Just because it's daytime doesn't mean that it's not dark out there. We're going to try to make it a little bit brighter!
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"Or Nothing" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] There is almost nothing in this world more wonderful than a highly improbable monster! This one is a nod to a couple things. (Can you guess what they are???) I'm going to try and bilocate this beastie by tagging more than one event! (Cross the streams.... Could lead to total protonic reversal, I know...) But this drawing fits both #trashtober AND #darktez. Is it my fault if there are numerous factions on the chain that can't hear each other talking? So... Monster. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - Doing 23 editions for only 0.13 tezos each! (Now THAT'S spooky!!!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/784
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"Spiritual Entities" by RFY (HF)
[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color removal.] Inner exploration can reveal odd creatures that float in and out of a given conscious space. Be prepare (with an imaginary offering or two) when in the presence of something particularly potent! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Animalism" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created on my phone.] Is this symbol meant to bring back the BULL or summon the GOAT. Either way, it's going to be hungry when it gets here! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/785
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"I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Looks a bit like a stained glass window to me. (The title comes from a song by Nick Lowe!) Illusions are all around us... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/786
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"Eyes Everywhere" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color removal.] Do call ME paranoid. YOU'RE paranoid. (Or you should be!!!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/787
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"Good Dog?" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing created with a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone!] Who's a good boy? Yes, you is! Yes, sir! Good....dog??? ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - Let's go ahead and call this beastie a #trashtober / slash / #darktez work. I'll make 23 editions, let them loose for only 0.13 tez each, and feed the unclaimed editions of the piece when #halloween is over!!! (Grab quickly!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/788
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"Life Finds a Way" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph taken with my phone at some plant-life growing up through a crack in the concrete of our driveway.] Live in the moment, like these flowers. You never know when an SUV is going to squash ya flat! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/789
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"Strangely Unnerving Treats" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, glitter, and sticker collage on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] At the ABSTRACT PARTY, the kids ate strange and unclean treats, while the adults all smooched in various closets. (Not a bad night!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/790
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"Snake Man" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Another #halloween / #trashtober / #darktez creature for the SPOOKY FOLKS to enjoy! (Even if you're as poor as I am! Ha!) Making 23 editions and only asking 0.13 tezos each! The unclaimed will BURN after All Hallows... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/791
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"Slice of Life" by Richard F. Yates (HF) & Felicity Echo Hanson (TT)
[Felt pen, colored pencil, and sticker collage on paper and reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments, layering, and color.] Felicity and I made this strange collage, and once photographed, I went at it with the digital drawing. To me, it has a yin-yang / light-dark feeling to it, but I'm not seeing these things as TRUE binaries... (I'm not completely sure what the little kid had in mind with her contributions to this piece, but it was still fun to make!!!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) & Felicity Echo Hanson (Toddler Terror)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/792
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"So Little Sense" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Sometimes, it don't make sense... (Those are usually the times when we're awake...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/793
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"Disturbing Animal" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon and felt pen on reclaimed wax paper.] For some reason, this monster freaks me out a bit. (I must have been channeling HORROR AT THE WAX MUSEUM or THE ABOMINABLE DR. PHIBES. Yucky...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/794
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"Sass" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing over found background with digital embellishments, color, and manipulation.] The background for this piece was a "painting" created by a very young girl who dumped almost an entire canister of glitter on a wet, painted canvas. (I can't remember the girl's name, but it was the daughter of one of my older daughter's good friends.) The digital drawing, however, is completely mine. (Unless I've borrowed the drawing style of some cartoonist or other subconsciously... Who knows?) Sassy, though, right?!?! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/795
