60.5 x 1.5cm
x 45.5cm
Every now and then I learn about a new phenomenon named “x” paradox. This time It was the Abilene paradox which is very fitting for western culture in recent years. There are plenty of rules being made up and no one thinks they’re reasonable. For example, Australia is using AI to enforce seatbelt fines, to achieve a road toll of zero. However the AI doesn’t work and the road toll is increasing since these fresh forms of distributing fines, so it doesn’t work. However anyone could predict that more surveillance would make drivers poorer drivers. So the Abilene Paradox is when there’s a group who needs to make a decision, eat the apple or the orange for example, and the majority think that everyone else wants the apple so they vote apple but in reality they want the orange and didn’t voice it in an attempt to stick with the group and be accepted. To visualise this I first thought up painting some still life where one half is floating and a different colour, or geometry, like that Simpsons episode where Homer enters a 3D space in the wall and have triangles flying through the air. Instead I glanced over at my colouring in book 2023 edition cover and decided to also include another challenge where I try to paint giraffes similar to my digital artworks. It’s always a challenge and I think I completed it to a better standard this time. So this is the result, the group of giraffes are all on a sick one mixed up in their decisions and the bodies are still grounded, hollow. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
50 x 1.7cm
x 50cm
NOTE FOR ROB: Since this was your concept you have a reserved discount forever. In case my email went to spam, you'll receive an email from my business account instead of the one displayed on my website. If you want to grab it just use your email address, all lowercase, as the coupon code to reduce the price to $550AUD. This artwork was requested as a non-commission based on a previous artwork I created, 'ROMSOM' which is an acronym for reflection of my state of mind and created based on a study which showed that the more greyscale a persons instagram was, the more depressive symptoms they exhibited. I'd say I've improved in painting clouds so this request ended up being a really fun challenge. This time I didn't include black in the clouds and approached them differently which I think worked out really well! There were other challenges that were interesting to paint, like the motion of the propeller and the tiny figures. This time round, since it's a non-commission, I'm allowed creative freedom and in the era of my career I'm in right now I'm really enjoying painting tiny figures in my artworks, like the artwork 'Surrealists and Psychology' and 'Running Wild with Still Life'. So I included tiny figures that pop up in my other artworks, like horses in poses you'd never be able to photograph, bunnies floating around, cacti like my main artwork 'Trauma' and my cowhide pears. I see it as you're in the sky scape of your imagination and these items are zooming around doing their own thing. What was really fun about this artwork was the request for a biplane somewhere, once I looked up examples it became a really interesting part of the artwork to paint as I've never painted one before. In the end I decided to name the artwork ROBSOM as a play on the prequel's title but instead it's Rob's state of mind. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
60 x 3cm
x 90cm
I made an artwork which I still consider my best, ‘Trauma’, and haven’t been able to recreate one just as good but I think this one might be on par. Just with less effort visible in the paint since I did all the practice on that artwork. The cacti I paint are people, roughly. This time I wanted to paint flow state, it’s the state of mind where you’re absorbed in your task but in so deep you forget you’re doing it and work autonomously while your mind wanders. This is where I am when I paint, in the rabbit hole. I think it deserved an artwork. In the bottom right I added a cherry, for the ideas that randomly pop into mind when in flow state and the clouds focused on the cactus. The rabbits are the result of working on my artworks in flow state. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
51 x 1.5cm
x 40.5cm
A million years ago in science class it stuck with me that the teacher emphasised how everything melts with time. He specified that even glass melts, as the bottom will be wider than the top a hundred years from now. Super interesting fact! Makes me think of it every time I come across a video where someone hunts down fossils inside rocks, the imprint of the living thing is interesting as I imagine the process of the living thing became stone. So I began this artwork wanting to paint the ground, the dirt, blue to resemble water, and instead it just began to resemble water. Then I included rain the way I like to paint rain, as sheets of clear blue, and a melting/ evaporating moon. If you check out the time lapse or opinionated video of the making you’ll see that I added other items then decided less is more for this artwork. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
40 x 3cm
x 60cm
