Drawing/sketching meetup results today. Started with a very busy photo, might have bit off more than I can chew. This will take one more sit-down to finish. #art #workinprogress #watercolor #sketch

Perfect

Sketches while listening to (more) work training videos #art #sketchbook #sketches #fantasyart

i honestly can't stand seeing people say Gen AI is a disability aid because if it was a disability aid, they wouldn't be putting this much money into it

Watch a video about improving your creative productivity by cutting yourself off from cheap dopamine. I've been trying it out for less than 24 hours now (My version: No video/audio ent. or games before 8:00 PM), and gotta say: annoyed at how well it's working. www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTgs...

Sharing this gofundme; Lalana's fighting and creative spirit could use support gofund.me/6cb101dbc

Results from our quick recon mission for local #yarn yesterday #chiangmai #Thailand I really, really love the colors here!

Today's sketch or mini painting was off a photo from Baan Kang Wat. Met more people at the meetup today! #art #painting #chiangmai #sketch

It's Pi Day! 3.14 We're heading to today's drawing and sketching group meetup after some small repairs at our AirBnB are completed. With any luck, pics to come.

Drop something red (My reddest piece ever. How is this 20 years old now?!?) #art

Never drawn a whale before, might put them in a future painting. First page of sketch book filled while listening to a completely unrelated video for professional learning #whales #sketching #drawing #sketchbook

Picked up a hardcover sketch book for 80baht yesterday. I got pleasant sticker shock. Checked all the stickers to make sure it wasn't a misprint. This may be the nicest sketchbook I've picked up for the price, and a nice size for carrying around.

an art friend is looking for freelance clients based in DE/EU or they risk deportation, they do custom model horse work. the first picture is some of their sample finished work, the other two are bases available for custom. they can be reached at [email protected] if you are interested!

Met a (or "the"?) local drawing group today at Lan Din before heading over to Baan Kang Wat. This whimsical craft market was a completely entrancing feast for the eyes, especially if you like dangling art and colour #chiangmai #thailand

We went looking at places today while the air quality index (PM2.5) around us was basically doing this. That said, we found a place we really liked and the annual records (aqicn.org/map/chiang-m...) show AQ has been worse in previous years #nomadlife

Been busy with life changes. Am now settling down in Chiang Mai. This tiny watercolor book I work in now has its second street scene from Thailand. #art #painting #paintingvideo #watercolor #urbansketch

I think its genuinely a virtue to accept that you could be wrong about anything and kill the part of yourself that needs to always be seen as correct and smarter than others on any given topic

📢⚠️EMERGENCY COMMISSIONS One month ago I suffered a dislocated/sprained shoulder, I will need PT to keep going but I can't pay it all right now :c - B/W $30 USD - Colored $50 USD - Rendered $70 USD - NSFW $100 USD All via KoFi! Please RP and Like for visibility, thank you 💖 #commissions #fanart

Today's progress. Interesting to see the smoothness when the piece is zoomed out. Up close there are more hard edges than my usual style because this is the driest I've ever applied watercolors. Working carefully because it's on paper for pastels #wip #noAI #art #traditionalart #painting

I'm on medical leave right now, finding some time to paint with new brushes and in a way that adds more texture with dryer pigments. Old watercolor habits are still creeping in though. #wip #watercolor #painting #art

I'm not dead, just recovering from a procedure and getting some off time. Yesterday had me trying to switch the theme mode on my WordPress site from Classical to Modern. Did not work bc everything showed down and "Font Awesome" navigation symbols broke. Rant🧵

"but art should be accessible" it is, you can learn to draw, paint, collage, sculpt, make pixels. right now, starting today. art has never been more accessible monetarily nor physically than it is now in this age. access to artist labor and machine production is not an accessibility issue.

Aurgh. Clients deserve better.

Just unfollowed a BlueSky account that was using AI generated art. I doubt they'll notice but if anyone reading this is thinking about using the same even if you're not an art account, don't. Just don't.

