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I created all the art on this channel. This is as personal as it gets, folks! I'm @Somewhither
I completed my first coloring book page last night. I would love to know what you all think.
The printing service I'm looking at has a minimum of 24 pages, but I'm still researching that. If any of you have any experience with printing coloring books and have knowledge of services I should look into, please let me know.
"A Boop in a Meadow", mixed media sculpture
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"Who Are You?"
Happy Alice in Wonderland Day!
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What's crazy is that even though mushrooms have figured in my art throughout the years, this is the first time I've ever sculpted one. This is still a work in progress
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So the platform (for lack of a better word) that this little sculpture was built on was, I believe, a wooden foot from a sofa.
I've been grabbing random bits like that when I'm out thrifting, if I can get them for less than a dollar. It's the kind of thing that would almost certainly end up in a landfill if it wasn't snatched up by someone with some kind of creative, outside the box plan for how to use it.
I've got another little random wooden thingamabob that I'm going to play with today, but it's in much worse shape than the couch foot, so it's going to get sanded and painted first.
"A Beep on a Log"
(I had to go out and finish it tonight. So cute.)
I'm working on my first sculpture inspired by my recent doodles.
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I have to tell you about something really special that's happening in my life.
So, for the time being, I still have a day job. I'm working steadily towards making a transition to being self employed, and I have a loose timeline for when I believe I'll be able to make that change. But in the meantime I have a corporate job to supplement my income as a professional artist. (Yes, I'm making deliberate language choices here.)
In the past I've kept these two parts of my life very separate. The corporate culture I work in and the art world I work in couldn't be more different from one another.
Almost two years ago I changed departments at work. I've known my boss for several years longer than I've been a direct report, and we've always had good rapport, but as I've become more comfortable with that relationship and with the culture within my group as a whole, I've started to let my more colorful self bleed over into my corporate environment.
Early on in my current position I occasionally asked for schedule accommodations so that I could participate in art things that otherwise would have been difficult to manage, and my boss has always been great about that.
This year her support of my art career has reached a whole new level. She and her husband attended my performance at Factory Obscura in December. She encouraged a team building event to go see my solo install at Equity Brewing last summer. She has facilitated a plan to go see the new installation at Factory Obscura (probably this coming week) with my whole team at work, and very possibly at least one other department. She likes and comments on everything I post on my Instagram. She has become one of my biggest and most active fans.
She fully knows that it is my goal to transition to self employment, and it has not impacted anything about my job or my income. She's been a true, real supporter and friend, and I'm so grateful.
One of the reasons I turned away from 2d work is I just couldn't execute it fast enough to keep up with the flood in my head. I love to paint. It feels good. But it's SLOOOOOOOOOOW. 3d mixed media is much more tactile, and especially with the clay stuff I do I can work much faster.
Going digital for 2d work has absolutely been the right move. It's fast enough now that I find myself actually pausing and waiting for the inspiration to catch up sometimes.
When I first created art in this style 6 years ago, I was far less confident in my own vision. My own style was not remotely defined, and I was still trying on some level to mimic certain aspects of things I'd seen other artists do. Not copying. I would never do that. But I'm a perfectionist, and I was going for a certain look.
What the last few years have given me is an ability to be loose when I create. To embrace to quirks of imperfection.
Also, frankly, I have way less imposter syndrome than I used to. Getting professional opportunities has really helped with that. I'm at the point now where everything I make is at least good. I'm confident. That's a pretty powerful place to be in as an artist.
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I am obsessed with my new tool.
I've been sitting out on the back patio in the evening listening to audio books and doodling. I'm developing a little universe and I love it. No doubt eventually this universe will be translated into my 3d art art some point.
I delivered my prints and stickers to Factory Obscura today. While I was there I told the gift shop manager I was thinking about making a coloring book, and asked if she'd be interested in carrying it. She said yes, so now I'm playing around with that idea.
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My little friend isn't attached yet, but this is the general direction this sculpture is headed in.
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I've got some little Beeps and Boops in the works too. I got their armature made, and a base layer of clay on them. I'll go out in a couple of hours after they've cured and add some more details. I'd like to get them totally done this evening so they can fully cure over night and I can add them to this composition tomorrow. I may not use both of them. We'll see.
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I picked up a big bag full of wooden clothes pins when I went thrifting the other day. These have TONS of potential.
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I suppose I'll call this series "Beeps and Boops". I don't know that I even want to number them or anything.
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I'll get some light box pictures of my little friend tomorrow after the clay dries and I add glaze, but it's so cute I had to go ahead and share it.
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My stickers and prints have arrived, and they look amazing!
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I'm definitely not going to try to name all of my little doodles. There are going to be lots of them.
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I'm so addicted. The tactility of drawing on the iPad is so nice. It's very fluid.
When I was researching accessories for my new tool, I saw that there's a screen cover you can get that makes the surface feel like drawing on paper. It's magnetic, so you can remove it when you're not drawing. It wasn't available for the 2024 model yet when I ordered my iPad, so I didn't order one, figuring I might when it came out, but now I don't think I want one. I really enjoy the fluidity of drawing on the smooth glass. (I did put a screen protector on it.)
"Chromatic Carnival of the Cosmic Continuum"
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This is one of my favorite pieces from when I was first playing around with this style.
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My dioramas have finally been installed.
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