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A 55:89 spiral phyllotaxis pattern with corresponding Voronoi diagram. Hand-made. Will serve as the skeleton for an ink drawing if I ever get around to it.

Art so bad it can't possibly be made by A.I. This is the way. I'm so glad I never pushed my stuff into photorealism territory. Too time consuming and a computer can do it for you now so why bother? Here's my art, flaws and all. 100% human-made trash.

An art project just fell into my lap yesterday. I have never used resin before but I think it is what I need for this project. I need to recreate this crack pipe from Breaking Bad, but larger. I only need to make half of it, as it will be affixed to a wood panel as part of the painting/sculpture. It needs to be clear, glossy, and hollow, just like the real glass pipe is.

My question for those with experience:

Is this even achievable with resin pouring? Any thoughts as to how to go about it?

Thank you.

I built this to house the bespoke treasure items from the board game Return To Dark Tower. This is starless and bible black, just like the Dark Tower itself.

Original images from Hibiki Kobayashi's excellent photo essay book - tribe.

Some student value studies I did in paint, marker, and graphite.

I am not Black. I had U2s song Silver And Gold stuck in my head when I was making these. This nation I call home was built by enslaved people taken from another land all for a bit of silver and gold. It's important to keep that in perspective at all times. I am absolutely in favor of reparations.

Slide 1 is Genesis Device II, fluorescent acrylic and clay on canvas 48x60", 2025.

Slide 2 is Genesis Device I, ink on illustration board 27x40", 2012.

Okay I'll admit right here and now these were heavily influenced by Giger's work, but I tried to take it in a different direction. It's not airbrushed, I know. It's also way too colorful to be part of his nightmares but the biomechanical landscapes moved me and I wanted to add my own voice to it. I used the clay so that the work would be lifted up off of the canvas and into 3-dimensional space. The goal behind that decision was so that Artificial Intelligence could not duplicate it. I leave it to you to decide if this is unique or derivative.

Okay, I'll hop into this collage fun. Inspired by another user a few posts below. Here's some rare stickers from a book I got many years ago when I still worked at B&N. Stickerbomb is the book.

Some student work I did long ago. I <3 Radiohead. Who doesn't? Their music is the sort of stuff I expect deep space explorers to have loaded on their cybernetic data uplink port at all times. This is timeless stuff right here.

No one has yet to ask me what that word means. It's a doozy.

I crafted icosahedrons and dodecahedrons from cardboard and used them as molds to sculpt icosahedrons and dodecahedrons in air-dry clay for a painting I finished this year. I also made a dice tower from one. I can show you how. The secret is three nested perpendicular golden rectangles in the center.

A Lego Zardoz head that spits Lego guns out of its mouth via a trapdoor mechanism.

This is just the skeleton grid for an ink drawing. I'm still trying to decide how I'll ink it. But yeah, here's a hand-drafted Voronoi diagram of a 55:89 parastichy spiral phyllotaxis pattern using Vogel's formula. I've done this in a vector art program as well, and honestly I'm not sure which technique was faster: by computer, or by hand. By hand is messier but this will all get inked over. I used Euclid's ruler and compass method for finding a perpendicular midpoint line on each space between nodes.

I've been painting with pure fluorescent color for a while now. In the immortal words of the late, great, Mr. Bill Hicks, "...FOUND MY BRAND!" It's a deliberate choice right now: I feel the only response to Trump's homophobic rainbow-phobic administration is MORE COLOR! All of the colors. A whole damned rainbow of 'em. Join me.

Liquitex does not make a fluorescent purple, so I mixed their fluorescents pink and blue. You'd think red and blue, but that came out muddy. I got better results with pink.

A Cooper's Hawk having lunch on the branch of a mesquite tree. I donated this piece to Planned Parenthood for their 2017 Nasty Women Art Show. I am pro-choice.

I'm meeting a contact who goes by the name, Alan Turing. That went right over my head when I was a teen in the 1990s. Shadowrun. Still a great game.

The Titan from the board game Return To Dark Tower. It's made using the same techniques as your mechs are. Fantasy mech.

My old Doc Martens.

I painted a 4x4' board for it, themed with War/Peace from Ralph Bakshi's Wizards. The game's four original heroes got transformed into the Ghostbusters. They got pulled through a portal like Bruce Campbell in Army of Darkness. Their proton packs scattered. The Clan of Neuri found them. See if you can spot the Tardis as well. All of the game's treasure is done in Lego as well, so you can accessorize your minifig with bespoke treasures. That all fits into a chest of drawers I built to go with it.

And finally, a fully-functioning Zardoz head stands in for the Adversarial Quest marker.

This is a fun game solo. Really nothing much is lost playing this one solo.

My parents had the original Dark Tower. I found it in their closet one day as a child, despite the Satanic Panic of that era. That's why I 1980s fantasy:sci-fi themed it. This is me reclaiming a childhood lost to the taint of religion. I don't recommend the stuff if you can avoid it.

I saw this revised version in an episode of South Park and knew it must be mine.

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