[archvillain]

salt | adult aged somewhere between 25 and 120 | trans queer furry | he/him

toyhouse / bluesky 1 (art&models) / bluesky 2 (personal) // i'm curingsalt on vrchat! mutuals can hang

🔞this blog is 18+🔞

art blog is @archvillainart // vrchat blog is @curingsalt

#my art

[loveridden1999]

problematic sudoku solving skills gap

[featuringmarkhoppus]

[bubblebaath]

shrimp flavour, part 1

[mxkitchimera]

Furality ULTRA booth resources so if you saw my booth at Furality Ultra and wondered what the heck I'm even selling...

the answer is NOTHING.

Okay so I AM attempting to sell you on the idea of YOU making some traditional art.

hey HEY wait, this is for you even if you don't think of yourself as an artist, or are a digital artist with a longstanding grudge against non-digital paint. I get it. That paint knows what it did.

But you don't even have to be good at art to get something out of making art. I joke that painting is my version of touching grass because it makes my brain gears click back into alignment.

You can't hit UNDO in traditional art, which sounds terrifying, but I think is actually the key. A traditional painting is a place to make mistakes and then figure out how to keep going. To learn that you CAN keep going.

And sometimes it's nice to just make little potions and find out what happens when you mix them together :3

I put together this list of resources that really help me - present tense because I use them all the time.

https://mt.kanjon.art/ https://www.youtube.com/@MtKanjon Whether you're new to art or returning after a long time away, Mt Kanjon's videos are great for fundamental art tips digital and traditional, but also for the WHYs of making art in the first place, and how to keep at it when making stuff feels tough! Absolutely motivational~

https://linktr.ee/color.nerd The color chart I used in my Gamut Gamut Overload cabinet is by Color Nerd! I reference his charts and near constantly tbh. Go get you some free resources! He explains the science of both additive color mixing (RGB digital) AND subtractive color mixing (pigments, traditional). So much color science and appreciation for the history of how we understand color - with credits to the color scientists who got us this far. I'm gonna link a twofer video where he explains a part of my next resource. https://youtu.be/EACRRXynk1w?si=EKhjb1Jz66OM5zxP

https://www.handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html Handprint is the most out of date site on this list, but still REALLY useful for understanding Why Paint Does That. https://handprint.com/HP/WCL/pigmt6.html This page in particular explains that paint names are proprietary garbage, but more importantly it also teaches you how to read the numbers and symbols that unlock the SECRETS OF PAINT-Paint-paint [echo]. Okay actually they just describe pigments, which are ground up color rocks. Get in, we're doing Chemistry! A quote from Bruce MacEvoy that puts into words the feeling I myself am hoping to convey to you, but like, eloquently: "I built this site because watercolor lifted me out of my life in a way that placed me back in my self. It made the world I saw incredibly more vivid and unexpected: it taught me to see, it taught me to teach myself to see." This man has Opinions on paint, but also brings the facts to support them. His work directly influenced other resources on this list, like the next resource:

https://artistpigments.org/ Do you like swatches? OH BOY are you gonna love this site! I really can't overstate how useful this one is, it's like Handprint for 2026. Use Mixbox for color mixing predictions, which replicates real paint mixing.

oh, you wanna know about the booth book stack?

https://linktr.ee/gurneyjourney https://www.youtube.com/jamesgurney Yeah, it's Color and Light by James Gurney. If Heaven is real, it's Dinotopia. Gurney keeps up with tech and is still making free videos about plein air painting with gouache on his youtube channel. Information-packed substack, too. The book Color and Light is helpful in understanding how lighting and atmosphere changes the way we see color.

https://linktr.ee/notsorryart https://www.youtube.com/@notsorryart When I was getting back into art, tiktok led me to Sari Shryack of Not Sorry Art. Her bright saturated paintings of dollar store aisles and still lifes of nostalgic plastic bits were a discussion of growing up impoverished, and I'm still in awe of how her work can say so much. Her paintings and art lessons gave me the courage to use the bold bright colors that make me feel things. She offers a ton of free lessons on youtube, but the book Modern Still Life: From Fruit Bowls to Disco Balls focuses on the process of painting, you know, a still life.

https://linktr.ee/70sscifiart VRChat is a bit like being able to walk through the kind of places I'd only seen in weird book covers, which were a core inspiration to younger me. Worlds Beyond Time: Sci-Fi Art of the 1970s is a fancy physical version of the curation Adam Rowe has been doing for free on tumblr for years. I kid, but he does incredible work tracking down information about paintings and painters who mostly went uncredited at time of pulp paperback publication.

Part 2 coming after Furality, and I'll explain why I think watercolor + gouache is the most affordable and effective paint medium to start with. I'll show my modular setup that works in small spaces, bc I, like y'all, am just making stuff in my bedroom.

video versions for additional accessibility coming after Furality

[illunesa]

very far away, on the other side of a computer screen :)

[33v0]

[geyfrog]

As far as my personal experience goes “men ain’t shit” is actively a counterproductive attitude to getting straight women out of unpleasant relationships. Like, if men ain’t shit, the implication is that (barring lesbianic conversion) any relationship she’ll be in will be shitty, and thus there’s not really a point in trying to do better, because the only other option is being single. And this exact attitude IME is very common in women in unhappy relationships. But it’s not true! Some men are good partners! It is possible for these women to find a fulfilling heterosexual relationship! And they need to believe that to give up on an unfulfilling one!

[geyfrog]

The mostly non-actionable “ugh, I hate men” supplants the very actionable “ugh, I hate Brad”. In this kind of situation, you gotta swallow your smugness about being a lesbian for a bit to give them hope that they can be happy while straight

[daydreamerdrew]

It’s All For U (If U Rlly Want It)

woven jacquard, glass seed beads and machine embroidery

59 x 85 1/2 in

2024

Waiting to Exhale

woven jacquard and glass seed beads

2022

Qualeasha Wood

[keijakku]

heroin

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

graffiti discourse is so stupid why the hell would I give a shit if people spraypaint their names or do some cool paintings under a bridge

[going2hell4everythingbutbeingbi]

sorry didn't realize the bridge has to be plain beige concrete. that was a load bearing plain beige concrete if anyone tags it the whole bridge collapses

[skelotan]

Literacy crisis WHO? This was said in the most vocal fried Californian accent ever. I hope The Girls enjoy some Russian lit this summer.

PATREON

[windmills123]

i was born in the downloads folder all alone with only a readme file to my name

[greyssketches]

so kinger has been trapped since 1999...

[fishd0g]

Im unsure if these fandoms collide, but I had fun :D

Although I cant tell if kinger is cute or horrifying

[pocketss]

Ummm she's literally sensitive :/

[mous-bones]

Hand Printed & Tie-Dyed TRANS RIGHTS Shirts/Totes! Available NOW!!

I'm SUPER excited to officially announce and release my first ever non-print-on-demand T Shirts! 💖 Available in custom-dyed Trans Pride and Nonbinary Pride Tie-Dye as well as classic Black, in sizes up to 3XL.

I've wanted to offer shirts more directly for a long time, and in the last two months I taught myself screen printing from scratch and hand dyed more than a hundred combined shirts and tote bags to pull it off. Happy pride, I hope you like the results!

[antisquare]

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