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Sometimes I post my paintings. All my paintings are Glazed with https://glaze.cs.uchicago.edu/
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I redid this painting larger than the note-card sized version. After I put my brushes away and looked at it for a white, I think I need to do another session to add details and interest. I did this in about an hour and a half, so no shame in another 45 minutes. 8"x10" oil on linen panel

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

I haven't painted in a couple weeks, so I did this little oil painting of this hazy, smokey LA scene. It's really difficult to paint on a panel smaller than a cell phone. Going this small doesn't seem to save time either. I could do a 5"x7" in the same amount of time. Oil on 3"x5"panel

submitted 11 days ago • 0 comments

My friend is taking a color theory class and I'm often talking to her about it while looking at my old work through the lense of her class. This was one of my early oil paintings, done in March, 2021. It's not how I'd draw that face now, but it's a neat painting. Oil on linen panel, 8"x10"

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

@neonflag.bsky.social I know you're discussing a serious subject, but this line made me laugh. theatlantaobjective.substack.com/p/surviving-...

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I made a second linocut of the pig x-ray. I made a new carving from the original drawing. I had to buy a new, cheap hand tool. I previously bought a kit, but it was just not sharp or small enough. I need to work on my printing technique, but the carving wasn't bad, and the bones look more defined.

submitted 28 days ago • 1 comment

I was in a waiting area that had some magazines on a table, and one of them was a bass fishing magazine with a bunch of photos of people holding the fish they caught. I drew the fish, then doodled around them. I don't love how glaze handles black and white images. Ink on sketchbook paper, 9"x12"

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

I did some doodling in ink tonight. I mostly used a .5 fineliner, but I filled in some larger areas with a brush pen. Ink on 9"x11" sketch paper.

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Linocuts! I did a linocut of a pig and its bones. I have no idea what I'm doing, but I did manage to not cut myself! The ink is water soluble, as is appropriate until I figure out how to deal with this medium. I have a long way to go to figure out how to carve the panels and press the prints.

submitted 35 days ago • 0 comments

Atlanta is the greatest city in the world

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

A watercolor of an orange slice. I did this same painting in oil a few days ago. People often start painting, like I did, with watercolor because it has a lower barrier of entry. Oil takes more commitment to use, but I find oil is much easier in the end. 6"x9" hot press paper

submitted 38 days ago • 0 comments

Happy Birthday, @bransonreese.bsky.social, from one Branson to another (not enemies, but mutual respect). You earned it.

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

The whale I've painted the past couple nights, a third time. The other whales were watercolor and ink, but this is oil. It's difficult to paint details on oil without tiny brushes, and I try to stick to big ones. Nothing like those crisp nib-pen ink lines. Oil on panel, 5"x7"

submitted 39 days ago • 0 comments

I did another whale, this time, extra squat and lumpy. Watercolor and ink with nib pen, 8x10 hot press paper.

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

From the 18th century Johann Anderson's Reports on Iceland, Greenland, and The Davis Strait. I like the weird illustration. Watercolor and ink using a nib pen. 6"x9" on hot press paper.

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As a critic, I feel like the @rudetales.bsky.social crew could have really pushed the envelope with the Sphinx at Riddleguy, had they all been old enough to have played Civ II: Mythical Beasts. Improv is freeing, but it still is constrained by boundaries of 1600 gold and a new technology.

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Another watercolor and ink painting. I tried to mask-tape the shapes as rectangles, but the paint went straight under the tape, making the irregular blobs. I ran with it, outlining the blobs with the nib pen, then added the geometric background. 6"x9" watercolor and ink on hot-press paper.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments

Splat! Watercolor and ink with a nib pen on 6"x9" hot press paper.

submitted 43 days ago • 0 comments