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Peter Beckley Art

@peterbeckleyart.com
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🎨 I make art - prints, apparel, stickers available Fun stuff: www.peterbeckleyart.com Coastal Stuff: www.saltandcerulean.com ℹ️I share low-quality/watermarked versions of my art to deter misuse

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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 03/10/2026
Often, ur closest peeps will crush your confidence and divert you from the purpose you feel in your core w/best of intentions. Push back!. Don't tell most people to start...no greater feeling telling someone your plans, them replying you can't achieve them, and you replying, "I already did" #advice
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 28/09/2026
My remaining dates for this market: Oct 4, 8, 25, and Nov 1, 8, and 22. Several commission spots open if you want my style art of your favorite burger, or ingredients on a drippy slice of pizza, your favorite candy, or your favorite childhood toy or gaming console, then I'm your guy! LIB
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 27/09/2026
It's very chic, very mindful. #supporthearts #supportsmallbusiness #shopsmall #shoplocal
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 26/09/2026
I can't show you my latest commission because it's a xmas gift, but I can show you the palette I mixed to paint it. #art #palette #wip #peterbeckleyart
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 21/09/2026
RIP Peter Max #art #PeterMax apnews.com/article/pete...
Peter Max poses during a 2014 Retrospective with the Road Show Company in Northbrook, IL. Photo by Barry Brecheisen
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 21/09/2026
Sorry folks, no Wrightsville Beach market for me today; stomach bug. However, working on website to open commissions of deconstructed burger, bagel/sub sandwich, or pizza slices. Lots of these from markets, so I want to make them available to rest of you fun weirdos ✌️💛🍕 #art #foodart #pizza #burgers
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 19/09/2026
I'm much more interested in this part than the whole Macklemore bit. Sheeran is a coward, for sure. Courage is doing the right thing even when you have everything to lose. I'm much more interested in this part than the whole Macklemore bit. #art #opinion 1/
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 11/09/2026
Okay, time to reveal some new fun mini paintings that will be available tomorrow at the American Craft Walk in downtown Wilmington, North Carolina from 10-5p Show up early, these go quickly! #art #halloween #paintings #happyfallyall
May contain: four paintings of black cats. Two with pumpkins, one with a fish in its mouth, and one sniffing a stack of books.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 11/09/2026
The American Craft Walk is Saturday, Sep 12 and the forecast has been improving over time. I'll have new silly originals and more of my art than you're used to seeing at shows You'll want to be in downtown Wilmington and seek me out in front of Front Street Brewery right at 10a! #artfestival #art
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 29/08/2026
"I use AI to make references, but I do the artwork" 🤢🤮 That's just lame. Baking sheet, clip lamp, gummy bears, and mobile phone. ZAM! If you outsource the developing your references, do I trust you're not outsourcing the art? Reference photos also great option. Tons of them online.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 22/08/2026
Myth: You need tons of experience before you put yourself out there. Truth: I started with minimal experience as an artist and learned everything by doing. I've no degree, and have had jobs wildly different from this. Why it matters: Waiting to be “ready” keeps more people stuck than unqualified.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 18/08/2026
My number one tip for artists just starting out -> CLOCK IN! If you want art to be your job, then start treating it like your job. 1/3
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 17/08/2026
Hey, Hi, Hello! Can I get real for a minute? I had surgery on Tuesday. I've missed a lot of markets while recovering. I need your help. Come to the market Aug 17 8a-1p, buy my artwork; I need recoup. I really need my peeps to show up. Instead you can buy something from my website, link in bio. 🫶
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 08/08/2026
Bagging up prints takes time. I typically create "kits" when my supplies come in so I can get right to the bagging, but I ran out part way through this time so you can see me making more part way through. #timelapse #art #bts
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 01/08/2026
Did I jump on the #Jimothy bandwagon? Sure. I did this a week ago, but am only now getting around to posting it because life is getting in the of the art a bit. #timelapse
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 27/07/2026
All of my cat paintings sold today, but I still have some wonderful coastal sunrise paintings that you can find in Kure Beach tomorrow at the market.
