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Jessica Vaillant
@jazzicuh.bsky.social
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www.jessicavaillant.com

Artist/designer working in animation. (But not right now, hire me pls) Formerly disney, nick, dreamworks, cartoon network etc. I like to paint a lot.

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Jessica Vaillant @jazzicuh.bsky.social · Jan 15
Gonna start a #portfolioday thread with examples of diff types of animation design work I’ve done. Props/fx, color design, character - and I have a new bgpaint portfolio, but it’s NDA. 😩

Email me for NDA work PW!

Here’s #colordesign from #SummerCampIsland
A peanut butter sandwich turning into a pile of magical goo, my all time fave color design assignment.
jazzicuh.bsky.social
Altadena Angel’s Trumpets for #pleinairpril - here’s a process video. Tried to emulate acrylic paint with Procreate on the iPad. Finished image is in the comments!

@warriorpainter.bsky.social #pleinairpril2025 #pleinairpainting #digitalpainting #losangelesartists #observationalpainting
April 20, 2025 at 1:46 AM
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Apparently Adobe popped to Bluesky like a flower in Spring.
And then ended like that.
April 12, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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Hazy LA morning. A digital one, still painted from life. #pleinairpril2025 #pleinairpril #digitalpainting #heavypaint #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter @warriorpainters.bsky.social
April 10, 2025 at 3:29 AM
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draw your friend. it feels incredible
April 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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Small paint, small calamansi. #pleinairpril2025 #pleinairpril #pleinairpainter #pleinairpainting @warriorpainters.bsky.social
An acrylic painting of a couple bright orange calamansi fruit amongst some green leaves An acrylic painting of a couple bright orange calamansi fruit amongst some green leaves
April 9, 2025 at 3:01 AM
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#pleinairpril day 4, some rainy and chromatic colors :0
A green, purple, and grey scene of a building with a clocktower.
April 4, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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katerado.bsky.social
Day 2 of #pleinairpril2025 - using this month to play in my sketchbook and experiment with new palettes, who knows where it’ll lead!? I don’t know what this thing is but I loved its shapes. Limited myself to 3 primaries + white and a couple colored pencils. #gouache @warriorpainters.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 3:51 AM
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4/30 #pleinairpril. California haze during twilight hours.

#krita #pleinairpril #pleinairpril2025 #environment #digitalpainting #painting #purple #art #cityfog
A view of a Californian landscape with many rolling hills, tree's, and some city lights. The sun is going down and the landscape is covered in a pink and purple haze.
April 4, 2025 at 6:05 PM
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seanthurlow.bsky.social
3/30 #pleinairpril. Pushing atmosphere a bit more.

#krita #pleinairpril #pleinairpril2025 #environment #digitalpainting #painting #train #orange #art
A smaller train with one cart is moving on a train track to the right. The sun is starting to go down and the environment is bathed in orange light and mist.
April 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
jazzicuh.bsky.social
#pleinairpril 2… and 3 and 4

#pleinairpril2025
Acrylic painting of the backside of a heavy drooping rose. There are a few other bits, buds and leaves poking out of the dark areas surrounding the pale yellow blossom.
April 5, 2025 at 2:27 AM
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springtime ☀️
a stylized 3d render of two people reading in a field!
April 5, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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#pleinairpril WIP because I couldn’t wrap it up in time, whoops 🥲

#pleinairpril2025
A painting in progress of a heavy rose hanging off a thin stem, perched on a pochade box. In the background is a rose garden.
April 3, 2025 at 3:33 AM
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#pleinairpril day 1, Griffith Park Observatory from a distance. Painted mostly from life in acrylic, then surrendered to finishing in digital.

#pleinairpril2025 #digitalpainting #acryclicpainting #pleinairpainting #pleinairpainter
An acrylic and digital painting of the Griffith Park observatory in LA viewed from afar. The light is overcast, the background is in shadow and the foreground is brightly lit. A simple thumbnail drawing for the previous image
April 2, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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Sketch done at Petersen Automotive Museum. Having fun w making wonk in shapes and textures.

