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[nattosoup]

It's done! It took longer than I expected, but the #Lilliputian #farmersmarket turned out really cute! I love going to the farmers market- especially the Wednesday one at Lafrenier Park. From young plants to fresh veggies to crafts, there's always a lot to see. I wanted to capture a little of that here.

[kelly-clickspring]

Some cute little art I made for @nattosoup awhile back. They had posted some pics of anole lizards and I thought they were adorable, so lizard rodeo because why not?

[afterhoursanimationschool]

The Cause of Many A Muddy Water-Optical Brighteners and Watercolor

Art tutorials, supply reviews, and convention recaps for comic artists.

An article where Becca breaks down what optical brighteners are, and why student grade watercolors don’t dry as brightly as they should.

[7inchkara]

Chapter 3, Page 10

[heidiblack]

What are you doing this #weekend ? Because you should come and check out #nattosoup and I at #ape #alternativepressexpo in the #sanjose #conventioncenter #southhall #artistalley #art #heidiblack (at San Jose Convention Center)

[nattosoup]

Watch "Easy Christmas Ornaments Watercolor Stashbuster Bookmark Tutorial" on YouTube

Relax this evening and paint with me! This Stashbuster watercolor tutorial utilizes wet into wet blending, masking fluid, and layering to create brilliant baubles. I demonstrate on a bookmark, but this would make a great greeting card or gift tag!

[nattosoup]

I've been working in comic pages again, and I wanted to share a few of them. 7" Kara is a watercolor comic about a Lilliputian girl discovering a huge secret and exploring the wider world. I went on hiatus after Kickstarting Volume 2 due to major life events and mental health issues, but I'm working on getting back into a comic making schedule.

These are kinda crap drafting table photos, but I'm scanning as I go, and plan on resuming online updates once Chapter 9 is completed and lettered.

[nattosoup]

It's been about a year since I painted this, but I still really like the illo. I'm not much for like, creating art that represents something immediate in my life, but this was an exception for me.

The area I live in was hit hard by Hurricane Ida. I had evacuated to my mom's house, same parish (think county but Louisiana) because she had a generator. The storm was like being in a washing machine full of rocks and scouring winds for 10 hours, the aftermath was worse.

I couldn't move into the home my husband and I had just signed on, because A: all our stuff was at the rental in Norco, and Norco flooded, and B: most of St Charles Parish didn't have electricity. Our new home didn't get power for a month.

I had a lot of weird time on my hands. No TV, no internet, spotty cell. We spent a lot of time cutting down the downed trees in my mom's yard. One day, we went out to find gas, and while we were gone, my brother and his friend butchered my mom's apple tree.

Although they did a hack job, tearing up half this poor tree and scarring the rest up with chainsaw marks (they were literally just fooling around and playing with a chainsaw, when gas was hard to find), about a week later, this apple tree, first hit by 180mph winds and then by two fools, was putting out all these new buds everywhere it'd been cut.

I really connected with this proof that no matter how badly we are knocked down, there is still hope and rebirth. So I spent some of that weird waiting time drawing and painting this.