@nvonflue
Visual artist, educator, writer, occasional banjo player. Rejects the word "content" when describing art, but also trying to remember that it can mean being fulfilled. Mostly just here for the Nancy and Gus Arriola comics. www.nealvonflue.com
Small oil painting of the California desert.
Small oil painting of the California desert.
A couple of plein air paintings done over Thanksgiving week in the high desert. Oils on clayboard.
I can see how plein air painting can become the only thing that some people do.
Candid photo of three paintings, the subject of which are locations in El Segundo Ca., and a rocking horse.
Entering my “regional artist” era, it seems.
Photo of an cluttered art studio with a mixed media cityscape painting in the center of the frame.
Photo of a mixed media cityscape painting.
Detail photo of a mixed media cityscape.
“Franklin and Eucalyptus, El Segundo” mixed media on wood, 26”x28”
Brilliant!!
Pencil sketch of a curtained hotel window early in the morning.
#sketch of a window in Scotia, California.
Sketches of Rube Goldberg with humorous additions, in blue pencil.
#sketch of a gaggle of Rube Goldbergs, with humorous additions.
Photo of a sketchbook page on a table, seen through some leaves. The sketch is a big headed cartoon version of musician Jason Isbell.
#sketch of Jason Isbell. Sorting through his new record. Looking at him through the leaves.
#sketchbook
An oil painting on panel depicting crashing waves of a rocky shore as background while on the right foreground a woman with a weary smile looks at the viewer and, on the left, a translucent ghost-like image of a man in uniform mirrors her composition, yet blends into the background.
“Always Have A Teacher No.5” #oilonpanel #oilpainting #portrait
The whole world of printing: monotypes, prontoplates, lithographs, etching, etc, has been calling to me for a while. I've made one copperplate etching and a handfull of lino cuts. I made myself a promise to take some kind of class in summer. I look forward to seeing more of yours!
I'm gel-ous!
#artstudio today.
If you're like me and wish Bsky was a bit more image-based than text, @flashes.blue is a fantastic client. 30 second sign up with your exiting bsky account, and you get your regular feed but the focus can now be on art and images. (and @nancycomics.bsky.social fit better than in the regular app.)
An oil painting depicting a worried woman on the right, while behind her the same scene—a woman standing in a desert landscape next to a large succulent—is shown in two angles overlaid on each other. The more stable color version is distorted, and haunted by the ghostly version in correct perspective. The tell tale black lodge herringbone floor creeps in from the bottom left while in the distance a shaky pencil drawn shack release curly smoke from the chimney.
The Second Angriest Dog in the World”
Oil on panel 24”x36”
Working through some health issues.
www.nealvonflue.com/dogleg/
#artmanifesto #art #artprocess #dogleg #doglegmanifesto #ai #aiart #creativeeconomy #walterbenjamin #nohashtags #noprocess #dada #futility #contemporaryart #94charactersleftover
An oil painting. Featuring two women, a desert landscape, some visual distortion and a herringbone floor reminiscent of the black lodge, all blended together.
Oil painting on wood. A distorted image of a woman proudly posing next to a cactus.
Oil painting on wood. Closer view of a distorted image of a woman proudly posing next to a cactus.
Oil painting on wood. A closer view of distorted image of a cactus proudly posing next to a woman.
Oil painting on wood. an even closer view of a distorted image of a woman proudly posing next to a cactus.
#oilpainting #oilonpanel #distortion #cactus
As I seem to share every winter time, here is my essay on Thomas Kinkade, The #PainterofLight. It is #christmas themed after all, and almost a decade old.
I've currently got 3 bids in on Kinkade prints at local estate sales. Perhaps I'll win one. #artreview #contemporaryart #oilpainting #art
Warm toned landscape painting of a sparsely wooded area with a small river. Two dog heads float in the space, one facing downward, the other upside down and barking.
“Always Have a Teacher #2” made from separate lessons found in books from the vintage Walter T. Foster how to paint series.
#oilpaint #oilpainting #oilonwood #contemporaryart #art
oil painting of three men sitting on a wall in a desert scene. Each one acting as one of the three wise monkeys- speak no evil, hear no evil, see no evil.
Three wise monkeys, Oil on panel.
#oilpainting
A mixed media painting on paper of a pair of scissors made from collaged images against a red background.
A mixed media painting on paper of a pair of scissors made from collaged images against a yellow background.
A mixed media painting on paper of a pair of scissors made from collaged images against a blue background.
Three color scissor paintings, approx. 30" x 40"
#oilpaint #oilonpaper #stilllife #collage #texture #contemporaryart #painting #cadmiumred #hansayellow #ceruleanblue #cobaltblue
No, a Dane/Lab mix we think.
A pencil drawing of ghost rider sitting on his bike in WWII
An image of ghost rider in WWII sitting on his bike drawn in ink
An color illustration of ghost rider in WWII sitting on his bike
Over summer I practiced #inking. Here is a #WWII #ghostrider #artprocess.
#pencildrawing to #inkdrawing to #colordrawing
I imagine him on his burning #harleydavidson WLA crisscrossing Europe delivering vital info, and crossing publishers to meet up with #SGTRock, the #creaturecommandos and #GIRobot
“OK Jon, please explain the whole internet in 15 words exactly.”
Detailed process video for a painting from my Technical Animal series. Includes the drawing, acrylic underpainting, oils and glazing. #painting #artprocess #oilpainting #fineart #paintingprocess #drawing #acrylicpainting
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTll...
Collage painting of a pair of scissors with red background.
Detail view of a collage painting of a pair of scissors with red background
Detail view of a collage painting of a pair of scissors with red background
Detail view of a collage painting of a pair of scissors with red background.
“Scissors 12, Cadmium and Cobalt”
Collage and Oils in Paper. 2024
Picture of an arch top tenor guitar against my studio wall.
Picture of an arch top tenor guitar on it's side leaning against a wall.
The absolute best thing about this 1966 Harmony tenor is that after a minute of playing, this amazing smell of old books and age comes emanating from the sound holes.
The vibrations must be breaking up the age locked inside, and I'm scared for the day that it gets all used up. #vintage #guitar
Seemed like even his own band was having a hard time with him. I went home telling my friends “guys, you gotta listen to Axxes and Ace!” I think about that show a lot. Now that I know more of his work I wish I could go back and really study it. I know I missed important things in that performance.
Did I ever tell you I saw Jason Molina play once? He opened for the Avett Bros at a mid sized venue. I was more excited to see him and talked him up so much to my friends before the show, and he was awful. Probably loaded, out of tune (a stretch I know!)…
