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[kaywi]

welcome to tuser kaywi!

kyle, I'm 25 and I use he/they pronouns! you might also know me as @princemick or @celbrini I'm a recently graduated art education student who now works as a graphic design teacher, I'm mostly a semi realistic painter and digital illustrator but I'm working out how to let myself just paint n doodle whatever I want and play around.

so welcome to my post grad art journey, I will post both art that inspires me, my own art and chats about my art!

my art tag // my talk tag

[kaywi]

"dance recital" potrait of myself as a kid.

27x40cm. oil on canvas

[kaywi]

found some old baby pictures I wanted to paint, sketch is promising for the full painting

[ppepohappy]

“pale blue dot” - voyager 1 // “tommy milone gives up a home run to mike trout on May 21, 2017” - d. benjamin miller // “the sun” - edvard munch

[gayvampyr]

i hate that every time i look for color studies and tips to improve my art and make it more dynamic and interesting all that comes up are rudimentary explanations of the color wheel that explain it to me like im in 1st grade and just now discovering my primary colors

[gayvampyr]

“red and green are opposites 🥰” cool now how do i paint a tree with pinks and blues without it looking like a child’s finger painting or incongruous blobs of rainbow vomit

[gayvampyr]

ok i can’t explain it very well but im looking for tips and techniques for rendering art like

with specifically the highlights and colors being hues that compliment each other, don’t distract from the scene, and make it more interesting/visually appealing

is it too much to ask

[moreclaypigeons]

gonna drop some sources I have saved on Pinterest! I don't know if these all link back to the original sources so apologies for that

cohesive but still contrasting

This kind of talks about color and composition

This is a bit about landscape specifically

Values & composition

Contrast in composition

Balance in colors & values

This one's more for palette building but I think it's useful and can be applied to the other ones

Cohesion within compositions/lighting

"Chromatic fringe" - I also see people using this with shading, they bring in a transition color that is a different hue than the base color or shadow, it makes it so that less vibrancy is lost and it doesn't get muddy!

This one specifically has a lot of process behind the style of painting you're looking for!

Also one of my favorite artists who makes bright and colorful art like this is Not Sorry Art on TikTok & YouTube, her website is here and it's<3 my fav. She has some videos where you can see her process

With the oranges painting you put as an example, I noticed they painted the lighter values more toward yellow - they also exaggerated the hues of the undertones of the photo, so I'm guessing they either did it in their head or bumped the saturation up to get a closer look! I really love these paintings you shared and I definitely share your desire to paint/draw like that :)

[gayvampyr]

thanks this is super helpful! /gen

[gallusrostromegalus]

If you'd like 2 Print books that I absolutely reccomend to every visual artist regardless of Media, Color and Light and Imaginative Realism by James Gurney are basically religious texts for artists, even the 3-D people because his understanding and explanation of how light and form work is that damn good.

If you're wondering about Mr. Gurney's chops:

James Gurney is the Dinotopia Guy (that link includes his Dinotopia books, prints and online classes too)

[rainycraze]

Reblogging to check this out later

[kaywi]

"I need to brush my teeth" 2025

1m x 70cm. acrylic and oil on canvas.

a test to try and represent how my disassociation feels during every day moments in my life.

[ymutate]

Louise Bourgeois's monumental bronze sculpture,

'Spider' (1996), looms over the living room of gallerist, Ursula Hauser.

[kaywi]

quick and fun little cherry painting

[kaywi]

procrastinated for ages on this painting but its finally done

'regular guest' oil on cotton canvas. 50x70 cm

[oedipalrivalry]

(x)

[icecreamwithjackdaniels]

Henriëtte Ronner-Knip (Dutch–Belgian, 1821–1909), "Study of Eleven Cats" (details), 1904

[laurelindorenan]

I love how different forms of art are all obsessed with each other. A book tries to capture the feeling of music, a painting tries to depict a scene in a book, a song tries to paint a picture. And it's always insufficient. No single form of art can encapsulate another form of art and capture the essence of it – but it tries, and its attempts are impossibly compelling. All the forms of art are in love with each other and spend so much time trying to express what makes the other kinds of art so lovely.

[kaywi]

finally got myself to finish his shoes, just the face and hands and my guy is all done!!

[iliketurtles55]

(Sequel to ‘This memory is being forgotten’)

[huariqueje]

Sink 3 - Helene Appel , 2024

German , b. 1976 -

Acrylic, watercolour, varnish and oil on linen, 49 x 39 cm.

[kaywi]

first layer of the pants are painted

[mezimraky]

the resurrection (2025) by ben tuna (via ig)