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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 18/06/2026

thanks ☺️ @toaugust.bsky.social for tagging, and congrats 🥳 on 1.4K Lynx! i’m FFE, back to making art after a long time away—mostly colorful abstracts and landscapes with real or digital paint. 🎨 i love all sorts of human-made art and hope to dabble in much more before my dabbling time runs out! 🖤

Colorful landscape painting in which a thick trunked deciduous tree dominates the foreground, set against a low hillside in the distance. The sunlight is coming in low and from the right, lighting the face of the tree in gold and pink hues. The thin strip of sky between the heavy-laden lower boughs and the hillside is bright cerulean blue to the right and darkens somewhat to the left as the hillside rises. Atop that hill to the left of the tree is a distant, squat, nondescript building with a flat roof and a single entrance, from which a narrow path descends, winding down the hillside toward the viewer and disappearing off the bottom of the canvas. The shadows between the boughs and in the contours of the hillside are a deep blue, sometimes blue-green, complementing the golds and pinks on the tree’s well-lit right face.

abstract streaks and washes of color permeate the canvas. The dominant colors of the background are swirling layers violet, black and magenta. A streak of teal interrupts this backdrop coming in from the left and breaking up before it can stretch across the canvas. Other lighter streaky artifacts of this teal shade appear here and there. Pools of yellow and lime green radiate in from the top and bottom right

A tall piece of pixel art, with a simple blocking cityscape silhouette at the bottom against a curbing backdrop of Green Hills. The other 90% of the canvas is taken up by a tall dark cloudbank over a thin light strip of sky. The cloudbank is ominous and laced with yellow branches of lightning, one of which is striking the hillside on the left bottom edge of the canvas.

On a 4 x 4 inch canvas, abstract vertical streaks of color appear to suggest the dark trunks of trees clustered together against the backdrop of a warm red-orange sunrise or sunset, its “light” barely peeking through a few of the “treetops” in the upper half of the canvas. Acrylic paint is layered thickly on the canvas creating vertical ridges and webbed tendrils branching off of these—all of which are highlighted with thin drips and dots in various shades of green, yellow, and crimson. The overall effect is of a web or network of glowing tendrils overlaid against a shadowy thicket of vertical strokes partially backlit by a fiery burst of color in the upper center.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 15/06/2026

bonus bear friend pic, and i wish the same 🖤 “what is watering can, what is any of this?”

A small black bear has wandered into a residential yard and is sniffing a green plastic flower-watering can which is positioned next to a weathered wooden swing, and a speck of yellow flower-bloom is visible in the bottom left.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 12/06/2026

wise take—it can be dangerous out in these Appalachian forests! a small bear (not poisonous) visited our backyard last week, just steps away from where the forest pic was taken!

A young black bear is exploring a grassy human yard, viewed from above between the wooden rails of a deck, and framed in the background by a wooden swing, some yellow flowers, and a green plastic flower watering can.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 12/06/2026

no time for #art this week unless you count frying the heck out of this pic with iPhone filters “corrupted sunset” 9 Jun 2026 hoping for some painting or pixel-art time over the weekend—happy Friday! #forestfriday #scape #phonetography #surreal #abstractphotography #pareidolia #trees

Portrait-oriented photo of a forest at sunset has been turned on its side and displayed in landscape orientation, and filtered such that the colors are saturated and altered: drab green leaves at the bottom reach upward toward bright green leaves that dangle down from the top. In the middle ground, more foliage as seen as through a haze, shades of violet against the pink and blood orange saturated light piercing through in specks from the background. A fragment of pink treetrunk frames the top left corner, balanced by a tuft of pink shrub-branches poking out from the middle of the right border. The otherworldly colors and orientation may invite one to view it almost as an abstract photo, or to locate instances of pareidolia in the patterns made by the leaves and branches, and the patches of surreal, oversaturated light peeking through.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 09/06/2026

late #rainbow for #pixel_dailies, plus a big 💖 Thank You 💖 for 800+! had fun learning Pixquare animation, but it took a bit—and then a bit longer to mellow out the flashing-lights effects in the 1st version. please take care nonetheless if you’re sensitive to strobing effects, and Thanks 😊 again!

