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Help Me Survive March!

I hate to be doing this again, but it appears my cataract surgery (for my right eye) may defer from donating plasma through most of this month. (1 week off for the surgery, two more for probable antibiotics post-surgery).

I survive off SSDI and receive $59/month in EBT, plasma is pretty much my grocery and other essentials money. I have one cat to support, Lir. Anything helps.

Cat tax below.

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Ko-Fi

Goal: $0/300.

kerryrenaissance

Goal:$300/300 achieved! Sorry for the delay on updating. Thank you all so very much for helping me!

dipdamnderoo

I made a thing. Happy pride 🏳️‍🌈

thecryptkeeper

i know the way people talk about their pets now is probably how we’ve been doing it for all of history. a cat owner in ancient rome saw their cat lounging on the dining pillows and commented “he thinks himself to be the senator claudius 🤣”

nattousan

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

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and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

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Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

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hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

nattousan

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

nattousan

Madam....

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birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

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*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

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in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

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SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

nattousan

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

nattousan

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

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power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

nattousan

thanks for the reminder, kid

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at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

#oh this is lovely

rainformation

formative years? aren’t they all?

absolutejamer

show me a permanent self and i will show you a facade or a corpse

userfish

this pride month we’re all going to be radically pro transgender. or else.

userfish

hey so this means radically pro ALL transgender. don’t put limitations on this. all trans people are radically accepted here.

maleksrami

fuck it. grass on my blog for touching

I finally was able to freely pet Lir’s tummy on Saturday. It’s taken a couple of years, but he trusts me a lot more.

Then, because I spent the night (saw Dessie’s school play), he chewed me out for about an hour when I came home.

I feel loved

#Lir #my cat

maeve-rose

If there's a lily in a pond and nothing else going on

That's a Monet

If there's a ballerina dance

In rennaissance France

That's a Degas

If you open you eyes wide

And someone stares from inside

That's a Tissot

what-even-is-thiss

Health classes really ought to teach people what the beginning stages of addiction are like because a lot of people don’t realize they’re addicted to something until they’re years deep into it.

spiribia

i wish you could tell cats your food is poison. he seems to think the issue is i've forgotten that he is my kind and loving friend. the issue is Hospital

nemertea

the front view has sort-of sad eyes and I want to hug her

protip: do not hug birds with seven-inch talons

stemmonade

Survival Fund for Autistic Black Trans Couple

Happy april (aka Autism Acceptance Month)! making a new post for the month, in the same situation as usual. we are getting married in a couple weeks which is awesome, and a really nice way to help us celebrate is by helping us stay afloat 🥹🥲 direct contributions help the absolute most bc funds are immediately available; my pay links and my wife's links are here, as are our shared patreon, ko-fi and our registry. reblogs (WITHOUT TAGS UNLESS FOR ACCESSIBILITY) as well as donations truly help us a lot.

stemmonade

4/15

$288.62/$1204 (14 days past due)

$56/$70 for groceries

i am fucking begging, PLEASE HELP US NOT BE HOMELESS 😭 the month is half over and we owe more per month and we arent even at halfway😰 i also still urgently need groceries and have been going hungry every day this goal isnt met. please. we are so close to being a bit more stable, we just need a little help.