Chris Yates

@superyates.bsky.social

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Multimedia artist living and working in Butte, Montana. Makes a lot of jigsaw puzzles for some reason or another. www.chrisyates.net

A photo of the seven people in charge of making the Puzzle Parley happen, in a typical hotel corridor
A rather sketchy and not very accurate map of the route of I-90 and I-94 in Montana between Butte and Miles City
A colorful image of a hand cut and painted puzzle featuring shifting iridescent colors and an interpretation of MC Escher's Horsemen tessellation drawing
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a saxophone
A photo-based comic cut into painterly blocks, featuring two people talking about how they need to fly in to LGA, and to follow a rather onerous route to get to their destination in Brooklyn.
A photo-based comic cut into painterly blocks, featuring two men talking about a things at a nerd core hip-hop show
A photo-based comic cut into painterly blocks, featuring Chris and Danielle talking about pens in Chris's backyard that featured a lovely fishpond at one point
A photo-based comic cut into painterly blocks, featuring two men talking about a joke at a comic convention
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting an over-saturated landscape of the old Cornish tin factories and surrounds, on a green bluff, with a boldly colored dusk behind.
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a French horn in exaggerated colors inlaid in a oval white base
A large ceramic arch on the grounds of the Archie Bray Foundation in Helena, Montana. There is Mt. Helena is in the background. It's a bluebird big sky day.
A photocomic depicting the events prior to the first day of the MoCCA festival in NYC in 2006. There's a lot of folks traversing Manhattan and doing silly things and saying witty remarks, they are cartoonists
A photo comic featuring a whole bunch of webcomic creators at the MoCCA comic and arts festival in NYC 2006, at the Puck Building in Manhattan with various witty quips that may or may not give you the general vibe of the event
A photo comic featuring a whole bunch of webcomic creators at a party at (I think) Chris Hastings' place and then chatting in the subway
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a hilly farm in the Tuscany region of Italy
A photo of part of a KFC fry box and then all the letters from the rest of the box cut up to create a clever slogan
A photo of Chris's garden, which has some sprouting daisy flowers in it
A colorful hand cut and painted wooded jigsaw puzzle depicting a whimsical landscape
A little batch of hand cut and painted wooden miniGhosts, with various colors and expressions
a couple of hand-cut puzzle sections that are Escher-based tessellating horsemen and horses standing on their "feet" on the scroll saw platen, with a pleasant mountain view in the distance
A frame from the alien planet on Starship Troopers on an iPad and a circular photo of a small sculpture in the same landscape
A colorful hand cut and hand painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a rather abstract future city type thing with lots of rounded edges
A photo of my unexpectedly verdant rock garden that is still very much a fun work in progress
A colorful hand cut and painted multi-layer wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a wormhole portal to a mountainous world
Two humans in a restaurant with a big circular walkthrough
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a very abstract canyon landscape
A photo of a bunch of rocks in some dudes driveway
Several hundred colorful wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces creating a whole bunch of triangles that will eventually all connect to each other
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a sunset in Maui
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a large hand sculpture in the desert
A photo of a rock garden in progress
A photo of three customized salt shakers filled with colorful puzzle pieces and pom poms.
A photo of Chris' garage workshop which is slightly more colorful than most garages
An image of a hand-cut and painted wooden puzzle, depicting a 3.5" floppy which had just 1.4MB of spacious storage space.
A stylized trash can in mid-1980's EPCOT at Disney World
A colorful hand-cut and hand-painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a cartoony turtle that also is a chef
A hand-cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a sakura flower
A colorful drawing of a fun cloud forest scene in Ecuador
Journal drawings of lust cloud forest vegetation and water features
A hand cut and painted multi-level wooden puzzle depicting fossils from various ages
A whole bunch of brightly colored wooden jigsaw puzzle pieces, using a paint stencil technique rather than the artist's usual spatter blending.
A colorful drawing of a horn (instrument)
A colorful but somewhat ominous hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle, depicting an odd critter with large peepers taking a look outside his strange floating island bunker.
A colorful doodle of Glastonbury Abbey in England
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden jigsaw puzzle depicting a whimsical natural landscape wherein Bigfoot notices his alien buddies passing through the neighborhood
A colorful hand drawn comic from 2005 depicting our 6 chromatic alien friends that summon the Great Eye, who prophesizes that a nearby planet (possibly Earth?) will soon be destroyed. This was the "prologue" to the first couple years of my old webcomic Reprographics.
A colorful hand-drawn comic depicting a bunch of aliens, a snake and some sort of wishing well
A colorful hand drawn comic depicting 3 aliens and a large snake that may or may not be taken advantage of
A colorful hand-drawn comic depicting 3 aliens doing stuff at their magical wish factory
A colorful hand drawn comic depicting 3 aliens and their snake friend
A hand-drawn comic about three weird aliens I made in 2005
A colorful hand cut and painted wooden puzzle depicting a pink beach house and a couple boats in a lagoon
a hand cut and painted wooden puzzle depicting various aspects of the Hitchhiker's Guide mythology
A colorful puzzle template of a mountain canyon scene with some wacky color choices