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Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)
@richardfyates.bsky.social
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Old. Artz and wordz abuser. Fool. Pacific-Northwest. Grandpa.

I draw stuff pretty much all day long... Nonsense, mostly. Trying to make peeps laugh!

Do me a dang favor and check out my...
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Archive Alchemy 002
Approx: 1 hour and 15 minutes...
Archive Alchemy 002 Approx: 1 hour and 15 minutes... ---Intro ramble... ---The Midnight - "Chariot" ---Vulfmon - "Disco Snails" ---The Movement - "Jump! (Mutha Mix)" ---Genitortureres - "Squealer" ---Screeching Weasel - "My Brain Hurts" ---Alice Cooper - "I am the Future" ---Replicants - "Dirty Work" ---Earl Zinger - "Escape from Ibiza" ---808 State - "In Yer Face (Mancunian Delight)" ---L'Trimm - "We Can Rock the Beat" ---Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Bunker Soldiers" ---The Move - "Do Ya" ---The Shins - "We Will Become Silhouettes" ---Pet Shop Boys - "Always on My Mind / In My House" ---Hotel Lights - "The End of the Tour" ............. Patreon followers (even the FREE FOLK) can listen here: https://www.patreon.com/posts/archive-alchemy-144697911 ...and ANYONE with an hour and a half to spare can listen FOR FREE here: https://objkt.com/tokens/KT1TfjJZJesW4YEUvBmYZJx5rerFaFXxPjBc/182
November 30, 2025 at 8:34 PM
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TECHNIQUE!!!!
My grandson, Riot, in full coloring frenzy!
November 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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Riot (my 1.5 year-old grandson) and I finished filling up our recycled cardboard, paper, and packing tape bound collage book today. Overall, I'm pleased with the chaos!
Mixed media collage on cardboard. Skull, hipster atickers, hand cut/torn bit and bobs. Includes elements created by several of our family members... If you build it, they'll say, "Huh? What is this thing?"
November 20, 2025 at 5:49 AM
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Ahhhhh... Time to grab the crowbar and un-clench my jaw...
Scribbles and scraggles on a piece of reclaimed cardboard... I see a moon, a monster, and a glowing green apparition. Might be more in there...
November 17, 2025 at 4:23 AM
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Felt pen and gel pen on rag-paper notebook page (with digital color tweaking, cuz Why not?? "Reality" is what you can get away with!)
Giant underground demon lizard needs to be fed! I'm running to DQ!
November 16, 2025 at 5:32 AM
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Cardboard, felt pen, a phone, a no-longer-supported free sketch app, and insomnia...
Big, dopey, flightless bird, perhaps a BIT zombified...
November 13, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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Notebook scrawl...
Felt pen, gel pen, mechanical pencil and colored pencil on paper. Pensiveness in genetic mutations...
November 9, 2025 at 4:56 AM
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Work in progress... Ha!
Badly drawn cartoon eyeball guy chasing the letter, "H." Hand written text says, "Live" and "make." Ink on notebook page...
November 6, 2025 at 6:39 AM
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For anyone wondering about my mysterious collaborator, Riot, here he is IN ACTION, from this A.M.
Toddler plus dry-erase board equals CHAOS!
November 5, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Only finished one piece today (FINISHED), but I'm happy with the feel! (Riot and I worked on dozens of other pieces, as well, but those are still 'in process...' He's very particular!) Also, any DEVO fans out there?
Felt pen, oil crayon, tape, stickers, and cardboard and plastic collage on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color tweaking. We like...cuz it serves NO purpose!
November 5, 2025 at 4:49 AM
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Remember how I said I was going to share more art?? (I vaguely recall...) I'm gonna try!

