Alter Ego, Art and Giveaway

Some time ago I wrote a blog post about these super-fast digital paintings I did and how I was wondering if they would sell. Well, I wanted to add some humor to my YouTube videos, so I developed an alter ego named Tatyana. She is a crazy woman with fake Russian accent and she is convinced that she is the best thing that ever happened to this world. She will be the one responsible for these digital paintings. She is so in love with herself that she sells her prints for $1000 each and thinks it's cheap. She is being generous enough to give one of the prints away though to one lucky winner. The print that will be given away is of a painting "The Healing Spirit" that is created on this video.

To enter the giveaway, you need to go to and subscribe to my YouTube channel and leave a comment on this video.

There will be more of this crazy Tatyana every Friday, so stay tuned and catch some artistic craziness. For those who wonder:she is based on the overwhelming ego of some of the artists I've met in my life.

Artistic and Sociological Experiment

I was playing in GIMP the other day, didn't really have any idea in mind, just playing with tools to figure out a new way to use them. Well I did find a new way. Super fast abstract digital painting. It tool me less then 5 minutes to do this one. I ended up spending a couple of hours playing with this idea and ended up with 5 paintings that I saved and a ton more that I didn't even bother saving. So, here is a question that popped into my head as I was doodling in GIMP: Can I sell this? Would people actually want to buy this? Will it sell better than pieces that take me a whole day to draw and paint?

The way our society works and the direction art is going, I'm scared to admit, but I think answers would be: yes, yes and yes.

So here is what I decided. I will open a new red bubble account,  come up with a pseudonym and see if it will sell. If It does, well art might be in trouble, but at least I'll make enough money to buy myself that potter's wheel and kiln.

What do you think, would anyone buy these?
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A quick update. I just finished a few more of these and expanded the idea a little further, mixing more colors, making faces out of them and so on. I already opened a new account on red bubble for it and will start posting tomorrow. Everything will be posted under a pseudonym Ghostly Digital. I will not advertise it, but I will come up with a strange story for each of these digital paintings. If it will sell, it will not be because of the effort on my part at advertising. I understand it's unfair to compare sales of the work I do advertise and try very hard to get out there, but I simply don't have enough time to spend on advertising yet another account. I will only post a link on my blogs.