The Doom Economy
Adam Conover has a short video which jives with a rather depressing Offline episode about the “Labubu FartCoin economy”.
There is of course much worse things going on. Much MUCH worse. But this is all I have brain/time for this week.
Bad painting alert. I wanted to try out some acrylic on watercolor paper, and just practice but of course it’s terrible. OK, here’s the thing, every single time I start an acrylic painting I think, I am going to use flat cell shading. And every single fucking time I FORGET THAT and try to paint like my old oil paint days when the teacher was like “soft blends” and I fuck it up! This seems inevitable at this point and it’s dumb! I cannot paint 3dimensionally! I am NOT good at painting! I am a flat paint loser! And the nature of acrylic just makes it worse.
I’m also trying out a wet palette “hack” (I hate that term). I purchased a thin sheet of silicone and I’m using it with my Mijello “stay wet” pallet which isn’t very good. I cas a clamp on lid but the colors don’t really stay wet and if you add a sponge it just gets moldy.
Anyway, I’ll see if the silicone sheet works out and report back. Although, this is a 4x6 inch piece so I’m not using much paint which means it’ll dry out faster. Plus it’s Turner acrylic gouache which dries REALLY fast.
BUT I finally cracked an idea for the Brassworks Postcard Show!! So I’ll be working on that in October. There is shit happening this week so art isn’t gonna be a priority as much as I want it to be. Time is ticking too. The postcard show has a deadline and t took me a long time to land on an idea. The basic idea is tiny scenes in little jars with a cat sticking out.
This one has already been heavily edited.
DOLLS! Took some bad (my phone takes ass photos and my point and shoot is no better and I wish I had a good camera but that ain’t gonna happen) doll photos this week. Hardly anyone has seen my Aimerai Uki (named Yuki). I got her sheap on DoA and she was an impule buy. No sculpted mouth but I’m not as bothered as I thought I would be.
All right! We survived another week!! October 18 is the next big protest!! Mark your calenders!
Kimmel is off the air, which freaked me out do I’ve been up all night doom-scrolling.
Acrylics are hard to use. I always wanted to use acrylics like watercolor, which was no good, also. Hmm—never tried silicone. Good luck.
Cute anime style dolls. You know I have too many and have tried to dolly diet, but I just made an impulse layaway for a Dream Valley wolf/coyote through Alice’s collection. And almost did the same for a Dearmine anthro, but am resisting! Agh.