an hour's contemplation, 2026, mixed media on rough watercolor paper #myart #mixedmedia #painting #lascaux #traditionalart

depths, 2025, mixed media #myart #mixedmedia #lascaux #traditionalart

A recent commission: a portrait of Lascaux, who belongs to @dorkbait.bsky.social 💜 I love adding freckles.

very stylish and unique commissions to check out if you're in the market!

This is a vetted fundraiser for the family of Renee Good, the woman who was killed by ICE in Minneapolis. www.gofundme.com/f/support-fo...

i have sennelier "neutral tint" in heavy body acrylic and i am gonna tell you. i use it so much. it. might be my favorite color of acrylic. but it is not a neutral tint. it is distinctly a warm color. blog.artworkbyannarose.com/2018/11/new-...

one of my vassals sent me this today on ck3 and this is why i play the game. i told her to keep going but she hasn't sent more. yet.

Hannibal

anywhere from two weeks to six months or more and i encourage everyone to spend more time on their art, to get used to putting stuff down and going back to it, to diversify. you do not need to finish work in a day or one sitting. you do not need to make your process linear.

booked an artist residency in guadalajara for march!! now i just need to practice my awful spanish, crol

highlight of the stranger things finale was me going LOUISE BOURGEOIS at the big, well, you know, the thing.

i did think this would look less crazy with the background but it's still looking pretty crazy tbh. might be one of those "you gotta wait until it's 95% there" jawns

that's right babes which is why you should commission me (because every year the dollar increases my commissions are an even better deal ;_;) 💫 ko-fi.com/dorkbait/com... 💫

moderately surprised i could fill this. #yearinart #yearinart2025

2025 was not a great year for me. i worked really hard and it felt like i came up against inertia on almost every front. chronic pain was very bad and i dealt with a bunch of new symptoms while also not having a lot of luck getting treatment or diagnoses. if anything, though, i am determined.

yr friendly reminder that Tove Jansson, most known for creating Finland's beloved Moomins, was gay

the art of knowing when something needs to be worked more and when to stop before you screw it up by overworking it is one which a fool like me who works back and forth in multiple layers of multiple media straddles every day

sometimes blocking in washes is really fun

"Did you see what Mark Cuban posted? Oh did you see the clapb—" You shake yourself awake in the cold North Atlantic water. You are not online. It is July of 1858. You are a baleen whale, and you have changed your mind. The future most not come to pass. The telegraph cable must break.

if you'd like to think about something profoundly sad for many reasons, i posit: the creators of stranger things almost certainly didn't consider, consider that will byers is exactly the right age to die in the aids epidemic

i will not be posting any art vs artist pictures because i am tired of the fact that we have to commodify our physical forms in order to attract attention. i'm tired of "look at me i'm hot and i'm an artist, here's a video of me holding my art so i can be popular." my art is its own entity.

we're really out here trying to convince ourselves AI can do the lord's work when a search function can't even figure out the significance of "cropped" in the term "cropped sweatshirt" my man the tummy is the most important part

last year i listened to the "you're wrong about" podcast eps about George Michael and was so struck by how much conservative media slander truly tarnished the reputation of a person who should be remembered as an unashamed iconoclast, philanthropist, and activist. may his memory be a blessing.

my best friend has made friends with a California Scrub Jay family over the course of the past year and i've been privileged to see how much joy they brought her. she recently moved, and i made this embroidery as a gift to commemorate the relationship.

today's act of global terrorism is that, almost 300 years after starting my game as the dynasty of Zamtsa Ngorang in the Petty Kingdom of Lhasa, i opened the barbershop in ck3 and realized that i was actually playing as Tibetan Leonardo diCaprio.

house portrait for my parents for xmas. i've been dying to use this pastel yellow-pink-and-blue winter color scheme for a long time and i was glad that i managed to execute it successfully on this piece. #mixedmedia #acrylic #gouache #watercolor #ink #coloredpencil #traditionalart

is vox okay? have they talked to an American lately? which ideas are we running out of - the bad ones, because we've been re-using them too many times? what is vox's idea of "a good idea"????????

today's stupid brain thing: a video about princess margaret made me so mad i cried

it's so bizarre and profoundly sad how much the internet and social media have changed over the past 10-15 years. i used to feel such a sense of community with the people i knew through social media and now i just feel like i'm yelling into the void

Artists, quote with your faces 🌝

@drawfeeshow.com / @secretsleepoversociety.com "is lady gay?" has become so deeply ingrained in my personal lexicon that last night as we started watching Pluribus ( #spoilers i guess) i sagely said, "ohhhh, lady gay," to my partner, who just looked at me in confusion.

call for holiday cards! docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... if you're sus on google which i understand you can also send info via chat here

when i tell y'all that you don't even want to know how many hours i spent on this dala horse, painstakingly adding layers of paint and smoothing lines...

it is my birthday today!!! i would love to get some #commissions on this the most holy of days! i know we are all broke so pls share if you can't spend money right now

WISDOM AND HER MATE ARE BACK ON MIDWAY FOR 2025!!!!!!

we are watching last samurai standing and the thing i enjoy about it the most is the Ainu representation and the muttonchops

it is Small Business Saturday and i wanna share some of my favorite Twin Cities small businesses. most of them have online shopping and shipping so if you see anything that interests you please patronize them!

it is BLACK FRIDAY, a day of great mourning among those of us who served in the retail trenches. 🫡 tomorrow is Small Business Saturday. and Monday is MY BIRTHDAY! please consider supporting me by checking out my commissions at ko-fi.com/dorkbait/com... ! i just added a new option.

designed the perfect pencil case

gift for Alyssa & Holly's anniversary!

me: why do computers have so many different types of holes sister: transgender

commissions are open! get 'em while i have free time. OCs, TTRPG characters, pets and animals all accepted! ➡️https://ko-fi.com/dorkbait/commissions #art #commissions #traditionalart #commissionsopen #portrait #painting

yes, and also my parents, who are both also socially maladjusted in exactly the stereotypical neurodivergent ways, but because i was the smart kid...!

had to make an impromptu stop tonight to catch trumpeter swans at sunset (If you see this post a bird.)

this is a great thread & there's also a great Princess Weekes video on the same topic: youtu.be/psNBXRA0y6Y

sometimes, trying to figure out what i was thinking last time i drew a character's hairstyle is a mystery even to me

Hey artists! QRP with your sketch vs final! #arttrain (i don't actually have an image of the proper SKETCH stage of this piece because my sketches are so loose, so here's 'lineart vs. final' instead.)

Frog and Toad stayed on the island all afternoon. They ate wet sandwiches without iced tea. They were two close friends sitting alone together.