Maygun
@messybeestudio.bsky.social
Trying to be a mama like Marmee.
Illustrator, art teacher, folk music nut.
www.messybeestudio.com
Illustrator, art teacher, folk music nut.
www.messybeestudio.com
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Fun little poster I just finished for the local art market drawn using Procreate. I was trying to go for a victorian postcard vibe.
#illustration #art #antiAI #procreateartist #brunswickartmarket #frederickmd #digitalillustraton #buylocal
#illustration #art #antiAI #procreateartist #brunswickartmarket #frederickmd #digitalillustraton #buylocal
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hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times?
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
be your own algorithm
YouTube video by pagemelt
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July 6, 2025 at 1:04 PM
hi! 😃 i couldn't help but notice that scrolling is sapping your will to live! may i offer u a video essay in these trying times?
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
youtu.be/Bdj14_jdumI
And sometimes I feel like modern innovations have severely squashed the human soul- our ability to create for creation’s sake. But then some continue to create these amazing machines and computers that can calculate complex, huge equations, with significantly less energy and time input than humans.
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
And sometimes I feel like modern innovations have severely squashed the human soul- our ability to create for creation’s sake. But then some continue to create these amazing machines and computers that can calculate complex, huge equations, with significantly less energy and time input than humans.
Wonder is why art and literature, music, acting, theoretical mathematics/sciences, and why religion exists. And it’s why LLMs exist.
November 13, 2025 at 3:42 AM
Wonder is why art and literature, music, acting, theoretical mathematics/sciences, and why religion exists. And it’s why LLMs exist.
Not everyone agrees with that, but it makes sense to me. If I have none of something, without the ability to recall the past or project into the future, it doesn’t exist to me. So 0 doesn’t exist. Apes may also have the ability to recall, but do they project?
November 13, 2025 at 3:34 AM
Not everyone agrees with that, but it makes sense to me. If I have none of something, without the ability to recall the past or project into the future, it doesn’t exist to me. So 0 doesn’t exist. Apes may also have the ability to recall, but do they project?
And there is still infinite wonder to behold and discover. It’s why 0 is both a real and imaginary number.
November 13, 2025 at 3:30 AM
And there is still infinite wonder to behold and discover. It’s why 0 is both a real and imaginary number.
Wonder is what makes us human. People say it’s art, or writing, or the ability to plan for the future that separates us from other animals, but I think humanity started with the ability to wonder.
November 13, 2025 at 3:27 AM
Wonder is what makes us human. People say it’s art, or writing, or the ability to plan for the future that separates us from other animals, but I think humanity started with the ability to wonder.
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Painting Tip of the Day:
Having trouble with edges - soft vs hard, lost vs found? Try these basics first. 1) Soften edges that turn into shadow. 2) Lose edges at the peaks of highlights. 3) Soften edges anytime an edge passes behind another. 4) Soften any edges that go off the frame of reference.
Having trouble with edges - soft vs hard, lost vs found? Try these basics first. 1) Soften edges that turn into shadow. 2) Lose edges at the peaks of highlights. 3) Soften edges anytime an edge passes behind another. 4) Soften any edges that go off the frame of reference.
February 9, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Painting Tip of the Day:
Having trouble with edges - soft vs hard, lost vs found? Try these basics first. 1) Soften edges that turn into shadow. 2) Lose edges at the peaks of highlights. 3) Soften edges anytime an edge passes behind another. 4) Soften any edges that go off the frame of reference.
Having trouble with edges - soft vs hard, lost vs found? Try these basics first. 1) Soften edges that turn into shadow. 2) Lose edges at the peaks of highlights. 3) Soften edges anytime an edge passes behind another. 4) Soften any edges that go off the frame of reference.
Another set that turned out pretty cute. This set I hand delivered to the buyer at a metro station in DC because it was so close to Christmas and I wasn’t sure it would arrive on time! #originalart #art #handmade #guitar #artists #acrylic #acrylicpaint #familyportrait #buylocal
November 12, 2025 at 2:18 AM
Another set that turned out pretty cute. This set I hand delivered to the buyer at a metro station in DC because it was so close to Christmas and I wasn’t sure it would arrive on time! #originalart #art #handmade #guitar #artists #acrylic #acrylicpaint #familyportrait #buylocal
A looong time ago I used to paint custom family portrait nesting dolls. I have a few blanks left, I’m considering painting them again, if there is interest. This set probably took me 50 hours altogether. 🫠 #acrylicpainting #art #artists #handmade #family #knitting #petportraits
November 12, 2025 at 2:13 AM
A looong time ago I used to paint custom family portrait nesting dolls. I have a few blanks left, I’m considering painting them again, if there is interest. This set probably took me 50 hours altogether. 🫠 #acrylicpainting #art #artists #handmade #family #knitting #petportraits
Fun little poster I just finished for the local art market drawn using Procreate. I was trying to go for a victorian postcard vibe.
