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moles + worms + shrew

#I think this painting has about 3 days of work in it at this point #i love her a lot and my brain is TIRED #art #artists on tumblr #abstract #oil painting #abstract artists #blue #ocean #nature #calm art #calm #calm painting #gif #painting gif #art gif

titsay

quietly, bravely

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I haven’t been posting much anywhere because I’ve been working on the same painting for months and I know you’ll be tired of it by the time it actually becomes available 😅 I am alive and on medication now, so actually more alive than I used to be 👀😁🥰

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not done yet… but still on the wall

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pastels

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I’m still going 💪

25 hours now 💙🦋

Pick up some trash the next time you’re out 🌎🍃the spring will be even MORE beautiful when it comes

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possessedpasm

Something I try to keep in mind when making art that looks vintage is keeping a limited color pallette. Digital art gives you a very wide, Crisp scope of colors, whereas traditional art-- especially older traditional art-- had a very limited and sometimes dulled use of color.

This is a modern riso ink swatch, but still you find a similar and limited selection of colors to mix with. (Mixing digitally as to emulate the layering of ink riso would be coloring on Multiply, and layering on top of eachother 👉)

If you find some old prints, take a closer look and see if you can tell what colors they used and which ones they layered... a lot of the time you'll find yellow as a base!

Misprints can really reveal what colors were used and where, I love misprints...

Something else I keep in the back of my mind is: how the human eye perceives color on paper vs. a screen. Ink and paint soaks into paper, it bleeds, stains, fades over time, smears, ect... the history of a piece can show in physical wear. What kind of history do you want to emulate? Misprinted? Stained? Kept as clean as possible, but unable to escape the bluing damages of the sun? It's one of my favorite things about making vintage art. Making it imperfect!

You can see the bleed, the wobble of the lines on the rug, the fading, the dirt... beautiful!!

Thinking in terms of traditional-method art while drawing digital can help open avenues to achieving that genuine, vintage look!

possessedpasm

ALSO!!

YELLOWING!! Digital art is very blue-light based. Cold, clean, flat. But traditional art has warmth to it. Why?

Over time, paper gets yellowed with dust, oil, dirt, and nicotine from cigarettes! So colors got warmer. This makes art look pretty aged, on top of the slight toned papers and hand made/factory made inks they printed with.