This artwork went through three lives, see the documentation of the making in either the opinionated or the timeless to see it unfold. I began wanting to paint the concept that the simulation theory is just modern platonism, but the layout was rushed. Then I decided to paint different forms of water as a skill challenge, but I wanted to do it in a day as part of twenty-one artworks in twenty-one days. I then wrapped up that project and attended a lecture where I believe confirmed my opinion that we’re in the depths of a world-wide Dunning-Kruger effect with AI. The lecturer seemed to have zero concept on how vibe coders are actually creating terrible code, Obama also seems to think AI code is exceptional for some reason. I doubt he’s tried, and if he did, I assure you he’s not skilled at coding. Both claims from world renowned, respected people with no professional claim in the fields they say AI is making progress in. I’ll make more artworks on the other idea’s spawned from this but this one shows the concept of how we’re mainly using AI wrong. A fantastic concept included a video game where the boss learns your moves and makes it harder for you to win, genuinely building your human skills instead of doing it for you. Yet we live in a world where we’re too cautious to let AI be the obstacle over the enabler. The dumb will become dumber and the intelligent will prosper further creating a huge gap in our species. The dumb are galloping, with AI. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of the final artworks of both my twenty-one artworks in twenty-one days which then turned into eight artworks in eight hours so this was a time crunch. I wanted to recreate the concepts of ‘Doughnut Town’ and ‘Ice cream Town’ but with a snake and while reflecting on my previous artworks I noticed I hadn’t actually used this snake in it’s original size that I made for the ‘Spring Hood’ digital artwork. So this is the final result of those ideas mashed together.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of my twenty-one artworks in twenty-one days. A while back I visited the Art Gallery of NSW and there was an artwork, photography, where an aboriginal man duplicated himself at Parliament which showed how things would look if white people didn’t run the town here. I liked it on all aspects and that’s where the idea to replicate the lemur came from. I also recently cleaned it up and wanted to use the photo.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of my twenty-one artworks in twenty-one days and I wanted to merge a few previous artworks, ‘Gold Thoughts’, ‘Figure Eight Pool’ and ‘Grabbing Art Supplies’. This is the final result.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of my artworks of my twenty artworks in twenty days that then turned into eight in eight hours. I looked over my older artworks, the really old ones and decided I wanted to recreate my elephant with the version it is now from years of minor tweaks. This is how it ended up.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
Recently I made twenty-one artworks in twenty-one days and on the final day I needed to create seven digital artworks in seven hours, then I added one more because I rage quit on a painting and this is that final one. It was pretty early the next day (still counts as the previous day though!) so I only spent 35 minutes on this. I went in with the idea to make a car sandwich of cloud buns. It’s pretty tough making art at 5am so I couldn’t make it very complicated. I also wanted to make the sky red… A while back I was asked to make a painting with a red sky, and I did and every now and then I think about how a red sky could be used and work. This now makes it eight artworks in seven and a half hours.
86 x 3cm
x 64.5cm
Shortly before painting this artwork I adventured to the NSW Gallery and admired the skill in the historic artworks that depict clouds, that alongside an installation that reminds me of Khazad-Dum and the dragons castle in Shrek. When I’m in a place like this, with pillars everywhere, there’s a specific atmosphere that comes along with it so I wanted to convey that with this artwork. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
When creating this artwork I decided I wanted to make some thug birds. This is them. My friend has an inside joke where she calls all cockatoo’s ‘Collin’ following a story where she had a baby the same time as some resident cockatoos. Every time I hear the name though I think of a lad. So this title felt fitting.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork I decided to create while wrapping up my recent artwork, ‘Glow Car’, where I look at the pear on the road and decided to create a conceptual style artwork with three roads and a pear on each. This is the result of that idea.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
