Belle Tempête

Please be my friend. I'm a nice person. I just suck at things.

[belletempete]

I don't know who decided ads with sound were a good idea on the tumblr app, but fuck that guy 😤

[tnerdbean]

Know what I’m salty about?

In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

tldr: Art Teachers: teach your students what different tools do. PLEASE.

[spookyscaryscouticus]

WAIT INDIA INK JS WATERPROOF ONCE IT DRIES????? THE ENTIRE REASON IVE AVOIDED MARKERS MY ENTIRE LIFE IS BECAUSE JNK BLEEDS AND YOURE TELLING ME INDIA INK IS

F U C K I N G W A T E R P R O O F

[cinderteethe]

oh man your teachers did not do there jobs!

-Yo painters, use pencil if u must underdraw beneath an oil painting, the lead is archival but ideally you should be doing underdrawings in a muted earth tones (siennas, umbers, ochres or earth green) with some titanium white added to it. (The white nearly matches the canvas and earth tones naturally blend with all colors on top unless u do super thin glaze washes).

-Trying to make a natural looking warm black? Don’t use black straight from tube, Mix alizarin crimson and viridan. add raw umber to adjust for light depth.

-If your into mixed media ALWAYS use acrylic first and oil on top (the gesso on primed canvas is acrylic based and oil sits on top of it great). NEVER put acrylic paint on top of oil, the acrylic will crackle/decompose and fall apart/off the canvas.

-India ink is permanent and if your using ink from a jar it should say it’s permanence. professional art grade pens usually have there permanace listed either on the pen or the companies website.

-Red cinnabar is poisonous, DO NOT EAT IT, no matter how much like fruit loops it smells.

-Translucent and transparent are NOT the same. translucent is *shiny* and a cloudier color, ideal for mixing usually ordor making vibrant colors like for eyes, cars, etc. Transparent is matte and usually a 50% transparency from an opaque color.

-ALWAYS DO A TEST SWATCH OF ANY NEW MATERIAL.

-any paint made with “true alizarin crimson” “red lake” and “chrome yellow” pigment is a fugitive paint. Fugitive means the pigment fades dramatically and disappears over time, (usually 5 to 15 years) lots of van goghs paintings have this problem. be very careful with these pigments. Alizarin crimson especially smells extremely sweet and like fruit loops or fruit loops, don’t eat it.

-gauche is a mix of watercolor and ink, proceed with caution as this material can be an asshole.

-Watercolor can be made darker/thicker by letting it dry slightly in cake form or in liquid form and can be dry brushed if u get the timing down.

-Paint liquid rubber or lay down thin pieces of painters tape on edges in watercolor paintings to Prevent bleeding between lines if u need super sharp edges.

-always tape down the entire paper edges when u paint with watercolor to a board to prevent the paper from curling as it dries.

-add salt directly into wet watercolor paintings to absorb pigment and make shit look like space.

-Always paint in well ventilated areas and avoid getting lots of paint on your hands. lots of paint is made with heavy metals and can cause cancer.

-natural materials aren’t always safe, especially

-Ones u collect yourself, do your research before grinding, burning, sanding these things especially indoors.

-use NATURAL bristles on your brushes with oil paint and SYNTHETIC bristles on your brushes for acrylic and watercolor. synthetic bristles literally break off into oil paint and stick into your painting, and natural bristles can’t handle the weight of acrylic paint and rip into 15 directions. Use hard boar bristle for the underdrawing/underpainting of an oil painting as it will force the paint into the canvas pours more effectively cause it’s stronger, use softer bristles for outer layers of oil painting and blending, boar will pierce outer layers and is to hard for anything but the first layer. can’t tell what u have? clean it up and brush it on your face, softer it is the better it is as doing outer layers of color.

[teratocybernetics]

-if you have a decent painters’ tape, you can prewet your watercolor paper, tape it to a surface & weight it down with some books to press it flat while it’s wet and help keep it from buckling later once dry, this is especially useful because for some reason, watercolor block is half again as expensive or more than a comparable sized pad or large sheets to cut down, even by the same brand

-natural sable is good for watercolor if you can afford it, i have two smaller brushes i shelled out for to try it, and while i probably didn’t treat the finer point one right, the other one is a miracle i’ve had for nearly 20 years.

-chinese calligraphy brush sets are fantastic for large work and washes and way, way cheaper most times than standard brushes, and it doesn’t seem to matter how cheap they are, either. they may shed a little, but they do a really good job holding and distributing water.

