If you've been following my work, you know I only accept Bitcoin. No banks. No intermediaries. No inflation diluting value. Every painting I've made — from the smallest clouds to the largest landscapes — is here:

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

Prices in sats. Dimensions. Details. The photos don't zoom (BTCpay limitation), but if something calls to you, DM me. I'll send close-ups, answer questions, talk about the work. Sound money for sound art. That's the exchange. #art #artstr #bitcoin #isolabellart

This could definitely be one of my paintings. I can already see all the shades of color and brush strokes in my head. If anyone is interested, I'll do it. 🎨 View quoted note →

There is a painting in my studio that nobody wants. I have posted it several times. Zero interest. At first, it hurt me. Then I understood. That painting is not for "nobody." It is for someone who has not yet arrived. The right art at the wrong time is invisible. The right art at the right time is inevitable. That painting waits. And so do I. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

I don't collect art. But I understand those who do. Because a collector doesn't buy "decoration." They buy a moment they want to relive every day. That sunset that changed something in them. That cloud that reminded them of someone. That silence they can't find in daily noise. When you sell a painting, you're not selling an object. You're offering someone the chance to live every day with something that stops them, calms them, brings them back to themselves. That's why my paintings aren't for everyone. But for those they are, they become necessary. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

My art is evolving. I don't know if it's getting better. I won't know for years — maybe never. But I know it's becoming more honest. From landscapes to silence. From silence to abstraction, and maybe return. From what I see to what I feel. The market will decide if it matters. But I'm painting the questions I need to ask, not the answers people want to hear. And that feels right. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

Here you always say: "Stay humble, stack sats." But humility is the most difficult quality of all. Because just believing you have it is enough to lose it.

People see the finished painting. I remember the moment I almost gave up halfway through. That brushstroke I redid seven times. That sky that didn't work until I added the gray I'd never thought to use. The finished painting is the version that stopped fighting. But the struggle is where the real art happens. When you buy a painting, you're not just buying color on canvas. You're buying every moment of doubt I pushed through to get there.

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

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Sketch for SILENCE IV — The After At the center, a crack. Not darkness. Not light. The moment when the square breaks open and reveals what lies beyond. The silence doesn't end here. It transforms. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

Sketch for SILENCE III - The Coexistence Inside the square, two orders of life. The organic and the geometric, living together without conflict. Not one, not the other. Both. This is what happens when you stop asking nature to choose. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

GOLDEN WITNESS — proof-of-work... in progress One week of work. Layers building. The light finding its way through. This painting comes from a photograph by @Goldgraphy — a photographer here on Nostr. He captured this moment of a single tree holding light in a vast valley. I asked to paint it. He said yes, asking nothing. There's beauty in that exchange. No contract. No negotiation. Just: "I see what you see. Let me bring it forward." Almost complete now. Miss yet some sparks of life. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

Sketch for SILENCE II - THE THRESHOLD Someone once asked me: "What does abstract art mean?" I said: "What does music in a foreign language mean?" You don't know the words. But you feel the sadness, the joy, the longing. That's abstraction. Not something to decode. Something to experience. Not something critics explain. Something your body already knows. Color is melody. Form is rhythm. Silence is the space between notes. You don't need to understand it. You just need to stop asking if you should. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

Sketch for SILENCE I - THE HELD BREATH I've been thinking about abstract art lately. A lot of people say: "I don't understand it." As if there's something to solve. A code to crack. A meaning hidden that only critics know. But here's the thing: Abstract art is like listening to music in a language you don't speak. You don't understand the words. But it moves you anyway. The melody doesn't need translation. The rhythm doesn't need explanation. You just... feel it. That's what abstraction is. Not a puzzle. Not a test. Just color, form, and the space between them — speaking directly to something that doesn't need words. You don't need to "get it." You just need to let it in. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

From the paintings I share, you wouldn’t think so — but I’ve failed more times than I can count. Ugly paintings. Wrong colors. Dead compositions. But every failure taught me something success never could. Success tells you: "Keep doing this." Failure tells you: "Try another way." That's why I keep painting things I don't yet know how to do. Because failure is the only teacher that doesn't lie. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

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THE FADING GLOW The lingering brightness. Fragile yet persistent. A flame unwilling to yield to the dark. The third of SILENCE AMONG THE CLOUDS. That moment when the light doesn't go suddenly — it lingers. Fades. But doesn't disappear quietly. It insists, for just a little longer. This is the silence of resistance. Gentle, but stubborn. 20×20cm, oil on cradled wood panel Available now: 180,000 sats (shipping included) 🔗

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

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Plebeian Market

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This is the most ambitious thing I've ever attempted. 16 paintings. 4 months of thinking. One question. View quoted note →

I remember it well. The first zap I received for a painting was 210 sats. It wasn't the price I was asking. It was a gesture. Someone, on the other side of the world, had seen something that spoke to them. I didn't sell that painting, but I understood something: The value of art isn't in the price. It's in the moment someone stops, looks, and feels something move inside. Everything else — sales, collections, exhibitions — is just consequence. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

My home is full of paintings. Everywhere. Some have been in my studio for months. Others for a year, or two, or more. I don’t sell them because they’re not meant for anyone yet. I keep them because they haven’t found their person yet. Art isn’t a product on a shelf. It’s a conversation waiting to begin. There’s one painting I look at every morning. I know that someone, somewhere, is waiting for exactly that sky, that light. They won’t find it by searching “art to buy.” They’ll find it when they stop and think: “I know this.” All I can do is wait for that moment to arrive. And when it does, it’s not a sale. It’s a recognition. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart

THE WAITING THUNDER The silent tension. The suspended breath of what is about to arrive. The second of SILENCE AMONG THE CLOUDS. Not the thunder itself — but the waiting. The moment before. When the air holds everything and releases nothing. Sometimes silence isn't the absence of sound. It's the presence of what hasn't happened yet. 20×20cm, oil on cradled wood panel Available now: 180,000 sats (shipping included) 🔗

Isolabellart

Isolabellart

Original oil paintings

🔗

Plebeian Market

Or DM me directly. #art #artstr #painting #isolabellart #silenceamongtheclouds