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xaM
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Ah whoops looks like my mistake was existing on this timeline. Is art the product or the process? A stranger is a friend I haven't met.
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small canvas help detach from figurative work
#art #acrylic #painting #abstract #landscape #abstractscape #gold #metallic
acrylic on canvas 8"×10" [fs]
Dear diary, I posted another painting today, I like the color palette but have mixed feelings on the finished work. What does it look like to you? -xaM
November 9, 2025 at 10:24 PM
maxeart.bsky.social
it's friday! we made it
#art #acrylic #painting #abstract #abstractscape #blue #gold
acrylic on canvas 10"×8" 《fs》
Letting go of the need to pursue figurative work leads to freedom of expression; the smaller canvas forces you to confront your intent. When you take the time to create, what do you want to share? The human experience, the cliche that it is, is still unique to the individual. How do you choose to express? What do you create? How do I take my abstract feelings and express them in a concrete medium? It isn't that I'm depicting a place, I'm depicting an emotion, feeling, sensation. How do I paint the sensation of the wind in your hair, early morning sun pouring through you? Or the feeling of sitting under a waterfall? The stillness you feel late at night reading a book? The taste of a ripe peach? The sensation of staples being removed from my head, or when I broke my arm, or chipped a tooth. The way your tongue stings after taking a bite of too hot pizza. Would it be a sin to paint the sensation of wet socks? How do I paint my frustration? How do I confront the injustices of societies with paint??? How do I paint the feeling of drowning? Of sinking and knowing what's happening, struggling with watching the world around you crumble? Knowing that everyone you know is in the same position, yet still coming together to try to help one another. How do I paint knowing how many people will be hungry? How do I paint suffering? How do I paint a ruined society? How do I depict a flood? How do I express the knowledge of finding hope in hopelessness? How can a painting change the world? How can a painting change a person? How can painting change me? What I express in paint is no longer bouncing around my head. It can exist somewhere for people to look at and go "it makes me feel some type of way" and probably we feel the same type of way. This painting was me expressing some type of way of feeling and I think it really did that so if you feel some type of way then you probably do too. I hope you understand that this was intentional and I'm grateful for the opportunity to feel some
November 8, 2025 at 1:06 AM
maxeart.bsky.social
How do you feel?
#blue #art #acrylic #painting #abstract #abstractscape #metallic
Acrylic on Canvas 8"×10" [fs]
I'm of two opinions. Do I love it or hate it?
November 5, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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These smaller canvases are a lot of fun and very relaxing to paint; the limitation of size removes the obligation of representationalism.

#blue #art #acrylic #painting #abstract #abstractscape #water

Acrylic on Canvas 8"×10" [fs]
Poem of whimsy Reflecting on reflections Portentous and blue
November 3, 2025 at 6:08 PM
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Black Lotus [[Proxy]]

Started with a forgetful fish deck and kinda migrated into cube territory, there's something super satisfying about proxying power

#mtg #magic #proxy #alter
Proxy Black Lotus, started proxying for a forgetful fish deck and then for a cedh deck and kinda spiraled towards cube territory, something super satisfying about proxying power
October 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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NEKRONOMIKON - Book of the Dead

I finished this project a few years ago but have yet to find it a home, I love it but I know not everyone is keen on owning a cursed painting

#art #acrylic #painting #halloween #spooky
Bound in human flesh, the face leather staring into the void, oh also the stitching is glow in the dark
October 4, 2025 at 6:01 PM
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It's not about what you do, it's about who you do it with!

I recently finished a commission that afforded me the ability to go to the mountains for an old friend's birthday, I started that piece three times and this is one of two I kept.

#art #acrylic #painting #abstract #landscape #abstractscape
Suddenly Piper by The Butthole Surfers has popped into my head I DON'T MIND THE SUN SOMETIMES THE IMAGES IT SHOWS I CAN TASTE YOU ON MY LIPS AND SMELL YOU IN MY CLOTHES CINNAMON AND SUGARY AND SOFTLY SPOKEN LIES YOU NEVER KNOW JUST HOW YOU LOOK THROUGH OTHER PEOPLE'S EYES
September 25, 2025 at 7:50 PM
maxeart.bsky.social
I ask the universe, I say

"Hey big U, what's uh-- what's my purpose in this life?"

#art #acrylic #painting #abstract #landscape #abstractscape
You have to ask the question before you can get the answer
September 24, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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Yojimbo
September 24, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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Excited to finally have this commission wrapped and delivered! Companion piece to one I'd sold this friend some 15 years ago, a sunrise to compliment the previous sunset, utilizing metallic gold to capture the sun's rays catching your eye

#art #acrylic #painting #landscape #metallic #abstractscape
SUN RISE TO MEET THE DAY SO TOO DO MY BONES RAISE FROM MY GRAVE TO OUTLIVE ANOTHER DAY SUN LIGHT SUN BRIGHT SUN SHINE SUN SHITE did you know that light is a form of non ionizing radiation? If light is manna from heaven does that mean god's love is ionizing? Her fecundity lays below the bedrock of reality, her gifts clinging to the skyline climbing above the horizon. Unable to lay eye upon it lest we go blind, yet without it nothing can be seen, are we blind without knowing it?
September 19, 2025 at 7:02 PM
maxeart.bsky.social
I could watch this turtle all day

#turtle 🐢
Maybe a snapping turtle? Or a box turtle? Can never remember how to differentiate between turtles and tortoises
September 8, 2025 at 9:05 PM
maxeart.bsky.social
Vivi gift for a friend, we went through a couple boxes of the ff mtg set and never found him.

