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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 3d

I know, right?

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 3d

I mean... there are no discernible sexual characteristics at all, in this painting. Again, WTF?

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 3d

This is very much not an "explicit sexual image." WTF?

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 3d

Sweeter Than Truth - oil on canvas - 46x50 inches - October 2000
Wow, 25 years ago, I finished this one. More info in alt text.
#oilpainting #art #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism

Back 2000, I didn’t know any other painters who lived near me. It was the only year since I graduated art school that I didn’t exhibit my work somewhere. But every day when I came home from my soul-sucking office job, I went into the studio and gave it all I had. A year later, I’d find a gallery in DC interested in showing my stuff. This one ended up in my first solo show, there. I’ve learned a lot more since then, but I still like this weird thing I made, when I was still figuring out some of the basics of how to do this thing I do.

An oil painting of a human torso on a stylized couch in an otherwise empty interior space. It has no head, just an opening in the neck. It has its arm around a box-like piece of machinery, whose cord trails off the couch and across the floor. A large hose comes out of the top of the box, curling around and depositing a greenish liquid into the torso’s neck orifice. The box has a slot for currency. The torso’s other hand holds som, ready to pay for more.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 4d

I just remembered... it was for an xmas themed show! A fine take on my least favorite holiday...

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 4d

A Box Full of Better - oil on 2 canvases - 30x26 inches - October 2005
20 years ago! More info in ALT.
#oilpainting #art #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism

I finished this one 20 years ago. It was done for a group show in a gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA… an amazing art complex I’d wanted to get my stuff into since I moved out here. The painting sold at the collector’s preview, before the show even opened. I went on to have a few years worth of solo shows in that gallery (since closed). It’s weird to remember a time when everything seemed to be working out.

An oil painting on 2 rhomboid canvases of a tiled interior space. The left has a disembodied head, eyes closed. A cord emerges from below the head, snakes around and points its plug at the right panel, which had a hand emerging from a hole in the floor, balancing a box on the end of an extended finger. The box has a receptacle for the plug.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 4d

Filled out my mail in ballot in CA, yesterday. I’ve never had a ballot with a single question, before. Voted “yes,” of course.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 5d

I got the final color for the dress in, and oiled out the background and her head to bring the color intensity back. Lots more little stuff to do on this commissioned piece, once it’s dried.
#newcontemporary #oilpainting #surrealism

Oil painting in progress of a phoenix woman with a head based on a magpie jay. The feathers on the crest turn to flames. A wolf stands to the side and behind her. Flames roil around them. Smoke rises above.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 6d

Not sure how that’s not just part of a Broadcast Journalism degree (which they offer. I knew folks in that program). Seems needlessly specialized, like if the College of Arts & Sciences offered a degree in “English Adjectives.”

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 7d

Is it bad to hope that Trump does actually go after Schiff, so we can get a better senator? Probably. But the thought does occur...

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 8d

Getting some red transition into those top feathers… I’ll probably add even more, once this pass is dry. Lots more little stuff to do on this commissioned piece.
#newcontemporary #oilpainting #surrealism

Oil painting in progress of a phoenix woman with a head based on a magpie jay. The feathers on the crest turn to flames.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 8d

Me too, kitty, me too…

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 9d

Still more work on this commission. I’m enjoying this one even more than I expected.
#newcontemporary #oilpainting #surrealism

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 9d

I’m used to being cut off by jerks running lights. The metro train blowing through the intersection in front of me when I had a green light today was a new one, though. LA used to just not want me here. Of late, it’s actively trying to kill me.

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 10d

I did some more work on this commission, tonight.
#newcontemporary #oilpainting #surrealism

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 10d

So the president has told the leadership of our military that my city is an enemy in need of killing… so, you know, fuck each and every one of you who voted for this, or who couldn’t be bothered to vote to stop it.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 11d

Working on this guy, for this commissioned piece. Still a lot more to do.
#newcontemporary #oilpainting #surrealism

Detail of an oil painting in progress, my hand with a brush, and roiling flames. There's a wolf in there, too. And a lady’s arm.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 14d

So… they’re such tough, macho warriors that they need a pep rally to get “excited?”

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 14d

I mean, I’d totally be into a 24th century trailer home right next to Vazquez rocks…

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 15d

Of course it was a white guy in a baseball hat who whipped his BMW SUV around me on the right at 2x the speed limit on a curve. The cherry on top was the "Baby On Board" sticker on the rear window. You know what I want to see most in this life? Consequences for entitled jerks, at long last.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 18d

Got all of the flames in on this commissioned piece. Still a lot more to do.
#newcontemporary #oilpainting #surrealism

Detail of an oil painting in progress, my hand with a brush, and roiling flames. There's a wolf in there, too.

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 18d

Listening to Haus der Luge by Einstürzende Neubauten, while painting... at the same time they're renovating the house, next door. Having a hard time telling what is the music, and what is actual construction noise. These guys are really jamming!

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Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 20d

That’s awesome! Thanks! I have a folder of cloud images for reference. Living in SoCal affords many opportunities to take lots of my own, but always nice to have more 🙂

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 20d

That should be 95 Dems who need primary challenges...

Nate Seubert @nateseubert.bsky.social · 20d

Overnight Prints is garbage. They’ll take your money, give you very poor quality prints, then blame it on your files. I work in a print shop. I’ve been a designer for decades. I know how to set up files for printing. Avoid this company, if you care anything about print quality or color accuracy.

example of poor printing vs file I prepared according to their specifications (size/bleed/color space/resolution)

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