art v artist 2025 ✌️ (didn't do one of these last year bc i was too overwhelmed to pick and it was still tough this year but i had to do it!)

2 weeks left. Can we give the webcomics community the gift of a modern, designed-for-comics, self-hostable, webcomics CMS for 2026?

flying to Chicago today for 2.5 weeks wish me luck

first day of the semester / last day of the semester ✨

hockey yaoi is melting my brain in a way no show has in literal years

I can’t believe that I only have one class left next Thursday and then I’ll be done with this semester. Where did the time go???

very excited about how my final piece for my decorative fabrics class turned out- this is a Sonia Delauney inspired tissue paper/vellum/Canson paper/acetate collage pattern I made, designed for upholstery. the design is meant to evoke light rippling across the water of rainy city puddles! 💙

today my 90 year old nature studies professor gifted me a sumi calligraphy brush set from Japan complete with ink stone and told me he expects great things from me and to keep him posted via email 😭😭😭

just remembered how at my old job I used to have to log every single hour of my work week to properly bill my time and I was chronically bad at it so I was always logging a month’s worth of time in an hour at the end of the month and god I hated doing that shit so much lol

You all MUST READ this piece by Kaitlyn Greenidge about the power of art to “exist outside of a tech lord’s algorithm.” www.harpersbazaar.com/culture/art-...

Kind of wild how the nanowrimo org falling apart totally cratered the community aspect of people writing together. Of course writing is an inherently slower and more personal thing but I feel like I haven’t seen anything thing comparable to how many small prompt lists popped up to replace Inktober

my current favorite project for school, a set of vintage Victorian valentine inspired prints for my CAD class ❤️

Went to a play reading of a stage adaptation of one of my favorite novels (written by the author himself!) and I was already crying before the play even started lmfao

I know I'm always banging on about this, but food banks can do so much more with your donation if you give money rather than food itself.

watching the fragrant flower blooms with dignity and don’t get me wrong I like the male lead plenty but the main female lead’s best friend is clearly in love with her and I don’t understand how this isn’t a yuri lmao

13 straight hours of painting later (got very positive feedback!!) these wallpaper designs are 18x27 inches and 13.5x18 inches

Buying designer gouache is the most painful part of this degree program lol

tbh reposting this on here (there aren't a lot of kids on here) feels a bit futile so I just want to champion Scarleteen as a really incredible accessible resource for kids seeking inclusive sex ed (+ other stuff re: teen safety) and if you can get it into the hands of kiddos now that'd be good

SHE’S FINALLY DONE

Screenprinting is so fun!! It’s a lot of set up and break down, but after doing it a few times it’s really not bad at all. Fun thing I also learned today- the principles of prepping files for screen printing are the exact same principles used in riso!!

Spreading visibility for a friend! Please help if you can 💛

homework is fun when it’s something I want to do ✨ (first assignment for my weaving class!)

day 1 of fashion school done!! made my first ever screenprint today

What a beautiful way to do this. Thank you for posting it.

today’s flower explorations ✨ getting excited for next week

Nothing funnier than getting “you look GREAT for your age” at orientation 😂😂😂😂😂

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Flamecon haul! Pls clap for me for only going $25 over my $50 budget

finally giving French beading the ol college try

i am devouring my way through apothecary diaries. thought that each season was only 12 episodes bc netflix only has s1 so imagine my delight when i learned i get 48 whole episodes of this lol

starting fashion school in a few weeks and art supplies are gonna be real expensive so I’m running an end of summer sale on my online crochet shop! sale includes: $35 cat beanies $40 bonnets $50 granny square bag $75 messenger bag find them at stardustedstudio.bigcartel.com

I rewatched the gabby caldera YouTube video where she walked through her accepted CalArts sketchbook and it’s giving me the urge to try more adventurous poses in my own sketchbook with fanart of my fave webcomics

Just passed a guy on the street who was so disoriented after violently sneezing that he responded “you’re welcome” when I said “bless you” 😂

why is my random dandadan post blowing up lmao I made it with an intended audience of one lol (Liz)

caught up on dandadan. aira continues to crack me up in every scene she is in and jiji is literally just this comic

oops more books!

teaching myself beadwork…tomorrow I will try French beaded flowers. can’t wait till I’m a pro and can make awesome fuckin art jewelry

with the A in my 2nd course my GPA is up to 3.7! ✌️ since I started taking credit classes before I was a matriculated student the fashion design classes I took that aren't part of my degree program were part of my GPA. I'm proud of getting a B and B+ in them esp considering i hadn't sewn since 2016 -

coolest thing I’ve embroidered yet

$10 used bookstore find

Finally reading Maurice after checking it out from the library several times without opening it and damn it’s good, my heart 🥲

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at the Met rn and was reminded of a few months ago when I got a book from the library that compiled all of monet’s water lily paintings and I don’t know how to describe it but seeing them all in sequence, they started looking more and more unhinged. Like I felt like he was losing his mind a little

pursuing this creative path in my mid 30s means jockeying back and forth between overly strained eyes and overly strained arms and hands asdfasfaf

Visa says they're still drowning today! Payment processors think that we're not organized enough to keep this up but it's we either prove them wrong or submit to global censorship so it's. not much of a contest. Keep calling all 4!!

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

today’s big organization project, which I started around 4pm and just wrapped up. Finally ready to jump into the world of all the seed bead projects I want to explore! ✨