Just spent an absolutely staggering amount of money ordering a wild number of new prints for MMoCA's Art Fair on the Square. So please, please, drop by to my tent (E17 on the 100 block of State Street in Madison) July 11th and 12th and say "hi".

New art: "Summer Sol". 14x18 oil paint on wood panel. How cold was I painting this? Very. Very cold. Catch this, and the rest of my available work at MMoCA's Art Fair on the Square (booth E17, on the 100 block of State Street) July 11th and 12th in downtown Madison WI.

Ohhh yes I am in absolute agreement. Please, I beg do NOT call a digital illustration watercolor just because you used a "watercolor" brush. Watercolor refers to a literal, physical medium. Digital illustrations can mimic traditional medium but it does not make it that medium. Be honest, please.

Self-immolation will continue until morale improves.

In working on the no gen AI directory, I've looked at a LOT of artist portfolios. Like, 350+ of them at this point. And I thought I'd compile what I was seeing done right, what surprised me (positively), and then what I was commonly seeing done wrong. Use this to tweak your own portfolio!

eeesh. So baseball sized hail will really really wreck vinyl siding and a roof. Shocked it didn't shatter any windows, including on the car but dang. They actually buried themselves a half inch in the yard where they hit. I really prefer it when *I* chase the storms, not the other way around.

Just replaced my furnace filter in case you wondered how much I hate batch varnishing paintings. lol. (it needed it tho)

this new PR pivot of "we're using AI but only for technical things you dont understand" is really funny. why if in the areas i do understand it makes everything worse would i assume it improves anything in the areas that i don't understand

New dental crown and a traffic ticket for 10mph over- today is apparently a high-roller day for me. Just throwing money out there like a rockstar. Making it RAIN.

Some of the same people who obsessively quoted Office Space back in high school are now writing LinkedIn posts about seamlessly integrating AI processes to optimize shareholder deliverables, and I'm wondering where we got lost as a society.

"Wyrd Ones" 18x24 oil on panel Painted during a prolonged stretch of illness that lasted two-ish months. A meditation on surrendering to the story the Fates have woven- whatever that might be.

Snow deep enough that your good midwestern neighbor steps out of their house in sweatpants and tells you to stop shoveling bc they'll get out the snowblower and plow and take care of it for you. Which is good bc in all honesty I was dying.

Happy March 15. Here is my favorite Ides of March meme:

At least one of these has a gen ai cover. Very possibly both. This is not ok and is a bloody shame as the books would have been very much of interest to me. Publishers-authors there is no excuse for this. Gen ai is a tool of the enemy. We do not need it. We will not use it.

Very cool. and mine was apparently 0.0046 which either says that my oil paint color mixing doesn't need to be *nearly* as fussy as it is, or that it's just right. Not sure which lol. www.keithcirkel.co.uk/whats-my-jnd/

imo even putting a war powers resolution up for debate here tacitly cedes ground and undermines any ability to make it clear the const itself requires congress to affirmatively declare war. The convo just becomes "well, the bill failed so the kin- er, president, can continue the war".

This is, like most things with the newest tech scam bubble, an incredibly bad terrible idea to anyone who actually knows anything about the subject. To think this is in any way good or useful is to confess your own ignorance publicly. Unless you're the one selling it- then you're just corrupt af.

Just the sound of all the US polisci civics textbooks being refiled under "speculative fiction" alongside all the con law books.

Also, I've been letting my etsy listings expire and basically am going to let it go dark, since it was never a great venue & now is choked with slop. I need a better online channel/site/whatever and have nooo idea what it should be rn.

6 year run of luck re covid ran out for us this week. Which, prob was only a matter of time, but still.

A little EMS themed Valentine's Day poem for everyone lol. With help from the combitube SGA instructions.

If you're talking about imposing a regulation on a fed agency ordering them to actually follow the 4th Amendment- you're whistling past the constitutional grave yard. Using a regulation to underline the Const edict you're unable/unwilling to enforce is just a surrender to tyranny.

Do not wash out anyone's eyes with anything other than water (or sure, sterile saline but you're not lugging enough of that with you so-water). H2O is the only medically appropriate substance to use in a field situation. Yes, I know a popular online eye doc has said some other stuff-he's wrong

Honestly was not expecting "Early Q Fairly Accurate TBH" to be one of the reveals of late '25, early '26, but.... sigh, uh, yeah apparently. Truly shocking failure coming from someone with my expectations of human nature I know.

