...so the "every drug known to man" art guy kind of inspired this thread. There is a lot of great psychedelic inspired art all over the Nexus, but what this thread specifically addresses is art done while actually under the influence of a significant dose of a psychedelic.

I've drawn, painted and even tattooed people while on moderate doses of acid or shrooms. I don't have photos handy of all of it, but here are four decent examples. These are all pieces that were done, start to finish, while tripping. In each case, the entire setup- canvas, color selection, brushes, etc. were in place before dosing, with at least some idea of what the direction of the piece would be. I worked with smooshy abstract stuff that lent itself to a loose approach. I'd already done hundreds of paintings by this point, so holding the brush was second nature and the presence of a hallucinogen in my system was not enough to preclude my being able to paint.

The first one is the largest of the group (4x4', and possibly my favorite. I had already done one "Hook" painting while tripping before this, and wanted a chance to follow that up. (My avatar is a later piece in the same series, although done while only under the influence of THC). It was a pretty high dose for painting- at least 400ug- enough to seriously threaten my work ethic. The piece took about 4 hours. I later did a much larger "Hook" painting while on a higher dose, made a mess, hurt my hand. You can't package this stuff... it just unfolds as it does.

The second one was smaller and quicker, but on a similar dose. I remember everything in my vision being very watery, and worked to flow with that the best I could.

The third was on a much lower dosage- about 200ug- and is very small, about 4x5". I sat in front of the fireplace with a small brush and tweaked away at this for about 3-4 hours. I've done very similar organic lightburst paintings while tripping two other times, once very successfully and once with horrible results.

The last one was a shroom painting, about 3 grams, painted outdoors at a park. I set the easel up next to a rock cliff and focused on a small spot of mossy rock. My big struggle was just capturing the astonishing beauty of what I was seeing- all that amazing texture and subtle color of the rock and lichen, dazzling and bursting with significance... I kept wanting to put the brush down, since my painting was so simple and crude by comparison. Nonetheless I think the finished painting did capture an element of what I was seeing.

Very inspirational stuff guyomech, amazing!!

im a big fan of phenylthylamines, especially as a way to create

really nice stuff man, very impressive.

i personaly cant paint wile im spangled, i groove too much on the paint itself and forget about the act of painting.

"sooo fucking piiinkkk man daamnn how is is so pink what do them aliens put in the shit, the bastids are playing with me through the vibrational currency of colour. currency? money? ah it always comes back to that doesnt it, them ET's want payin for their magic now, well not on my watch!"

but i always take down some rough ideas and conseptual work wile or just after a trip. Later ill go over it and pick out the best of it to try and form some sort of composition for a future painting

Excellent work! Better than my sober stuff!

Beautiful as always.

LSD (and other psychedelics) usually turn(s) my hands into uncoordinated slabs of ham, so anything that requires a great deal of finesse is generally out the window. I do often paint on low dose harmalas, however, and a lot in the afterglow of a DMT thumping.

Ah, Thank You Guyomech I was really hoping to get your input on this. That is some kick ass art man. I guess once you are more experienced with painting, and more experienced with the teachers they come together nicely. This is what i said on that other thread in regard to my attempts...

"I usually just smoke some herb. I have tried drawing while on mushrooms a few times, it was very interesting but not really coherent. The one time i really tried I had been working on this peice for a couple weeks just getting the sketch right. It was a shaman lookin guy wearing a robe, holding a staff with a yin yang floating above the staff. Next to him I drew pretty accurately the cluster of mushrooms that we made into tea that day, it was a pretty cool little cluster of 5-6 good lookin mushrooms all still connected. So I drew all that before the trip, then while i was peaking I tried to work on it for a bit. It was intense, It pulled me in and I felt like I was channeling somethign, like I didnt even know what my hand was drawing. It was like I started to really see this crazy intricate picture on the blank page, and it started looking like a woman or a goddess. I felt like I was tracing more than drawing. Maybe if I would have focused more and stuck with it for a while it would have turned into something, but it didnt look like much the next day (although it did help me remember that crazy picture i was seeing on the blank page).
Another time, I ended up in jail while peaking on bridgessi (long story). I was trying to fill out the booking paperwork but when i tried to write it felt like my hand wanted to do somethign else. So I just flipped the paper over and started drawing on the back. It was very absract, hard to explain but It was really fun to do that. The cop was even impressed with it lol. Too bad ill never see that one again."

Ill try to post some pics of the one i still have if i can get a chance. I have also been wondering about what effects microdosing mushrooms would have on my art. Or maybe just keeping some spice handy in my studio so i can blast off every now and then, keep the inspiration fresh in my memory (any thoughts on wether pharmahuasca or changa would be better for this?).

anyway if im going to attempt doing controlled, coherent art (which isnt alwasy totally necassary)while peaking, i suppose about 3 gs of mushy tea or even less would be my best option as thats what im most familiar with.
good thread man hopefully some more people can post some examples. Music is good one too.

