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[angel-fruitcake]

i can handle one (1) Event™ per day. whether it be a phone call, an appointment, trip to the grocery store, play date with a friend, etc. only one, that's it. any more than that and i am Stressed

[brehaaorgana]

Too many artists are held back by outdated and bad color theory rules, or even rules that are fine but have built in limitations that you should know and I want to set everyone free.

[brehaaorgana]

Tertiary Red and Secondary Blue could be in your color theory understanding and make paint mixing way easier but they played you

[brehaaorgana]

Also hot takes:

Learning color theory through oil painting is more difficult than learning it through gouache & watercolor, primarily because it takes way more time to find mass tone and mix everything and also it's much less obvious to easily and quickly discern if a paint pigment is highly staining or transparent.

Oil painters like to seem like they have the richest and most storied traditions in color theory to past down but also inevitably they are the most likely to retain an extremely limited chroma palette based on classical palettes for the sake of classicism and not always make that fact very apparent to a beginner aside from saying it's an "old masters palette" watercolor/gouache painters are bad at using paints that are not light-fast and clinging to them despite having better alternatives, but generally still understand chroma gamuts and pigment importance better or at least talk about them more.

When you're mixing paints, the earth colors (browns) don't need to handled and thought of as brown. Ask yourself if the brown is yellow, orange, red, or leaning towards a black (which would be treated as a violet or blue, depending on whether black is warmer or cooler).

Yes there are cool reds and warm blues

Any reference color wheel that places red on the very top hurts my feelings, stop doing this just because you learned "roygbiv". Yellow is at the top and the Indigo-Blue range is on the bottom because this also means the color with the lightest possible value is opposite the color with the darkest possible value, so you have the colors arranged with a value scale from top to bottom BUILT IN.

this is related to why ivory black is actually very dark blue.

[brehaaorgana]

@rizahawkeyesmuscles

This makes me think makeup artists have good color theory, having to understand undertones of skin, warm v neutral v cool toned red lipstick....

Yes!!! I mean first of all, makeup artists are artists.

and they are ALSO ultimately just blending pigments to produce certain colors and effects, so yeah professionally do study the basics of color theory and then necessarily have to adapt it to their medium. And they tend to generally add like, what you talked about with recognizing cool/warm/olive/neutral undertones and such as a big consideration to their canvas.

And that IS why people will say "this is a cooler red lipstick" (although even cooler than that would be magenta or fuschia!).

I think the only thing I've noticed wrt to honestly mostly beauty influencers and not actual professional MUAs is that too many people buy an eyeshadow palette of cool tones in the palette and then put it on and complain it pulls "too warm for their cool skin." And it "isn't actually a true cool tone palette."

I just want to grab all these people by the face and say:

"Shhhhhh. Color temperature is relative. Although you have cool skin undertones, you ALSO have blood under your skin which will inherently make your base skin-canvas slightly warm no matter your foundation shade. So when you put any kind of pigment that isn't fully opaque onto your skin, the transparency WILL be warmed by your skin because you're alive and have blood still. The eyeshadow palette IS a cool palette. You're just not a vampire, which is why that cool taupe shade suddenly looks different from the mass tone in the palette."

These influencers would understand this better if they did some watercolor painting on pre-tintedpaper and then compared it to painting on pure white.

But a MUA probably already figured this out yeah.

[brehaaorgana]

In case anyone is curious here are my top color recommendations

Handprint.com is hands down the most comprehensive scientific explanation of how different color wheels or palette choices work. It's big and dense and exceptionally thorough. I skim frequently and find myself always learning more. https://handprint.com/HP/WCL/water.html everything is done using watercolors as a reference point but a LOT of this translates to other mediums. For the record his CIECAM color wheel is what I consider to be the best (not 3 dimensional) color wheel for artists. Period.

He uses pigment numbers for some of the most common watercolors rather than specific paint brands or color names to place the pigments. It's also a case study in why yellow being at the top is the best because it also means you have a value scale from top to bottom (since black paints are just dark violets or blues, ultimately.)