#sketch #sketchbook #petersenautomotivemuseum
A pencil drawing done in a sketchbook. The subject is a retro customized car that I can’t remember the make and model of, because I forgot to take photos. 🤷‍♀️ Pencil lines are selectively smudged in different areas.
March 29, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Played with some chunky textured brushes in Procreate, painted my kitty from life.

#art #artpost #digitalpainting #procreate #lifepainting
A heavily textured digital painting with lots of broken shapes and visible brush marks. It depicts a cat sleeping peacefully on a cat tree, her paw covering her face.
March 12, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Tiny cantaloupe paint.

#sketchbook #paintbook #stilllife #stilllifepainting #observationalpainting #lifepainting #sketch #study #art #artpost
The artist’s hand holds up a sketchbook opened to a red page. On it lies a thumb-sized painting of two slices of cantaloupe, brightly lit and casting a shadow onto the surface beneath them.
March 5, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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Mini pavlova, painted quite fast. Didn’t bother to make a proper ellipse for the plate, but I like it.

#paintbook #sketchbook #observationalpainting #stilllifepainting #stilllife #artpost #art
A hand holds up a sketchbook. A sketchy painting stretches across both pages. It depicts a miniature pavlova, a dessert made with baked egg whites and topped with a bit of cream and fruit. It sits on a white plate.
February 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Mini pavlova, painted quite fast. Didn’t bother to make a proper ellipse for the plate, but I like it.

#paintbook #sketchbook #observationalpainting #stilllifepainting #stilllife #artpost #art
A hand holds up a sketchbook. A sketchy painting stretches across both pages. It depicts a miniature pavlova, a dessert made with baked egg whites and topped with a bit of cream and fruit. It sits on a white plate.
February 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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rpancoast.bsky.social
As much as I love painting for Magic, I’ve been doing a lot of plein air and portrait painting recently and it’s so refreshing!

If only I could somehow combine my interests in, let’s say, a Secret Lair of painted portraits of cosplayers as their character on that character’s card. Just sayin’
February 27, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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Some cafe drawings.
#art #artpost #lifedrawing #cafedrawing #sketch
Sketchy stylized drawing of an older man in loose clothing and a ballcap sitting at a cafe table Sketchy stylized drawing of a young woman sitting on a stool at a tall countertop at a cafe
February 25, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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Ursula le Guin, on the accusation that fantasy is an escape from reality
[“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? The moneylenders, the know-nothings, the authoritarians have us all in prison; if we value the freedom of the mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can.”]
February 23, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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WIP of a self portrait painted from life. Spent an embarrassing amount of time on this already but kept getting pulled into other things.

I started this in a wonderful class w/ the painter Kathleen Hall who gave me great feedback.

#oilpainting #selfportrait #portraitpainting #observationalpainting
Self portrait in oil of a woman looking into a mirror, holding a book. The mirror frame and the door the mirror is hanging on is partially visible. The painting is a work in progress and some areas are lightly scrubbed in.
February 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
jazzicuh.bsky.social
WIP of a self portrait painted from life. Spent an embarrassing amount of time on this already but kept getting pulled into other things.

I started this in a wonderful class w/ the painter Kathleen Hall who gave me great feedback.

#oilpainting #selfportrait #portraitpainting #observationalpainting
Self portrait in oil of a woman looking into a mirror, holding a book. The mirror frame and the door the mirror is hanging on is partially visible. The painting is a work in progress and some areas are lightly scrubbed in.
February 21, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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taking black kids away from their parents and putting them on farms seems really familiar to me! what could it be?
katzish.bsky.social Amanda Katz @katzish.bsky.social · Feb 17
Even the most disturbing RFK Jr. headline always manages to have a detail inside creepier than you could have imagined. I’m sorry, did you just say Black kids should have a chance to get “re-parented”???? Gift link wapo.st/4hW2xGI
WaPo quote: “A Washington Post review of Kennedy's public appearances found he also promoted these centers as particularly beneficial for Black youth. "Every Black kid is now just standard put on Adderall, on SSRIs, benzos which are known to induce violence and those kids are going to have a chance to go somewhere and get re-parented, to live in a community where there'll be no cellphones, no screens. You'll actually have to talk to people," Kennedy said in a June 2024 episode of the 19Keys online show”
February 17, 2025 at 9:54 PM