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sawed-on-shotgun

the human body when you use it and exist in it

burgerdotcom

reblogs were off

segamascott

trump dies of congestive heart failure before being sworn in charge to like cast to reblog

catlips001

FUCK. honestly just FUCK. We missed a very important day yesterday.

battebitch-deactivated20200410

what was yesterday, cat?

catlips001

I’m not missing it this year.

neonstatic

[ID: Screenshot of a Youtube video titled Raccoon Birthday Party. The video is filmed with an old camera in low, grainy quality, and shows a raccoon in a powder blue party hat and a matching shirt sitting at a table. It has a paw on the flower-printed tablecloth. There appears to be a brown food in front of the raccoo, like a cake. On the right corner of the video, the video is dated, “PM: 6:04, MAY 25 1997.” END ID ]

guerrillatech

esoanem

This is a map of the range of all giraffe species. By my count that puts them in just 16 countries out of the 54 in Africa (of which 5 are island countries with no territory on the continental mainland). That's 30%, quite a long way shy of all, and as you can see many of those countries that do have giraffes only have a tiny portion of their territory within giraffes' habitats

datasoong47

Wow, I knew they weren't in "every African country", but I didn't realize just how restricted their range was

blacktabris

Good teachers don't mind saying "I don't know" or that they need to look it up and will get back to you.

thegreenpea

Not only that but giraffes in different areas have different patterns and it's so cool

wakandamama

Masai giraffes look cool af

uzumaki-rebellion

The Masai giraffes are stuntin’ on the heauxs!

sepiaseraph-deactivated20221120

Masai Giraffe:

Reticulated Giraffe:

rattle-my-stars

classycookiexo

capricorn-born

Oddly specific. Got a deposit for 6,837 today

weaselle

fuck it, i never ever do those “reblog for X, this one really works!” posts, but this one doesn’t have any of that BS, this is just straight up wishing us good things; and then the comment doesn’t even say any of that either. Zero claims on this post, all positive vibes

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

vmohlere

May you end this week feeling ever more certain of a future you’ll love

buried-in-stardust

Demonstrating some wushu skills

[eng by me]

transmortifried

northisnotup

thelaughingpanda

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GX3Z8qG7AKo

were--ralph

if this gets 50,000 notes before midnight cst today (9/20/23) ends i'll tell my final crush my thoughts and then i can get on with my life

were--ralph

this is fun for me to watch because its literally not possible to do in 10 hours but people will try anyway

were--ralph

3.5 hours and i win again

spicyblogger2

My little sister's new boyfriend got a tattoo for her about a month ago and he wanted matching tattoos so he decided to get uh. The tattoo on her ankle of her ex boyfriend's name that she hasn't gotten covered up yet

spicyblogger2

She broke up with him but I also just got the same tattoo

spicyblogger2

OK my dad also got it

spicyblogger2

DYLAN!

spicyblogger2

It took five months but we finally convinced my stepmom to also get it

spicyblogger2

My fucking manager got it

eternalcyclicality

official-lucifers-child

Wiggle

c4pyb4ra

it did not work, but i can help

big wiggle

bonersniper

might-be-somebody

the only super long Tumblr post I love

zizicat

laterovaries-deactivated2017022

This will always be my favorite gifset. Ever.

onceuponamirror

im morally obligated to reblog this every time i see it

I remembered that I actually have an art tumblr instead of just lurking for like the last 5? Years 😬

#art #artwork #hare #harepainting #painting #tiktok #realism #paintingonwood #irememberedihaveanarttumblr #backposting #animal painting #painting on wood #acrylic painting #hare painting #spaces work on here right?#realism painting

imagine-darksiders

This is still my favourite picrew maker

krystaldalesart

Love doing these little things, earrings were the closest to my actual regal rose ones with coffins and little skelly men in them 💜

pocketss

Happy Halloween!! Eat lots of candy and stuff!!!

dovewithscales

I love Tumblr’s holiday traditions.

dzamie

‘tis the season, time to reblog pocketss halloween flight rising comic

lord-momonga

*September 1st on Tumblr*

lord-momonga

You can only reblog this once a year

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!

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