During an adventure to the PIX exhibition I saw a photograph of a car, I’m not sure if the tyres were white walls or actually glowing, it’s a black and white photo I only briefly looked at but I liked the idea. So I began working on a digital artwork where the tyres would glow and that’s the only goal. This artwork ended up going through a couple transformations and it may be worth watching the making of it.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This kitten in this artwork is a photo I took of a kitten I once fostered and named ‘Trump’. Lately I’ve wanted to use photos from older artworks and fix them up so I can re-use the item in new artworks. For this one I took Trump from my artwork, ‘Trump Blanket’ and really like the concept of that artwork but it’s hard to top. Instead this is the outcome, I still wanted to create something surreal and instead of putting her in bubbles I decided to have a go at creating an hourglass.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is my second digital artwork using Affinity Photo and an attempt to live stream my dart making (which didn’t go as planned). Despite that the idea came from a previous artwork where I wanted to make zebra striped animals then ended up creating my Zeblephant.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I didn’t start this artwork with a goal in mind but wanted to create a turtle version of my ‘Bicycle Bridge’ where a turtle is stuck between two somewhat cliff edges. The image of the turtle doesn’t really fill the page so I changed my mind to creating a curvy wave that’s blowing bubbles and have the turtles climb across it. That idea didn’t last long and I ended up with clouds inside some bubbles and a hoop with an ordinary world in it, like the clouds in the bubbles are different universes. The videos on this artwork would be interesting to see unfold just based on how many times I changed my mind.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I have a pretty comprehensive portfolio of giraffe artworks but when I finished my ‘Doughsplosion’ artwork I decided I genuinely needs a giraffe version. I’m also quite sure that I came to that idea from the ‘Raffepopper’ artwork so it looks like I’m doing an idea spiral here. I also appreciate the coloured falling windows I put together in older artworks and wanted to include them in the explosion.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I thought up while colouring in a doughnut page in my colouring in book series and decided I want to make a doughnut with loads of tiny giraffe sprinkles. From there I wanted to create an artwork where some of the main object is cut out, like a mid shot. As I created the doughnut I wanted a new doughnut since I’ve used it so much and rendered up a new one then when importing it into Photoshop from Blender I couldn’t decide what colour to make it, then I ended up wanting to make it look electric, like my ‘Hippy Hippo’ artwork. This is the final result.
40.5 x 1.7cm
x 51cm
Before making this artwork I made a digital artwork where I first created a land of spring animals. I really liked it but thought that I could do better painting it since fur is a tricky game on a computer by manipulating photos. So this artwork is mainly an exercise of skill. I also wanted to create an artwork with movement so that’s where the idea of the two birds crashing into each other came from. Recently I also painted ‘Thinking Things Up’ where I painted some horses in odd positions, falling, so I also continued on from that idea including the pink horse. Overall I wanted to paint like my digital artworks so I included my moon balloons. By the time I finished the artwork I couldn’t decide on a concept. When I look at it I see a world of spring animals, like the intent with the digital artwork as well, I just don’t have deep meaning for this artwork like the others. Either way, goals achieved! This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I’ve made digital artworks in the past which are mini towns floating in the air on a giant doughnut, or a giant ice-cream. This time thought I wanted to use a Beetle, like my ‘Chocolate Ice-car’ artwork and a mix of the idea I used in ‘Pear House’ where I used clouds as stairs. Lately I’m enjoying making the digital artworks more detailed and this is the result.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a follow up from the artwork before this, ‘The Tree’ where I also continued on an idea from the artwork before that with springs, so this time I wanted to make an artwork with spring leaves all around. Half way through creating it I decided to attach them to my motorcycle, in motion.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
60 x 1.5cm
x 40cm
This is a digital artwork I created after finishing my 80 artworks and as I reflected on the finished pieces I saw ‘Tree Lineup’ and decided to create a tree artwork since I tend to steer clear of them.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I decided to create another digital artwork with a doughnut in it since I haven’t created one in a while. While creating it I decided on a new idea, somewhat inspired by my ‘Raffe Popper’, but different and include the springs I’d just created using Blender. This artwork achieves something I’ve always wanted to show, movement so I really like the outcome.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I made for giggles and out of curiosity in how it would look to have a multiverse where everything is a spring. I did it and this is how it turned out!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I thought up during my 80 artworks challenge although didn’t have time to fit it within the project since I wanted the artwork to become quite detailed. I recently created an artwork, ‘Smokey Bird’, which is what sparked the idea. Since birds fly around so quick I wanted to create an artwork with heaps of birds shooting around the page. It’s not quite what I imagined but hits the target!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork I first created after my 80 artworks project had wrapped up and I now have a new approach to make artworks far more intricate than before. I sparked up an idea to create a cloud exploding cartons of milk, as I created the artwork it then changed as it came to fruition. I wanted to leave the artwork having created something using a photo I hadn’t used in a while, so instead of the milk, I ended up using the turtle. I referenced anime sleeping by popping bubbles on it. Check out the behind the scenes video for the making! Or time lapse…
