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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 01/07/2026

Reminder that it is “don’t leave unopened Diet Pepsi in the car” hot outside.

Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 10/06/2026

Thinking about: •Keith Haring (even more than baseline, which is already probably top 90% thinkings about Keith Haring) thanks to @cscprojects.bsky.social •Color & outline •Cave painting, graffiti, & tagging •What a pretentious git I can be •Breaking free

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 08/06/2026

Little experiment in art from the Holo-scene.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 25/05/2026

All day I dream about deserts

A photo of a desert scene drawn on a scrap of wood

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 14/05/2026

Forgot to share a new clay thing in progress: untitled balloon project

Photo of unfired clay that hopefully looks like a latex balloon.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 07/05/2026

I showed @luckyjorabbit.bsky.social my first round of tea pets (opossum & whale) and got a whole list of suggestions back, so here’s the first of those before they dry and get a little cleanup and then go on to bisque: Coyote & Cactus

A photo of two rough, unfired clay figures, a coyote on the left and a cactus on the right.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 03/05/2026

I mean, if the Daily Whire needs new ownership, I hear Tim Onion is doing great things with similar mastheads. @bencollins.bsky.social

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 03/05/2026

Look, skull-ghoulies don’t have many marketable skills aside from stabbing, so you can’t blame ‘em. In any event, your money, or your life?

A photo of a skull-ghoulie holding a dagger, and asking, “💰 or 🔪❤️,”, drawn in sharpie on cardboard

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 02/05/2026

Some days nothing feels right except making a little skull-head ghoulie out of scraps. Hope you’re having a good weekend.

A photo of a little skull-headed ghoul holding a sword made out of cardboard scraps.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 29/04/2026

“xerostomia” 2026 cardboard & glue Dropped off my piece for the With Love PIZZA BOX ART SHOW, Sat May 2, 6-9pm @ Eastside Pizza House inside the Collective Food Hall OKC. It’s entirely made of cut/ripped/sanded cardboard w a little bit of glue. No paint, I dumpster-dove for all those colors, baby.

A white pizza box, with an open mouth, cut out of cardboard on top of it, revealing teeth, and a desert night scene, with mesas, a monument, an arch, some plants, and a crescent moon, clouds, and stars, all made of cardboard.

The back of the pizza box, signed “not a real ghost 2026,” with the trademark cyclops-ghost, here made from various levels of cut and exposed corrugation above it.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 27/04/2026

It’s oppressive and feels inevitable, as do so many things right now, but we must continue to work against it. My little piece here is inspired by one of the May 68 posters, by an unknown artist from the Atelier Populaire. L’imagination au pouvoir (Power to the imagination) 2/2

A wrench growing from the ground with a leaf, a paintbrush, a tomato, and a pencil growing from it.
The words:
BUILD
PAINT
WRITE
GROW
LIVE
to the left of the wrench-plant.
The words “HUMAN INTELLIGENCE” underneath.

A poster from the French May 68 protests by an unknown artist from the Atelier Populaire.
A wrench growing from the ground with leaves, and the words, “unité ouvriers paysans” (worker-peasant unity) to the left.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 14/04/2026

tigres de papel / paper tigers Riso prints $10 each, 8.5”x 11”, card stock sleeved msg or ask Echo at @thefloatingbookshop.com

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 05/04/2026

Splurged a little at the art store’s big sale and got a different brand of acrylic marker than usual. So far, I dig ‘em, and I love the fact that they come with replacement nibs on the cap.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 31/03/2026

Still working on this fake origami tiger. It’s getting there.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 25/03/2026

Paper boat made it through bisque. This is not code language.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 20/03/2026

I don’t draw humans (even cartoony ones) very often bc I don’t think I’m very good at it (I know, I know, the only way to get better is to do it more), but I did this Tank Girl today while procrastinating at the shop, and I like it. Anyway, here’s “Tank Girl Rules (for Barb)”

An acrylic marker drawing of Tank Girl holding a bat behind her back.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 19/03/2026

the pain of nostalgia comes from the memory of a time when you believed the brokenness of the world could be fixed

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 16/03/2026

Am I continuing to work on an iconography? Am I just imitating? Am I stagnating? fuck art, let’s dance

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 16/03/2026

“Every soul is like a tiny drop, without which the whole world thirsts; or abstraction of genocide” Apologies to Corita Kent & Ugo Betti

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 02/03/2026

Project ceramic paper boat is progressing nicely

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 25/02/2026

These three will be part of the Re-Art! Show at Flora Bodega Friday, Mar 6, 6-9pm, along w/ art using repurposed materials by a bunch of other fantastic artists. (Clockwise from top left: “Unimplemented Trap 1.0”, “the sea was calling me home”, & “lluvia de estrellas sobre el condado de Coconino”)

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 06/02/2026

Slow morning at the shop, late shipment, and a new “textbook” to study drawing the sea (along with the need to make art to combat general despair) means a little experiment that… sorta works?