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 03/06/2026

great and thought-provoking capture! had in mind a similar juxtaposition while painting “stars / bars” last July and hope you don’t mind me sharing it with you here (a rather overwrought version of some things you’ve evoked much more elegantly with your photo i think)

A portrait-oriented surreal landscape, evoking an image of the American flag hung lengthwise with the “stars” portion top-right.

Unlike a perfect square with 50 evenly-placed white stars, this bit stabs into the frame at an angle, as if half of an elongated blue diamond (the other half being out of frame). The inside of the half-diamond appears to evoke a room split diagonally down the center, as if the bottom-right is the “floor” & the top-left a “wall.” On the floor, 25 identical white stars stand in 4 rows, filling the visible space: 9 in front, then 8, 6, & 2. The top-left, “wall” portion is covered by a silver-framed mirror, in which another 25 stars show. Though these seem to reflect the floor, the rows don’t match: the mirror has 7 rows, irregular numbers of stars in each. Also reflected is the bottom corner of a window, maybe on an opposite wall out of frame). This area hovers surreally above the landscape below, integral yet disconnected, separated from the rest by a thin, light-blue line.

The rest of the scene is dominated & defined by 7 thick, warped metallic “bars” in the foreground—vertical like the flag’s stripes—& by bits of surreal landscape peeking out from behind them. The bottom half is thick with row upon row of red & blue abstract humans—so similar as to seem identical—grouped by color to form additional “stripes” of the implied flag, alternating with and alienated from one another by the silver bars. Left to right the human stripes are: red, blue, red, blue, red, blue.

Above this field of colorful humanity behind bars, the horizon line curves away, showing four structures out past the people, under a peach, orange, & sickly yellow-green sky. Left to right, these structures are: a large blue-gray featureless cube, concertina wire running across its top; two brick-colored factories or power plants, a smokestack atop each corner of their roofs, spewing gray-white smoke into the dramatic sky, & finally a large golden building with a huge golden …

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 03/06/2026

had just enough time for a quick abstract today “watching it fall” oils w/ palette knife 2 Jun 2026 #art #abstractart #oils #humanartist #abstractexpressionism #painting

square abstract expressionist canvas in which a background of mottled red and pink has been applied with palette knife, upon which a few brighter, wide, pink strokes of palette knife have been applied. In a couple of places, the wider pink strokes are sliced through energetically, revealing the red beneath. Similarly energetic strokes of palette knife appear to have applied a cluster of several vertical bright green lines, tilting this way and that, some of them appearing to topple over to the right. The leftmost green lines appears to be blown apart by an energetic upward-diagonal knife stroke through their lower halves, and splatters of bright green dot the top, right, and bottom edges of the canvas.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 01/06/2026

dreading a Very Bad Unavoidable Thing tomorrow (today) and can’t sleep (but at least there’s #art) “nightmare fuel” 1 Jun 2026 #oilpainting w/palette knife #art #abstractexpressionism #painting #abstractart #arttherapy #intuitiveart

Abstract expressionist square canvas in which the top 2/3 of the canvas in shades of red, pink and black appears to descend upon or wrap itself over the bottom third, a melange of light blues and yellows overtaken by stray smears of red and pink. Palette knife strokes are varied and decisive, leading to an overall chaotic look.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 31/05/2026

bit late with #thunder for #pixel_dailies, been thinking about it and finally found the time today! hope to keep working on this medium more over the summer—it’s challenging and fun, and i have much to learn! #art #pixelart

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 30/05/2026

back to #art time today, at last! took a risk with this painting i already liked, pushed in some blues and… maybe? (getting better at art seems to involve a fair bit of messing things up) 30 May 2026 oils on 2” x 3” magnet-backed canvas #BlueSkyArtShow #Growth #oilpainting #scape #landscape

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 28/05/2026

admiring our small yarrow patch in the sunset this evening + playing with photo crops and iPhone filters #art #photography #iPhonephoto #digitalphoto #nature #yarrow #appalachia

Monotone style photo but with a blue-violet color filter, in which a patch of white yarrow flowers is blooming against a sunset that’s filtered through neighboring trees. The bursts of tiny white flowers and characteristic feen-like fluffy green leaf fronds are lit up brilliantly by the angle of low sun, against a shaded, soft focus background.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 27/05/2026

not been painting, posting or keeping up with notifs for a bit now, but soon i’ll clean up this desk and spend some time catching up on bsky. thanks to all 💚 who’ve followed or encouraged my return to art— i’m thinking up something(s) special in case i get to 800, 900, 1000 ☺️ —and more ART 🎨 soon!

