Introduce yourself with 5 concerts you've seen: 1. Tom Waits 2. Insect Warfare 3. Warhead 4. King Crimson 5. Nothing Clean (final gig, house show)

Top stuff.

I have literally zero valuable skills other than art (and that value is highly debatable) as well as being functionally unemployable.

Tonight I finished a rewatch of TWIN PEAKS, including the return which I had not previously seen. It is incredible to me that something like that got made at all 25 years later, let alone be made with the remarkable quality that it has.

Short clip of Paris gig my band played on our recent tour: www.youtube.com/watch?v=47E1... #grindcore #hardcore #riffs #blastbeats

BOLT THROWER killchain riff (all songs) [24 hours mix]

*Looks at all the other artists without a gig*

I love her.

My name's Luke, I'm an artist from the UK. Here's some recent work which has focussed on sci-fi/ retro stuff/ things I wanted to work in when I was a child. #art #artsky #illustration #scifi

Happy Halloween 🎃🦇

Lake. A4 watercolour. #art #artsky #watercolour #mountains

Cliffs. A4 watercolour. #art #artsky #watercolour #watercolor #valley

HUMAN ARTISTS! Use one piece to convince people to follow you! #art #artsky #portal

Do I know anyone who... Works for Tomy? Or some toy company who would like some art like this?

Landing. A4 watercolour. #art #artsky #watercolour

CRASH & BURN When I was a kid I loved ZOIDS and assumed I'd grow up to work for TOMY. That's not come to pass sadly, so I have begun a personal project of painting the kind of scenes I imagined back then. #zoids #art #artsky #painting

Peak. A4 watercolour. #artsky #art #watercolour #landscape

Right here's the thing, The Wicker Man and Local Hero are the same film, but from different perspectives. In both cases a reluctant virginal man is sent into an enchanted realm of fantasy, to discharge a duty that will end it.

Scouting Party. A4 watercolor. #art #artsky #watercolour

SENTINEL NEARS I painted this gatefold album cover for the Scottish psych/prog/spacerock legends #DeadOtter. #art #artsky #albumcover #space #cosmic

Concerned I've lead a life so devoid of interest, that the SOLARIS planet wouldn't have enough to go on to create a visitor for me.

Rail replacement bus? More like MALE replacement bus, amirite fellow wokes?

We must imagine Sisyphus vibing.

I love classical music but damn the proms is on some hauntological shit.

Thanks for the reblogging of recent posts. I get very little attention or traction with any of my art, and I accept that for what it is- unpopularity- and move on. However it can be rather depressing.

LOST SUMMIT. Album cover I painted for the prog/postmetal band #Kylver. I wanted to touch on some classic adventure story illustration with this. #art #artsky #scifi #prog #postmetal

I'm watching the version of Mann's THE KEEP which is on paramount+, and boy is the transfer abysmal. Looks like a 2009 era DVD rip with high compression. Surely there's better available???

If you see this, post something monochromatic.

RIP

W.A.L.L.O.P! Here's a beefy #Kinnikuman I painted for an art book project (more info when I have it). Loved MUSCLE figures as a kid. #art #minifigs #illustration #artsky

Free Palestine.

Here's the first page of Lob Barleycorn- a weird folk strip written by @bardicacademic.bsky.social and drawn by me. Have a look if you like #comics and show it to someone else that does as well?

Just saw this movie and thought it wonderful. Need to mull it over but themes touched on memory, dreams, nostalgia (bad kind), and humanity's situation with those things. Imagine Inception with the inventiveness of Gondry, and some of the magic of The Wizard of Speed & Time.

My fave of my childhood #zoids #80s

Some more of my old #zoids.

Here's a customised ZOID I made, oh, twenty years ago. I was inspired by scene in #Naussica to imagine a zoid that had been out too long in some alien fungi world. I always loved the way they shot the models for the box art in the 80s, and tired to reproduce that look here. #zoids #80s

Idk if anyone likes #zoids but here's my vintage Red Scavenger. I've had him since the late 80s or early 90s. Decided to get him out of storage for a reminisce, and gutted to find that a past bit of corrosion has now destroyed the battery contacts :(

Bothered by heat and humidity [❎] Perturbed by twin elemental archmagicks [✅]

A career goal is to one day be featured in this fine newsletter.

Thoroughly appreciated Curtis' latest offering #SHIFTY. Has all the usual tropes one might expect from him, but I like the move to no voice-over, and the conclusion is very self-reflexive and strong. #AdamCurtis #Shifty

First world problem and all, but it irks when I'm watching a foreign language movie on Amazon and the only Eng subs are the closed captions ones. Great they exist, obviously.

This time of year I think about my friend Tony. I miss the volumes of leftist in-fighting we threw at each other. #tonymines #spiteyourface #animation #portrait

Hedevig. Concept/cover art for an in-process novel being written by my friend Edmund Glasspool. #art #artsky #bookcover #scifi #space #nun

Love the latest @70sscifiart.bsky.social mailout featuring all manner of metaphysical DOORS. I humbly submit one of my own, would that it please the social media gods... #art #artsky #scifi #doors

If you are watching eurovision and asking out loud why people are voting for Israel, have a think about those two things.

MIDSOMMAR (2019) is a film about how resistance to the inducement to consume in the capitalist mode must be interpreted as inherently suspicious, and how it is more comfortable to retreat from the imaginary into the fear and resentment of everyday life.

I have updated my site with some more recent work. lukeoram.com Aiming to overhaul everything there asap, I know it's generally out of date. #art #artsky #illustration

True story: years ago in the last 'real job' I had, I discovered a spreadsheet that tracked all the money employees had made for the business. It described us as "revenue generating units". Moment of utter clarity.

OK FINE I'm sure everyone is interested in knowing...

Soon! A new weird-Britain strip from @bardicacademic.bsky.social and I. No matter how many times he dies, he rises up again, fighting for the underdog. Wherever there is injustice and persecution! Pilot premiers in @britfantasysoc.bsky.social journal this June. #comics #comicsky #fantasy