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Gouache sketch of my cat. Probably should have made the base lighter but i'm really getting the hang of it now I think? 
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Yer cactus is so happy  I love it! Also the green mottling is really fantastic.
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Aug 14, 2020 19:33
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Kind of a minor thing but 1 year ago I was in serious treatment for my depression and I was just regaining the ability to feel and to really want to do things and I started a sketch book. I just hit sketch 100 in that book almost exactly 1 year after I started it.
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Aug 14, 2020 21:07
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hosed around with this watercolor for about an hour. From a photo I took at rialto beach a few year ago. I hate water. 
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Oct 4, 2020 01:19
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Thanks! I've painted that a few times in different mediums over the last couple of years and its a good reminder that gettin good art is mostly just time put in. Im still not super happy with it so i'm gonna keep practicing because waves are just a pain and as much as I watch like eva wolf instragram vids on water my brain still just doesnt wanna do it right lol  One of these days i'll finish this. It's unfinished for about 2 years because the water stresses me out so hard. I also need to restart on the sky since I figured out cloud technique like halfway through that painting  However this was a water painting I did a few months back so I figured... its time to get back on this horse. I can fuckin do this. Lights and darks just like everything else. Middle ground it and work in and out.
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Oct 4, 2020 21:38
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deep dish peat moss posted:Here's a work in progress album cover I'm making for a goon's album It's really smudgy right now though. That neon pink is just right! Pops really well. Guessing that was gel pen? Really enjoy the overall composition and keep staring to find more. Really love it!
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Oct 5, 2020 06:30
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Really clean print. It's hard to convey emotion through lino but I think you did it. Feels good to do straight up passion project stuff. I just got a pan of samples for neon watercolors from hydra color and I'm very excited. Not sure what I'm doing with them yet but I'm excited!
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Oct 7, 2020 18:53
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Those are really cool. I feel like you could make a killing on etsy with those.
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Oct 12, 2020 02:38
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Messin around with my oil technique. Wet the oil a bit more than normal with more walnut oil. Not sure how I feel about it. Trying to reduce the number of layers i'm working. Still going to do a 2nd layer on the crow because I've got some cool oil iridescent blue that I want to layer on the wings. Also haven't decided what to do with the background. The finch is ehhh a little muddy? I painted it in weird lighting but it was a fun study   Tried starting with black gesso and practiced some moss. Probably won't finish this particular one but hopefully something will happen in the future. I like the possibilities.  also been on the quest for the perfect palette that's the right size for me and also seals up so I can stop wasting as much paint due to drying. 8" square cake pan with a lid~  Dupersaurus - I am in love with your prints <3
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Dec 18, 2020 05:32
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Fire actually is fairly low risk as long as you aren't stuffing a ton of rags into a tight ball in a closed bin. I mostly use blue automotive paper towels and just make sure I don't use alot and I distribute them in my trash. I used one rag for all that. Fumes wise - honestly you don't need solvents. They're lazy. You can clean brushes with vegetable oil and dawn soap. I've got one very small container that's tightly sealed with odorless mineral spirits that I rarely use. It's only if I need to break up gunk on a brush. I open my window just because paint out of the tube has a bit of a smell but it's just linseed oil not solvent. If you want to try oil, do it! But open acrylics can probably emulate most of why people like oils so it isn't a huge deal. :3 those shell earrings are so neat
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Dec 18, 2020 11:19
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Those are good! They've got a really creepy ethereal quality to them. I never had any formal watercolor training. It's not something they even would cover in art school. The only stuff I ever learned outside my own experimentation was like "use salt to make little mottled dots" and eventually someone told me to use resist to keep areas bright white. Anyway, Learning by doing and practicing is great!
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Dec 19, 2020 18:45
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I've always felt really bad about wasting any paint. I always try to use everything but if for whatever reason I squeeze the tube a little too hard or whatever, I try to do something with the paint. I also work for a company that does fast mockup CNC work so I pick up a ton of scrap wood. I usually grab a few little blocks and gesso it up and then when I have left over paint from a bigger project I end up practicing my values!   I really want to get back into doing portraits soon and this is my way of dipping my toes back in. Zoben - holy loving poo poo that is awesome. Your detail is amazing. Jackard - that's super cool - how did you end up getting into woodburning? Do you use an off the shelf kit?