Black cat with narrowed yellow eyes peeks over a row of colorful book spines on a wooden shelf, painted on textured canvas in a small square composition, creating a playful, watchful mood.Young woman smiling on a narrow urban street, posing to showcase a black T-shirt with four yellow window-like panes and a small cat silhouette at the hem, wearing round glasses and holding the edge of her light skirt.may contain: a painting of a cat with a fish in its mouth with a gold background
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 25/07/2026
Time to make the prints for the shows. Trimming them down takes forever because I don't have a guillotine, just a straight edge and a cutting wheel.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 17/07/2026
I wonder what delicious candy I putting the zim to the zam next? #autumn #art #digital #illustration #artsky #foodart #candy
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 02/07/2026
and now for something completely different
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 25/06/2026
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 24/06/2026
Fuck gen ai, and you lame ass useless losers trying to justify not learning to do shit for yourself.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 22/06/2026
Looking back at some 2020 photos and I was already playing around with the idea of creating food art, but this is way before I got brave enough to paint a slice of pizza. This is one of my reference photos. #art #reference #behindthescenes #inthestudio
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 16/06/2026
Doing the thing is the point of the thing. If you used genAI, you used genAI. That's all you did. You didn't do the thing. You didn't draw or paint the picture, design the logo, write the words or play the music. You did nothing creative. You created nothing.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 12/06/2026
RIP David Hockney
Photo of David Hockney standing in front of his painting, The Arrival of Spring in Woldgate, East Yorkshire in 2011 (twenty eleven)
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 10/06/2026
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 30/05/2026
A new delicious floating burger painting is finished. Weather on Sunday should be nice enough for me to bring to the downtown Wilmington, NC market for sale, but the other days look like rain is possible. #art #burgers #historicwilmingtondowntownmarketplace #artsky #wilmingtonnc #foodart
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 29/05/2026
Reference material purchased for some upcoming art. I still can't believe this is my job! The fish will be a sloppy illustration similar to my retro tech/gaming consoles. The bears will be an actual fine art painting. I've been talking about both this past week at markets.
a photograph of my studio work table with paint tubes, markers, and packages of Swedish fish and gummy bears.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 28/05/2026
A supporter on Ko-fi just broke my brain and funded my goal for a new easel and suggested I update my goal for other things I need. THANK YOU!
a screen shot from my ko-fi account showing that someone just fully funded my previous goal of $250 for a new easel, so I've updated the goal purpose at their suggestion to include some booth display hardware I need.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 19/05/2026
My job is insane some days! Your continued support of my wacky art journey blows my mind each and every time you buy my #art. Today it allowed me to purchase some reference materials from the grocery store! When I meet people, they bring up all kinds of fun new food art ideas. I'm working on it! 🫶
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 17/05/2026
🔴 SOLD! This fun little original drawing found a new home on Saturday at the 2nd Annual Carolina Beach Mural Festival! Thank you so much for purchase and support of my art business
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 15/05/2026
It's CRAP. #noai #stoptheslop
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 14/05/2026
As you may know, I don't just paint silly whimsical pop-surrealist stuff, but also a lot of #coastal stuff. Where I live, it's a practical set of subjects to earn a living. Here's a lil sum'in I'm cooking up, "A Small Gathering" (8x48" #acrylics) #art #artsky #painting #wip
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 08/05/2026
A couple of rad people hit me up for pop-surrealism food #art. I've closed my commissions for a little while, but keep checking back to find out when they're open again! Thank you to everyone who stops by my booth to say hi and pick up a little fun, weird art from me. I'm so grateful for all of you!
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 07/05/2026
That "Gleaming Pink" from Montana is intense! This is just the first coat. Yes, I made the studio lighting blue because I thought it might fluoresce...I was right!
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 28/04/2026
Mural Fest is coming up May 16-17. LIVE MURAL PAINTING, DJ, and Food Trucks. You guys already bought like 98% of the originals I painted this winter. THANK YOU! So, I'm busy painting silly food art. Come see me! (I'm only there the 16th, but I will also have coastal art) #art #murals #festival
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 15/04/2026
Yes, I will have coastal artwork at Art in the Park in Myrtle Beach, SC this weekend, but I'll also have some of the quirky whimsical stuff, too! #art #awaymission #artsky #artmarket
A product shot of a brightly colored kitchen with a framed version of my "Tacodillo" art work on the wall. It's a stylized illustrated combination of an armadillo and a taco. Hot sauce is dribbling down the taco, his head, his nose, and onto the floor.a product shot in a kitchen with retro vibes. A framed version of my "Cupcake Snake" is on the wall. It's a stylized illustration of a red velvet cupcake, but the butter cream frosting is a coiled pale python.A product photo of a large framed version of my "Sloppy Game Boy" artwork leaning against the wall. This style of illustration, something I'm known for, gives the object a melty or drippy look, but it also breaks the rules of perspective by making it appear the background color (in this case bright "nintendo red") is dripping over the illustration.a product photo of a poster featuring my artwork "sloppy pizza". It's a stylized illustration of a cheesy drippy slice of pepperoni pizza on a striking saturated blue background.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 10/04/2026
