cream. The original painting is titled "Josephine," after a hurricane; was painted in 2007; is available for a donation at least 3 times the shipping costs. Contact me on Mastodon.

Yearning

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One minute time lapse video of me painting set to music

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Mondays Child, abstract expressionist painting on canvas board that measures 20 by 16 inches, or approximately 51 cm by 41 cm. The underlaying of this painting is a pencil drawing of a baby's face. Another artist moving out of a shared studio space gave me materials including this work in progress. I asked her multiple times if she really didn't want to keep it, if she was really ok with it being covered over, and she said yes. I decided to incorporate the face into my eventual painting of many color blobs (that could be seen as flowers around the baby's face). I call the work Monday's Child after a poem that begins, "Monday's child is fair of face." I was born on a Monday & I'm beautiful [tongue sticking out face].

#ScribesAndMakers February 21: Do friends/family give you gifts for your activities, or do you buy all your own supplies?

Friends who are moving have given me assorted supplies. I've known artists who give up their practice & have given me canvases & other […]

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Abstract expressionist painting titled "Yay!" measuring 11x14x3 inches (approximately 28 by 35.5 by 7.6 cm). I can't describe it visually very well. I choose abstract as an escape from words. It is muddled, mostly grey green with blue and red highlights, scratch marks. It's a real mess. It's one for me & my personal collection & not much of a crowd pleaser lol. I made a point of posting available paintings with this hashtag but oops this is the painting on my mind today. Oh! One way to describe this painting is that I put a lot of paint on that I later "erased." That's where the scratch marks come in. I also removed some paint with water & thinner. What remains is a bit like stained canvas instead of painted, in some places. It's believable as a bit of old concrete or even a cave wall. Maybe. I dunno. I don't have concepts, I just paint.

I choose art as my preferred method of relating to others. I put my life into my work. I choose solitude, painting, reading, writing, & videos. Through those media I experience rewarding conversations about the state of being human.

I know a few people who I […]

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abstract drawing composed of red, yellow, and green lines, with assorted other stray marks, on light blue card stock

I like to send #Rart cards in the mail. If you want one please let me know. They can be sent to someone else with your custom message, like flowers.

It's difficult for me to make promises beyond the current moment due to my stubborn, often debilitating pain. I […]

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Abstract expressionist painting mostly in pastels with a bold dark blue "y" shape near the upper left corner. My art is an expression of feelings put into colors and marks, nothing more. I have sold paintings across the US with a few in Europe. My art is freedom of expression, of thought, of feeling. I would like to lead small seminars on the free artistic expression, meditation, & therapeutic aspects of abstract painting.

Quiero vivir en México.

I want to live in Mexico. I want my primary mode of transportation to be walking. I want to buy fresh food in markets from people I look in the eyes and smile at. I want to be part of a community that wrestles with the implications of […]

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Spring 2024 abstract expressionist painting in mostly white, yellow, and other pastel colors.

Sometimes it's hard to keep track of which terrible things are happening in the UK & which in the US. For safety's sake I only dream of moving to a non English speaking country (New Zealand is too far away). I'm an intermediate speaker of French and Spanish […]

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