[feliosfarkus]

Rb for any art students

[bigmammallama5]

A trick i learned in art school, if your paper still warps/curls and your piece is finished/mostly finished: dampen the BACK and then press it flat again til dry. This works well with thicker papers! I have not had much success with thinner material. Test it out to get the hang of it before trying on your art!

[ai-yo]

I taught myself how to use photoshop and now I’m teaching myself about paper gsm and alcohol based markers and shit. Oh and we never used oil paints it was always acrylic and rarely ever watercolour. She kept saying soon but it never happened. What was the fucking point

[karp-actually]

🍃Animal Crossing Ask Game🍃

🦉 Do you listen to Blathers talk or skip over his dialogue?

🎶 If you were a villager, what KK song would be playing in your house?

🏝 Describe the aesthetic you have/wish you had on your island/town

🐱 A species of animal you wish you had on your island?

🎇 Favorite in-game holiday/event?

💡 What's a feature you wish would be added to the game?

🏠 What kinds of rooms do you set up in your house? (ex. Kitchen, display room, maybe a secret laboratory?)

👔 Show us your villager's outfit!

💰 What's your strategy for collecting bells?

💭 Share a memorable moment you have from playing the games

🌄 If you've played multiple games, do you like to look for villagers you've previously had or are you always looking for new faces to befriend?

🛋 Do you hoard items/clothes or are you a minimalist?

💌 Do you write letters to your villagers and friends?

📦 How willing are you to let go of a villager?

❤ Favorite thing to do in game?

[kaitlyncrossing]

kaitlyncrossing’s New Horizons Giveaway!!  

Since we are FINALLY getting the game we have waited so long for, it’s time for a giveaway!!  The winner will receive:

A copy of Animal Crossing: New Horizons

A Hydro Flask & Hydro Flask straw lid (to match the special joy-cons!)

Resetti amiibo

Lottie amiibo

Assorted Animal Crossing stickers

2 small towels

a set of Re-Tail themed reusable plastic bags

a Blathers/Museum themed luggage tag

AND a K.K. Slider pin & Animal Crossing stickers created by @birduyen 

Rules!

no giveaway blogs

must be 18+ or have parental/guardian permission

you may reblog once and like once for 2 entries!

you DO NOT have to be following me, but I’m an Animal Crossing blog, if you’re interested!

Other Info

I am paying for shipping, and ship from the U.S.!  I am willing to ship worldwide!!  This is the North American copy of the game, for reference!  

Giveaway ends April 5th!!  Good luck everyone!!

[ironpour]

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[allthingsmacandcheese]

Creamy Chicken and Mushroom Macaroni Cheese Bake

[belletempete]

I'm nauseous af (thanks to my incoming ladyfriend), and all i want is fucking mac&cheese

like, ooey, gooey, creamy af macaroni and cheeeeese🤤

[allthingsmacandcheese]

Give Mac and Cheese a Summery (Caprese!) Spin

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[jbirdoftheriverlands-deactivate]

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[dankmemeuniversity]

[1chainzdeactivated-deactivated2]

shawty got low low low low low low low (self esteem)

[shrimplydelicious]

“I’m finally going to write! I have a great idea!”

[edgelord-trashcan]

LAUGHS LOUDLY

[ardatli]

OK but like… first sentences don’t have to be there forever. I cannot begin to count the number of times I’ve started a story like:

And just write the ideas down until the story starts to shape itself. Then when you’re ready, go back and delete everything before the point where the story actually starts. 

Writing yourself into an idea is a time-honoured technique, and it works. 

[stainlesssteellocust]

good advice

[meowpurrnom]

Say hello to my Eeveelution frozen cocktail menu! Eevee: cake vodka, Kahlua, Bailey’s, chocolate eclair ice cream bar, chocolate syrup Vaporeon: rum, Malibu, blue curacao, pineapple juice, Sprite Jolteon: tequila, red bull, margarita mix, lemon juice, Sprite, salt on the rim Flareon: fireball whiskey, peach schnapps, iced tea, lemonade, dash of strawberry syrup (for color) Espeon: strawberry vodka, Hpnotiq Harmonie, Chambord, cranberry juice, Sprite Umbreon: bourbon, coke, lemon juice, orange juice Glaceon: rum, blue curacao, peppermint schnapps, lemonade, soda water, sugar on the rim Leafeon: tequila, peach schnapps, lime juice, ginger ale, mint, honey and a drop of chocolate syrup for decoration Sylveon: cake vodka, strawberry vodka, Bailey’s, strawberry shortcake ice cream bar, cream, strawberry syrup

[pixelvted-deactivated20131026]

fucking oh god

[homonymph]

FUCK I WANT

[melonmemes]