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[Art Subthread] Psychedelic images

[video=youtube_share;65xLByzT1l0]http://youtu.be/65xLByzT1l0[/video]
It's like DMT without the Neuropharmacology.
8 minutes of mind bending symbology and apocrypha.
 
My interpretation of DMT hyperspace
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The first one really is fantastic. Upload these on erowid perhaps, too? Way cool!
 
Erowid does not upload anymore pictures anymore :( but i do have a Flickr account; Bernaxx and deviantart also; burnax
 
Made this a subthread of the psychedelic art thread and 'linked' it to it for future reference so that we can concentrate posting of psy artsy pics in these threads. :)

Nice kaleidoscopic stuff as always bernax. And Xorkoth I like your style and paintings. A bit pointillism like, stroke-y (not in the aneurysm way).
 
Okay this is going to be a big post, I apologize, I will NSFW these though so they don't scroll unless you want them to.

Okay, so, about two years ago I started painting with acrylics for fun. I happened upon some techniques that are quite unique by accident as I was playing, and gradually I came to realize I should try to see where this can take me. So, after I work my regular 50 hour a week job (that I work from home for), I go out to an outdoor arts and crafts market with 12 stalls, and I take up 4 or 5 of them and set up a gallery (hardly anyone sells things there in the evening but I do well). And I sell my art. I usually make about $100 a day now when I go out, on the weekends anyway. I've sold a bunch of originals including some of these ones. These are my images I produced with my camera that I use for prints. I'm next in line to get into this for sale gallery in town that is really popular, really excited about that. :)

They are abstract acrylic paintings, I use high-quality paint that is undiluted so it is very 3-dimensional and textured like oil paintings tend to be. Here are some of them.

This is my favorite piece, it's called "Hope". I painted it when I was really depressed and it helped give me hope. It was when I first realized I should take this somewhere.
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This is another favorite, it's called "Dark Hill". I painted this on the same day as "Hope"
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This is the third piece I painted on the same day, it was a productive day, I worked through a lot of emotions. This was the last one, it's called "Blue Hole", to me it looks like you're in an underwater cave, but looking up at the sunlit surface.
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This piece is the first major piece I did using a technique I had discovered that is my favorite one, I called it Dimensional Marbling. It's a way to marble the paint together so the colors don't mix, they remain distinct and swirl into each other with so much tiny detail that you can hardly see it all with the naked eye. This piece is actually 4 inches by 4 inches, so it's probably larger on your screen than it is in real life. Underneath is a close-up of some of the detail.
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I use the marbling technique a lot in my work, though only in a couple I am posting here (for now). This one is called "Down Below", and it's another of my favorites. To me it represents addiction, but it was designed to bring to mind anything that can pull you under. It uses the marbling technique for the tentacles. Below the main photo is a closeup of some of the tentacles.
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This piece is called "Hurt", because to me it feels like the pain of love.
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This piece is called "Mobius". The background is a style I do a lot, in fact I can do a 12 by 12 inch canvas in this sort of fade from one color to another, in about 15 to 20 minutes, I often paint them in front of potential customers, and occasionally have painted one for someone on the spot or they decided they wanted it when I was done. This particular one has some extra detail in a layer over the background.
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This piece is called "Sunset Smear". It's a technique I recently perfected but I had done by accident once, in the next piece below.
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This piece was a bit of an accident, and when I was done my wife said "It's like a self-portrait of your eye". I agreed, it's the colors of my eyes (roughly). It's titled "I-ris".
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I have a whole bunch more that are new that I haven't taken photos of yet. Sometimes I paint 10 paintings a week and I also do these little 3 by 3 inch mini canvases with a color exploration with the marbling technique and I sell them for $10, I go through a lot of those. Feels good to make a little extra money, and mostly to get it out there for people to enjoy. :)

I hope you like it. :)

Xork, you are a boss.
 
Wow, this thread is amazing, I like everything I've seen. I'm coming back at the "right time" as soon as that opportunity arises. Cracking job, all you arty types, I have much jealousy. I make dance music on psychedelics, but I cannot draw or paint hardly at all :(
 
Wow, that is so similar to what I see eyes-closed, sometimes! Sort of rushing towards that centre...
 
Never had visuals like that but that's trippy as fuck, gonna have to save it as a desktop wallpaper if that's ok haha.
 
thanks man, I notice you use a basic pattern in some of your work as a base and add all psychedelic effects to it etc. If you're ever bored would you take a request of a pattern/design I like and use that as a base to create a similar sort of psychedelic cool image based on my one? Would be sick.
 
yeah sure, if you give me an image i can use that as a basis, already did that before in this thread it's on the 2nd page
 
The image is artwork for an old band called Joy Division you might recognise the artwork, I guess it's a bit plain being just two colours so idk if it'll be hard for you to put it in a design but let me know anyway, just really love the design for some reason.

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If you need a higher res version just search "Unknown Pleasures" that's the album name and artwork. cheers if you do this would be cool :)
 
The image is artwork for an old band called Joy Division you might recognise the artwork, I guess it's a bit plain being just two colours so idk if it'll be hard for you to put it in a design but let me know anyway, just really love the design for some reason.

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If you need a higher res version just search "Unknown Pleasures" that's the album name and artwork. cheers if you do this would be cool :)
do you want to be able to recognize it after it's done or do i just use it as a basis?
 
I think whatever you thinks best, I mean I think with the basic level of that design it's hard to keep it/be recognisable but i thought you might have a way of using the squiggly lines of the mountains to make a cool trippy effect so no I don't mind if it's not recognizable after let your head run free haha. Do what you want with colours and that too you seem to know more than I do with making these haha.
 
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I think whatever you thinks best, I mean I think with the basic level of that design it's hard to keep it/be recognisable but i thought you might have a way of using the squiggly lines of the mountains to make a cool trippy effect so no I don't mind if it's not recognizable after let your head run free haha. Do what you want with colours and that too you seem to know more than I do with making these haha.

i've managed to make this, but i'm not satisfied with it so i'm trying again tommorow

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This is sick man, love how youve kept the mountains white, thanks a lot, feel free to have another try but I'm already impressed. Gonna have to change my wallpaper again I think haha.
 
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