A very messy art desk, paint-smeared tools and paint tubes strewn all over it and the many-colored artifact smudges from previous paint projects are covering the surface. A couple of small half-finished canvases lie abandoned near the top and the scenario generally does not look conducive for picking them up and finishing them until some cleaning and organizing gets done!

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 23/05/2026

this 2026 sketchbook-painting has been posted once already in cropped form, but here’s the full page of it for #BlueSkyArtShow #Tall #art #sketchbook #painting #oilpainting

Sketchbook page with a simple landscape painted with oils. Red-orange mountain peaks rise high against a yellow-orange sky, their tops framed by a burst of yellow sunlight. A lone, dark-trunked tree rises almost impossibly high against this background, with several tiny tufts of blue foliage attached to its tapered highest reaches.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 22/05/2026

thanks to all for the encouraging likes and comments on this #pixelart attempt 💚 you motivated me to keep working on it and i’m having fun :) #art #pixquare #chalice

this image is largely the same as the original post but i attempted to improve the shading and light throughout the image: deeper shadows on the stone walls, better gradations of value throughout.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 22/05/2026

just a glimpse inside my dark universe of absent-minded silliness (the predictable consequences of resting a guitar in an art chair) #oOps #GuitarStandsDoExist

Photo of the back of a wooden acoustic guitar-body showing a line of smeared yellow paint that seems out of place on the reflective surface. Reflected in the glossy finish of the wood, we see the object that is also in the foreground of the photo: a painting surface with smears of many-colored paint—but most notably a large yellow smear, against which the guitar was obviously left resting during an absent-minded moment.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 21/05/2026

today i painted over a ‘bad’ (failed) canvas from a few months ago, just enjoying the colors and textures oil on small magnetic canvas w/palette knife & bamboo skewer #art #abstractart #painting #oils #abstractexpressionist #green

Square canvas with expressionistic strokes of palette knife and bamboo skewer overlapping in shades of viridian, light green, and yellow to create a varied, organic flow of textures like mud, bark and stone.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 21/05/2026

quick messy paint before bed because sleep is not materializing #art #abstractart #abstractexpressionist

abstract expressionist painting on a square canvas. A peach-hued arched shape with yellow highlights streaks across the top left of the canvas, extending from the bottom left corner to the top right. Below this, across the bottom edge of the canvas, yellow and black flame-like streaks are interspersed with a few bright red flame like streaks, and above these in the right upper corner are alrernating diagonal streaks of garnet, turquoise and jade

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 21/05/2026

been itching to try pixel art but last time i messed with it was 1980something on a Commodore 64 and it shows 😆 fun experiment but a lot to learn! one more free try before the app paywalls, so i’ll give it another shot later #art #pixelart #chalice #sketchbook

64 x 64 pixel art of a green chalice sitting on a wooden table in a room with stone walls and two arched doorways. A torch placed on one of the walls casts dappled light on the walls and reflects on the rim and base of the chalice.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 20/05/2026

two takes on #RedWed for #ColorADay now i’ve run out of little circles for paint-smooshing, so it’ll be on squares and rectangles for a while #art #abstractart #painting #oils #abstractexpressionist

Two small circular canvases painted in expressionistic streaks of red and black. The lower canvas also contains some bright pink highlights toward the center. They are positioned upon a white background that bears the artifact-marks of the painting process: black and red palette knife scrapes, smears and smudges. The upper canvas is rougher and darker, with more black smears and scrapes over the deep red background. The lower canvas is brighter with more fluid swoops and swirls but still marred by a few more linear shadowy streaks and splotches.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 20/05/2026

got u - from the digital sketchbook late last year #badart

Sketchy cartoonish drawing of a purple individual with a huge misshapen head sporting two gigantic misaligned eyes and three fanged mouths appearing to smile with all 3 mouths and give a cheerful thumbs-up toward the viewer. One of their eyes is trained toward the viewer and the other is peering off toward the right.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 18/05/2026

thank you @nomskic.bsky.social ☺️ here’s a 30sec timelapse of the 67mins (a lot of it spent smudging and blending things, or chaotically trying to lay down a thin wavy line ‘just-so’)