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Dec 27, 2020 05:24
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Kinda depends what you want to do but babys first art tends to be "get a pencil/pen/crayons/whatever" and draw something you see. Got some oranges and apples? put em on the table and try to draw them. but babies first art can also just be smearing colors onto paper/canvas until it feels pleasing to you. Alot of artists have youtube channels or instagrams on how to do what they do so if there's a particular style you like or artist, find them on the interwebs and check out what they are doing.
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Jan 15, 2021 06:31
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Sab669 posted:https://drawabox.com/ I think this is like an artist universal. I did a whole fuckin oil painting last night and I currently want to chuck it in the garbage. But art is a very 10,000 hours thing. Given time and practice everyone gets better.
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Jan 15, 2021 18:02
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I think this is finished. Still need to varnish but it was fun af to paint. I love moss.
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Jan 30, 2021 05:06
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Practicing oil portraiture and feeling angsty af. Shits so hard. Working wet into wet is so loving hard. You have put the exact color down in the right spot otherwise it's all muddy so fast  Whats weird is poo poo will look OK to me while I'm in there laying it down and then I step back and it's this disproportionate mess. Landscapes are so much easier.
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Feb 3, 2021 05:18
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That loving rules. I love burn art so much. Had a classmate in college who went pretty wild with it. She did it in painting class. Painting with flame.
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Feb 6, 2021 06:39
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Doing more portraits, havent given up on them. Stealing references from my friends instagrams of them doing goofy stuff :p Feel like im seriously making good progress on skintones and not letting my brain do weird chin corrections. https://i.imgur.com/NwdTqux.gifv
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Harvey Mantaco posted:I'm sorry if I wasn't explicit, I meant rags - but sounds like regular soap in a bucket should be fine. I cut up old clothes, underwear, etc for rags and throw them away. Another trick I use is to have a block of scrap wood to scrap all my excess to dry on. The rags are only for getting as much oil paint from the brushes as I can out before I wash them in the sink. Also because most paint pigments are insanely toxic and bad and have heavy metals in them - always try to get as much out as possible before you try washing them in a sink. Oil likes oil so one trick I learned in painting classes was to use vegetable oil to leach away oils into the rags before I wash them in the sink. silicone thrills fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Apr 25, 2021 |
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Bonus of using a scraping block. This is about 6 months worth of scrapings and it's like just a cool abstract now. 
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Apr 25, 2021 20:44
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Jack B Nimble posted:Is this the place to post my acrylic paintings and ask for advice? hell yeah. post the arts.
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Jun 1, 2021 15:37
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Trabant posted:My first proof was better than my "actual" print Its really good but your red is too transparent. Maybe try sliding some black pigment or white pigment in there. I've tried the red I think you have there and had the same issues.
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Been in a wierd headspace for a few months. Finally took a photo that inspired me enough to paint. Just a first layer. Need to refine the feet and the fry but dont wanna muddy it up too much. 
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Jun 19, 2021 05:43
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Zoben posted:done now Wow.
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WaterIsPoison posted:Finished my first painting today. Oils using the Draw Mix Paint method, not sure if anyone has tried it before. I've never really done art before, so pretty surprised by the results I guess. That's fantastic. I looked at the summary of draw mix paint and honestly that just sounds like how we got taught in my art school / painting classes.
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Sep 29, 2021 16:17
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sigma 6 posted:Moar coasterzzzz... Do these sell pretty well? Been thinking about different form factors to push my art to and waffling
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Finally out of my "startups are horrible and work was horrible" funk and made some gouache paintings to kind of "get going" again   Its pretty wild how long it can take for burn out from work to wear off and feel creative again. Felt real good tho. Super vibing with that gold leaf cabin painting. Broken pottery pieces are giving me massive "we had to destroy the artifacts" feelin
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May 6, 2022 05:51
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sigma 6 posted:Stage with my projections from this last weekend. thats so fuckin rad. I uh have been going whole hog polishing my skills back up. Did this today. felt ~ good ~ same reference from a gouache i posted up above but oils today.  One thing that I havent figured out with oils is how the gently caress to get the lighting right to take a straight on photo. Glossy fuckin paint just blow everything out in photos. At least with a single light. I do realize I could set up like 2-3 different lights but setting up a full photo studio set up for mid work snaps is a pain
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Booyah- posted:This may be a stupid question and the answer is just "go to the local art supply store" but does anyone have good resources for getting quality drawing paper in index card size? I like keeping around 3 by 5 index cards for doodling but the typical ones are very cheap paper I buy a ton of decent watercolor paper in precut small sizes by buying postcard books. Strathmore has some great ones. You can order online from dickblick, Utrecht, amazon, etc. The hardest part it learning what kind of paper you actually like - cold press, hot pressed, gsm, etc. But once you figure that out finding pads of it gets really easy.
