BlogHide Resteemsronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 4 hours agosteemCreated with Sketch.Two Paintings From TodayMr. Short and Ms. Tall and Their Abundant Critics 2025. Acrylic on cardboard, 11 x 14" The paintings are starting to blend in my mind. I think I need a breakthrough. Strangely, this song is…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • yesterdaysteemCreated with Sketch.Two Paintings Today and a Side Gig for Upcoming London TripOld Sun, New Moon 2025. Acrylic on cardboard, 14 x 11" Some Empire Refugees 2025. Acrylic on cardboard, 11 x 14" I’m heading back to London in April to join up with the merry band at…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 2 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Today’s Painting and Part III of the Stuckist Manifesto CriticizedMy New Christmas Underwear is Too Tight 2025. Oil on paper, 22 x 30" I published a book last August in celebration of 25 years of Stuckism, the international art movement founded in London in…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 3 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Today’s Painting and Part II of the Stuckist Manifesto CriticizedWhat is the Opposite of Whimsical? 2025. Acrylic on cardboard, 11 x 14" I published a book last August in celebration of 25 years of Stuckism, the international art movement founded in London in…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 4 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Today’s Painting and Part I of the Stuckist Manifesto CriticizedIt's a Smaller-Than-Quark Eat Smaller-Than-Quark World 2025. Oil, acrylic and pastel on paper, 22 x 30" So, maybe you know, I published a book last August in celebration of 25 years of Stuckism…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 6 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Two Days, Two Paintings, a Song and Printing SlumpuI Brushed Oil on the Beach Cause I Like the Smell 2025. Oil and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30" Lately I have been beginning my paintings with acrylic and finishing with oil. I really do love the…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 7 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.24k Slumpu Series H (1 - 100)I made a lino print for this series, and fit inside 24k gold leaf. It’s a beaut! There are 33 letters in the Russian alphabet. Each slumpu series designates a letter. Series H is the fifteenth…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 8 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.A Painting With a Horrible TitleI’d Rather Work on Slumpu 2025. Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30" Instead of titling work “untitled”, I often just give the painting a stream of consciousness title, like the one above. Slumpu is…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 9 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Just Another Painting With Cabin FeverAcrylicly, This Painting Was Doomed. And Then the Oil Sticks and Pastels! 2025. Oil stick, pastel, and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30" The winter winds are forcing me into an arduous work routine…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 10 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.A Personal Slumpu in Space and Time, Slumpu Series 3Slumpu gets happy/sad sometimes and thinks about this Kenneth Patchen poem: The / concerns of the / heart / Feeling, I must / remind you, is the / poet’s sign – / O let the print / of her…ronthroop (72)in hive-120695 • 13 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.There Was a Request...Good Sky for Fishing ...for more pastels! All are December, 2024, oil, and 9 x 12" Strings Attached Tomorrow, No More Eyes, No More Humpless Camels! Clumping at the Beach…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 14 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Across the Art Spectrum This WeekI Finished This With My Fingers and It's Something 2025. Acrylic on paper, 22 x 30" Oil, acrylic, figurative, abstract, conceptual... An eclectic week for sure. I actually finished this one with…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 15 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Can’t Shake These EyesI Had an Hour to Shake a Stick at This Painting, And Still Gave It an Eye! 2025. Oil and acrylic on paper, 22 x 30" Today’s painting is proof that I have an eye fetish. No matter how hard I try…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 16 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Creative Poverty Notes and TallyFun Messy Dreadful Ron 2025. Oil on paper, 22 x 30" I expect in the near future to begin writing a small volume on my experiment with creative poverty. I believe it to be an effective…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 18 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Oil PastelsFiona Got Me Right 2024. Oil pastel on paper, 9 x 12" I love the oils! I just wish they could dry in a lifetime:) All 9 x 12" on paper, 2024. No Kissing at the Orgy Birds Drinking…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 19 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Slumpu and AI Write and Record Songs for SolsticeSlumpu Series M (1 – 100) is a CD of music titled “A Slumpu Solstice”, written by Slumpu and AI, and recorded by Ron Throop inches away from his phone mic . This is a good series to begin your…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 20 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Philosophical Anarchism is FreeThe Inevitable Compatibility of Anarchy and Flights of Madness 2024. Oil stick and pastel on paper, 22 x 30" Very exciting New Year’s Day. In my last post, Art Potlatch , I mentioned how all…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 22 days agosteemCreated with Sketch.Art PotlatchSensitive Friends Fading 2024. Acrylic on canvas, 21 x 22" I’m not appropriating a culture more than stealing a great idea. I won’t gift totems or canoes—not even slaves! This year my art is…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 2 months agosteemCreated with Sketch.Slumpu Series E(Series 1 - 100) Slumpu believes we must leave something light and lovely to the next generation. All “Keithas” (my mother’s doodles) are in stark red, although the camera didn’t catch it. Other…ronthroop (72)in hive-185836 • 2 months agosteemCreated with Sketch.Help. My TRON and Steem are not linkedCan anyone help me? I am not receiving TRON for Steem any longer. Is it something I have done? I am as blockchain savvy as a squirrel. Any advisement would be much appreciated! Here is a painting…