When you look at this, you can start realizing more and more why the earth colors can be used as if they were like, straight red, or yellow, or orange. Like if you wanted to make a limited palette, you could use "burnt sienna" as your dark yellow (which will make the whole palette lean orange!) Or it could be your orange or you could use burnt sienna as your red. (Look at gamut masking links below)

Seriously it's good to try and swatch your medium (even really quickly!) Within a CIECAM Artist's color wheel. Below are two of my attempts:

From loose memory and then mapping pigments roughly.

He also discusses the difference between visual complements and mixing complements!

Anyways absolutely try to read bits and pieces. The whole site is amazing. Handprint is amazing.

Also:

https://gurneyjourney.blogspot.com and James Gurney's book: Color and Light: a guide for the realist painter. James Gurney is the dinotopia guy. That book is also amazing for painting fantasy with lots of fantastical examples. Here are two short videos on gamut mapping and gamut masking. Accompanying blog posts.

No surprises here! His book also charts pigments:

Actually these are my four favorite books hands down:

Color and Light: a Guide for the realist painter - James Gurney

Color for Painters: a guide to traditions & practice - Al Gury

The oil painters color handbook - Todd m casey

Artist's master series: Color & light - 3d total publishing. This one emphasizes digital!

The first two have been out for awhile now and you can more easily find them cheaper/used online than the latter two which are relatively newer and hefty hardbacks.

Also, from personal experience: al gury is a sweetheart angel who is a huge crazy cat man. I adore him, he's so kind and helpful. I think it's a little late to join the current session (although they did only start Jan 28, so you can always ask! Class videos are recorded), BUT he frequently offers a class on color that is fully online through PAFA continuing education, as well as other classes. I haven't taken it yet, but I HAVE taken other classes online with Al and he's really great.

Oh also online gamut masking tools:

In krita: https://docs.krita.org/en/user_manual/gamut_masks.html

https://claudiamatosa.com/resources/gamut-masking simple tool

https://mypaintingclub.com/blog/post/39-The-Gamut-Mask-Tool another tool with more complexity

The tl;Dr of a gamut mask is to show you the full range of possible colors you can mix within a given palette (choices of colors/pigments).

[trixter-god]

Turn the boys to girls and Trix to a man, are the twins still twins or just born form to different wombs at same time. Also would Jamie still be a void baby.

Well I mean yeah. That would be the way to do things. The twins probably wouldn’t be twins though. I don’t really know if Logan would have kids (again) even if it was Trix’s baby. So the “twins” are probably both from Brooke (Bruce). Or because the twins are technically oops babies I guess Logan would have one and that qualifies as the oops.

Unless you switch who are considered the void kids because Jamie is the void baby because he is B+L’s baby without having to explain HOW he is the boy’s son. (Obviously the answer is M-preg. I’m kidding….. or am I?) So technically we could switch it where the twins are from Trix so they just kinda exist because of wibbly wobbly timey wimey dimensions reasons.

Then Jamie can be the normal kid and if Jamie is the normal kid then she (because gender swap) would be the oops baby and that means Logan had her.

(Can you tell I have actually been thinking about this lmao)

Genderbent names I have thought of while making this post

Trix is still Trix BUT Star would be Sky now

Logan is Logan don’t need to change that.

Bruce is Brooklyn/Brooke

Aurora is Rory because she’s named after grandpa

Johanna is Joey? 🤷‍♀️

Jamie is still Jamie.

Richard is Rachel

Jason is Jadon

Timothy is Tiffany

Cassandra is Cassius (so Cass)

Stephanie is Stephan

Laura is Lawrence? 🤷‍♀️

Duke is Dula or Duchess? 🤷‍♀️

Damian is Damari? 🤷‍♀️

Idk man ya’ll are smarter than me.