I don't know what version of stomach flu I've been sick with, but dang. over a week now, and at least things are improving a little. but on more than one occasion I was like, "Ohhhh, THIS is how patients end up in this position/situation."

If you don't have a mirror or don't want one- you can take a quick pic with your phone and then flip the image. If you take the time to get a good, flat image, you can move the pic around so that the edge of your phone becomes a straight reference to judge perspective/angles/curves etc.

welp. at least my language skills for this one are 5/5.

So an observation from experience and an education I supposedly moved beyond using. What you've got right now in the US is a version of constitutional coup from the fed govt. I wouldn't expect your fed politicians to do literally anything about it- bc if they wanted to, they would have by now

Nothing captures the messaging gap between this country's parties like the way Republicans whip their supporters into frenzy over things that aren't real and how dems will look at kids being flashbanged by an occupying force of secret police and say "pls don't do anything dad is gonna be mad :["

Poland does not want to sell its territory. But for an art student turned chancellor, the land of pierogis may be irresistible.

No obstruction has been happening ofc- but to be clear- obstruction is entirely justified: ethically, morally, and (far less importantly) constitutionally. Obstruction of, or direct resistance to, oppression and cruelty is never a sin & we should be careful to avoid ever even implying otherwise.

Exactly- they're only "poorly trained" to ppl who think (or are disingenuously claiming) they're there to enforce some kind of law. Their actions, & the statements of everyone from the street up to the white house, has made it clear that the force is there to terrorize and kill.

For those looking to get plugged into local MSP neighborhood ICE observation and information networks, start here: - defend612.com - monarcamn.org/training Don't try to re-invent the wheel - nearly every neighborhood in the TC already has active and robust Signal dispatch and observer groups.

human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

Gmail welcoming the Gemini era? That's it. Guide to disable Gemini everywhere: tuta.com/blog/how-to-...

Happy Solstice! "Light Returns" 6x8" oil on board

Monetizing every section of US society so that it is optimized to extract rents and tolls at every step, for trivial and critical necessities alike, draining its residents of money & life, can only create a low trust, illegitimate society that is a lethal hell for everyone- including the wealthy.

Just a reminder that LLM garbage cannot be copyrighted. Which means someone could prob have an enormous amount of fun re-cutting this sort of garbage into the most obscenely brand toxic form possible. The only problem is that the original product usually manages to be pretty brand toxic in itself

if a soulless machine incapable of thought or feeling wore your dead grandmother's skin and pretended to love you, would you talk to it?

Few things more specifically 2025 and disappointing than seeing a social media post using AI art when you know the person posting has access to actual artists or at least public domain images or even just the camera on their phone to take a picture of something real instead. Slop for the slop feeds

Hello #medievalsky here's my novella-length look at how peasants facing feudalism organized and fought. Ambushes, secret societies, communal pacts, innovative weaponry, ingenious battle tactics and a whole heap of dead nobles: www.patreon.com/posts/pact-a...

Feel like it's in rather poor taste for arts grants to add the artists who apply to them to their fundraising junk mail lists. That's... a bad look. Esp right now, the very very few artists who are in the same financial position as donors, already know how to mail you a check.

Broke a mason jar over my own hand somehow. Literally no idea even how the physics of that worked- I would think my hand would've moved when it hit enough to not break the jar but here we are. & as prepared as I was to treat a technicolor mess of injuries- not a scratch. Just covered in broken glass

I decided to start making short artist talks and virtual showings of my original paintings. This is the first one focusing on the Penitent series and "Penitent I" in particular. As always, what it means to me, doesn't dictate what the art has to mean to you. www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQVH...

This weekend Oct 11-12 I will be at MMoCA for their Art Market! I will have a significant number of orig paintings as well as open edition prints. General public admission is free on both days: Sat: 10 AM – 4 PM Sun: 12–4 PM **227 State St, Madison, Wisconsin**

Penitent IV 9x12" oil on board. This is the final (for now) painting in a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species. This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.

Penitent III 9x12" oil on board. This painting is part of a series of work honoring and mourning endangered or threatened species. This is not art of a specific saint, but represents humans who are being forced to watch the destruction and desecration occurring around them.

Human artists, use one piece to convince people to follow you

Someone told me last week that I could use AI to send email newsletters. But why? If a newsletter or email is worth someone's time to read, then it is worth the time & attention it takes *me* to write it. If it's not worth my time to write, then it's not worth reading, & it's disrespectful to send.

So if I'm reading this right, the value proposition of AI is that it doesn't work and doesn't make money, but it can kill you now and kill you later.