#art #acrylic #painting #ff9 #ffix #vivi
Is it worth chasing after a card that's gonna go Nadu's way?? Yes, probably I've got two copies of Nadu that I am absolutely not salty about noo
September 3, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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Arcane Signet

Available - message for details

#mtg #magic #alter #mtgalter #alters #mtgalters
September 1, 2025 at 9:43 PM
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Another day, another Sol Ring. Maybe a black hole or quasar this time? Not sure if neutron stars have accretion disks.

Available - $100 OBO

#mtg #magic #alter #alters #mtgalter #mtgalters
SOOOL RING
August 29, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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I am excited to share with you my latest sin:

Blue Cheese Garlic Bread

#blue #cheese #garlic #bread
Toasty oven Aluminum foil Bread (friend made sourdough) Butter Blue Cheese (crumble or block) Garlic Shredded Mozzarella (or other mild white cheese) Toastied all together until golden or leopardy Served with olives, dates, and peach cran juice Debating adding a sardine tapenade next batch hmmm umami bomb
August 27, 2025 at 6:55 PM
maxeart.bsky.social
Spent the weekend in the mountains with old friends and new, committing to memory a specific shade of blue. ... This isn't that, but nor is it a nother Sol Ring, so.

Available - message me an offer

#mtg #magic #alter #alters #mtgalter #mtgalters
It's a mountain. Not the mountain I visited this weekend. Ever play disc golf? I hadn't in like 20 years, and I end up on a 3 mile course on a mountain top. By hole 9 we were climbing up steep and I said see yall at the bottom. Then we went for ice cream while most of the group hike-played the rest of the course. My team won! I had fun.
August 26, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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August 24, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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Solar Ring - get it? Cuz sol means sun - yeah I tried warning you I've only got the one joke.

Sol Ring - Available at offer

#art #acrylic #painting #magic #mtg #alter #alters #mtgalter #mtgalters
(In the cadence of "Soul Caliber") SOL RING
August 22, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Is it too on the nose to say that this is a stellar alter?

Sol Ring - Available

#mtg #magic #alter #alters #mtgalter #mtgalters
Sol Ring - Available What's crazy is that this raw photo looks better than trying to optimize an edit of it, wild
August 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
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Faithless Looting, Available

#mtg #magic #alter #alters #mtgalter #mtgalters
August 14, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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Bolt the Bird!!

For Sale - $100 Negotiable, message me for details.

Commissions Open! Working on drumming up some spare cash to fund a few projects. Rates vary between cards and canvases, happy to scale a project up or down to fit your budget!

#art #alter #mtg #magic #alters #mtgalter #mtgalters
Bolt the Bird!!
August 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
maxeart.bsky.social
And finally we arrive in our destination, deep on the contorted geometry of condemnation where reality folds in upon itself, the souls of the damned trudging towards oblivion ((alt++))

Acrylic on canvas 16"×20", Available

#art #acrylic #painting #hell #abstract #landscape #hellscape #abstractscape
Stripped of identity humanity blindly lumbering towards certain annihilation, bereft of emotion does the soul experience oblivion? This sixth and final panel of my hellscape hexaptych is packed to the brim with symbolism, the presiding archdemon eating golden apples drinking blood, the necronomicon observes the procession, the hellhound split twain revealing its true nature, the alegria stick figures marching to the chopping block, the trough and bucket, the infernal arbor mirroring the tree in the hanged man's cemetary, similarly being nourished by the sanguine, the chaff off flow dripping down to the higher planes, the flames of eternal desecration filling the sky with white hot conflagration, the absurdist escherian landscape roiling in upon itself betraying the journey's frayed ends. In retrospect (you don't understand how much I love this piece) in retrospect I missed the titan's tongue (their serpent tail and hound having matching lingua) and the trough and bucket iconography could have been swapped for some variety of well system. Nonetheless in revisiting this work I find myself reinvigorated on my own journey, and am excited to continue working on my life's work. I'm planning to do one more post with all six pieces to wrap up before moving on. I hope you've enjoyed this descent into hell!
August 10, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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In the fifth panel the ferrier crosses to the far side, souls of the damned stowed away, navigating the currents obstacles and terrors that lurk just beyond

Acrylic on canvas 16"×20", available

#art #acrylic #painting #hell #landscape #hellscape
Originally there was a large conch shell in the space above the ferry but it ended up being too busy, I think the composition works well to draw the eye
August 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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We venture deeper into hell, the vultures encircle the hanged man, eviscerated, entrails drawing crowds of the damned seeking to consume, the cemetary gates open, do they let us in or out?

Acrylic on canvas, 16"×20", for sale, message for details

#art #acrylic #painting #hell #landscape #hellscape
Forth piece in a hexaptych of hellscapes, the human soul reduced to an alegria stick figure squiggle as titans monsters and beasts live larger than life, our humanity amounting to little more than swarms of insects to the behemoths that swat us down should we buzz too loudly. Are we any better than the buzzards? Eating the dead to live, scraping scraps to make a meal. We raise living beings for the purpose of slaughter, should we expect any less from our own fate? The broken circle, the horns, the open gate, where what was flees from what will be, straight lines curve and arcs lay flat, the perspective inverts and where we were where we are and where we will come to be extend past the point of perception, coalescing the waveform into the current moment, can the past and future ever truly exist? Or are we trapped in the oubliette of consciousness, existing only in the nook between time and space. Eat the rich, you're already on their menu
August 8, 2025 at 6:41 PM
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Dubbed Mt Carpal (nfs) the third piece from a hexaptych of hellscapes

Chat gippity weeps before my hand

#art #acrylic #painting #hell #landscape #hellscape
The human soul distilled down to an alegria stick figure blob, is humanity form or function? Oh and tronald dump is a pedophile, release the epstein list or better yet, believe the victims
August 7, 2025 at 9:16 PM