Is it ART or is it TRASH?
It’s TRASH!
It’s a flower, but it doesn’t even look like one.
In my defense, though, neither does the actual flower itself:
I have no idea what kind of flower this thing is, but it gave me a good chance to try out my new metallic watercolor set. It’s hard to tell in the picture of the painting, though.
This is beautiful.
I’m not a poetry person, but this is striking.
I’ve never heard any other poetry from Andrea Gibson, but this one will stick with me.
Edit from July 14th: I just found out that Andrea died today. Rest in peace.
Flash Flashback
Yo.
So I’ve mentioned Tom Deslongchamp on here before: an animator/artist/cool dude that I used to watch a lot back when I was in high school. He had his own website (and still does) and had a ton of Flash videos that I would watch and quote constantly.
Back when Flash died, I thought of Tom and wondered if he’d have to take all his Flash animations off his site. I never bothered to check because I figured I’d either run into broken file links or they’d all be taken down and I’d be sad.
But I finally checked it out today and thanks to the wonders of something called “ruffle,” all his old Flash animations can still be accessed and watched!
That makes me extremely happy.
And now I need to figure out how I can use ruffle to access all of my old Flash stuff. The animations that I never converted and uploaded on YouTube haven’t been watched since…well, since they were made.
Repeated Art
So I’ve been watercoloring for about a year now. I wanted to see if I’ve actually made any progress or if I suck as badly as I did when I first started. So I decided to redo the dahlia painting I did at the end of June last year.
By the power of WordPress, I can present the two drawings with a little slidey thing so you can compare them easier! 2024’s version is on the left and 2025’s version is on the right.
Progress? Regression? YOU BE THE JUDGE!
Sports = Art
Happy birthday, mom!
So I’ve come across this Twitter account called ArtButMakeItSports. The guy who runs it finds photos of various sporting events and compares them to artworks that have similar compositions, vibes, and/or colors.
Today’s example:
The best thing is that he claims he doesn’t use AI to do the photo/art comparisons, which is fantastic. He’s got several breakdowns of his process on his website, too. Example.
Some of his “best of” comparisons look like they were just made for each other (all pics from his website).
That last one, hahahaha.
Paint-A-Thon
A new one!
If there’s anyone who can make watercoloring a tedious process, it’s me, haha.
We don’t have issues at all
It’s been a while, but Nate and I have finally played another game of Pictionary. Some highlights:
(That reads, “Dear Sir or Madam, plz no salt. Thx.”)
I’m not a psychopath, I swear.
Are you ready for some BALLFOOT?
(This has nothing to do with ballfoot)
It’s another watercolor! I took some liberty with the colors on this one.
Caught in a Rad Bromance
The feels like is -29 degrees Fahrenheit right now.
Have a flower.
(I technically finished this on Saturday but who cares?)
A THIIIIIIIIING
This one was actually quite hard because it had more flat surface area to paint than my usual flowers do. Also that leaf at the bottom is ugly as all hell.
Are you sick of my garbage watercoloring yet?
TOO BAD!
This one was fun to paint.
Sweet Gerbera Daisy
Bing!
At least, I think that’s what this is. I’m not sure. I mostly painted it to practice with that center part. The last flower that had a funky center ended up looking awful. This is maaaaaaybe a little better.
(I’m going to run out of pink.)
Lots o’ Petals
I really tried to make this look more watercolor-y…if that makes any sense.
It’s an Art, You Fartbags
(You’re not fartbags, I’m sorry.)
(Or maybe you are. “Fartbags” is a term of endearment for some of us losers.)
(Anyway.)
I technically finished this yesterday, but yesterday was a super fun migraine party time, so yeah.
I think this is my favorite one so far.
MORE FLOWERS, EAT IT
This one took a long time, haha.
The end.
An Apple a Day Can’t Make Me Good at Watercoloring
But I’ll try anyway. This is my first non-flower in a while!
I freaking love watercoloring, yo
The pinks in my watercolor palette blend really nicely. This one turned out pretty good, considering, y’know, my lack of talent.
Paint Away!
Another watercolor! This one was hard; the watercolor palette I usually use doesn’t really have any true reds, so I had to use a different one. These colors blend soooo differently, haha.
Petooooooonya
I PAINTED ANOTHER THING
This one’s pretty eh. I mostly did it so I could practice that fade from black to color in the center.
(And to watch more SolarBalls while I paint.)
IT’S ANOTHER WATERCOLOR SORRY
I guess that’s my new thing now.
It’s stressful and relaxing at the same time, haha. Not sure if I’m getting any better, but I’m enjoying it.
Peas!
More watercolor practice. I’m finding it way more enjoyable than I thought I would, haha.
How does one…color with water?
DON’T ASK ME
I DON’T KNOW
This took me like 15 hours because I am apparently incapable of letting a watercolor painting look like a watercolor painting and instead have to burn up half of my little color pans on a single page.
And yes, I know the leaves look very disconnected from the background branches/green and from the bench, but I kinda dig it that way, so I left it. It makes it look more surreal.
It doesn’t make it look good, but it makes it look surreal.
Whatev.
ARRRRRT, MATEY!
We’re back to this old nonsense again.
Can you see why I want to try more watercolor? At least all my watercolor arts probably wouldn’t be just another iteration of the same damn shape and theme.
I want to WATERCOLOR
I suck at it, but I want to get better. I also feel like I can do stuff with watercolor that’s quite different from my colored pencil nonsense.
Some painting ideas:
- More flowers
- Trees
- The aurora we just saw the other night
- The Bow (the building, not the river)
- The Bow (the river, not the building)
- Jazzy?
We’ll see.
Also, HAPPY BIRTHDAY, MOM!
I did an ART!
This is like my first ever legitimate attempt at doing anything with watercolors. It looks more like a drawing than a watercolor painting because I layered like a millimeter of paint on there, haha. It took me three hours because I had no idea what I was doing.
What do y’all think?
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