Month: August 2024
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oil pastel sweat bee
I painted this one on sanded paper, the much admired pastelmat type, and found it desperately unintuitive. The grippy surface could be nice, but it’s completely unabsorbant, and i found myself unable to layer the way I’m used to on rag papers, or honestly even on wood. that said, you really can blend infinitely on…
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macro fishbowl asters
i have been having a lot of fun making some intentionally messy photos with clip-on macro lenses on my cellphone camera, and trying more and more to get the blown out, bokeh’d background to be a more intentional element. this one feels like it’s showing me some potential!
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Moss and grasses
Loved this hike and felt immensely inspired the whole time and yet still wrestled with all the green in the photos. I never understood how people could say green was hard to deal with until I tried to post process digital photos.