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4h35m.bsky.social
@4h35m.bsky.social
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Come for the art, stay for the nudes. Look back in to see where ADHD has led me in home renovation.
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Tiny sketch that I'm going to completely ignore when actually painting things, probably. The gist will be there.
A tiny sketch of the possible background for a painting, displaying art deco willows a sketchy little figure and sketchy plants in the foreground. Nothing is working... exactly, but I'm trying. #sketch
February 7, 2026 at 7:42 PM
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Trying to figure out ideas and nothing is working. Nothing I say!
February 7, 2026 at 6:55 PM
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I will never finish this painting. I've come to terms with that. But I will also never paint over it because I love the idea of it.
January 13, 2026 at 1:19 AM
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Again, sometimes I wander the wastes and find pretty things.
Field penny-cress? I don't know, I just know it looked neat in the light. In 2026 be a dandelion. Impossible to kill, incredibly useful for those who understand you, made of dreams, sunshine, and spite. One can't forget the spite, let them think they defeated you, and destroy their perfect lawn you gorgeous fucker bwuahaha! Sorry, ahem. Intrusive thoughts.
December 31, 2025 at 6:12 AM
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Sparkles and colorshift. If anybody wants to know the colors they're "Am I Everything You Feared" and "Forbidden Fruit" from Mooncat
December 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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Slowly but surely, making progress with my @missmonster.bsky.social monster paw. It was definitely worth the wait.
A sparkly little claw. Another sparkly little claw, the blue went away because I shifted more to the purple/green color shift, but definitely keeping the green velvet cats eye effect. Yes, that is indeed a headphone case. I had to keep it from smudging. Spots and sparkles and little pliers.
December 30, 2025 at 1:53 AM
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The irony. So here I am. Pulling out my keys to shut off my alarm, & realizing that while I have the Oar of Charon hanging from my keys, I have also been driving around with my father's ashes in my car. I have been ferrying the dead around.
The Oar of Charon keychain, bought it from an artist over on Etsy, (yes it was based on Hades, because I love that game, and Greek myth, and the dynamic of Charon/Hermes) bought the Hermes staff too, but Hermes broke and I haven't repaired him. So yeah, Oar of Charon and I'm shuttling my father's ashes around, because no I'm not about to let him in my house. Dead he might be, but he's not getting a toe over the threshold. Didn't have servant of Charon on my 2025 bingo card, but I guess these things happen, so I'm gonna keep ferrying him around.
December 16, 2025 at 9:34 PM
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Aha, I love it's little face.
It's an insect. One of those wasps that lays it's eggs in poor unsuspecting bugs. It's 11:40 pm, I'm not googling it. It's gorgeous, black and white with bright orange legs and white bands toward the ends of its antenna. The white slices by the eyes that makes it look like a squeeze toy just tickles me though.
November 12, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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It's November and I still have a Good-news Bee/Hover fly around.
A Good-news Bee, or yellow hover fly (let's be honest they're much cuter as Good-news Bees) shot from directly above, resting on an old wooden porch slat.
November 7, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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Scrolling through a folder for inspiration: Oh that's a really pretty photo, why does it look familiar? I took it in the Hoh Rainforest last year, that's why.
A snap from the Hoh Rainforest. Trees covered in moss, everything has moss on it really.
October 15, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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Sometimes, I wander the wastes and find pretty things.
The bright yellow blooms of the Tickseed Sunflower, or so Google tells me. Things are almost as tall as I am, does that make me a short king? Anyways, bright yellow flowers, living in their happy little marsh.
October 11, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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A speed paint in oils of a friend's horse, Peanut(he was blind in one eye) from 2011.
A speed paint, in oils, of a horse named Peanut. He was a gorgeous brown chestnut, with a white spot on his forehead and mane. He was also blind in one eye, and I painted him as such. Giving a flat impressionist background. He was very friendly. The painting was done a month before I was involved in a car accident, and I didn't paint for a full year afterwards. I wasn't physically injured, but I'm pretty sure that having my head go from upright to in the passenger seat was not helpful. Anyway, I didn't paint for a year and when I tried it was like glass shards in my soul. But I kept Peanut on display in my living room, to remind me that I used to be able to speed paint some pretty damn good art. And then somebody came to my house, and told me I needed to fix his eye, because horse eyes don't look like that. I explained, he was blind and the eye caught the color of the sky and looked gorgeous. It didn't matter, I should at least add a pupil to make it look like I knew what I was doing. Lesson learned: As an artist, you need to be able to smile and tell people where to get off when they offer friendly advice that you didn't ask for. Additional lesson: if they aren't paying for it, you can totally tell them to go paint their own damn horse how they want, and leave yours alone.
October 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
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Have some pretty eyeballs while I deal with a lovely power outage.
A bunch of different shaped eyeballs, ranging from gold irises to a dark green, yellow, and white ringed one, to the plain yellow green outlined ones with their dark irises. All on a blue-green background with a hint of stylized roses in the background.
October 2, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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My father gave me his word, & proceeded to break it multiple times. Now was it the appropriate thing to take his 30yo aged/cured Black Walnut boards, cut them down, & start prepping them to make butcher block countertops?
Yes. Yes, it was.
