Paul Rubenstein

@ubertar

Musician, composer, instrument inventor/builder, microtonal, experimental, rock, jazz, world influences, Hindustani, gamelan... dabble in visual art, mainly painting.

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Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 8d

another painting from yesterday. really struggled with this one, and I'm still not satisfied. I don't use an easel, I hold the painting in my lap (very nearsighted) so often the paintings are more interesting in detail than as a whole.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 8d

another yesterday painting: Whale approaches the reality tunnels

abstract acrylic painting. With the canvas in this orientation, it might resemble a whale-shaped object headed toward openings in long, swirling tubes

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 9d

An overwhelming number of things to do, yet I'm compelled to use my time in the least possible productive way...

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 10d

painting

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 10d

Painting

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 13d

New painting... the full view isn't so clear, so I added a few detail shots. I think my paintings aren't for walls, they're meant to be held in hands and examined.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· 21d

Painting

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jul 9

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scene from Close Encounters of the Third Kind where the guy is making a mountain out of mashed potatoes

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jul 3

A more recent addition to the tradition...

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 14

Here's a chart that includes nuclear in the comparison: world-nuclear.org/images/artic...

Chart showing carbon emissions for various power sources

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 12

new painting:

Abstract acrylic painting on wood circle. Layers of textures and colors.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 10

emerging from chaos into chaos...

three bright yellow neuron-like stars emerge through striated waves of color in a multicolored striated dark cosmic background

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 8

New painting!

abstract acrylic painting on wood circle.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 8

New painting! I think now I'm going to have to record an album, call it "Nachtopus" and use this as the cover.

abstract acrylic painting on wood circle. blue and silver striped bottom layer, orange above, black octopus shape over top

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 8

New painting!

abstract acrylic painting on wood circle. colorful circles and swirls

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Jun 8

Mulberries! Harvested them for the first time this morning... didn't know I had mulberry trees until very recently, and we've lived here over 6 years.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· May 27

Shooting Stars

Too many stars up in the sky
hand me that rifle by your side
first one went down without a fight
so many- this could take all night

Black sky, I'll finally get some sleep
my bed's the bottom of the sea
if you start to dream I'll come along
exploring worlds where we don't belong

There are rabbits on the run
they are hiding from the sun
out on the grass, fall to your knees
lure them out with a chunk of cheese

Once they are eating from your hand
catch a rabbit if you can
and if the rabbit knows his role
then he will pull you down the hole

The darkness shines down on the hole
with colors brighter than your soul
an itch develops in your head
and makes you wish that you were dead

The itching slowly does subside
around you the world has stabilized
and the reward for all your pain
is just a single seed of grain

You burrow quickly like a mole
and find your way out of the hole
and now you're standing on the grass
waiting for this day to pass

As you stare down at your feet
something still feels incomplete
your puzzled thoughts disrupt the flow
hand me the gun- I think I know

After all the stars that we have killed
there is still one to be fulfilled
and when the sun gives up the day
the rabbits are all free to play

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· May 12

Here are alternate views... the whole point of round is there's no fixed view.

same as prior, rotated another 90 degrees

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· May 12

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digital drawing of me playing a double-necked microtonal instrument I built through a mixer to two amplifiers. A blue bird sits on one amp.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· May 12

Here's the second of the two new paintings:

Round abstract painting composed of multiple layers of multicolored lines, curves and smudges.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· May 12

Two new round paintings, here's the first one:

Circular painting mostly filled with small, overlapping circles. Each circle is unique and has patterns of multiple colors. Some are multicolored empty outlines of circles, not filled in like the others.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· May 5

Here's what that turned into:

overlapping, sometimes intertwining multicolored spirals over background curves which suggest a circle much larger than the frame

Another view of the same, turned 90 degrees. Most of my paintings lately can be viewed from any orientation.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Apr 10

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man looking at a cluster of blue mushrooms

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 31

Second round painting, acrylic on wood. One of the nice things about these wood circles is that you can paint on both sides... more bang for the buck. Haven't done that yet, but will.

vibrant multi-layered chaos of multicolored brush-strokes and squiggles

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 30

First round painting, acrylic on wood. "Peacock". Exploring textures lately, so this could fit the #artchallenge #texture...

round painting with striated texture, many colors, with circular swirls scattered throughout. Hopefully doesn't look too much like a pepperoni pizza

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 8

The second of two paintings from last night/this morning. The dragon came from the unconscious, it wasn't intended. I added the eye in its seahorse-like head, but otherwise it appeared on its own.

black, yellow, red dragon with seahorse-like head soars through windy skies of white, blue, orange and yellow. A star or sun gleams out from behind a hind leg. some kind of red-orange vortex? is superimposed over a wing or is maybe something else entirely

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 8

Did a couple new paintings between last night and this morning. Tried out some new textures, partly inspired by enyaslung.bsky.social Here are two views of the first one, the second will come in a separate post.

two yellow and orange stars frame a striated background of black, purple, red and blue. The background is light blue. In the centers of the stars are multicolored overlapping triangles. A wispy grey hand reaches out into roughly the center of the canvas from left to right.

same as previous, horizontal view. Now the hand reaches up from the bottom of the canvas.

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 7

And another...

a black, blue and green spiral, a set of black, blue and green concentric circles and three triangles, each composed of more triangles in black, blue, green and red, over a faint, misty green background. horizontal view

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 7

To try to get the colors more accurate, I tweaked the hue control. Major tweaks can totally transform the feel of it...

Same painting, vertical view, but the greens are now purples, red and orange are now green, and yellow is blue.

same again, background is now blue and violet, and squiggles are mostly red with the middle layer ones green

Paul Rubenstein@ubertar· Mar 7

All of my recent paintings have no set orientation. So this could be vertical, or reversed, or both. I like the idea of rotating them every now and then. I just ordered some wooden discs to paint on. Here's another view: