I hate it when artists make a video of themselves slowly turning their painting around. It's like they are trying way too hard to game the social media algorithms.

A chilly 🥶 November landscape, because the seasons are changing. Oil painting on 6x6" canvas. Real oil paint 🎨 not digital! 🚫 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

Another little 6x6" oil painting on real canvas! It's a twist on that fall landscape with pretty colors that I did last week. 🍂🎨 Hope you like it. 😊 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

I tried to paint a pumpkin patch for #Halloween! This is an 8x8" oil painting on canvas. 🎃🎃🎃 Trick or treat! 👻 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

I hate it when AI tells me how smart I am. It sounds so fake.

Is it "ocher" or "ochre"? Firefox's built-in spellcheck confused me and made me change "ochre" to "ocher." But in the art-world, it's always spelled "ochre," even in the United States. So big thumbs down to Firefox's spellcheck! 👎👎👎

6x6" painting, real oil paint on real canvas, not digital! 💛💛💛 I tried to amp up the prettiness of the fall colors. And still trying to paint more spontaneous, but mixing so many pretty colors took a long time so it wasn't as spontaneous as I had hoped. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

Omg! I can't believe I have 700+ followers! Only on social media can a girl like me, a loser with social anxiety, have so many followers.

6x6" painting, real oil paint on real canvas, not digital! Last painting, I said I would try paint uglier, but with more spontaneity. This is a start, I did finish it the same day I started it, but I need to try harder to be ugly but spontaneous. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

A yellow ocher fall 🍂 landscape painting. Oil paint on 8x8" canvas. 💛💛💛 So, I think the mistake I'm making is that I'm trying too hard to make pretty paintings. I need to make paintings that are UGLY but more spontaneous. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

If I somehow became rich (which isn't very likely), I can't decide if I want to move to an apartment in New York City overlooking Central Park, or a ranch in a western state where I would have private views of a beautiful and majestic landscape. What should I do???

Slightly Bigger Little Fall 🍂 Painting Oil paint on a 8x8" canvas. I'm still painting on "Pro-Tones" pre-toned canvas sheets from Jerry's Artarama. I love them so much that I bought more! 💛💛💛 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

3️⃣ Little Fall Painting #3 3️⃣ Oil paint on a 6x6" canvas. 🍁 Oh no! It's been 8 days since the last painting! #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

2️⃣ Little Fall Painting #2 2️⃣ Oil paint on a 6x6" canvas, just like the last little fall painting. 💛💛💛 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

In the forever (okay, 2 months lol) since I last posted stuff here, I watched a bunch of sci-fi 👽 shows on Prime. Night Sky was my fave. But, like, there was only ONE season! I'll never find out what was really going on! Big thumbs down 👎 to Amazon for not finishing any of their series.

A Little Fall Painting with 💛 Bismuth Yellow 💛 Oil paint on a 6x6" Pro-Tones canvas. You can buy this canvas from Jerry's Artarama. It comes pre-toned in a neutral gray. Omg! I haven't posted anything here in 2 months! #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

A small alla prima landscape painting. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

I'm having psychological problems with finishing a 12x16" painting. But I started and finished this little 6x8" oil painting this afternoon. (Don't tell me the composition sucks because the horizon is in the middle of the painting, I know!) #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

I finally watched the end of Season 2 of The Apothecary Diaries. It was very hard to follow; I couldn't understand what all the bad people were even doing. #anime

The world stopped making sense when I discovered that bananas are berries but strawberries aren't berries.

9x12" oil painting of a mountain ⛰️ in Ecuador 🇪🇨. Although I've never actually been to Ecuador so there's probably no mountain like that in Ecuador. (I'm not really happy with how I painted the grass and the trees ☹️) 💛💛💛 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

Finished watching The White Lotus season 3, and it was TERRIBLE! Boring characters and plot, perverted gross sexual stuff that I didn't need to see, and it wasn't at all funny like the the previous seasons. Like, none of the characters even had any redeeming qualities except for Chelsea.

I finished a 12x16" oil painting! I call it Ecuador Landscape. Yeah, not a very inventive name. 🙂 I think it's fun to paint different places and not just get stuck on painting the same geographic area all the time! ❤️❤️❤️ #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

Omg! The brush on the left used to be white like the brush on the right, but now it's a dark blue! I hope I'm not ruining my brush, it's my favorite (even though they say you should use bigger brushes). It would cost $9.33 to buy a new one from the online art supply store. Ouch!

Okay, like, OMG! I just binged all of Season 2 of The White Lotus, and, like, totally, the big takeaway? Vacations are, like, REALLY bad! 😜 Stay home!

My favorite quote from Season 3 of Invincible, said by Cecil: "We can be the good guys or we can be the guys that save the world. We can’t be both." I think I agree that adherence to a black and white view of morality can lead to bad outcomes.