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is the final digital artwork of my 80 artworks project! So I decided to create a giraffe as a party popper. This idea was sparked by my ‘Doughnut Town’ and in the future I continue these tiny things in digital artworks. This is still my favourite of them.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I decided to create this artwork during my 80 artworks challenge and in my surroundings sat my painting ‘Watching the Boats Sail Past’ which shows a bunch of boats which are doughnuts. I’ve tried plenty of times in the past to either paint a digital artwork or digitally create a painting and they never work out, the two genres are different. So here I am trying again! This ended up entirely different yet they both look good enough for me to feature though doughnut boats again. They still don’t cross over, I just now have two entirely different styles of doughbots, I’m not sure if this is the most successful attempt to cross over the genres either. The final artwork reminds me of a video game and the boss is a moon. Check out the art venture video of this one, there’s more documented on the making there.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I have an older artwork, ’Couchmellow’ that I felt like returning to now that I cleaned up the photo of my couch for the previous artwork ‘Elephant Moving Home’. I liked how in ‘Couchmellow’ I changed the colours of each cushion. The artwork also slightly draws the burning couch from ‘Couch Tree’. Alongside inserting what came to mind when creating the artwork. I included the tiny flying cars from various previous artworks and wanted to turn the couch into a bicycle just for the sake of it.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork I created out of curiosity in what it would look like raining laser fruit. I also wanted to create something using the big wave, a night time scene and my fruit images. This was the final result which soon turns into another artwork.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I wanted to create a car in a car while working on my 80 artworks project as something unique although now that some time has passed and I’m recording the artwork in my spreadsheet, this was probably a subconscious continuation from my ‘Road Trip’ artwork and a variation of ‘Car Stack’ from many years ago. Since I decided to create a night digital artwork it definitely turned out a tad different to what I expected!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is an artwork I created during my 80 artworks and the idea came from two previous ideas. One being ‘Alpaca Wall’ and the other ‘Camouflage Partyraffant’. I’ve always appreciated the transparency of the wall in ‘Camouflage Partyraffant’ and tried to replicate it quite a few times. While creating the artwork I wanted to channel some dreamy vibes, the window’s calling.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of my 80 artworks and when I began it I thought I’d quickly wrap the bird in leaves although that wasn’t quick and it didn’t look good (I recommend watching the time lapse for this one) I then changed my mind on what I wanted to create and at the time I thought the concept of turning the bird into half smoke would be too simple. After creating it I decided this artwork took a very good turn.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
During my 80 artworks project my digital artworks and paintings overlap as I try to interchange the styles between them. This is one of those artworks where I try to recreate a painting that sold. The impression that I have where the two don’t swap very well still stands as the painting is much more capturing than this version.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is the artwork I made just before the one I released the week before this one, I chose to share them in reverse order since this ones a tad more cryptic to understand what you’re looking at, not having seen the other first. While I worked on my 80 artworks I looked around at other peoples art and saw how people used clouds as part of their objects. Something I’ve done before (‘Ice Cream Town’ as an example) but I haven’t turned the motorbike into one which means it’s time to do so! I then created the other because I thought it should be done.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I made this artwork after the one I share next however I thought it needs to be shared first since the next one will make more sense being the second one. As I worked through my 80 artworks I had a list of things I wanted to create and I couldn’t decide which version was better so I made both. This is the first motorcycle made of clouds of the both.
