Sean M Puckett @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!

Toronto, from Tommy Thompson Park. #Photo

So many of these stones are artifacts. Bricks, concrete, asphalt. Cherry Beach, Toronto.

Sort of?

9:30 am.
Pages 1 & 2: that colour's crap.
Pages 3 & 4: calibration charts
Pages 5-8: Good colour, but landscape pages are fucked up.
Pages 9-12: many tweaks of drivers, print settings, still fucked up on landscape.
( lots of googling, pdf workaround )
Page 13: landscape work-around is okay
Page 14-26: printed all landscape pages, but the colour is crap now
( more googling, reset print system )
Page 27: colour good, landscape good
1:00 pm.
Begin final print job.

Production print runs are PAIN.

Number 131 (black, white, red) and 132 (blue, black, white) both 12x16 acrylic on panel.

So, 131. The story is that I'd created the background and liked it, and thought, "hey that looks like a sort of a grotto or something, and maybe I should put something in it." I'm not sure why a phallic red cylinder growing out of the ground was that thing, but there it is.

I like 132 a lot. Very "reflection of the far shores on a lake" kind of thing. With some nice vignetting too.

#art

Why does most artwork assume that Dwarven architecture must be dark, chunky and angular? Just to contrast it with the thin, organic, curving shapes of Elves?

Okay but that's defining one group in terms of another, e.g. Dwarves are simply Anti-elves.

Has no one considered what our deep delvers might really be like without any kind of restriction on aesthetics in order to be complimentary to other races?

Back after Holiday Hiatus!

Number 129 (purple, white smears) and 130 (orange cloud), both 12x16 acrylic on hardboard.

I still have 129, which is kind of surprising as it's really pretty. 130 was snapped up quite quickly by a friend who likes orange.

#art #abstract

I cannot paint any more until I refill both my zinc and titanium white bottles. Which is gonna have to wait until all the splatters on the bench dry.

Painting today.

#wip Acrylic abstracts

Number 127 (green, blue) and 128 (orange, red, white), acrylic on hardboard, 8x12".

127 is another bit of abstract impressionism, perhaps a meditation on storms over a lake, or maybe just some smeared paint.

128 is not one I'm very happy with. The colours didn't blend well, and the bit of darkness takes it in a confusing direction.

I still have them both, let me know if you want one!

#art #abstract #painting

Number 125 (peach, white, 12x12") and 126 (green, red, 8x12") acrylic on hardboard.

Traditional painters will recognize in 125 the result of putting too much red in your yellow and then being basically fucked because once you've crossed into peach you're never going to get back to orange. Fun texture but voted off the island.

126 was a fluid experiment that didn't go at all the way I thought it might as it dried. Believe it or not, quite a few people liked this one, and it SOLD some time ago.

#art #dirtylaundry

Number 123 (black, pink, smooth, 9x12") and 124 (blue, white, yellow, 12x12"), both acrylic on hardboard.

123 is really cool, I think. It also got a lot of viral action on Tumbler when I posted it there. Still have it, too, yours for $30 CAD shipped.

124 is one of the first detours into abstract impressionism. What do you see? Maybe I put it there, maybe it's just paint. I still have this one too, but it's bigger and would be annoying to ship.

#artforsale

It's -15C out there, but still 23C in the apartment. And it could be hotter if I turned the steam valve up from its minimum.

After over a decade living in a house with no insulation where we kept the thermostat at 18 so heating bills weren't ruinous... this is okay. Also there's infinite hot water.

I've always thought detached single-family dwellings were kind of dumb, even though that's all I've ever owned. Wasteful of space, materials and energy with a disproportionate infrastructure requirement.

[ wiggles toes warmly ]

And speaking of art I have to take a portfolio full of new paintings over to the retail booth. Maybe something will sell. Holy crap I hope so.

Someone gave a moneys on Liberapay. That cool. An anonymous someone so can't thank personal. So thank generical. This moneys will buy arting supply. Thank you for this money. I will keep making the arts!

Number 121 (pink, red, white, peaky, 12x16") and 122 (red, dark blue, smooth, 8x12").

I like 121, it's got a fun texture and a nice gradient running across.

122 was recently marked as CRAP because, despite the dark blue being really neat, it's just too damn dark and mostly looks murky unless you're beaming a few thousand lumens of light on it. I'd still sell it, but I won't put it up at retail. Maybe when I'm famous someone will say OH MY GOD I MUST HAVE IT and, heh, heh, it will be sooooo expensive! Or, you know, not.

#art

Just completed documentary photography on 42 more paintings including numbers 295 to 336.

Since I just posted 119+120, you can see that we're a ... little behind here on Mastodon.