Month: July 2024
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mixed media test: failed haha
i did a quick watercolour (first) and gave it a coat of fixative so i could try out layering oil pastels on top for a mixed media look (second), but I’ve hit a few challenges: so likely I’ll toss this now and move on, but it has taught me a fair amount of interesting technical…
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WIP Knight in Oil Pastel
this is the biggest thing I’ve painted yet with the oil pastels; gonna be working in it for a while i was looking at digital paintings from 2022, and thinking about the method I had started using back then of having a mark making stage and a blending stage as two separate things; and the…
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Your Cellphone Camera’s Digital Processing Settings and You
I am mad about cellphone cameras hiding the processing they do to my photos, and I am glad about software I found that lets me control it and opt in and out.
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What Format You Might Want To Save Digital Photos In
What format do you recommend I save photographs in? Like raw or jpeg? I don’t know the difference.
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oil pastel dog portrait!
finished this piece of a much missed lucky boy; oil pastel on canson mi-tientes paper.
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oil pastel dog portrait in progress
working on canson mi-tientes paper, which really let’s the pastel slide around despite the rougher side’s surface texture.
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how i am doing accidental exposure therapy for my fear of bugs
So I’ve been taking photos of bugs, now that I can trust my phone to not chew up any macro or zoom photography I take, and sharing them onto iNaturalist. it scratches my look I took a photo itch, it scratches my talking about cool things itch, it often tells me what bug I took…