[shinelumiere]

Finally got decent sunlight today to see if my new @jemandcozy sun catcher gets enough sun and I couldn’t find both rainbows. Definitely getting enough sun, but more overlap between the two than expected 😆. Found my missing sheet of sailor moon stickers I’d put ‘in a safe spot’ years ago, it’s a good day 🌈💜🎉 https://www.instagram.com/p/CqX5ACgOYm3/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shinelumiere]

The evolution of cat trap 2.0 #patches #catsofinstagram #windowkitty https://www.instagram.com/p/CpkeE4QuNym/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[les8ean]

i miss when microtransactions weren’t in basically every video game I miss when day 1 patches weren’t something people just expected from video games i miss when games console weren’t all constantly online i miss when games had to be decently polished before being released i miss when games weren’t all $60+ I miss when AAA game studios would spend years on a game to get it right, instead of overworking their dev teams to the point of self-destruction

[les8ean]

i miss when games put more importance in gameplay, story, character design, and didn’t put all their money into life-like graphics that are gonna set everything but top-end pcs on fire

[les8ean]

[shinelumiere]

Stonehenge magnet kit I got as a souvenir from a friend last year 💜 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn2UiuVOj38/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shinelumiere]

Bubbles! https://www.instagram.com/p/CnLGZUcOprJ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shinelumiere]

Pillow sets made for my siblings and their spouses and my parents. Stitched on 14 count Aida in various colors. Floss used is DMC Etoile Patterns from the DMC free patterns section on their site. #crossstitch #crossstitchersofinstagram #dmc #dmcetoile #sparkle #stars #baubles https://www.instagram.com/p/Cmukx3NulbU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[images-that-are-only-blessed]

[phillipfancypants]

Also: while we’re doing checkpoints, make sure you’re on WiFi and not data

[cantsleeplogan-deactivated20200]

And unclench your jaw

[my-writer-jus-hates-the-clock]

If you need to use the bathroom you have to do that now

[immrbrightsideeee]

Please get that drink of water and remember your meds

[luxwing]

If you can’t remember the last time you showered/brushed your teeth here’s your sign to try and do those today

[61below]

MEAL TIME!

[shinelumiere]

Hummingbird 🎉 Stitched on 14 count white Aida using strands for cross stitch and 2-4 for backstitching. I really should invest in some sewing clips if I’m going to continue making pillows of my stitching 😄 #crossstitch #crossstitchersofinstagram #crossstitching #crossstitcher #hummingbird #nature #😄 https://www.instagram.com/p/Clj9QjCukgY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[anderswasrightt]

don't use "ftm" it's outdated and offensive. it implies that the trans person was their agab, which we never were. i was always a boy, never a girl who became a boy.

i'm 35 years old. i've been IDing as trans or something similar to trans for nearly 20 years. i was probably calling myself FTM while you were playing tag during recess, anon.

i WAS a girl. i IDed as a girl early in my life. i recognized myself as a girl, called myself a girl, lived as a girl, and was a girl. who then IDed as a man. hence, F t M.

spend more time worrying about yourself instead of strangers on the internet, anon.

sorry not sorry if this comes off as needlessly hostile, but i've been getting a lot of shit from a lot of teenage trans kids about the language i use to describe my own goddamn experience, and i'm growing real fuckin weary of it.

i have elder trans friends who call themselves transsexuals and transvestites and trannies. are you going to seriously go to a 60-year-old trans person who survived the reagan years and tell her she's not allowed to use certain language to describe herself because it might offend the delicate sensibilities of some teenager on the internet?

do yourself a favor and log off, find some real-life trans people who are over the age of 20 or 25, and spend time talking to them instead of getting all holier-than-thou at random strangers on tumblr.

[anderswasrightt]

“Transgendered people are demanding the right to choose our own self-definitions. The language used in this pamphlet may quickly become outdated as the gender community coalesces and organizes—a wonderful problem.” - Leslie Feinberg

So yeah, anon, "FtM" may be a slightly older term from the 2010's and earlier, and you may not identify with it, but as Leslie Feinberg said, we are choosing our own self-definitions. That includes the outdated or unpopular self-definitions.