Really cool stuff! I especially like the form on the last one.. very mysterious. Excited to see your stuff too tokapelli.

I'll have to try holding a brush while tripping one day. Drawing just seems so much easier in those states but I guess it's way more rewarding to see the colors forming right in front of your eyes..

yea its hard for me to post pics I only have access to the interwebs at work, but ill get around to it sometime. I was gonna say Guyomech that second painting looks very much like mycelium, which just happens to be the subject of my latest peice. Maybe ill have to see if a little fungus can help me see what its really supposed to look like, make it worthy to post in this thread when its finished.

there's that Vortex again...

Great work

The shrooms gave me both of these one evening winter of 1988

Very nice! I think it's striking how 25 years later, your art is still very much in the same vein in terms of flow and energy, even while using different media. Very cool! Do you ever work on digital art while under the influence?

Ok, so thought I didn't have anything to contribute this thread but turns out I do [and Guy, that second purple one is just tantalizing - really draws you in], but then I remembered I did this one below on pure vaped DMT. I inhaled my dose, stared intently at the white paper in front of me as the texture in the grains quickly shifted followed by the 2 dimensional energetic geometry which then started popping out of the page. When I was looking down at that paper what I was seeing was practically like looking at a holographic "Jack" from a deck of cards. Despite the fact that the lines that made it up were constantly shifting, I decided I would simply trace along the moving lines of the hologram. So now despite the fact that what I drew bares no resemblance at all to what it was that I actually saw, the process of tracing the hologram resulted in these organic topographic fractals. As the juice was wearing off, I did vaporize again to finish off and embellish the rest. I then took some fat highlighters (which were all that I had at the time for color purposes) as I was in the afterglow to color it in.

I also have a handful of music done while tripping (mostly trippy guitar jams). To me, these compositions are much akin to paintings as I felt like (and maintain the feel) like I was painting with sound. In a way I really was. Every note, every shift in emotion or muscle tension would color and manipulate the psychedelic imagery before me. Acidic Expressions was obviously done on acid. There's no post-processing on that one. What you hear is what someone else in the room would have heard (I of course heard it just a tad differently).

Honeycombs was done on my first pharma experience. I had just been through a long immobile stage of the experience where I was sensually encased in brilliant golden holographic hexagonal honeycombs. I had never been more comfortable in my life and literally could not move a muscle. Somewhere along the way I got a pleasant burst of energy and decided to go play some guitar. I could still feel the honeycomb vibe which was affecting my playing as I tried to instill it the best I could in the sound I was creating. There was a buzzing insectoid feel to the experience which I try to capture. Additionally the etheric energy from the DMT was giving my fingers a little extra "pop". Many finger movements were automated, and I was simply letting the whole thing unfold. It all just seems to come to life in the flow of things.

I've tried, but not too successfully. Too tough to concentrate on the actual commands needed to manipulate the program.

I cannot even really handle paint brushes well during the peak, but drawing tools are OK as they are basically just an extension of my hands. Those two are a combination of oil and water soluble crayons.

Afterwards is OK though, but my mind is usually into an integration phase at that point, so I am not too into playing with machines other than to listen to music.

I've definitely have had a HUGE upsurge in output since finding the spice, but playing with the computer while full on hyperspatial seems out of the question.

Those two drawings came very quickly, together I bet they only took two or three hours total. I really felt like they came through me, not from me, which is why I say the shrooms gave them to me. They still remain two of my favorite pieces I ever have done. The scan of the top one is actually a bit over exposed, the real image is a bit more pastel and less less extreme contrast than that.

I'll try to find some of my earliest drawings that were done on acid and scan them.

I do a lot art just after the peak..while comming down for the second half of an ayahuasca experience..sometimes mushrooms. Sometimes I will take a light dose of mushrooms and draw or color the whole time..

Here is one I have been working on latley. I just add to it while comming down from experiences..

I had no idea this thread existed!!!

Of course, I love your work Guyomech.

I think my favorite is that first one of yours, spinCycle.

And jamie, I love your use of color. It's so smooth and wavy.

I'll have much to post up soon.....

Wow.. I am jealous.. I should really take up an artistic practice..

Yes you should. Everyone should.

One of my profs used to say, "I can teach anyone to draw an apple so it looks like an apple. What I can't teach them is to have something to say."

Too many people don't create because they think they don't have the natural skill to draw or what ever, but everyone has something to express from inside of them. Double for trippers, I'd say. Just grab some paint or clay or string or whatever and make something. Then make something else and do it over and over... over time you'll find your thing. Meaning is where you find it, and where you make it.

Like it says on my tag: Life is Art is Life

The only thing that matters is that you put your heart into it. Everything else will follow.

AWESOME jamie. Awesome.