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Artist Redux

@paraboloid.bsky.social

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Retired (escaped) from graphic design; once studied printmaking; now draws & paints. Vermonter, terrified. © notice in alt text of images. ALWAYS READ MY ALT TEXT • I BLOCK ANYTHING “AI” RELATED other account: proportionwheel.bsky.social

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Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · May 1

Just want to say all of my work exists in the material reality of cotton fiber, acrylic resin, pigments, inks, and graphite. I do not use any digital technology except to process photos of my work, and then only to present it as accurately as I can.

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Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 5d

Been a while since I posted any art—been intensely woodshedding, trying to get my aesthetic feet under me. Here are a couple recent efforts.

an untitled gestural “overall” abstraction in blues, greeens, yellows, oranges and reds, acrylic on paper, shown slightly cropped from 22×30 size.

©2025 Michael B. Patterson

An untitled gestural abstraction in acrylics, mostly yellows and oranges and reds, with purple accents and green here and there. There is an assertive, heavy, dark drawing for structure, with the in-between parts brightly colored. NOTE: the purple color is very hard to photograph; my phone wasn’t anywhere close, so this shot was taken with a Sony camera, which did better but the purple is still too bright.

©2025 Michael B. Patterson

Shown slightly cropped from 22×30" paper

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 5d

Been a while since I posted any art—been intensely woodshedding, trying to get my aesthetic feet under me. Here are a couple recent efforts.

an untitled gestural “overall” abstraction in blues, greeens, yellows, oranges and reds, acrylic on paper, shown slightly cropped from 22×30 size.

©2025 Michael B. Patterson

An untitled gestural abstraction in acrylics, mostly yellows and oranges and reds, with purple accents and green here and there. There is an assertive, heavy, dark drawing for structure, with the in-between parts brightly colored. NOTE: the purple color is very hard to photograph; my phone wasn’t anywhere close, so this shot was taken with a Sony camera, which did better but the purple is still too bright.

©2025 Michael B. Patterson

Shown slightly cropped from 22×30" paper

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 25d

the kind of random mottling I sometimes try to paint

sunlight filtered through overhead vegetation, making patterned shadows on the gravel road surface.

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 25d

roadside apples

a scattering of mostly-green apples fallen from a roadside tree, illuminated by the slanting late afternoon sun

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 25d

Vermont State Flower

solitary red clover plant bravely blooming in the fall by the side of a dirt road

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 25d

Scenes from my walk a couple days ago, more in replies. Read the ALT text.

Beaver Pond, sans beavers. There is a huge beaver-built dam, but the landowner has breached it so the pond is never as full as it used to be. Also, a power line runs across the upper part of the image, I wish it wasn’t there.

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Barbara Irene Erlinger @barbara92.bsky.social · 29d

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · 28d

Nice painting. Good painting, actually.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · 28d

A literal fascist and some school kids are killed by gunfire on the same day, and the nation mourns the literal fascist, and writes off the dead children as the cost of the Second Amendment. As America collapses it’s no comfort that collectively we fucking deserve it.

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

Detail of an elaborate Mansard roof somewhere in lower Manhattan

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Flatiron Building

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

decorative grillwork on old Manhattan building. Sorry, I don’t remember which, and am too lazy to look it up.

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

cigar store “indians,” pedestrian reflected in window they’re behind

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

old skyscraper seen at an angle through tree limbs

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

an old skyscraper in NYC

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Sep 1

No paintings to show you, but going through old photos I found these, from a brief trip to NYC sometime in the early ’90s. Scanned from film with Nikon Coolscan scanner in 2000. Originally shot with Pentax K-1000 and the standard f/1.7 lens that came with it, no record of what film. More in replies.

a street scene in lower Manhattan in the early 1990s. Delivery trucks, cars, a few people, 10-or-so story buildings in the west 20s.

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · Aug 25

Newsom knows that there will be no place for him in public life if Trump destroys our democracy. It’s a mystery to me why other Democratic politicians don’t quite get that, because there will be no place in public life—or at least no power—for *any* of them if Trump succeeds.

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Aug 24

Or of basic logic. How could one be confident of that result? He’s not that stupid so I’m starting to lean toward malign.

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Aug 21

Your take makes much more sense than that “science” explanation, because even looking at a line drawing, the peripheral (image falling off of fovea) parts will still be indistinct. The rough sketch leaves room for interpretation.

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Marcus @marcusjmerritt.com · Aug 15

It’s important for professional Democrats (and everyone, really) to recognize that these people are not a loyal opposition making good faith efforts to enact reforms they believe will make the country better for people who live in it. They are the enemies of free society, intent on shutting it down

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Aug 14

guaranteed to be imitated by you know who

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · Aug 12

🔭. My friend Thomas Spirock captured this spectacular image of the near-full moon a couple nights ago, using the 13” Schupmann telescope at Stellafane. As shown here it’s downsampled to 30% size, and jpg compressed for posting. Much more about it in ALT text and some full-res details in replies.

The Moon in the original image, over 8500 pixels wide (about 0.25 arc sec per pixel—and there’s near single-pixel detail in there!—see replies for a blown-up sample. It was composited from 6 images, each produced by the “lucky imaging” technique combining the best 1024 frames each from 4,096 recorded. The Schupmann telescope was operating at f10. Camera was a ZWO ASI1600MM. Thomas used Autostakkert to select, align, and stack the images, Registax to apply wavelet processing, and Photoshop Elements to composite the full image and adjust levels. I applied a very slight curve to increase contrast in the shadow areas for posting here.

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Aug 12

oh, ooohh, oh, OH, OH, OOOOH.

[My kind neighbor provided this. My love, inexplicably, did not want any of it, and I ate the whole thing. That big slice went on my chicken burger last night, which needed no other condiment.]

A very ripe, very juicy heirloom tomato, sliced on a cutting board

Artist Redux @paraboloid.bsky.social · Aug 12

something by Heinlein that shaped me only in the sense of my eventual rejection of his worldview

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proportionwheel @proportionwheel.bsky.social · Aug 12

old enough to remember Kent State, full of forboding