Oil Symmetrical Paintings
by Paranoid Loid
When the 2020 Coronavirus lock downs and quarantine began Loid purchased the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the painting app ProCreate. With those tools he developed a new form of art. In 2024 he began creating Oil Symmetrical Paintings
When the 2020 Coronavirus lock downs and quarantine began Loid purchased the iPad Pro, Apple Pencil and the painting app ProCreate. With those tools he developed a new form of art. In 2024 he began creating Oil Symmetrical Paintings
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After a month of frustration at being unable to draw or paint anything that he liked, Loid found ProCreate's radial symmetry guide. The symmetry guide is a tool that is present in every painting and drawing program that has ever existed. That is when he stopped TRYING to make art and instead began to slowly and deliberately PULL infinitely random abstract art into this world from some other dimension where it seemed to have already existed. He had done this 20 years earlier while living in Rome, Italy with the painting program Corel Draw where he created about 10 paintings that his oldest friend told him looked like mandalas.
After a month of frustration at being unable to draw or paint anything that he liked, Loid found ProCreate's radial symmetry guide. The symmetry guide is a tool that is present in every painting and drawing program that has ever existed. That is when he stopped TRYING to make art and instead began to slowly and deliberately PULL infinitely random abstract art into this world from some other dimension where it seemed to have already existed. He had done this 20 years earlier while living in Rome, Italy with the painting program Corel Draw where he created about 10 paintings that his oldest friend told him looked like mandalas.
The words Symmetrical Painting seemed to describe this new form of art better than the word mandala. Mandalas are always circular, much more repetitive and evoke prejudged design expectations. All paintings on this website began as random scribbles made while in a trance like state trying to deal with a period in modern history that at times felt like the end of the world.
The words Symmetrical Painting seemed to describe this new form of art better than the word mandala. Mandalas are always circular, much more repetitive and evoke prejudged design expectations. All paintings on this website began as random scribbles made while in a trance like state trying to deal with a period in modern history that at times felt like the end of the world.
These paintings are some of Loid's favorites out of over one thousand that he created throughout the unforgettable years of the Coronavirus.
These paintings are some of Loid's favorites out of over one thousand that he created throughout the unforgettable years of the Coronavirus.
Oil Symmetrical Paintings
Oil Symmetrical Paintings
36 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas
The Desert WastelandFeburary 2024 - Present36 x 36 inches Oil on Canvas
4 Dried Grams Psilocybin Cubensis
36 x 36 in Oil on Canvas4 Dried Grams Psilocybin Cubensis
The Desert Wasteland
March 2024
The Liars
36 x 36 in Oil on CanvasThe Liars
The Desert Wasteland
April 2024
More Oil Symmetrical Paintings Coming Soon
More Oil Symmetrical Paintings Coming Soon