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May 15, 2022 23:09
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I used to work for a frame shop and you could buy single like 8-12-16ft lengths of any specific frame from our local supplier but the key is learning whatever that is in your local area. I'm like 15 years out from this but I think we used Jayeness in seattle. One thing you might be able to do is call a local framing company and ask if you could buy frame moulding by the foot and piggy back on their order or just find out what their supplier is by browsing around and being nice and asking questions. I think we did that sort of thing at our spot every so often. Searching for local millwork shops can help too. Just google maps and click around the industrial district of your area.
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Jun 24, 2022 01:44
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HungryMedusa posted:I have worked at places that give artists special discounts. Cultivating a relationship with a framer or two would be my advice. Most framers have at least a few sticks of moulding they would love to sell off. Yep I forgot about this but we did this too and did tax exempt sales to people with a business license. I remember having to enter ITN codes in now.
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Been working more consistently lately so i've got a few things to share :3 Probably need 1 more small detail session on this one but its close - saw some cute lil duckies at a near by park  About to varnish this one - Crow from my back yard  This one I just got pretty close to tying up last night - need to futz with the dry grass some more but super happy with the crow itself.  Selling through my existing inventory and its really puffing me up. Also started making time lapse videos on insta and TikTok - Probably gonna tie the time lapses into my listing on etsy. Im definitely feeling continual improvement. There was a while where I felt like I was stagnating and im really happy.
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Crain posted:This was really helpful. I went into old town here and found a independent framing shop (and rug store, and art gallery, and carpet cleaning service, 60% off everything, lol) and asked the old guy there about this. That's so rad! And an incredible deal. In my experience local frame store folks really get into it for the love of being around art and interacting with artists and your experience reinforces mine :3 HungryMedusa posted:These are really cool - you get a lot of great detail into small canvases! Thank you! I figure working small is one of my better bets to keep selling things easily and idk a couple of years ago I got sucked in a blick sale and bought like 24 8x10 canvases and another 20 something 9x12s so I figure ill burn through them then work up through my 14x18s and 16x20s once I get my shipping game locked down.
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Took a break from all the birds and decided to do some transportation and sunset. Little bigger here at 9x12. Also switched up to a thinner medium. The smell from liquin Impasto was just murdering my brain. Also a variation from the same photoset and ferry. Just like 20 min earlier  Having fun getting better at waves. I used to hate doing things like boats but I'm really feeling goof about these. I actually found them quite exciting as they came together.
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dupersaurus posted:Hi thread. The art front has been pretty quiet for me this year, largely from feeling stuck. But in the last month, the dam very suddenly burst open Love em so much. 2nd one is my favorite. That gradient you got is baller.
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Won some watercolor ground boards from ampersand. Weird and different to work with but I don't hate it. Ill definitely gently caress with em more.
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A ton of really great work on this page! Those painting and wine events seem like they'd be really fun just to tool around at. Fussing around with gouache tonight and feel like im getting more confidence with it  Re: oil painting: Took me a long time to realize I can just scrape poo poo off or just let poo poo dry and regesso a canvas to start over. Yeah the paint is more expensive and it takes longer to dry but at the end of the day, its ok. Also if you aren't loving poo poo up sometimes you probably aren't challenging yourself and learning.
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Changed up my process a little and started using a brighter under painting and galkyd. It's made for some neat vibes. Also hosed up and didn't put enough dryer in my orange so some of my leaves are gonna be wet for like month lol.    Also painted a whole bunch of water color postcards for the holidays and sent them out to folks as reminders that I care. 
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