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  hello every1 ive been working on a Big Daunting Project lately and ive been getting very intimidated by it, even though im just doing it for fun. so I decided to make a list of Things to Remember while doing art, specifically during this project!!  these are all things I always try and remind myself but Ive never written them out all together like this, so I thought it might help to do that! I also thought I should share this in case it can help anyone else. ofc these are all my own personal "rules"/values so they might not help your process the same way they help mine. but they might 👀  MANIFESTO (or something) 1.      CHAOS: mixed media, materials exploration, try new things 2. DO IT FOR YOU NOT THEM: stop thinking about the response you'll get. are you having fun? if not, how can you? 3. PROCESS > OUTCOME: if it's not fun, it's not worth your time. you won't be happy with the results if you don't enjoy the process. 4. if it's not working, chan...

 hi again! I graduated art school a full semester ago which means I miss talking about my art and im going to make a huge blog post about it. I wanna talk about my Party art. I don't really know what else to call it. when I was a senior in high school I did this installation project that I still really love. the idea was to create a celebration for my anxiety about graduating/going to college/being an adult/not being in high school anymore/etc. not only was this super fun to set up and photograph, but it also felt like the first thing I had done that looked like what I wanted my art to look like. which is so silly because I don't do installations or photography really at all anymore. but I still think it reflects my current style. I wanted to do something like ^ that project again my first year of college, but Different so I did this installation that was supposed to celebrate hyper-femininity: I used some of these photos as references for drawings and paintings but nothing rea...

 good afternoon whatgracesaid nation I haven't made a post in like 2 weeks!!!! im slacking. but not really. I've been working a lot AND I started a new exciting project that I dont rly wanna post about in case I give up on it lol. anywho. I went camping last weekend and brought my himi (tm) jelly gouache! so obvi I did some plein air painting with my partner .  here are some of the things I painted!!!  this tree is so slay and that truck is so NOT slay but its ok.  also I did this #quick #sketch of a camper which I really like. this is not where we camped (tent lyfe) , this was the neighboring campsite and last but not least!! nadlie! I really like how this one turned out too. have a nice day :-) 

 hello friends!!  today I am teaching a class where we'll make abstract designs with sharpies and isopropyl alcohol. after I made my samples, I got an idea 💡  ive made monotypes with plexiglass and ink, but really all you'd need is a shiny surface and something to draw/paint with.  so I was like "wouldn't a plastic sandwich bag work??" ..... and there was only one way to find out. welcome to monotyping adventures with grace first I put a lil sheet of cardstock in a plastic sandwich bag. I did this because otherwise it'd be super flimsy and hard to work with. then, I started scribbling with sharpie on the bag (I also threw some paper behind the bag to protect my coffee table lol)  (it probably wouldve worked best if I stuck with all warm or all cool colors but. im crazy and I love crazy color schemes so....) now the fun part!! I brushed on some isopropyl alcohol, then I kinda splattered/dripped it on in big drops to make those big circular shapes!!!! I then gr...

hello everyone ! I've been working on 3 paintings and here is the process for 2 of them. I made a post about the first one the other day but none of the photos showed up and I dont wanna remake the post so . no process for that one. sorry.  after painting this lil sheet of mat board entirely neon green, I sketched some hands on it with my beloved construction paper crayons ! then I used gouache to block out kind of a background . I decided that I didnt want these hands to be green so I painted over them with pink gouache. and it wasn't pretty yet so. I used a paint pen to make those lines bold 👍  I scribbled a little with crayon and I decided it was good enough !  okay the next one is . well. trust the process. please. I started with a light purple background! I wanted to do something figurative but then the figure looked bad so I decided I was gonna draw hands instead (all in crayon) after painting the hands yellow (very Simpsonscore) and splotching on some white gouach...

hey gamers lately I've been really into drawing in zines instead of on normal paper or in my sketchbook. here's a scan of an unfolded zine I made semi recently: since I like drawing people so much, usually I start with some people but then the rest is a really random process like idk where that purple cat came from its really fun to start with one material (maybe alcohol markers) then switch to something else to make more marks (colored pencil or crayon perhaps) this type of art has been very important to me in rediscovering having Fun making art after 5 years of art school  I think all the materials used for this project were: ✰ cardstock, folded into an 8 page zine ✰ micron or some kind of similar pen to sketch in the little guys ✰ some combination of alcohol markers and water based markers (like the washable markers you get at the dollar store made for kids) to add big blocks of color ✰ crayon, oil pastel, and colored pencil for the little details and to add some variety in ...