45 x 1.7cm
x 45.5cm
This is one of the later artworks during my 80 artworks project and intentionally simple. I thought about how every generation is so different yet we all go through the same stages and one day I won’t know how to use the modern technology (that probably wont happen judging my grandma though, maybe something else). We’re all the same, so I wanted to paint a row of armchairs sliding across a hallway down toward a window all watching the same sight. I initially intended to make the chairs look worn, time didn’t allow for that one. This artwork is one of my hand-stretched ones, sold with hooks ready to hang and a certificate of authenticity.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of the later of my 80 artworks and since I have my ‘Giraffe Turn’ artwork and ‘Elephant Turn’ it seemed fitting to add the alpaca to the series since realising I probably had a slightly larger photo than what I previously thought. I cleaned up the photo and whipped out this artwork in an hour.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork from my 80 challenge and I wanted to incorporate the photo of a milk carton I had which I only used once in the other ‘Malk’ artwork. This time I cleaned up the photo so it didn’t look so generic and from there the artwork became different flavoured milk… I could have done blueberry and food flavours although as a surrealist I didn’t go that way. Here’s your milk.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This idea came to mind after creating my artwork ‘Road Trip’ and decided instead of having one low lying clouds I wanted many. As the artwork unfolded it became what it is now. I really enjoy this artwork as it really shows off the kind of surrealism I want to share.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This idea began to brew as I created the artwork prior which showcased a pear in the sky as a home, I wanted to create a home that was more front and center but also wanted to make a very surreal animal. So from there I merged the ideas of a door through an elephant. The artwork grew from there and this is the result.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a somewhat continuation on my ‘Doughnut Town’ and ‘Ice Cream Town’, although this time, since I’ve transformed my giraffe in so many ways I wanted them all exploding from my new giraffe statue as an artistic presentation of collection of work. If you check out the behind the scenes video you’ll see I almost used the alpaca although due to logistics had to ditch the idea. This turned out quite fitting.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
Recently before creating this artwork (one of my 80), I’d turned my giraffe into zebra print and cleaned up the beetle photos. I imagined something slightly different (less busy) when thinking I wanted to be one of those people who’d created an artwork with a zoo animal in a car. However after putting it together I found it a bit small and needed to give the two a scene. From there I decided to pull up the paint, add a fence made of bicycles the add the flying cars from another recent artwork (which hasn’t been shared yet).
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
During my 80 artworks challenge I made whatever came to mind, I began this with an entirely different idea (check out the video documentations) where I wanted to create a bird with leaves for feathers. Unfortunately with the style that I manipulate the photos to, the leaves looked too doctored and I couldn’t achieve the desired outcome. So I rage quit and made a bird version of a previous artwork, ‘Hungry Giraffe’ which is also the pixel test print I see every time I leave my home. Now it has a pair.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,200.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
Prior to this artwork I photographed and used lego in my ‘Doughnut Town’, since then I decided to create lego in Blender and use it in an artwork. This giraffe has also been through a lot in my artworks and I came up with the idea of turning it’s spots into lego. As I created it I then decided to turn the environment into lego. If you’ve been through a lego phase as an adult I’m sure you vibe with this giraffe.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is a digital artwork I decided to create during my 80 artworks and wanted to turn my other photographs into statues, following the lead of an actual statue photograph I took years ago in Vienna (I think) and also cut out my other car photos so they’re useable for future artworks as well. After starting I realised it wont sit as I imagined since I still placed the statues alongside the road but didn’t have suitable material to create a sidewalk. In the end I like how it’s super crammed and decided to name it accordingly.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
I decided to create this as I like it when people create mini worlds and turn regular objects into homes. This is often done with a shoe. I wanted to create a different mini world floating on a cloud similar to my ‘Doughnut Town’, ‘Ice Cream Town’ and some other upcoming artworks you’ll see eventually. It didn’t turn out as expected due to the resolution of the photos I could use, although pretty close!
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is one of my 80 artworks and as I looked through my files shortly before deciding to create this I noticed I didn’t preserve the couch photo from my ‘Desert Couch’ artwork. I took this as a challenge to restore the image so I could use it in my artworks. I also wanted to use my newly polished off elephant image and this is where I went with those two.
Price range: $360.00 through $2,100.00
30 x 1.5cm
x 30cm
This is another artwork from my October Challenge and a follow up idea from my ‘Ice Cream Town’, a mix of my ‘Chocolate Ice-car’ and ‘Snake Flavour Please’ where I decided I needed to create different ice cream flavours as I like the idea of seeing an ice cream although having the actual ice cream another object, unexpected and confusing.