And besides, why wouldn't you want a plethora of terms to be able to choose from to describe yourself? So many of us grew up without even recognizing we were trans because we didn't have the language to describe what we were feeling, and now that we do, you'd take those words away simply because YOU don't identify with them? You'd further limit how your community describes itself and identifies, as if we haven't already dealt with enough suppression of identity?

Nah.

[aquilacalvitium]

Okay fuck it if this post reaches 666k notes by the end of 2023 I'll practise basic self care

Why 666k? Because it's funny and impossible so good fucking luck

[lizluvscupcakes]

Well, OP, I’m officially invested in this shit. Your whiny ass is doing self care if I have to drive to your goddamn house and do it for you.

[aquilacalvitium]

By Talos this can't be happening

[oysters-aint-for-me]

reblog this everyone i wanna see what happens when op’s reverse-hubris forces them to practice basic self care.

why? because it’s funny and completely possible actually so good fucking luck op

[gothichorrorshow]

Reminders:

Take a moment to take a deep breath in, hold, and breath out. Do this a couple of times if you wish.

Sip some water. Yes, even if you recently had some.

Stretch!! Don't let those muscles and joints get too stiff.

Are you hungry? If yes, eat some food. Even if it's just something small.

What time is it? If it is Too Late, go to sleep. Even if at this point you'll only get a couple hours of sleep. Some sleep is better than none.

If you want, you are always welcome to ask me for cute pet rat photos to cheer you up :) If rats aren't your cup of tea I recommend other cute pets or other wholesome content

[the-haiku-bot]

Are you hungry? If

yes, eat some food. Even if

it’s just something small.

Beep boop! I look for accidental haiku posts. Sometimes I mess up.

[datasoong47]

Even haikubot’s getting involved!

Also, holy crap it’s up to 382k already! We’re gonna get you some self-care, buddy!

[shinelumiere]

You do not understand the level of joy this brings me and how much I really want to go back and get several more to put on other parts of my windows ❤️🧡💛💚💙💜💜💜 It shows through whether my curtains are open or closed 🎉 #rainbow #💙 #💚 #💛 #🧡 #❤️ #💜 #💜❤️💙💚💛🧡 #🌈 #ineedmore #🎉 https://www.instagram.com/p/Cj0SpoQuKjV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shinelumiere]

Pair of cute Christmas border hand towels. Stitched on cream/ecru color towels in DMC cotton floss with DMC Diamant metallics for outlines and accents. Pattern pulled from a 1990 magazine issue and adjusted for fit and style. Filled in the trees with a lighter shade of green and added outline. #crossstitch #crossstitchersofinstagram #crossstitching #christmas #fingertiptowels #silverandgold #bitofsparkle https://www.instagram.com/p/ChYcDISuxhV/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shinelumiere]

Full moon cross made for my father for Father’s Day. Shown in daylight, low light and no light. Backlit doesn’t show in daylight. Stitched on 18 count galaxy print Aida from - @easystitchforfun https://www.etsy.com/listing/790317868/dyed-aida-effect-galaxy-cross-stitch?ref=yr_purchases Pattern is from the @dmc_embroidery pattern library - https://www.dmc.com/us/full-moon--pattern-9006048.html Frame is from @michaelsstores - https://www.michaels.com/black-float-shadow-box-by-studio-decor/10683586.html #crossstitch #crossstitchersofinstagram #space #galaxy #moon #fullmoon #diybacklight #🌕 #🌌 #itturnedoutsopretty #thrilledtopieces https://www.instagram.com/p/CgyJKcouPGm/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[shinelumiere]

Sometimes you’re stitching along in a groove and then you flip the piece over to tie off your floss end and you’re greeted with a little chorus line or something 😆 #crossstitch #crossstitchersofinstagram #longdogsamplers #funtimes https://www.instagram.com/p/CfLXa97OF1F/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=