Here's a mixed media piece my grandson and I did as part of a mini-zine!
Upside down pets with red eyes! Mixed media on reclaimed paper...
November 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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Remember when I used to just share art with no links or price tags or any of that junk? Let's get back to that...
Collab collage made / drawn with my one-year-old grandson! Made on recycled cardboard with digital colors for added flavor...
November 3, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Something about this season makes making things more satisfying. See if you agree by visiting HERE:

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Hand drawn ghost from my notebook with digital color!
October 21, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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I dropped a fresh batch of FREE ZINES at Cafe Guse on Commerce Ave. in Longview, Washington, this afternoon! Grab a couple before they EVAPORATE!!!! (Did I mention that they're FREE???) And grab a coffee and a donut while you're there!!!
A batch of hand-made zines!
September 27, 2025 at 10:21 PM
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HEY! HO! Let's go!!! POD People from Planet PEW22 (Compilation Post) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)

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Scribbly blue monster face created with MS Paint! I love cartoons that are terrible. FREEDOM!!!!
August 30, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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"Messages from a Hole in the Air" (Compilation Post) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool)... Come and see how the Universe is Changing!!! (Watch the drift...)

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Creepy, sketchy crab thing drawn in a notebook with a ballpoint gel pen and colored with digital magic. (I drew the thing, though, with my fingers...)
August 11, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Ring! Ring! Hello? "HAVE YOU CHECKED THE CHICKENS?" Who is this? "HAVE YOU CHECKED THE CHICKENS!!!!" No. I don't like chickens. "Oh. OKAY THEN. Goodnight!" 'Night...

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Blue Hexxa-Demon, created with MS Paint!
July 27, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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"Less Ye Be Judged" (Compilation Post) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool). Come with me to the LAND OF SNAKE BELIEVE!!!! We are the MUSIC MAKERS!!!

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Weird face, vaguely puppet-like, surrounded by light and dark streaks of lightning and tiny glimpses of the "REAL" world... Horror...
July 10, 2025 at 2:00 AM
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Mystical Endangerment! (Compilation Post!) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool). We are the muzak makrs, and we are the dreamerz of the dreamzzz!

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Strange digital portrait of a creepy, bird puppet that CLEARLY needs to be avoided. It's beak looks strong enough to punch through concrete! And that blank, yet disturbing LOOK in its globular eyes... Chilling... Or something...
June 29, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Subtextual Obviousness (Compilation Post) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool). Let's explore the edges of sanity together! Shall we??

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Ghost and Saint Snake having a HEATED discussion about various symbols and signs... (Badly drawn in a no-longer-supported, free sketch app on my phone...)
June 25, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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"ART SPLASH WITH MICROBES!" (Compilation Post) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool). My plan is to keep on going until ONE OF US wins. Then: pizza party!!!

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Notebook scribbles with gel pen and colored pencil. Text says, "Politics are stupid..." Weird skull floating on the right side, creepy scribbled cartoon figure with yucky, big hands on the left! All bad! Ha!
June 19, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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The Wail of the Bansheep! (Compilation Post!) by Richard F. Yates (Holy Fool) COME!!! Take a walk with me. We can gossip about the SKY BEINGS!

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The creature was wild and hungry and unpredictable and irritated. We brought popcorn to share with it, and that helped, but it still laid waste to half the town. Next time, we'll try caramel corn, instead!
June 14, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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Curious curiosities gathered by a freaky, old FOOL and linked together by radio controlled ghosts and electric pencils! Or something...

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Evil chicken entity drawn in my old notebook with digital coloring. Clearly a beast of extra-ordinary power!
May 31, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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"Snake and Bug in a Psychedelic Adventure" by me

[Felt pen, gel pen, liner pen, paint pen, and colored pencil on reclaimed cardboard with digital embellishments and color.] No drugs were harmed in the making of this particular nightmare! Great ball of fur!!!
Mostly abstract hallucinations, but with a few sentient entities floating through the Chaos... Snake and Bug didn't know what they were going to encounter, and they were STILL shocked!
May 29, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Compilation time once again, LADIES AND GERMS! Come see the DUCK!!! (Or something...)

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Strange dreams of snakes and magnetic tapes. (Notebook art with digital color.) Badly drawn, of course...
May 23, 2025 at 1:39 AM