It still needs a bit more sanding, then a good sealer, but it will be gorgeous when finished I didn't intend for there to be a spiral pattern I just put two together while sanding and there it was, but I'm gonna keep it. The Black Walnut before I gave it a coat of butcher block conditioner, I'm now seriously tempted to just give it a clear coat instead. I still have time and a long way to go. The now small section between the fridge and the farmhouse sink that came from my grandmother's house, the silver backsplash is what I'm also going to install over the faux wood formica.
August 25, 2025 at 3:42 AM
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It's my birthday, and this is what I used to do art-wise.
I was quite good at skies and eyes. Don't ask me what's happening for the rest of it. Angel, hand bomber chest, staring out with the lovely purple eyes(pre-game of thrones I swear), pink wing, there's more but this was for an artsite so I didn't show the junk barely held in. Self-portrait, I don't know what I was doing. But someone told me my art didn't have a voice and it irked me, and then I kept seeing little fucking mermaid and sea related things and it was ironic and I made a this from one of the photos I took for stock use. They were gay, one's a demon the other a hate to hell, of course they were banging like bunnies.
August 21, 2025 at 6:47 PM
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I forget about this one, it's currently in the pile in my living room. It's actually finished and in a frame, I just haven't had the heart to pull any of them out and hang them. #wip #minotaur #watercolor
The back of the minotaur, armed with a large maul. It was an interesting progress shot as I played with it. I want to redo it, because while he has a nice backside, I had problems with the face being at that angle. And I want to play with lighting, and depth, because let's face it I can do beautiful skies, but I really need to work on painting depth.
August 8, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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I got given a watermelon so big it set off my passenger seat unbuckled alarm. So I buckled that baby in.
A large watermelon, safely buckled into my car seat. If only to stop the alarm that kept ringing at me that my passenger was in danger. PS it was super sweet because it had a tiny little butthole.
August 2, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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Not me wandering my pictures, remembering it's almost August, and therefore time to order #Irises!
A small pale ghostly colored iris, tinged by age, but with a hint of blue below the beard
July 29, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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Cartoon #doodles. It's what I do for fun
Me leaving the plant store. Yes little plant, I will take you home, no it doesn't matter that I can't see everything. I can see you. A mouse in love, or lust, both maybe? Mouse head doodle with heart eyes beating out of his head, And here we have the villain of one of the inktober challenges, mini-villain. He was a hallucinogenic frog, and the drama professor. Bright blue frog with red fingertips, in a bespoke little brown-purple suit,with green vest a bow tie. Disclosing how he cause a wardrobe malfunction to get a more dramatic Macbeth and full frontal nudity on the stage.
June 29, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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A wip shot of a painting (2018) I did a few years back, really loved how the gold caught the light. Too bad the person I did it for didn't like it.
#art #painting
A golden interior to a demon's wing, the hint of heavenly feathers cling to the edge that touch his skin. It pops against the grey skin and background, with the red exterior of the wing being the only color and the grey. Sadly I don't think the person I painted it for like the gold and I had to change it.
June 29, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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It was supposed to be an almost black color, but the glowing fire jewel tones are better.
A bright red lily, Asiatic, not water. A close up of the red Asiatic lily, from the Yin/Yang box set, moving from a blood color in the shadows to a glowing ruby fire in the center.
June 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
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Things falling under the class of: Paintings that no longer exist. I did love the shoe design though. If you can't tell I'm trying to talk myself into getting back into making more than one painting a year.
A painting of Perseus, started but never finished, an impressionist sky starting in the background. I was always good at skies. The shoes of Hermes, combining fashion with hints of the classic winged shoes. If I do remake this non-existent painting again I'll go with a higher top, to symbolize more the classic representation of Hermes' winged shoes, and I will cover the toes. Not sure where my brain was going with that part of the design, maybe the pressure of the foot as he begins to push off? I don't know.
June 23, 2025 at 4:44 AM
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Current state of my Muses/Deities:
"Hey I found a thing! It's gonna drive him crazier!"
"Oh sweet fuck, what have you done? We've been trying to get him to finish this project and move on for 3 fucking years."
Gorgeous red/violet to a shimmery sparkly blues. It's just a chip of resin that fell in, and caused something gorgeous. I'm trying to figure out how to reproduce it properly. Did I intend it to come out as a clear sign of how my Muses are operating, nope, but it fits.
June 22, 2025 at 1:54 AM
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I'm going to dub these chaos tiles.
Chaos tile 1, I thought it would disperse and blend more but it didn't, so bright green with blue squiggles and what effectively looks like a UFO lobbing fireballs. Well, if you flip it upside down. Same fireball lobbing UFO, but sparkly. The culprit must have struck right after I finished the first spray and walked off to finish my coffee. A smoky black hexagon held up to highlight one almost perfect, and one very smudged paw print. I left the paw prints, I didn't spray down another layer, because you know, chaos tiles. A little black paw print, because why wouldn't my cats walk through the fresh sprayed black paint?
June 16, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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Tiles. Tiles. 290 to go...I'm never going to finish this.
Swirling green language. No, not language, why did I type language? Anyway, tub of swirling green resin. I had the flash on. But it's so pretty and it captures the strong shift from green to a sort of stormy dusk grey color. Because it's pretty.
June 14, 2025 at 2:57 AM