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I'm Bruce and I like to make art. All kinds of art. Completely amateur with no formal training. I just do. I focus on watercolor and ink here - mixed media paintings. I do other kinds of art on my other profile.
My latest greeting card

Inside this one says:

We're grateful for the joy your friendship brings.

And we really mean it.

#art #love #express #ink #paper #opportunity #chance #try ##tryagain #loveyourself #care #caredeeply #observe #see #wakeup #hold #grab #ifyoudontitwillbegone
December 19, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Some of my tools
December 17, 2025 at 6:19 AM
Every piece I do it's just me fixing what I've already done

I see my initial mistake, and I fix it

Then I see it's not actually fixed, so I fix it more

And more

And more

I fix it over and over and over again, until at some point...

... painter - editor ...

I say

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It's done

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December 17, 2025 at 4:46 AM
We're broken. We're broken. We're broken.

We're broken people.

Broken people.

#art #paint #outside #observe #watch #care #involve #mix #try #tryagain #acrylic #canvas #forme #foryou #share
December 17, 2025 at 4:05 AM
I feel called. I can't stop. I haven't let my own self criticization stop me.

I won't.

I'm compelled.

#art #create #compelled #driven #outsider #selftaught #paint #acrylic #canvas #grow #evolve #learn #embrace #failure #notdone
December 16, 2025 at 3:48 AM
December 12, 2025 at 4:12 AM
Look.

Nobody cares. Just paint.

In this case, just post.

#art #outsider #selftaught #tonight #home #hitit #look #see #watch #sketchbook #practice #bigd #horizontal #wet #leg
December 7, 2025 at 6:29 AM
There are so many times I don't know what to do.

Sometimes automatic writing helps

Listen

#writing #inside #feeling #detached #letgo #automatic #without #control

The latest page in my Sketchbook
November 30, 2025 at 7:24 AM
The latest page in my Sketchbook

Nobody cares

Who hears?

#art #watercolors #acrylic #life #endure #perseverance #adapt #care #hear #outsider #selftaught #disrupt
November 28, 2025 at 6:20 AM
November 24, 2025 at 5:14 AM
These little cards

I did 8 of them today

I love them all, but this is my favorite

#paint #feeling #display #contentment #confront #challenge #embrace #change

#you #me
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
November 18, 2025 at 5:01 AM
November 17, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Don't stop

Never stop

Start again

Try again

Please
November 9, 2025 at 5:31 AM
November 9, 2025 at 5:14 AM
November 8, 2025 at 8:03 AM
November 2, 2025 at 7:55 PM
I've discovered that it helps to have several acrylic paintings going at once. Unlike most of my watercolors, these aren't done in a day.

#liberating #frightening #compelling #challenging #paint #art #heart #express #bravery #freedom #acrylic #winsornewton #golden #try #tryharder #tryagain
November 1, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The latest page in my sketchbook.

So often when I'm in the city I dream of the mountains.

And vice versa.

#watercolor #art #heart #love #paint #memory #desire #gold #light #remember #fields #bramble #hillsides #flowers #brush #birds #rocks #selftaught #outsider #amateur #selflove
October 30, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Detail from my current

Wallpaper?
October 28, 2025 at 4:40 AM
October 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
The latest page in my sketchbook

Pixel Grip

A band of exceptional beauty and talent.

Kindness.

Generosity.

Beyond measure.

#art #music #talent #professionalism #workers #hardworking #buythem #sbh2now
October 25, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I'm connected to gay culture in a different way. An uncommon way. A distinctive way.

That means, to me Perfume Genius is the most impressive artist in many many years.

Their show here in Denver shattered me.

I'll remember it for the rest of my life.

#perfumegenius
October 21, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The latest page in my sketchbook

Not just because I was in NYC

#watercolor #pen #ink #inktober #try #keeptrying that's what sketchbooks are all about #art #create #express #project #show #fearlessly or, see your fear, and keep trying #love #live #bealive #see #how #watch #observe #borrow #steal
October 21, 2025 at 1:06 AM