Artist Cai

A blog just for my art.

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ASL Coffee Chat in Northampton, MA

poster reads:

top of poster has hands spelling ASL. Underneath the words say COFFEE CHAT. Below a hand-drawn coffee mug. Text at the bottoms says: Saturday August 13th 2022 at 9:30 am; Haymarket Cafe; 185 Main Street; Northampton, MA.

The venue has one stair to the first floor. Seating is available on that floor.  Stairs are present to the lower floor where there is more seating. We are currently inquiring about outdoor seating availablility.

DM me for any questions!

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Dogs dogs!

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One moore dog for the commissions.

Image above is a charcoal drawing of a black dog with its mouth open slightly, tounge showing.

The charcoal lines are lose and scribbly. The dog appears shaggy and long-haird. It has a reflection on its forhead and white on the fur around its nose.

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Dog drawings preparing for a watercolor commission.

images above are two drawings of the same dog.  The top photo is a simple line drawing outlining the shape of the head, yes and neck.

The second is a completed line drawing that uses cross hatching. The drawing shows the head, face, ears down to the chest.

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Font test one two three. And a pile of ampersands.

Alt text for first image is cut off hey @tumbler why are you limiting alt text characters! Accessible text isn’t limited to 200 characters. FIX THIS.

First image below is a painted acacia tree in full flower on a large white board. The name Sarah is on the left, James on the right. Above the tree are many arcs of curved trapezoids. At the top of the board it reads KIMBALL and HUDSPETH in a fancy script.

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The eyes have it. Hahaha. Working (finally) on a commission.

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divide 2 conquer

Conquest over two commissions .... at least for today!

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And .... done.

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“Well. I think we’re done here. Just cut out and put in the frame. :)”

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Miniature painting almost done.

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Working on a tiny family portrait for a Christmas ornament.

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i don’t know why but i’m really amused by the winner of some ‘new kanji’ contest:

compare with the real kanji

座 (seat/gathering), but the two 人 (person) radicals have been moved from next to each other within the 土 (earth) radical to diagonally from each other, making this “social distance(d seating/gathering)”

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This is hilarious, but to further the hilarity, I’d like to point to the fact that half of the “A rank” (runners up) for this contest also are related to 2020 epidemic jokes

First up we have:

Compare with 太

The original kanji means “to gain weight”. But it adds the コ “ko” and ロ  “ro” katakana symbols at the top to represent the weight you gain while staying home due to the corona virus.

Then we have:

Compare with 会 

The original kanjij means “meeting”, but the lower radical is changed to look more like a “Z” to represent Zoom meetings. Thus, the new kanji means “web meetings” or “zoom calls”

And of course another social distancing one:

Compare with 話 

This means “to talk” or “chat”, but it’s changed simply to show the two radicals social distancing from one another as we should also while holding conversations nowadays.

At least we can have some fun language humor despite all of this!

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Every- bunny was Kung fu fighting. ! Pen and ink commission finished.

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Kung fu bunny .... I’m nailed the anatomy. on to better paper.

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Working on a family tree

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Slowly the drawings scan ....slowly enough time seems to go backwards.

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Going back to finishing Annie Jump Cannon this winter. I just love her hands.

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[image description: a black and white digital comic titled, “Literary Tattoos: Do’s and Don’ts.” Below the tile are two panels. The left panel reads, “DO: Get a cute tattoo of a memorable quote from your favorite novel.” Below that is a drawing of a wrist tattoo with the words “So it goes” written in cursive. The second panel reads, “HELLA DO: Cover 90% of your body in all of the passages from Moby Dick where Melville rants about whale skull dimensions.” Below that is a photo of a person with said tattoo, saying the words, “No woman can resist me now.” End image description.]

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Unless you study whale skulls for a living then... maybe. Haha.