A photo of an origami boat with pink and black acrylic marker drawings on it.

A photo of a piece of paper with a scene of an origami boat on the sea with a large cloud behind it in pink and black acrylic marker.

A photo of Tony Millionaire’s Sea Monsters Coloring Book and a blank piece of paper.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 08/01/2026

Inspired by seeing Combat Rock at Louie, Louie, a local record store, and absolutely nothing else, whydoyouask? RIP RNG

A photo of a B&W drawing of a cat(?) whose mouth is open WIDE with a tongue hanging out and the words “KNOW YOUR RIGHTS” in its mouth.

A photo of CDs on display with The Clash’s Combat Rock in the upper center

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 08/01/2026

“To call murderers monsters is unfair to monsters” A drawing borne of grief, sadness, and fear.

A photo of a sketchbook page with seven little drawings of monsters with the text “TO CALL MURDERERS MONSTERS” at the top and “IS UNFAIR TO MONSTERS”

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 07/01/2026

Skeeting into the void. But I’m in Portugal right now and must go back very soon. Wondering what and why. I’m getting news in fits and starts and questions from people here and it’s all unbelievable. It’s all so damn cruel.

A drawing of a baobab tree and some other flora with a moon and bao🍺bab porto written between the moon and the tree.
Plus there’s a little beer visible above the drawing.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 07/01/2026

Realized this morning that I hadn’t drawn at all so far this year, and this little snake-ghost cat was in my dreams last night, so here we are. Here’s to a 2026 that’s, at the very least, different.

A drawing of a snake-ghost cat in a twirled, spring-like form floating(?) or jumping (?) next to or into an armchair.
Black Posca on paper.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 11/12/2025

“System Installation (v1.0)” Acrylic on 3.5” floppy (Wanna get that gesso smoother. Or figure something else out, but the raw plastic does NOT like acrylic)

A weird, comic strip-esque desert scene in acrylic paint on a 3.5 inch floppy disc

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 10/12/2025

Prepping some experiments over here in Ghost Town.

A black 3.5 inch floppy disc and a white one on top of some scrap paper with a watery initial coat of clear gesso, along with a paint brush in a jar and the container of said gesso.

A black 3.5 inch floppy disc and a white one on top of some scrap paper with a second coat of clear gesso, along with a paint brush in the container of said gesso.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 05/12/2025

Lil Krampus silhouette I did for the signup sheet for the KRAMPUSNACHT open mic @thefloatingbookshop.com

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 01/12/2025

This little kobold has been hanging around in my brain for a couple days, so I thought I’d let them out.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 30/11/2025

Dispatches from the tiny desert at night

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 29/11/2025

Morning warmup sketches, format inspired by @dethpsun.bsky.social’s “stamps”

Little “stamp” desert landscape pen sketches

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 25/11/2025

Today in art questions that sound like zen koan shitposts. Trying to be here, instead of in a hospital 4,600 miles away.

A series of cartoon-ish mesas with an eye in the middle of each in various stages of opening and closing, and the written words, “HOW DO LIDLESS EYES CLOSE?”

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 24/11/2025

Character designs for a story about guilt and grief and the end of the world.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 02/11/2025

Felt like sharing the shibboleth. Might delete later.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 01/11/2025

I’m at an undisclosed location having a ranch water, listening to the Cramps and putting the finishing touches on “la persistència del temps perdut.” Once I get a clear coat on it, it’ll be for sale, $20 (plus shipping) with all $20 going to local mutual aid groups.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 31/10/2025

It’s been another sloooow morning at the shop (*sigh*), but it does mean I’ve had time to work on one of the tiny paintings I’ll be selling to raise money for local mutual aid groups and food pantries. Progress shot of “la persistència del temps perdut” with a quarter for scale.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 31/10/2025

Planning out paintings for some scrapwood I’ve got. These will be about 2.5x3” or so. Once they’re done, I’ll put them up for sale here and on instagram, with all the money (minus postage) going to local mutual aid orgs and food pantries.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 19/10/2025

4 Hold my hand 7 Steal my thumb and I’ll steal yours

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 15/10/2025

Coming to the @carefulkittybooks.com table at OKC Zinefest (and maybe @slicexpo.bsky.social if I can get it done in time): A MURDER, a little one page booklet horror comic I storyboarded this morning.

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Not a real ghost @notarealghost.com · 06/09/2025

I’m calling my tree for the Canopy Art Center show done and varnishing it! Come see it, and trees from dozens and dozens of other amazing artists at Canopy in OKC’s District for the opening Thursday night, Live on the Plaza Friday night, or the Plaza District Festival on Sept 27 from noon to 11.

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