Nate Seubert

Well, I did the thing. Not because I was super excited by so many of my choices, but because voting is like taking the bus: it’s about choosing how close you can get to your preferred destination.

Painting some more clouds. #art #fineart #oilpainting #losangeles

Painting some clouds. #art #fineart #oilpainting #losangeles

So I initially sketched this one out at the end of July. It got pushed to the side while I did some other pieces for upcoming shows. Today, I got back into it. Tomorrow, paint. #art #fineart #oilpainting #losangeles

I keep picking up my ballot, looking at all the shitty options I have, thanks to our wildly undemocratic “top 2 primary” bullshit, and putting it back down.

I’ll hold my nose and vote for the fuckers who sold out entertainment workers and further damaged the economy where I live to kiss up to some assholes who already had too much money, because the fascists are even worse… but I’m sure not happy or excited to do it.

I really, really, *really* wish I knew how to convince people to go look at websites, again, and not have their online experiences totally dictated by a few social media site owners. Bluesky is better than most, but you can also go look at websites. They've literally never been easier to make!

I paid the bills for over 15 years, building people websites. It's so easy now that I can't actually make money that way, anymore.

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I still keep my own running. I tried having a blog where people could comment, but no one used it. I should make it active, again. The rest is still there: www.nateseubert.com

Dear media: there are plenty of words you can use to describe armed assholes who are attacking farmers on land their ancestors have inhabited for centuries. “Settlers “ is not one of those words.

Pretty sure the biggest difference between a fraternity and a gang is class based…

I feel like maybe people should master safely driving cars on the ground, before trying to operate “cars” that fly…

It would be nice if "civic pride" in Los Angeles extended to more than just belligerent sports fandom. Throwing trash/lit cigarettes out the window, as you cut off someone trying to merge, almost flattening a few pedestrians, while clad head to toe in Dodgers/Lakers gear is as good as it gets...

Worrying more about who you hate than how your neighbors are doing is no way to run a country.

Fade - oil on panel - 8x8 inches - September 2026 New painting! If you’re in LA, you’ll be able to see it in person, in November. Details to follow, soon! #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

Above & Beyond - oil on linen - 12x12 inches - September 2026 Brand new painting! I hope you enjoy it. #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

Getting Winston’s clouds right. There will be some highlights to add, once this all dries. #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting

Nocturnal Repose - oil on canvas - 12x12 inches - 2024-2026 I started re-working this one from 2024 when all the others I was working on were wet. I basically re-painted everything but the feathers and eye. I like it a lot more than I used to. I hope you dig it, too! #fineart #contemporaryart

Here's what it used to look like. I like it better, now.

Illumination - oil on canvas - 14x20 inches (16.75x22.75 framed) - September 2026 New painting, with detail shots! I hope you enjoy it. #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

Me and my paintings of various sizes. Some are brand new, some are old ones I fixed. I hope you like them. Check ‘em out on my site! nateseubert.com #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

Way too many people respond to injustice by blaming as a whole whatever group produced those who perpetrated it. That’s not breaking the cycle, it’s just pushing it along. Where do we go from there? How does anything change or improve?

Rise - oil on canvas - 44x54 inches - October 2006 - private collection I finished this one 20 years ago. I seem to recall that it was purchased by a psychiatrist, from a long-gone gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, CA. #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

I rarely know who buys them, when they sell in a gallery... but the guy really wanted to talk to me about it, I guess. I'm not always sure the explanations I have are enough for people... but if I could put it into words, I'd write a story instead of making a painting.

Ephemera - oil on canvas - 16x29 inches - October 2016 I finished this one 10 years ago. Secretary birds are fun to paint… I did a few. If you find yourself in Santa Fe, NM, check it out in person at Keep Contemporary gallery! keepcontemporary.com #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

I'm far too committed to the ideals of anti-racism to not judge you by your Morrissey bumper sticker. (Because screw that racist piece of shit.)