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 09/04/2026
So many bright, happy, silly prints ready for my next big event at Poplar Grove near Wilmington, NC. You can also buy prints on my website: www.peterbeckleyart.com #art #artsky
A behind the scenes photo of a group of prints of my artwork laid out on a table in my studio space. Hot dogs, pizza, burgers, cupcakes, gaming consoles, donuts, and so much more!My art brand logo. How fucking pretentious! Features a stylized smiling face that looks like me, with the tag line "come get the weird stuff" I call my art weird only because an old lady was once in my booth looking at all my artwork, saw the silly stuff and said, "oh this is weird, I don't like it." I just embraced it instead of running away from it.product shot of my "Eat me" hot dog stickers. The mustard spells out that phase. The whole graphic is very simple in its style, with flat colors. A very simple ad-style with thick, variable black lines.A product photo of my "F-Bomb" hoodie which features a small version of my "face logo" on the front, and a big graphic illustration of a bomb on the back. The bomb is overlaying a textured circle and has a big letter "F" on it which looks like it's stenciled in military-type lettering.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 06/04/2026
Artemis II update. Live picture from outside the Orion module right now. Beyond the moon, further away from Earth than humans have ever been. You are in this photo. #artemis #moon #space
screen capture from Orion of the Artemis II lunar mission showing the module, the Moon, and the Earth.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 01/04/2026
Now I'm a hater for blocking at bsky ai account? Oh no, what ever shall I do? Fragile male egos with skills issues are funny to me. Clowns. #noai #stoptheslop
just a screen shot showing butthurt account adding me to a "haters" list for blocking the bluesky ai agent account.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 26/03/2026
Stop delaying the revelation. You're not more productive, you're desperately trying to stay in a bubble of delusion. #noai #stoptheslop
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 22/03/2026
I don't normally post non-art type content on this account, but I'm still seeing too many people slinging lame excuses for why they continue to rot their brain and pillage our water supply. via @genzforchange.org
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 21/03/2026
Seeing too many #Democrat #politicians using AI art in their social media posts. You can't say you support small businesses while shitting on the entire Arts & Entertainment sector of the economy! Artists are small businesses! #noai #stoptheslop #supportsmallbusiness
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 19/03/2026
People opining about the monetary value of Banksy artwork after he was outed (again, this time) by Reuters have missed the entire point of his work and are partly the reason why he did it in the first place.
WSJ cover image saying Banksy's art work will sell for more now that his identity is known...even though we've known who he was for decades.An original social media post opining about the monetary value of Banksy's work going down now that he's been outed as a middle-aged man, with a reply pointing out that he's been doing this since the 90s so of course he's a middle-aged man.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 18/03/2026
draw what you're wearing right now, 5 mins max I'm still so unfamiliar with the Clip Studio interface and tools, but I thought it'd be a fun little challenge
a sketchy drawing of me with my morning coffee for a 5 min challenge. It's incomplete because I don't know the tools/settings of Clip Studio, which I switched to using from Adobe products. The unfinsihed background is white, I'm wearing a black t-shirt and sweat pants, holding my mug of coffee. The image is drawing from a 3-quarter perspective looking down from high-right of subject. It lacks details and is sloppy and unfinished, but conveys at least a human figure, lol.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 16/03/2026
I did a thing this morning to take advantage of the sale on the new version of Clip Studio Paint. I've been using a trial of 4.0 for a little bit and so I took the plunge. It's one of the last parts of my "Abandon Adobe" mission lol. #clipstudiopaint #clipstudio #art #noai #stoptheslop
screen shot showing I purchase Clip Studio Paint PRO. It's part of my moving away from everything Adobe.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 14/03/2026
I'm so devastated 😂🙄 #noai #stoptheslop
screen shot showing my account bring added to the "AI Haters" group. I wear it as a badge of honor, honestly. I dislike technologies that devalue human creativity for the sake of homogenized slop.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 09/03/2026
I'm bringing much more original art to my events this year. That includes a lot more of my pen and ink drawings. I chose a color-coded price system for my folio books. I can easily change prices based on what art is in the sleeve. No stickers to pull off or overwrite. Paperclip = price for that page
photo showing my color-coded pricing sign that coresponds to the color of paperclips on each page in my art folio books. Now customers know the price easily, and I don't have to worry about pulling off stickers, so keeping one book for each price.
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 08/03/2026
Artists are small businesses. If you claim to support small business, but use AI to market art events, you don't actually support small businesses. #noai #stoptheslop
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Peter Beckley Art @peterbeckleyart.com · 07/03/2026
It's a big, bold statement by @PerfectUnion and, as you would expect with a nuanced thing, is wrong in the way presented. The case in question is Thaler v. Perlmutter. It basically says AI can't protect work not humans on their behalf. Humans can still try to protect an AI-generated work. #noai #art
an illustration with the familiar "no ai" logo overlaying a human hand and robot hand nearly touching index fingers in the style of "The Creation of Adam" by Michelangelo. The text reads, "AI art is officially not protected by US copyright law. The Supreme Court has refused to overturn the ruling of a lower court that determined only work with "human authorship" is subject to copyright.
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