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 18/05/2026

hour of sketchbook-style fiddling today, unsure whether it’s giving ‘Nice Day For A Sail’ or ‘Disaster at Sea’ #art #digitalart #sketch #intuitiveart #abstractart #digitalsketch

Portrait oriented abstract sketch in digital marker. The bottom border of the canvas is painted a deep oceanic blue while above this the middle third is an arcing beige strip contoured with a couple of horizontally meandering brown lines. Above this the top half of canvas is sky blue with white streaks. The points of two concentric triangles stab in from the upper right like the tips of daggers, a red point superimposed over a larger orange point. It’s implied this is a light source, as there are figurative cloud-shapes hanging in midair to its left that appear to be lit orange on their right edges and shadowed in violet on their left. Superimposed over all this are several bold expressionistic lines: a small curving black waveform at the center, a larger orange waveform spreading across the middle of the canvas and a bright yellow waveform below this one, undulating downward off the bottom of the canvas into the deep blue. Think sketchy lines of color trace each of these waveforms intermittently along their full lengths, adding some dimensionality but equally abstract.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 18/05/2026

😅 food for thought: 4-second timelapse of 7-minute process (fast) on second thought maybe don’t watch if you’re trying to fall asleep 🤣

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 18/05/2026

can’t sleep so i loaded up the marker tool in Procreate Pocket to tell it to a digital canvas; been missing color lately this helped, feeling sleepy now “insomnia” 18 May 2026 #art #quickart #abstractecpressionist #abstractart #digitalart #digitalpainting

Portrait oriented digital canvas in bright solid colors. Wedge-like patches of color alternate at angles to one another, creating a variegated patchwork background. Over this colorful background, an indistinct magenta shape is overlaid and thickly outlined in black. It might be said to vaguely resemble the magenta silhouette of a human head and neck.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 17/05/2026

thank you @sarahumm.bsky.social! here it is wearing a few more filters too ☺️

same image as in original post but the orange is darkened to a deep crimson.

Same image as original post but the orange paper appears pink and the blue-grey reads as lilac.

Same image as in original post but the orange reads as gold and the blue-gray as pale yellow.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 17/05/2026

making these can be a calming process and i don’t do them often enough (the last time i made a bunch at once was sometime around 1992) #art #collage #coloraday #orangesun #symmetry

paper collage—bluegray construction paper on orange construction paper. The blue gray sheet has been cut into a a somewhat intricate filigree-like pattern, symmetrical and decorative, and stands out in mild relief against the bright orange background, separated from it by thin lines of shadow.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 15/05/2026

“waiting for a written invitation” 15 May 2026 (the light and shadow in this corner of the waiting room were just sending me) #art #photography #digitalphoto #BWFri #coloraday #iphonephoto

Black and white photo of an upper corner of a waiting room, about 2/3 ceiling and 1/3 wall. Part of a large rectangular fluorescent light fixture is visible at the top right—casting a bright light outward from its translucent longer sides and casting into shadow everything behind its closed-off shorter ends. Near the top left, a generic, lighted EXIT sign hangs suspended from the ceiling, its three visible faces tracing the value-palette of light and shadow in the photo: the lettered side is bright, lit directly by the nearby fluorescent light fixture; the bottom edge of the sign is charcoal; and the edge on the left is a muted grey. These darker side edges offset the sign perfectly set it off from the bright wall behind it, which is darkened only by the shadowy umbra and penumbrae cast on it by the EXIT sign itself. The celing corner of the room, at the lower right, is cast in dark shadow.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 15/05/2026

made myself late to therapy today by painting this, which feels like ticking off some kind of artist achievement “coal country” 15 May 2026 #art #scape #BWFri #coloraday #landscape #expressionist #surreal #oils #painting #arttherapy #appalachia

expressionistic landscape in black and white oil paints in which rocky, mountainous terrain rises before the viewer. The viewer appears to be standing close to the top of some outcropping, past the edge of which another distant bleak gray mountainside rises in the distance under a hazy gray sky. The outcropping on which the viewer appears to be standing rises to the left, cradling at its top Haisley rend

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 14/05/2026

trouble winding down for sleep so i smeared paint on a yellow file folder #art #coloraday #yellowthu #abstractart #oils #painting

Expressionistic landscape scene appearing to depict a yellow orb setting or rising behind scattered greenish clouds in a darkened blue sky—over a body of water reflecting the cloud-covered yellow orb—with tall light green foliage surrounding the edges of the water and reflecting therein.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 13/05/2026

want to do art, but must do work first :( more #watercolor fiddling from yesterday “reflecting pool” 12 May 2026 #art #sketchbook #watercolors #RedWed #ColorADay #abstractart

Simple watercolor sketch featuring a banded red-orange-yellow sky with red at the top and yellow at the bottom, the bands forming concentric “V” shapes pointing toward the bottom of the canvas near the center. Close to the point of that “V”, a thick straight two-toned line of paint bisects the canvas—the left half of the line in black paint and the right half in grey. This line or shape tapers slightly toward the bottom or fans out slightly toward the top, depending on one’s perspective.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 13/05/2026

picked up #watercolors to try today mixed results this time but looking forward to more experiments w/them #art #sketchbook #clouds #coloraday #BlueTue #watercolor #painting

Watercolor painting of a rippling cloud bank, cast in indigo shadows and lime green light.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 12/05/2026

everything has been frustrating but eff it i made this blue circle #art #coloraday #bluetue #painting #oils #abstractart

A small round canvas against a wooden background. The canvas is covered with gently gradated shades of blue, lighter on the left and darker on the right. A few dark blue streaks rise up a short distance from the bottom of the circle like abstract foliage or stalagmites.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 08/05/2026

managed a better photo of this one, the colors are truer to the irl painting related note, wow, taking decent photos of paintings is not easy also: this thing is just 2” x 3” — eensy

The same image as in the original post, but with less reflective sheen from the flash and a truer representation of the colors including more depth of pink- and peach-hued light in addition to the bright yellow.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 08/05/2026

“another visit to the wound museum” 7 May 2026 (staying up late doing silly things with paint on little magnetic canvases) #sketch #intuitiveart #abstractart

a square canvas is arrayed with pink splotches around its borders, alternating with grey spaces between them. This border design tapers slightly toward the center, creating a mild but inconsistent effect of depth receding toward the center of the canvas, where a small plum colored square of splotchy scabrous paint is ringed with larger concentric squares of brown. This concentric effect is created with chaotically placed angular grey scratch-marks in a large square field of smooth brown paint surrounding the smaller textured plum square at the center.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 07/05/2026

thank you @luiscordoba.bsky.social …would you believe it started as an abstract in black and pink? this is what it looked like when i went to sleep last night:

abstract expressionist canvas in landscape orientation, smears of bright pink over black and grey with scratches, ripples and other textures applied via palette knife

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 07/05/2026

“oil to blood exchange rate” 6 May 2026 quick one as #RedWed winds down bc i’m in a mood and had to paint it out #art #abstractart #painting #oils

On a portrait oriented canvas, various shades of red have been applied with a palette knife, leaving raised ridges, streaks and pools of paint forming a rough, uneven texture. Atop this texture, long, thin slashes and small patches of black have been applied with the edge of a palette knife, resembling cuts or at times directional spatters.

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far-from-equilibrium @far-from-equilibrium.com · 06/05/2026

for #RedWed “oil” & “red seascape” STILL only partially dry after many weeks of watching & waiting #art #ColorADay #oil #red #abstractart

portrait oriented canvas covered in crimson paint that has had a palette knife dragged through it in sinuous expressionistic vertical strokes—leaving an array of tangled, shadowy vertical folds and striations like the texture of rumpled thin fabric, or the fibers of muscle tissue.

expressionistic red seascape on a square canvas, with a thin line of yellow crossing the middle at the horizon, and thin striations of yellow light feathered through the looming, heavily textured red clouds above. The sea itself is red and choppy, reflecting little of the yellow accents of light above.

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