This one was hard, and I never got it right. I think I might have finally figured it out! Winston will finally have the memorial he deserves. #fineart #contemporaryart #oilpainting

2024 was garbage even before we lost Winston, our near constant companion for over 14 years. And then it got worse. I started this that year, and have gone back to it a few times. The closer the subject, the harder they are to paint... and doing so after he was gone was damn hard. Too hard...

I only got these tires a cut weeks ago. I never got a nail in my tire until I started driving to downtown LA every day. Now, a few times a year. Garbage city.

“A COUPLE weeks ago”

I only got these tires a cut weeks ago. I never got a nail in my tire until I started driving to downtown LA every day. Now, a few times a year. Garbage city.

No painting, today… dealing with this shit instead 😞

I started re-working this one from 2024, when all the others I was working on were wet. I think I got the last little bits done, tonight. So many wee dots! #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting #losangeles

latimes.comBergamot Station made Santa Monica an art mecca. Now, it could be replaced by affordable housingBergamot Station, the hub for artists, inches toward becoming Santa Monica low-income housing

It just feels like art is dying. www.latimes.com/california/s...

We desperately need housing, here. I’m sure there are ways to build it that don’t destroy the few cultural institutions we have.

The Fix - oil on canvas - 48x48 inches - September 1996 - private collection. Thirty years ago, a band I knew asked me to make a painting for their record cover. I came up with something I liked a lot… and they liked, too.

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The Regrettable Need - oil on canvas - 48x52 inches - September 1996 I worked on this other image at the same time, sharing colors between them. Both were completed in September of 1996. I think I got $200. I did sell the original, later.

When these paintings showed later in Denver, CO, a newspaper art critic called them “off-putting paintings in garish cotton candy colors.” I used that as a tag line for years. It was a group show, I was the only artist mentioned by name in the article.

The technology of the time didn’t allow for great reproduction (and I had no experience with that, yet), so the final result came out looking a lot different (and got cropped, for some reason).

Deliver Us - oil on canvas - 14 inches - September 2011 - private collection I made this painting 15 years ago. I didn’t have it very long, as I recall. It went off to a happy, new home, which is the best thing they can do. #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

22 Sept

“What did you do, over the summer?” Well… #art #fineart #oilpainting #losangeles

I've seen a lot less sales, for myself as well as other artists, since the writer's strike. I guess I'll see things get even worse, now that our useless Gov. Newsom pushed our unreliable Atty. Gen. Bonta to approve the wildly anti-competitive Paramount merger, which will cost thousands of jobs...

...local jobs, that allowed people who weren't millionaires/billionaires to spend money in the local economy. Every fucking thing is becoming a struggle, unless you're rich. At some point, the rest of us need to stop complying. Stop buying their shit. Stop voting for their pet politicians.

Stop using their over-priced services that spy on you & turn you into a product. No one is coming to save us. We'll have to save ourselves.

latimes.comParamount, attorneys general settle lawsuit, clearing a path for Warner Bros. mergerWith the agreement, California Atty. General Rob Bonta and his coalition plan to withdraw historic lawsuit that aimed to derail the $111-billion deal.

I don’t think it’s appreciated in other places just how many CA democrats are just republicans without the overt racism. Thanks for letting the rich do whatever they want to the rest of us, again! www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

The sitting mayor of LA, supporting the elimination of thousands of jobs in her city, right before a contested election. I hope she loses. I wish I could say the same for the scumbag gov candidate, but his opponent is worse… and our system allows no other option in the general.

19 Sept

Covering those edges. I think this one might be done, too. #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

18 Sept

Covering those edges. I think this one might be done. I’ll let you know when it’s dry and I’ve had a chance to oil it out & bring back all the colors. (yes, it will get even brighter!) #fineart #contemporaryart #surrealism #oilpainting

17 Sept

I spend a few hundred dollars a month at the grocery store, yet they haven't bought any of my paintings. I did get food to eat, though, so I probably will continue spending that money.

17 Sept

FU, RFK jr. vaccines acquired!