Been preoccupied but coming into a little free time soon. Until then, I published on Medium today #writing #noAI #mentalhealth medium.com/artful-couns...

“Dragon Aurora” #ArcticHenge, Raufarhöfn, #Iceland (Credit: Carina) #Aurora resembling a big #dragon over the rock pyramids, was the result of a geomagnetic storm (level G2) generated by a coronal mass ejection earlier that day. #Astrophotography #AuroraBorealis #NorthernLights #NightSky

Yeah, I may be on a fox kick. My most recent 3 designs at my (fantasy) RedBubble page are all foxes. I'm not even done yet www.redbubble.com/people/janet... #art

Met a kapok tree on the bike ride this morning and picked up a couple of pods (didn't pick up fluff; most of it was wet). While waiting for breakfast, had an impromptu table-top #photo shoot with a hitchhiker I found on my arm.

Too real

Video of yet another fox in progress. Will post both finished designs soon #wip #painting #art #watercolor #traditionalart

Moving toward the other watercolor style again with this little sketch. Probably also to become a sticker. #wip #art #watercolor #painting #traditionalart

Sometimes my watercolor doodles get very, very silly. This magnet/sticker set is now at RedBubble: www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/Pi...

Work swallowed me up in recent weeks, and my weekends were almost nonexistent. That said, I finished a light piece at Medium on attachment style: medium.com/know-thyself... #writing #relationships

A mesmerizing time-lapse of the Sun in ultraviolet light, captured by the Solar Dynamics Observatory spacecraft over a month. -Credits: NASA

Too soon

If we want men to be less lonely, we should start by socializing them in boyhood to be part of a shared project of care. Give them dolls, toy kitchens, and tea sets. Ask them to help care for younger children. Expect them to clean up after themselves. Let them feel the work and value of care. 1/

To be clear on what they're proposing: human beings using water for drinking, washing, and growing crops will be rationed. The AI datacenters will have all the water they can contaminate.

Fun with ruminants. 🔉

Can't watch it rn (no space for heartbreak while commuting) but I simply loved his work.

First #portfolioday for me. Traditional artist working on my own fantasy/spiritual pieces nowadays. Thanks for coming by! #art #artsky #watercolors #mixedmedia #traditionalart

Done. May do more foxes in future, hopefully cuter and less detail. #art #artsky #painting #video #traditionalart

Today I organised 3 years' worth of memes & notes from Google Keep into MilaNote for a huge #writing project. It gives structure and the illusion I'm not starting from zero (even though I restart many times). I think it's ADHD and perfectionism that lets me write smol pieces but not big ones.

This piece I wrote just got published at Medium. Here's me going after the New Age/ manifestation trope of "You create your own reality": medium.com/illumination... #writing #psychology

Love-hate relationship with mushrooms at the moment #wip #art #artsky #painting #watercolor

What I learned from Prince and Muhammad Ali was that it’s possible to love yourself so much that everybody else does, too.

“Pity the nation whose people are sheep, and whose shepherds mislead them. Pity the nation whose leaders are liars, whose sages are silenced, and whose bigots haunt the airwaves. Pity the nation that raises not its voice, except to...acclaim the bully as hero” Lawrence Ferlinghetti, 1958 #poetry

Some of the #wip photos of the watercolors on paper. I don't know if I'm out of practice and relearning but I wanna establish the values in composition as early as possible this time. #artsky #art #painting

I just wanna play with muted warm colors for this one. Another smol. Redrawing the sketch from kraft paper #sketch #watercolors #art

A huge part of my day job feels like translating young neurodivergent thought processes for neurotypical adults and vice versa. It wasn't actually a huge part of my training but comes naturally to me, perhaps because I've always been observant and self-aware. 1/🧵

Still working small. Planning to use some of my not-often-used green pigments. This fairy #sketch on Fabriano's postcard size watercolor papers. #art #artsy #wip