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omarzak.bsky.social
@omarzak.bsky.social
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Sometimes I post my paintings. All my paintings are Glazed with https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
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omarzak.bsky.social
These guys didn't make the mess, but they'll have to clean it up.

Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
An abstract watercolor and ink painting of a bunch of junk piles and ruined buildings. Stick figure people walk around in various stages of anguish.
November 13, 2025 at 2:41 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I know this is a serious discussion, but this is a hilarious photo/caption combination.
A photo of the Confederate generals on the side of Stone Mountain. A convertible is added to the carving with two members of the band outcast sitting in the front seat. The caption below simply says, "(Source: CNN)
November 12, 2025 at 7:42 PM
omarzak.bsky.social
I'm probably wearing this motif out. It's becoming a lazy check-the-box exercise. But I do like it! The masking pen is awesome.

Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
A watercolor painting mostly in blue, green, and purple. There are 8 randomly-jagged horizontal lines. Between each line is a different color and an organic pattern drawn in with a pen.
November 12, 2025 at 1:37 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's the meme!
The words "we support yigby - but this isn't it"
November 11, 2025 at 2:38 PM
omarzak.bsky.social
My friend told me my work was looking very "southwest". As a dedicated East-Coaster, I felt like I needed to change the colors up.

Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
An abstract watercolor painting. 8 jagged horizontal lines with the space between filled with various shades of green, yellow, and blue. Between the lines are organic shapes drawn with a blue pen.
November 7, 2025 at 1:52 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I really like this motif. I did this one with a masking fluid pen instead of tape.

Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
An abstract watercolor painting in portrait orientation with a white border around it. There are 7 horizontal jagged lines of light color. The space between the lines are different shades of yellow and orange. There is an abstract organic pattern drawn between the jagged lines.
November 6, 2025 at 4:31 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's not October!

I finished my "at least one painting a day in October" project. I did a bunch of abstracts this year. I still consider myself a landscape painter first, then a general representational painter second, but abstracts really are genuine fun.

Watercolor on 5"x7" hot press paper
A portrait-orientation abstract watercolor of 9 horizontal blocks of color separated by thick, light, jagged lines. Each section is a different color. The colors are muted, but go around the color wheel from yellow through orange, red, purple, and blue. No green.
November 3, 2025 at 3:23 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I'm still doodling on these guys. They're getting more desperate.

Watercolor and ink pen on 5"x7" hot press paper
A bunch of very simply-drawn figures standing around a bunch of rubble piles. Their gestures show anguish.
October 27, 2025 at 2:17 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I was doodling with a carpenter's pencil in my sketchbook and discovered this kind of dude. This was a pen and watercolor rendetion of a bunch of these guys hanging out in the junk piles.

Watercolor and ink pen on 5"x7" hot press paper
A Watercolor and ink painting of a bunch of blobby piles with faces. The blob in the foreground is looking directly at the viewer. It's weird.
October 22, 2025 at 3:46 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I'm still playing with the transparent red oxide, which today I realized smells like blood from all the iron.

I borrowed some of this motif from @fiendfables.bsky.social whose work I found today and greatly admired.

Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
An abstract watercolor and ink painting. Horizontal light and dark stripes with a bunch of wavy lines between.
October 20, 2025 at 7:34 PM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I wanted to experiment with the transparent red oxide.

Watercolor on 5"x7" hot press paper
An abstract painting of a bunch of orange, yellow, and muted purple stripes. The stripes have jagged edges.
October 19, 2025 at 5:00 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I'm still messing with this motif.

Watercolor and Ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
A semi abstract painting of a bunch of human shapes surrounded by piles of junk. Yellow is the predominant color of the painting.
October 17, 2025 at 3:44 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I was doodling in my sketchbook and decided to extend a couple motifs as a little watercolor painting. I penciled in the drawing, and I think that was a mistake. The ink-only figures in the sketchbook were more spontaneous and animated.

Watercolor and Ink on 5"x7" hot press paper
An ink and watercolor doodle of a bunch of angular people holding red shovels, standing next to huge piles of junk.
October 15, 2025 at 4:15 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I really dig the better-quality hot press paper. It just doesn't tear, and I can go a lot further messing with different kinds of masking.

Watercolor on 5"x7" hot press paper
An abstract watercolor painting with a bunch of orange, red, blue, yellow horizontal stripes.
October 13, 2025 at 2:07 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I usually use relatively cheap paper, but I've been trying to do some masking with artist tape, and it always rips. Even when I tape the edges, it rips. I cut some higher quality arches paper, and I'm happy with the result. No tearing.

Watercolor and ink on 5"x7" hot press paper.
An abstract watercolor painting. Light colors ranging from blue-green to yellow, and almost orange. Magenta areas. Some ink lines in the lighter areas.
October 12, 2025 at 4:48 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
It's October!

I've been working more with abstract watercolors. I liked this one so much, I did a much larger version, but it's too big for my scanner, so this will have to do.

Watercolor on 6"x9" hot press paper
An abstract watercolor painting of a bunch of spots of orange, blue, red, and purple. Looks a bit like a bunch of germs under a slide.
October 10, 2025 at 12:14 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
This is larger than my normal painting. Another on a panel I cut.

I consider myself a landscape painter at heart - even through most of my work isn't.

Oil on panel, 11"x14".
A landscape painting. Yellow grass in the foreground, a few trees and bushes moving into the background with a forest and sky in the background.
August 29, 2025 at 4:30 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I focused on speed and value, and attempted to go aittle nuts with hue.

Phylogenetically, all apes, including humans, are old world monkeys.

Oil on panel, 8"x10".
A painting of a chimpanzee head and shoulder. The lighter fur is bright red.
August 28, 2025 at 3:03 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
Another odd pig.

Oil on panel, 8"x10".
A very round pink pig in a yellow background. So round it could be a piggy bank.
August 26, 2025 at 2:22 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
Thanks. Your paintings are larger than I realized. They look great.

The kudzu started with a cad-free red stain and then I painted the colors over it. First layers were very thin underpainting. Once I couldn't see any more red, I knew I had full coverage and could paint some individual leaves.
Dark Green and yellow abstract shapes over a red background showing through. It's an underpainting.
August 24, 2025 at 4:15 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
Not a pig - but a boar. I don't often paint fur, so this was a little outside of my comfort zone.

Oil on panel, 9"x12".
The head of a snarling boar over a gray-blue background.
August 24, 2025 at 3:34 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I wish all seasons could be fall and all holidays could be Halloween.

Oil on panel, 8x10".
A black silhouette of a spooky guy with spooky wings flying over a gray background. The sky is filled with flying creatures in a hurry.
August 22, 2025 at 3:14 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I based this on an interesting sketch I did, but whoa, it came out weird.

Oil on panel, 8x10".
A yellow skinned snail making a weird face. The snail has a coral-red shell. The background is light blue. It's a weird painting.
August 21, 2025 at 1:46 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
I painted a couple of pigs this week that I wasn't happy with, so I'm playing with a new subject.

Oil on panel, 8x10".
A painting of a round, orange, and grumpy frog on a blue background.
August 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
omarzak.bsky.social
Every artist needs a series they can fall back to when they don't have a subject calling out to them. Backup pigs.

This pig is the first painting on my new batch of panels. The panel held up great.

Oil on panel, 8x10".
An oil painting of an enormous yellow pig in profile facing left the background is light purple.
August 9, 2025 at 4:41 AM