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"Consumer Error" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, gel pen, and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Haves and have-nots all make mistakes, but the haves are usually taller. Nothing in the contract saying this MUST BE true, but we still think it's in poor taste. (This is not an acrostic. Don't bother searching...) Lies are games we play with the clouds... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/796
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"Where Wolf?" by RFY (HF) & FEH (TT)
[Gel pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] There wolf. There castles. "Why are you talking like that?" I thought you wanted to! (Movies are fun.) This piece is mostly by me, with a little bit of help from my granddaughter, Felicity, who added the faint squiggles on the bottom. FUN STUFF!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - This monster is spooky enough that I'm going to call it a #trashtober / #darktez / #hallowee piece! 23 editions will be conjured, and asking price for these is gonna be 0.13 tezos each! The unclaimed woofs will be sacrificed to the FIRE GODS in early November!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/797
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"Good Moody" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen and paper, sticker, cardboard collage and packing tape on cardstock with minor digital color correction.] This is another handmade postcard that I created and mailed to an unsuspecting victim. (I hope they'll like it!) As fun as making digital art can be, I think it's still good to just grab some scissors and glue sticks and old magazines and start chopping. Assembling things by hand is incredibly satisfying! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/798
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"Angry Fowl" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on a small chunk of reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] One thing is clear... This duck is PURE EVIL... Don't mess with it!!! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - I hope this image is MONSTROUS enough (in your opinion) to qualify as a #trashtober / #halloween / #darktez creep! Cuz that's what I'm going to do with it! 23 editions being created and set free throughout the land for only 0.13 tezos each! Grab quickly, because this duck is going back into the FIRE in just a few weeks!!!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/799
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"Psycho-Artifacts Bulletin #7" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Publisher created bulletin with digitally collage words, selfie photo taken with my phone, and old crayon on paper drawing!] This update discusses my apparent career suicide! Ha! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/800
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"Ghoul (Or Something)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen, gel pen, and crayon on reclaimed cardboard and paper with digital embellishments, layers, and color.] It's a spooky, strange, otherworldly creature's head! (Why is it just floating there??? WE DON'T KNOW!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
P.S. - Another thrill-packed cartoon for #teztober / #darktez / #halloween. I'm going to have a ton of stuff to feed to the FIRE GODS when I burn all the unclaimed editions in early November, but all those sacrifices will probably make the flaming dark-ones very happy! (Maybe they'll even GRANT ME A FEW WISHES!!!)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/801
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Let's look at a couple of pieces by OTHER ARTISTS that I've acquired in the recent times...
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"BEWARE OF TRASH 1" by MoDF TASP v0.6.4
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1M8L6vSVw1jh4qtpTE7RosGh7mCLkDkGQN/60
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"BEWARE OF TRASH 2" by MoDF TASP v0.6.4
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1M8L6vSVw1jh4qtpTE7RosGh7mCLkDkGQN/62
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"CEMETARY" by VYD3N & WhichWitchWasIt
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1VtcpSrboyzvwk6eoQJxWXVenucGxCkruv/9
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"RIVER OF SORROW" by LOVER BOY 666
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1UsCFHkKNDRS1ipo92QYehAprn6ZA8uTCs/51
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"Deadly boring space" by Bogdan Magenta
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1KCTo2J5q9XE54rvfP45x6yeHAVnHYZWtb/2
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"NATIVE GIRL" by Ali Malek
https://objkt.com/asset/hicetnunc/745911
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"Shape Field #6" by seyahrednaxela
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1Krvq5im8fgRwS2pVzMa9WM3sSD4N4BddY/5
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Let's shift back to artwork that I created. (Business isn't fun, but it's sometimes necessary...)
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"Going to Pot (Inside Out)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ink on notebook page with digital embellishments, colors, layers, and moshing!] The idea that art is just a mirror of the subconscious of the artist isn't very popular (in the sense that I haven't seen very many people saying this...) But I'm starting to wonder... I'm also a fool, so don't listen to me. (I might just be making a joke!) Regardless, this piece is obviously burnt toast that has been left in the rain for a few days... (Are we confused yet? Order must be destroyed before something better can be constructed...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1ABGYuE84UQNDJdWtMEhiBi6yhsfTQ7W56/802
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That's it for this show! I hope you had some fun! Maybe you might even be inspired to make some stuff of your own! (That would be cool! Make sure to send me a link if you decide to share what you've created!!!)
Later!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)