No Holds Barred Creativity

art for play, art for joy, art for calm, art for learning. two friends, one blog.

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Tombow!

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Drawing practice. Head is too narrow but the rest I’m happy with.

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Another run at the cargo ship in Astoria.

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Something I've been playing with. I now have a sketchbook that is just for color testing and mixing.

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How I pratice drawing things, now in a tutorial form. The shrimp photo I used is here Show me your shrimps if you do this uvu  PS: lots of engrish because foreign 

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This is the best art advice ever and you should all listen to it because it’s basically what I’ve been telling people for years.

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i was not expecting that to actually work

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THIS.

[astolat]

This feels like one of those pieces of advice that are so brilliant that as soon as you have read it, it feels blindingly obvious. 

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Visited Astoria yesterday. This was my view out the window from Buoy Brewing. Great food there, great view. Gorgeous light. This paper doesn't take a wash very well, but I like how it turned out anyways. 3.5 x 5 landscape handbook sketchbook.

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Good morning little bird.

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#yule #christmas #pagan #art #watercolor #holly #mistletoe #art frisbee #mg

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On retreat I found a flicker feather,a purple maple seed, and cedars everywhere 🙂 #art #nature #watercolor #feather #mg

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Seems even more relevant today, somehow.

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Proof of concept for a thing I'm working on.

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Little mini sketches with watercolor I’ve been playing with. I used masking fluid for the first time for most of the spots on the mushrooms. Some wet in wet, some glazing. Trying to understand dilution and intensity.

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Sketch. I think this has too much detail, and I can see my proportions are off, as well as the perspective tilts. A slight tilt back would have been fine… But I love it anyways, it’s iconic and recognizable.

The building I was standing against across the street has been turned into a Scientology recruitment center, which is hilarious because there was some crazyeye with a litter-ature table acting as a greeter who was greeting everybody with cartoonish cheeriness, Tom Cruise style. I got the giggles.

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I really love this sort of quick architectural sketching, but it’s difficult to get started, because I have a lot of fear around it looking stupid. I’m not sure why. I like how this turned out. It took less than 10 minutes.

Fountain pen, Sailor ink in Shigure, plain water wash.

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Playing with watercolor washes, trying to learn how water moves on paper and how the color blends.

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Moar birbs. Top watercolor pencil, bottom wc