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amooyong.art (🐨🇦🇺)
@amooyong.bsky.social
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🐨 artist, illustrator, rollerkskater, australian
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amooyong.art (🐨🇦🇺) @amooyong.bsky.social · Nov 28
Halloo! It's me \o/

This took longer than expected, apparently I haven't got my elevator pitch down haha.

#art #illustration #australianartist #aussieartist #meettheartist
amooyong.bsky.social
More #portrait practice. Need to practice eyes, but not my priority right now.
Sometimes I like what I've drawn, other times it's like I took a step back 😮‍💨

#art
September 6, 2025 at 10:58 AM
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Some practice doing portraits. It feels like it's taking me too long to do one of these. I think I'm averaging about 1.5hrs each 🫠

#art #sketch
September 2, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Egh... Faces are in my too hard / weakness basket

Does it normally take 40 mins to 1hr to draw one of these?

#art #portraits
3 pencil sketches of portraits. 2 men and a woman
August 31, 2025 at 12:39 AM
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I went on a vacay and packed some #fabercastell watercolour pencils with me. They ended up being the perfect travel #art medium with no fussing about water, containers, or trays.

I had some trouble getting some clear lines and shapes but I had fun using these for the first time!
Watercolour pencil painting of a leaf A photo of a hand holding a leaf
August 30, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Another evening of paint mixing for a new piece. Hopefully I can mix this batch better than my first try where I wasted sooo much paint 🫠

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
8 tubes of acrylic Gouche lined up on top of a blue cloth
August 1, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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Trying to use up excess #acrylagouache paint from a palette I've had sitting out for a week. I was hitting pan on a couple colours so I had to improvise.

Madame Frou Frou from #boxtrolls

#art #illustration #laikastudios #holbein
A painting of Madame Frou Frou from The Boxtrolls
July 7, 2025 at 10:18 PM
amooyong.bsky.social
Yesterday I took myself out on a much needed solo date.

I travelled out, sat in a park and did some sketching. I didn't realise how much I needed it for myself.

Here's a little #posca sketch of a crow buddy that came around close enough for me to snap a photo.

#australia #art #illustration
A paint pen sketch of a crow Legs stretched out with a sketchbook and sketching it utensils with an overflowing body of water in view A photo of a crow standing in the grass with leaf litter.
July 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Found a subject for my paints.

This cutie is the Australian Blue Banded Bee, Amegilla Cingulata

www.mountainsgourmet.com/mountains-go...

#australia #art #illustration #holbein #acrylagouache
An acryla gouache painting of an Australian Blue Banded Bee
July 4, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Trying to find ways to use up all this extra paint. At first I wasn't mixing enough but of course, now I've mixed too much 🥴

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A palette of paints with a sketchbook. In the sketchbook is the outline of a bee on deep navy background, ready to be painted.
July 1, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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Yep. I'll draw/paint the same thing over and over till I get it right.

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
6 pieces of paper with varying degrees of progress of the same image
June 30, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Trying to understand how the values in colour works. Even though some colours stand out and you think they're distinct, they're actually a similar value as another colour on the page (in this case the yellow and ice blue)

#art #colourtheory #paint #holbein #acrylic #gouache
2 photos side by side. The left side is in full the colour, the right side is in grey scale. Both photos depict a grid of lines in different colours and values
June 28, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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How many times can you redraw the same thing?

I messed up twice... But I'm also learning new things as I go. So each time I try again, I'm a little more efficient... I hope 😅

#australia #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
An image recreated 3 times, at varying levels of progress. The words 'mother lickers' visible across all 3.
June 24, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Doing some colour matching. I don't expect a 1-to-1 given I don't even have some of the references colours, but I'll give it a shot 💪

#australia #art #illustration
A colour swatch card placed against another colour swatch card to find a match.
June 21, 2025 at 10:20 AM
amooyong.bsky.social
Picking out a colour scheme. Given the dessert theme I want something bright and 'sweet'.

These #colorcube cards have been so handy. I no longer trawl the web for inspiration when I've got a box of references on hand. Thanks @sarahrenaeclark.bsky.social !

#australia #art #illustration
A hand holding colour swatch cards in front of a black and white illustration
June 20, 2025 at 11:48 PM
amooyong.bsky.social
On to the next piece. Something I've had sitting in my drafts for 2 years and finally got around to finishing the sketch.

I'll be using my paints again, hopefully my mixing skills are much better this time around 😅

#australia #artist #illustrator #sketch #augustusgelatery
A drawing of two people posed in a similar walking stride while eating ice cream. The works "mother licker" and "gelatery" sit above. The image is in a retro cartoon style
June 19, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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Final product!

I learned a lot while making this. How to mix colours, how to use mediums with acrylic gouache, how to paint a landscape 😅

This isn't my best work, but probably some of my best learning.

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A painting of a boy standing in a lake with mountains in the background. The boy has blue hair and is wearing a yellow shirt with a colourful pattern
June 17, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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A little bit of progress on this. I stepped away for a day to see it with fresh eyes and I can feel my bother is aimed at the mountains. They're looking a little 'soft' so I'm gonna angle them up a bit

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A painting of a figure in a lake
June 15, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Any #australia based artists looking for art friends?

Art Dinkum is a small community of #illustrators, #writers, #photographers, modellers and crafters. We do online art hangs and run creative challenges for each other - even movie nights and DnD

We dial in from all over Aus

Join us! Link in bio
June 15, 2025 at 4:09 AM
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Results from the overnight test! The Acrylic Flow Medium just carried the whole test on its back. It retained moisture and fluidity overnight.

I'm only using the Mont Martre brand, nothing fancy - but it's doing a fab job ✨

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
June 14, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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Bought an 'airtight' palette to see if I can save paints overnight in a better way. The problem with water spritzing is that I keep diluting the mix every time.

Test from L to R:
A: w/ flow medium
B: paint only
C: w/ retarder
D: w/ water

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A Meeden Airtight Watercolour Palette box A paint palette with 3 wells filled with blue paint.
June 13, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Little more work on this WIP. I can see a lot of my scuffling from charcoal work transferring in my paint dabs lol

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A painting in progress. The background is off mountains with a lake in the foreground. A figure stands in the lake
June 12, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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WIP from tonight's art hang. Paint wasn't layering the way I expected and couldn't blend the way I normally do. Resorted to convenience colours 🫠

Still not sure how I feel about mixing. I have a palette of mixes I don't have a use for :(

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
An acrylic gouache painting that is still in progress. What can be seen is a blue sky, mountains, a treeline and a lake with. Figure standing in it.
June 11, 2025 at 12:48 PM
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I spritzed water and wrapped the palette in a bag to leave overnight.

Very happy to see the paint hadn't hardened!

This will do wonders for saving paint I've mixed when I don't have convenience colours yet... And being a slow artist 🥹

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A palette of paint wrapped in a plastic bag A palette of paint unwrapped from a plastic bag
June 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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More experiments. A mix of acrylic medium, retarder and water. This stayed wet for over an hour!

I was worried about the separation but it remixed and applied nicely.

I think the 3 liquids are overkill so I'm still playing with balance.

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A well of purple paint that looks like it is seperating
June 10, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Why does this look like a medical experiment? 😆

Learning to use acrylic medium and getting the right ratio

#australian #artist #illustrator #holbein #acrylic #gouache
A paint pallette with dabs of paint. On the pallette sit a pallette knife, medical syringe tube, tubes of pint, and a sheet of paper with paint swatches.
June 9, 2025 at 10:36 PM