Watching season 3 of Invincible. But I forgot what happened in season 2. Like, who's a robot who used to be human? Who's human who used to be a robot? Who's good who used to be evil? Who's evil who used to be good? Who's having sex with whom? It's like, so complicated!

I watched most of Season 2 of The Apothecary Diaries. I love this #anime! ❤️ What's really striking about the series is how stuff we'd consider to be very evil today, like slavery and child rape, are treated so matter-of-factly by the characters. It's just the way things are in Ming Dynasty China.

I want a medium that gives all the different colors in an oil painting a consistent glossy sheen when dry. Anyone have any suggestions?

Did you know that Winsor & Newton is the first company to ever sell oil paint, in tubes, to the public? But all the people from the 1800s are long dead and now it's owned by a big corporation which moved the factory from England to France. So is it really still the same Winsor & Newton?

I did a 12x16" oil painting! Real artists paint big, so I'm trying to learn how to paint bigger. No more little tiny girly paintings for me! Now I have to learn how to paint something this size fast. #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

There's, like, no objective information on the internet, at all, about what the difference is between different brands of oil paint. It's like a TOTAL mystery. You have no idea what you're going to get until you buy it. I think I'll just stick with Winsor & Newton because I'm used to their paint.

I once thought I liked #chess, but then I tried playing other people online at chess-dot-com and I discovered how bad I was at it, and now I hate the game.

A 9x9" oil painting! 9x9" kind of sounds like a weird size, but if you have a pad of 9x12" canvas paper, and you cut it into a square, you get 9x9". So it makes total sense! btw, love ❤️ canvas paper! Way better than real canvas! #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Omg! I was reading about The Apothecary Diaries on the web and learned about a HUGE plot twist I didn't get to yet. This sucks. 😞

Oh no! I can't watch the next ep of The Apothecary Diaries because there's a Netflix outage! Help!

My oil painting on a 11x14" canvas panel! You guys are probably wondering, what happened? Why did it take so long? Well, I caught a virus 🦠, and I think maybe it gave me brain fog 🌫️ or something. So I hope my next painting will be a lot faster. 💗💗💗 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting

I went a few days without using Bluesky, and somehow I picked up a whole bunch of new followers, and it's way too many for me to look at all of your feeds, so I'm so sorry that I didn't do that, but thanks so much!❤️ I'm going to post another painting 🎨 very soon.

In ep 5 of The Apothecary Diaries, the eunuchs take off their shirts, and ... damn! They're buff! 💪 I thought that eunuchs lose all of their muscle because they don't have any T, but I guess I was wrong about that. You learn a lot from watching #anime!

Just watched the first ep of The Apothecary Diaries! Had NO clue it was set in ancient China like a thousand years ago until I Googled it, lol. It’s giving such good vibes so far! And it's surprisingly mature for an #anime (that's not explicitly pervy Hentai stuff).

Omg! Finished watching #Frieren! The last third of the season was about Frieren and Fern taking a magic exam, which kind of changed the whole vibe to a more traditional anime theme, instead of being about the mortality of mankind. And Shtark had nothing to do during the magic test arc. #anime

📚📚📚 Philosophy post!!! 📚📚📚 The Stoic philosopher Marcus Aurelius said, “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.” This means that you should accept reality as it is, rather than being consumed by anger over how you wish it to be.

Omg! I finally finished another real oil painting. It's 9x12". I spent wayyy to much time mixing the colors.🎨 The people who do oil painting YouTube videos can mix colors in seconds. I wish I could be like them. Hope you like it 💗💗💗 #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

Ep 15 of Frieren is totally my fave! 😍 Stark and Fern dancing at the ball? SO adorable, they’re like the cutest couple ever! 🥰 I dream of dancing at a ball like that! ✨ #Frieren #Anime

I was thinking 🤔 about Sprezzatura. According to Wikipedia, Sprezzatura ([sprettsaˈtuːra]) is an Italian word that refers to a kind of effortless grace, the art of making something difficult look easy, or maintaining a nonchalant demeanor while performing complex tasks. 😱😱😱

I think there's a secret conspiracy to push fancy foods like "arugula" and "quinoa" to make regular people feel stupid when they mispronounce them! 😜

Just finished another oil painting, yayy! It’s 9x12 inches and based on a tropical island landscape, but ugh, it took me wayy to long. Help, am I doing something wrong? Anyways, love you all, thanks for the follows and likes! ❤️❤️❤️ #art #traditionalart #painting #oilpainting #landscapepainting

I prefer art that's wholesome and family-friendly. 🥰 Is that an unpopular opinion?

OMG! 😍 Can't believe I have 300 followers! You guys are the BEST! 🫶✨ Love you all! 💖💖💖 #yay

Started watching the highly rated #anime Frieren: Beyond Journey's End. The major theme, so far (based on 2 eps), is the mortality of mankind, so it's kind of depressing...