All Hands @smerp@mastodon.art

#introductions 👋

🎨 Hello, I'm Sean, a #fulltime #physical media #painter doing work in #abstract #acrylic on #canvas and on #hardboard panels.

🤚 I don't use brushes, I just use my #barehands from the tips of my #fingers to the whole side of my #palm, in strokes as light as a butterfly's kiss to violent smacks. I wear an apron, my table has spatter shields, and there's a drop cloth on the floor. Sometimes that's enough.

💧 I use #nontoxic #highviscosity #paint and #gloss #gel #mediums, usually mixed right on the panel. I work quickly, with the entire painting wet all at once. Usually I pre-wet my surfaces with water & retarder to keep things from setting up too fast.

👇 My pieces are never truly flat, #texture is a very important part of my work, and I encourage people to touch the art (with clean hands) so they can feel it. From gentle #ripples to almost dangerously sharp #spikes, and lots of cool things in between. My paintings are #multisensory!

🌤 All of my pieces are #shiny and sometimes #transparent or #translucent, meant to be hung in a window for the light to shine through.

💱 I sell my small, easily shipped pieces work on #etsy at http://photopuck.etsy.com as well as at my retail booth at the Arts Market at #846College in #Toronto, where I live.

So, hey!

Candy coloured swirly skull! Fineline markers on card.

Bridge in morning fog. Rollerball on sketch paper.

Tree in black. Rollerball on card.

Here’s your Monday morning ... coffee shop. Fountain pen on sketch paper.

An impressionistic rendition of snowy trees blurring past a train window in rural Canada. Really.

Desert hiking trail (again) this time in red and black ballpoint duotone. On card.

Mountain stream. Maybe more of a river? I don’t remember it as being very wide but definitely not something to fall in. Colorado. Rollerball on card with robot.

Got that west coast shoreline thing again, looking down a cliff. Rollerball on card.

Just an interesting dead tree. Brown fountain pen on card with robot.

Desert hiking trail in sine waves. Brown rollerball on card.

Rural trail in purple. Fountain pen on card.

Mountain town with river. Rollerball on card with robot.

Look at these beauties! Rare colours!

House and tree on dyed card. Black fountain pen wielded by robot.

Mountain lake in blue. Robot gel pen on card.

Transmission tower, blue and black duotone. Gel pen on card with robot.

Factory wall in alternating red and black crosshatch grids. Ballpoint duotone via robot.

Mountain pass in blue. Fountain pen on card with robot.

Here’s your Monday morning cup of coffee! Rollerball with custom ink on card, via robot.