#100daysofart2023 — Public Fediverse posts

Hiiii! I have not fallen off the earth, or quit #The100DayProject or anything. I’m just a bit mentally drowning in anxiety about having my first art sale booth at a real life event, and I’m finding I really have a massive mental block against producing “finished work” for some reason… 🙃

Here’s a few favorite things I’ve actually finished lately. Three cheers for finishing things!

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Finished this piece, and not a moment too soon. Did a couple final touch ups & framed it this morning, dropped it off at the gallery early this afternoon. 😅

I really had no idea where this was going when I painted the initial gradient (which I did to comparison test some cotton papers), but I'm happy with where it ended up...

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Finally worked up the nerve to pour some epoxy, only to have it go all weird as it cured. 😅😫 For a brief shining few hours though, it felt like sweet, sweet victory…

Luckily I caught the lumpy curing issue while it was still gummy, and excavated almost all of the epoxy without damaging the painting. Will try again tomorrow!

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Started cutting out tiny paintings to fit in tiny pendant findings today. Perhaps tomorrow I will work up the nerve to start doing epoxy pours to seal the artwork in the pendants…

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Today I thought maybe if I plan out the tiny branches on this painting, I won’t end up desperately unhappy with the end result? :blobfoxfingerguns:

I don’t know what my issue is, but like 99% of the watercolors I’ve done lately had zero pencil sketch, and next to zero planning, even though I have noted that the ones I plan more tend to turn out better. :blobfoxthinking:

#KnezekArt #Watercolor #Landscape #BirchTrees #sketching #WhatMadnessIsThis

Remember #The100DayProject? So do I! And I’m back at it just in time for 069/100 of #100DaysOfArt2023 Nice. :blobcatcoffee:

I think the looming reality of multiple shows coming up sent me into a mental tailspin, and I got stuck there for a solid week. Now I NEED to get a couple pieces finished so I can get applications in for the shows in question…

If you struggle with #ExecutiveFunction paralysis, what do YOU do to get yourself moving?

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Many #chickadees at the feeder today…

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I went to bed thinking “what a shame, I took day 60 off from doing art stuff,” but then I woke up and realized that arranging oyster mushrooms into a bouquet and photographing them like that probably counts as “doing something arty,” so here’s my Day 60 a day late…

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Late night photo editing yesterday, because I got home late, and found my Italian oyster mushroom block had gone bonkers since the night before… so playing with mushrooms happened instead of painting. 😄

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Closing in on the best way to paint #fireweed on a 15x20mm canvas… felt the need to switch things up after a few days just thinking about sunrises.

But maybe I need to try painting a tiny sunrise scene? 🤔

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Started out just testing papers, ended up with something I actually like. :blobcatcoffee:

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Testing some new cotton watercolor paper… given the brand (Artists Loft), I figured I’d put it up against my cheap cotton paper (craftamo) first. 😅

Big differences: The AL paper warped less. Also it absorbed paint less readily. When I painted wet on wet, the paint immediately spread on the AL paper. It was also MUCH easier to lift color off the AL paper.

Tomorrow I’ll get some Arches involved…

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Full transparency: I painted this last night. But it was very late last night! And the part that’s relevant to today is that I looked at it again just now, when I took the second photo (with my thumb for scale), and I DON’T HATE IT. I painted something tiny and I’m still happy with it the next day!

So. Tiny fireweed pendants are definitely happening. 🥰

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My inner critic is such a bitch… I’m trying to convince myself some of these tiny pieces are good enough for finished art pendants. I’m also having a hell of a time trying to decide how to finish the pendants. I’m not having luck finding glass cabochons for the rectangular ones (15x20mm). 😩

But I can’t fix any of that this minute, so I guess I’ll just paint some more tiny paintings.

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Realistic botanicals are maybe just not my thing. 😅 At least not until I can make myself stop overworking the paper with things that are definitely not working.

Anyhoo, I think that’s my last stab at this month’s subscription box theme. Moving along…!

