Life moves pretty fast! If you don't stop and look around every now and then, your gonna end up destroying your dad's favorite car and then trying to drown yourself in the pool! Just saying!
Here's some artz!
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30 Dec. 2023
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"Additional Print Driver Files" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, liner pen, and brush pen on reclaimed paper with digital embellishment and color tweaking.] All the creep spirits hanging out in the machine! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/729
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"Very Likely" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Ballpoint pen and liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] In my notebook, I work through a lot of mental shit. Sometimes, a monster shows up... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Blue Abstract" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Extremely cheap blue wax crayon on notebook page super-zoomed in, digitally, with some color tweaking.] Mariah says she sees a cat in there, but if there IS, I don't know when it got in there! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/730
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"The Hero's Journey (To the Supermarket)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, brush pen, gel pen, paint pen, and mechanical pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] In order to grow in power, the hero must journey through HELL... In our society, certain supermarket chains are as close as we get to these terrifying realms... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/731
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31 Dec. 2023
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No Shame Parade Day! For the final day of 2023, I'm just going to do whatever... No rhyme nor reason, 'cept I wanna. Let the subconscious urges drag me along today! HOORAY!
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"What Do We Need?" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Something about the final day of the year makes me all philosophical (or sentimental - which isn't EXACTLY the same thing, but close...) What do we NEED? Mariah would say we need a restful vacation, probably at the beach, and I wouldn't argue against that! Need... Sure... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/732
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"Quadrants" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Crayon and mechanical pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and minor color tweaking.] Another color experiment. The grey is actually mechanical pencil. The other three colors are crayon. ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"I didn't" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Orange gator denies everything! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/733
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"Stealin' a Drink" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph taken with my phone.] During the madness of Christmas morning, Sansa attempted to steal a drink of water. (Instead of stopping her, I chose to take her picture instead. Guess that makes ME the jerk!) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Stripper Pole??" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] Great workout. Really helps strengthen the core muscles! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/734
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"Freakish Collab (Faux-Tardis)" by Felicity Echo Hanson & Richard F. Yates
[Felt pen, brush pen, and liner pen on reclaimed paper notecard with digital embellishments and drawing.] Felicity and I defaced this recycled notecard, which was used as an I.D. card for that postcard show that some friends of mine put together a few years ago. I like this! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) & Felicity Echo Hanson (Preschool Potentate)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/735
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1 Jan. 2024
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"GLEEFUL CHAOS Banner (2024)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Hand drawn lettering (liner pen on notebook page) with digital collage, digital embellishments, digital drawing, and some jelly from a sandwich... (I'm a liar. There was no jelly. I was trying to be relatable!)]
New Year? New THEME! (Mindset is everything!) Happy Happy! Joy Joy!
The time has come, the Holy Fool said, to talk of GLEEFUL THINGS, like comic books and DADA art, and outer-space be-ings!
(So...not MASSIVELY different from every year, but the DEVIL is in the DETAILS! Amm-eye-rite?)
Making ART out of the WORLD!
Making the WORLD into ART!!!
#cc0 for U and ME!!! (Remix, reimagine, reshare! Circulation is the key to HAPPINESS!)
Let's make 2024 a full-on DADA party! Who loves HUMAN LEAGUE!?
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://www.patreon.com/richardfyates
P.S. - Visit my Patreon page, where I post new shit EVERY DAY! (Unless I'm sick or busy or annoyed, but mostly every day!!!) You can visit for free, you can follow for free, and you can get the FANCY "EXCLUSIVE CONTENT" for a minimal fee! Shit yeah! So, go there and give me all your money and NOBODY GETS HURT! Hooray!!! HAPPY HAPPY HAPPY!
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1T3ZVm8fTSSPi2joKDLaU1scVNFQcnGCA6/0
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Ready to move on into the FUTURE! OR, at the very least, try to experience the RIGHT NOW!!!! WOOOOOO! Happy happy, yo! Joy joy!!!
Later!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://www.patreon.com/richardfyates