[thingsfromthedirt]

warming carafe with a stained glass pattern (ca. late 50s-early 60s)

[rearte2]

by Frank Stella, 1969

[emptyspaceslonesomeplaces]

[worldsandemanations]

Lake Superior agates

[ifuckingloveminerals]

Petrified Wood

Wyoming

[neest]

[electricheart]

a little reminder! by annalaura_art

[thunderstruck9]

Olle Hjortzberg (Swedish, 1872-1959), Flower Still Life, 1942. Panel, 81 x 100 cm.

[apatheticfluorescence]

some hyper famous artists like Van Gogh transcend overratedness and become underrated because they're so normalized. Like I'll look at a van Gogh and I'm like wait this really is amazing you guys don't get it

[headspace-hotel]

Shakespeare is like this

[insufferablepirate]

Every time I see a Van Gogh that’s not one of his better known pieces it absolutely blows me away

Have you seen this shit my liege? smh unreal

[athanza]

From Veronica Tucker via Pinterest

[xxemo-hubrisxx]

why your sewing machine is acting up: - tension is wrong - wrong needle size - thread bit stuck somewhere - tension again - needs a deep clean and oiling - you said something and now its offended and refusing to cooperate until you realize your error and beg forgiveness

[bitingthroughthewalls]

- WRONG KIND OF BOBBIN. IT WAS THE WRONG KIND OF BOBBIN. HOW CAN YOU GET THROUGH UPHOLSTERY LEATHER WITH AN ALL PURPOSE NEEDLE BUT YOU CAN'T HANDLE A METAL BOBBIN. FUCK

[eccebitch]

[fabricandcircuits]

Peer reviewed tags wonderfully said

[germanpostwarmodern]

Beth Sholom Synagogue (1954-59) in Elkins Park, PA, USA, by Frank Lloyd Wright

[unteriors]

W Elm Street, Durant, Oklahoma.

[bitingthroughthewalls]

W Elm Street, Durant, Oklahoma.

(oil pastel on birch plywood, 2026)

[bitingthroughthewalls]

hi prev hey it's me the artist i was feeling sad so i checked my tumblr notifs, someone had liked this so i was like wait maybe there were some reblogs? turns out. uh. a lotta people liked this one apparently. kinda forgot to check on that.

so here's the secret: this is absolutely not oil paint. if you check the og tags the night i first posted this, i mentioned it a little bit, but i start-to-finished this piece in an hour. someday when I mellow out a little bit i might try oil painting again, but until then, we're sticking with stuff that goes on quicker and dirtier and lets me move on between closing one work shift and opening another.

i'd love to see your work, esp if you decide to try oil pastels!! pls tag me! my only real advice is that real wood board is absolutely the best surface for em. you can really press down on it to warm up the wax, it'll never shred or flake, you can "erase" fuckups by scraping the actual wood off with a pocket knife, and the wood absorbs the oil over time, so it actually dries down in a way that wax based media on gesso'd canvas or paper never will. I used ⅛" thick birch plywood, which is cheap as hell, can be purchased in multipacks of precut dimensions, and you can score-and-snap with a utility blade or cut it through with a thrift store bread knife if you want it smaller.

[musubiarte]

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller

[bitingthroughthewalls]

this.....isn't great. (eta: or, rather, it is years out of date. it was published in 2011.)

for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that it's yet another color wheel that insists that red and green as complimentary colors. this is not correct.

let's look at a science based pigment picker wheel instead.

this is what a science based color wheel looks like. feel free to read more about it and find out what all those pigments mean here.

we set artists up for failure when we tell them the three most vital color wheel points (aka the closest things we have to true "primary" colors) are anything other than Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

for more of Peter Donahue's excellent science based color education, you can find him as color.nerd on most platforms. here's his linktree with extra educational stuff in there too. He is a wealth of information, and i wish more people knew the things he had to say.

[musubiarte]

The other day I was surfing the internet and I found this specialized painting colour wheel, it shows how real paint colours relate to each other. 

Outside: the purest/brightest colours.

Inside: naturally muted or earthy colors, like browns and ochres.

The Center: dark neutral tones used for mixing shadows.

The Lines: the lines connect colors that are opposites, if you mix them you neutralize the tone creating clean grays or browns instead of muddy puddles.

I want to share this with you because I think it is really illustrative!

Reference: “Quiller Wheel” by Stephen Quiller

[bitingthroughthewalls]

this.....isn't great.

for a lot of reasons, not the least of which being that it's yet another color wheel that insists that red and green as complimentary colors. this is not correct.

let's look at a science based pigment picker wheel instead.

this is what a science based color wheel looks like. feel free to read more about it and find out what all those pigments mean here.

we set artists up for failure when we tell them the three most vital color wheel points (aka the closest things we have to true "primary" colors) are anything other than Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow.

for more of Peter Donahue's excellent science based color education, you can find him as color.nerd on most platforms. here's his linktree with extra educational stuff in there too. He is a wealth of information, and i wish more people knew the things he had to say.

[eirene]

Sparrows in a Cherry Tree, 1905 Bruno Liljefors