Horseshoes and Handgrenades

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Days 3-5! Trying to play with colors I don't normally use (hello cobalt blue) and pushing myself to stick with bigger brushes

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Trying out the #pleinairpril challenge this year. Days 1 and 2. Here we go!

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Toddler-sized quilt for my niece's birthday last year. It's my second time using this pattern (made a larger version of this quilt that's since been given away, will have to track down some finished pics of it), and I'm seriously considering making a third.

Pattern: Rainbow Falls by Wren Collective

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scrappy quilt, haven't gotten too far with it

Pattern: Eden quilt by Tales of Cloth

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a little project that's been on the to-do list for a while

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summer socks

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@spiremint WEK WEK WEK

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My favorite painting from class - we took one reference image and used it for the composition and then a second reference image and used it for the lighting. It was a cool challenge!

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playing around with a new quilt idea

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things I've picked up off the ground this fall

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a little bit of outdoor painting with my buddy

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More homework! This time we took a reference photo and did a 5-value study, then a color study, trying to keep the initial values in mind.

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Took a painting class last month, here's one of the exercises - take a 3-value composition and reduce complexity (twice!).

Really gets you thinking about how you can play with shapes!

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some doodles from a summer project

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help i made a post for the first time in six months and now my dash is haunted by a mechanical teeth button

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oh goodness, the uploader has changed

more little paintings from earlier this year

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I am not immune to the siren song of making very tiny things

(although this has been sitting half-finished on a shelf since April, so I am perhaps immune to completing them)