Month: September 2024
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how to bind your thermal zine
no answers here, folks, I’m asking! accordion and scroll address both honestly very cute; i suspect there’s a stapled version i could figure out too given time.
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thermal printer experiments
finally got some paper rolls for my label printer and started the important process of figuring out how to make zines with it 💪
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oil pastel boat
oil pastel pinterest study; i bought a pack of much firmer pastels and did the whole under drawing with those, and then layered the thick opaque pastels on top, and it really worked well!
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Oil pastel dragon riding team
really love the colour palette i achieved here! not sure the drawing was strong enough to support it though, and the canvas was definitely too small for me at the level of precision in comfortable with right now. in the end i called this off before feeling 100% satisfied, but that’s simply the nature of…
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Sun through the Forest in oil pastel
Presenting: this huge oil pastel painting I created this past August! It’s nearly two feet tall, painted in a variety of brands of oil pastel on stonehenge cotton rag paper, with an underpainting in watercolour. I created it based on photos i’d taken while on a roadtrip around the great lakes through Canada and the…
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Three Pine Grosbeaks
my latest oil pastel experiment is this painting of three pine grosbeaks, referencing a CC0 photograph shared as part of an observation on inaturalist. this one was created on illustration board, with a full under painting in watercolor first, which you can see in the third image. The illustration board texture has a wonderful grain…