Okay, I have a confession to make. My secret vice is art supplies. I just can't help myself! I love buying new markers, pencils, and paints, even though I mainly do digital art. It's like a compulsion, but a really fun one!
This week, I went on a bit of a bender and bought the Faber Castell Polychromos. It's been a good ten years since I last used coloured pencils, and let's just say that my skills were a bit...rusty. I had the precision of a toddler with a crayon, but hey, I had a blast anyway!
Sure, some people might call me a hoarder for having a whole room dedicated to art supplies when I literarily use an IPad 90% of the time, but I prefer to think of it as a museum of creativity. Each tool is like a piece of art waiting to be made. And who knows, maybe someday I'll even use all of them!
So, if you see me lurking in the art supply store, clutching my Faber Castell Polychromos and muttering to myself, just know that I'm not crazy. I'm a girl on a mission, and I won't stop until I have every color in the rainbow. Or until my bank account hits zero. Whichever comes first.
Whilst at uni and at TAFE art schools I had the same painting lecturer during my last semesters at each school, seemed quite fitting, almost like my creative education had come full circle. And although I was almost convinced that she hated me on a personal level she taught me some valuable lessons; not so much about painting technique or style as she said at that stage I'd already developed my own visual language. She taught me that you have live with your work, hang it in your bedroom, in the kitchen, leave it leaning against the bath tub. Hang it somewhere the light will hit it differently at different times if the day. Hold it up to the sun, keep it in the shadows. It's one thing to knock out paintings daily, ready to go, ready to hang and show and sell. It's another thing to live with them, to let them marinade in your subconscious, stew around, create new worries, questions and self doubt (all sound really negative but can be excellent instigators of new creativity). I started hanging these works in my room because I'd exhausted the space in my studio/garage as well as the storage space at my uncle's. They live with me, they're my roomies, the haunt me, they cheer me up, they make me question them and other work as well as questioning myself. Live with your work. . . . #impasto #nikuzunovski #artcollective #painting #oilpaint #modernabstraction #photooftheday #luxuryitems #abstract_buff #blackandwhite @instaghelper #modernart #abstractexpressionism #round #interiordesign #abstracters_anonymous #artnow #stayabstract #artbasel #abstractexpressionism #contemporaryart #australianartist #kunst #gallerí #birdsgallery #instasize #australianartist #Melbourne #paintporn #collectable #followart
#messyartist my desk right now is such a dump 😅🎨 ...and no, there is no method to the madness, I just can't decide which painting to stick with right now so my palettes are just breeding hehe #rubbishartist #mess #palette #paintpalette #paint #colourpalette #oilpaint #paintporn #studio #artstudio
Awesome work buddy! Waiting for clear coat it will be true fire @xspaint Heres a 2010 Camaro I worked with Superior Autobody on. I engulfed the nose in True Fire with it trickling down the doors into the quarters. We left the hood mostly open intentionally to set the stage for the mural that was about to go on it. Maybe thatll be tomorrows post. Stay tuned. #xspaint #airbrush #airbrushart #chopper #motorcycle #harleydavidson #artwork #houseofkolor #iwata #iwataairbrush #paintporn #refinisherporn #kustomkulture #graphics #suzuki #kawasaki #honda #custompaint #graphics #mural #custompaint #truefire #realisticflames (at Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/CJ_Xe_SARt5/?igshid=1awq4bbh9qblt
✨Open Commissions✨ Now available! ☀️ 🌕 Here is the finished altar commission I’ve been working on for the last few months. I have just finished adding the sealer and is now drying out before it’s final destination. . If you are interested in this type of a commission feel free to DM me. 🌞 Also check out my site manitheuncanny.com gallery & commissions section for other examples and possibilities. ☀️ #altarart #tombart #evileye #eyeofra #houseofra #khonsu #ancientegypt #kemetic #middlekingdomegypt #oilpainting #oilpaintingonwood #altar #altarspace #ra #hathor #khonshu #ancienthistory #goddess #paintporn #oilpaints #gamblinoils #sennelier #kemet #kemeticspirituality #pyramids #tombart #godofthemoon #cowgoddess (at Original Products Botanica) https://www.instagram.com/p/CAMUQ4inFrr/?igshid=1uchqn1aggitt
LTD Snakebyte guitar that we just finished up painting for a customer with the Metallica And Justice for All album cover on the front. On its way now to the customer in Murfreesboro, TN 🤘🏻 ________________ #metallica #metallicaandjusticeforall #ltdguitar #ltdsnakebyte #espguitar #espsnakebyte #customguitar #customguitars #guitarworld #guitarrefinishing #guitarpainting #guitarporn #chattanooga #chattanoogatn #heavymetal #jameshetfield #simscustomshop #airbrushing #paintporn #custompaint #kirkhammett #ltdguitars #espguitars #andjusticeforall #metal #tennesseeguitarshops https://www.instagram.com/p/B069ux7nLtL/?igshid=1jxrqvcaewwqb
Happy #Humpday !!! Thank you to everyone who looks at the work I create. I hope it has inspired and/or helped you though your day . On today's update we have finished paint prep and painted both desks. I have one picture I took with and without primer to illustrate how it effects the final finish. With #customwork you can choose which best fits #YOU. Thank you again for your time, take care and be GREAT!!! #canopydreamsstory #whatsyourdream #storytime #nevergiveup #customdesk #followme #commercialfurniture #friends #family #paintporn #deskgoals #custommade #smallbusiness #atlantabuilder #woodwork #tailored #progress #commercialdesign #workgrind #fabrication https://www.instagram.com/p/B76bIWXFGZf/?igshid=17osb0ppcddl