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#Easter eggs are so festive and fun, even for a nonbeliever. I’mma blame it on the enduring archetypal power of pagan symbolism. 😁

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Took a couple days off to just mull this guy over some more… and I’m happy with where we ended up last night. So after some final file format housekeeping, I’ll be wishing him bon voyage, and getting back to a couple other projects I’ve had simmering in ol’ brain pan in the meantime.

#KnezekArt #MastoArt #FediArt #Ravens #PirateBirb

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I thought today might be the end of my #PirateBirb posts, but…

…my client prefers the scruffy, sketchy rough draft raven. 😆

I do see what they mean. I feel like there’s always some magic lost when a sketch gets translated into a polished final image… sooo now my mission is to recapture that scruffy, sketchy magic, while still turning out a piece I feel good about calling “finished.” 😅

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Inching closer to the finish line with this guy… now comes the really aggravating part: Getting all the feather highlight strokes *just so* 😅

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Having a client declare their love for a design on the first draft is always a thrill, but having *two* clients agree to declare their love for the second draft of a design is maybe even better?

(I’m obnoxiously watermarking all my screenshots of this piece—even the rough drafts—because I’d be so mad for my client if it were stolen.)

#KnezekArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #MastoArt #FediArt #DigitalArt #RavenArt #ProcreateSketch #PirateBirb

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I saw a meme with this old 90s paper cup pattern turned into a trans flag, and I thought it was hilarious. So, I edited an image of the original pattern into three layers, and had some fun morphing the colors to match different pride flags…

...and Bi folks, sincerely, WTF. Those three colors have NO contrast. Our flag is a mess. 😂

#KnezekArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #90sThings #LGBTQMemes #LGBTQIA #QueerMemes #MastoArt #FediArt

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I thought I was going to get a cute little timelapse of the framing on this print, and, well… an hour plus of chasing dust specks under the glass later, I scrapped the whole video. 😅

Mind you, I LOVE the idea of framing my own art. I think framing can be SUCH a dynamic & integral part of a piece! But my gawd, I need a cleanroom for this shit. :blobfoxtableflip:

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Started work on a commission for a fluffy winter #raven. In case you ever wondered how animals even survive in #Alaska: The birds all have self-inflating puffer coats.

(I’m obnoxiously watermarking all my screenshots of this piece—even the rough drafts—because I’d be so mad for my client if it were stolen.)

#KnezekArt #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #DigitalArt #RavenArt #ProcreateSketch #MastoArt #FediArt

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Spent most of day 32/100 blowing my nose and whining, but I can breathe mostly unimpeded today, so I’m back at it!

My March #watercolor subscription box arrived, and I’m liking the idea of these succulents. I’m not liking my execution as much, but there’s more paper in the box for redos. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Example print on top, my in-progress version below.

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The first test said it’s not COVID, I’ll take another tomorrow to be sure.

My head is full of snot, no matter how much I blow my nose or how many decongestants I eat… Even my trusty nose washer can’t win this battle.

So, this self portrait is my “something arty” for today. I’ve taken my “coughing, sneezing, stuffy head, etc” pills & now I’m going to bed. 🤧🥱

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Sometimes you just have to set aside the paper art and try to get a good photo of the #Aurora … (although if I were *really* trying, I would’ve busted out the big camera)

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A mix of things I’m happy with and things I’m not so happy with here. Isn’t that just like life? 😅

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OK, so now that I have really TINY brushes, I have complete freedom to overwork the shit out of even the tiniest paintings. 🤣 (That’s a size zero in my giant hand, for scale.)

Gonna have to learn some moderation here, or everything I touch is going to end up a blob.

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So I framed a thing, and I was super careful to wipe all the fingerprints off the glass I thought, and I was thinking it looked great… and then I took a photo, and THAT is when I saw it. The fingerprint. On the goddamn INSIDE of the fucking glass. 😫🤬

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Little birdy feet prints meandering in the snow.

While the chickadees mob the sunflower seeds in our bird feeder, the redpolls appear to prefer the birch seeds that fall on the porch? To each their own, I suppose. (click to embiggen)

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