Sleep is a welcome friend, once a person gets to be old, and I would like to encounter it again some day! Meanwhile, I still keep making the artz. Wanna see??? Then continue on, my friends!!!
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30 Nov. 2023
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"ASS" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, liner pen, pencil, and sticker collage on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] Science has contributed SO MANY wonderful technological marvels to our world... I'm thinking of joining the official union: The ASSOCIATION of SADISTIC SCIENTISTS! I want to make a killer robot with a heart of gold (like all scientists want to do...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/685
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"Little Caster" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Photograph of my granddaughter taken by me with my phone...] My granddaughter, Felicity, doing something mysterious with her dolls... (Who am I to judge???) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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Don't forget to check out my Patreon page, where I have tons of drawings, weird stories, guest works, and links to ZINES and BOOKS and all that kind of junk! Support old weirdos, while they're still around to enjoy it!!! #art #books #zines #weirdoldartists
https://www.patreon.com/posts/art-and-lit-pdf-92913997
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"Marshmallow Man is Under Attack" by Felicity Echo Hanson & Richard F. Yates
[Felt pen, brush pen, metallic marker, gel pen, crayon, and sticker collage on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] My granddaughter, Felicity, shows us what happens when a cosmic entity attacks Marshmallow Man with psychic ferocity! It's a shocking scene, that's for sure! ---Felicity Echo Hanson (Preschool Potentate) & Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/686
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Once again, I've updated the collection of freakish and fun-filled postal arts at the MUSEUM OF POSTCARD ART page! There are now 189 cards posted for folks to examine and absorb (osmotically, if you like!) Works include the classic, handmade piece by Mark Counts!
https://museumofpostcardart.wordpress.com/
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1 Dec. 2023
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"Everyday Life is ART" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Digital drawing and lettering created using a no-longer-supported, free app on my phone.] This may seem like an empty slogan, but I'm actually attempting it. I want every part of life to be art. Seems utterly do-able! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/687
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2 Dec. 2023
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[Posted to Typed.art]: (Free to read for anyone!)
Greetings Slam Bammers!
My name is Richard F. Yates, and I declare today, OFFICIALLY, Dec. 2nd, 2023. We've nearly got this year sorted! I like ending things and starting new ones. ETERNAL RENEWAL. ETERNAL REBIRTH. Every time I fill up a notebook (with ravings and nonsense and taped in candy wrappers), I get a rushy-thrill, and I start a NEW book, and the world (for at least a few moments) is full of possibility and hope and (just a little bit of) INFINITY. Only takes a few seconds and a couple of scribbles to collapse the infinite back to the physical domain, but I'm working on it...
I'm focusing on not thinking of anything, trying as hard as I can to reduce my inner voice to less than a hypothetical whisper... Not easy to do for a person whose brain is always going 6x10 to the 23rd percent of light years per second... (Those pills slow me down, but they don't STOP ME! HA HA HAHA AH AH AHHAHAHAH!)
Thus, we enter winter. The world turns, the axis tilts, the magnetic fields shift, and the brain does brain things. So it has been, so it shall be for at least a little while longer!!!
Shout out to my Grandma Lucy, who is 92 years old and just broke her ankle!!! Get better soon!!! We're sending psychic vibrations your direction!!!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"What Came B-4!" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments, color, and drawing.] The utter horror of realizing that it's not all about you, and it never was nor ever will be... ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/688
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"Are You Happy?" EXCLUSIVELY for Paying Folks!
Video that I recorded for my Patreon follower. (Maybe plural, someday! Ha!) It's short and dumb, but I like it!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/are-you-happy-93977843
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"Melting Werewolf" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Gel pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color.] I'm not sure if this is a wax werewolf who somehow came to life but is now melting or if it's just a normal werewolf that got a bit too close to a nuclear mishap. Either way, this wolf is in pretty bad shape. Hopefully, when he transforms back into a human, the magickal effect heals him... Here's hoping! (Probably won't, though...) ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
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"Tie Die! (A Trippy Hippie Slasher Novel)" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Liner pen on notebook page with digital embellishments and color removal.] I can see it now! Hippies take some bad drugs or get possessed or something, and only the master of the SNAKE FIST style can save the small town threatened by the HORROR-HIPPIES!!! I better get writing! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/689
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3 Dec. 2023
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"Halfway to Nowhere" by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
[Felt pen, gel pen, and brush pen on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking.] Handmade postcard. Did I send this one out already??? (I never remember...) Some kind of blobby, yuck monster followed by a bird in a fashionable hat! ---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
https://objkt.com/asset/KT1F94smAkoLSgNT7PLaxYj7Ba1SKqXfGjsY/690
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That's it, humans! Enjoy the rest of whatever... Maybe have a milkshake, if it's within you power to do so!!!
LATER!
---Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)