#illustration #art #antiAI #procreateartist #brunswickartmarket #frederickmd #digitalillustraton #buylocal
#illustration #art #antiAI #procreateartist #brunswickartmarket #frederickmd #digitalillustraton #buylocal
November 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
Fun little poster I just finished for the local art market drawn using Procreate. I was trying to go for a victorian postcard vibe.
#illustration #art #antiAI #procreateartist #brunswickartmarket #frederickmd #digitalillustraton #buylocal
#illustration #art #antiAI #procreateartist #brunswickartmarket #frederickmd #digitalillustraton #buylocal
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1000 times this. It's the worst when writers or illustrators or filmmakers apply that to their own works. So fucking degrading.
No other word has done more damage to the craft of writing in recent years than “content”. Even if you’re using the word “content” ironically, or as a cute little joke, don’t. When someone calls writing “content” they’re pissing on someone’s hard work & passion. “Content” is Technosatan’s henchword.
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
1000 times this. It's the worst when writers or illustrators or filmmakers apply that to their own works. So fucking degrading.
Honestly, good. Let the premiums sky rocket. Expose the absurd greed of the insurance industry. Expose the callous disregard for human life and health by those in power. If this is what they want, let them have it. The ACA was a bandaid, not a fix, at some point it needs to be ripped off.
Oh wow. Who could've ever seen this coming?
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
"Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies"
abcnews.go.com/Politics/liv...
Speaker Johnson won't guarantee vote in House on ACA subsidies
abcnews.go.com
November 11, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Honestly, good. Let the premiums sky rocket. Expose the absurd greed of the insurance industry. Expose the callous disregard for human life and health by those in power. If this is what they want, let them have it. The ACA was a bandaid, not a fix, at some point it needs to be ripped off.
For good measure, some traditional art, a painting I made for my dad. A small copy of Christ Pantocrator. Acrylic on dollar store wooden panel. Not ideal, but worked after much sanding and many coats of gesso.
#orthodoxiconography #painting #art #acrylicpainting #religiousart
#orthodoxiconography #painting #art #acrylicpainting #religiousart
November 11, 2025 at 2:41 AM
For good measure, some traditional art, a painting I made for my dad. A small copy of Christ Pantocrator. Acrylic on dollar store wooden panel. Not ideal, but worked after much sanding and many coats of gesso.
#orthodoxiconography #painting #art #acrylicpainting #religiousart
#orthodoxiconography #painting #art #acrylicpainting #religiousart
I know this is from a year ago, but OF COURSE WE ARE against new data centers. We don’t need more data centers. We don’t need AI.
Loudon county just had a land sell for a new data center where the land sold for over 6 million PER ACRE.
Loudon county just had a land sell for a new data center where the land sold for over 6 million PER ACRE.
If stop MPRP folks are also against new data centers I would love to know.
November 9, 2025 at 2:06 PM
I know this is from a year ago, but OF COURSE WE ARE against new data centers. We don’t need more data centers. We don’t need AI.
Loudon county just had a land sell for a new data center where the land sold for over 6 million PER ACRE.
Loudon county just had a land sell for a new data center where the land sold for over 6 million PER ACRE.
Trying to attract the right type of buyers for the house a couple doors down.
November 9, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Trying to attract the right type of buyers for the house a couple doors down.
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This is the energy we will need!!
December 3, 2024 at 9:02 PM
This is the energy we will need!!
Do we actually care about a living wages and safe working conditions? If so, why do we support the use of #undocumented workers in order to fill #labor shortages in fields that are low paying and dangerous, like farming and construction?
November 28, 2024 at 5:18 AM
Do we actually care about a living wages and safe working conditions? If so, why do we support the use of #undocumented workers in order to fill #labor shortages in fields that are low paying and dangerous, like farming and construction?
November 26, 2024 at 11:12 AM
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Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
November 25, 2024 at 5:25 AM
Before & After: I don’t think people realize the extent to which parked cars degrade public space.
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where I ought to be;
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
'Tis the gift to come down where I ought to be;
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
November 26, 2024 at 10:49 AM
'Tis the gift to be simple, 'tis the gift to be free,
'Tis the gift to come down where I ought to be;
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
'Tis the gift to come down where I ought to be;
And when we find ourselves in the place just right,
'Twill be in the valley of love and delight.
Live like it’s wartime, because it is, and self-imposed austerity is the only way we can get out of the mess we’ve created.
November 26, 2024 at 10:44 AM
Live like it’s wartime, because it is, and self-imposed austerity is the only way we can get out of the mess we’ve created.
We can’t deforest our way to sustainability and health. From about the 70s to about 2005 Americans largely stopped using lard and butter because “science” (the corn and soy industry) told us hydrogenated vegetable oils were a healthier alternative.
November 26, 2024 at 10:26 AM
We can’t deforest our way to sustainability and health. From about the 70s to about 2005 Americans largely stopped using lard and butter because “science” (the corn and soy industry) told us hydrogenated vegetable oils were a healthier alternative.