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[velvetsart]

Hello! I just saw your post "bite the hand", and it sparked something in my mind, although for the life of me I can't be sure what.

If you don't mind me asking, what were your feelings in making it? What is, if you will, it's meaning to you?

I realize the question is quite personal, so don't feel obliged to answer

ty for asking!! a lot of my drawings start from a phrase and this one was 'a savage little lamb'. i dont wanna say too much bc i want ppl to interpret for themselves but for me there are 2 sides to it, biting out of fear vs liberation. it started as the 1st and ended as the 2nd. vulnerable innocent baby going feral mode is such a good genre. & the religious imagery was not a mistake

btw i love reading peoples tags on it cos they say it better than i do :-) sometimes i just read thru them and im like damn yeah exactly. you Get It

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Just started following you and need to say your art is so cool!

thank you v v much!! :-)

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[velvetsart]

black sheep watercolour

#watercolour #painting #traditional art #demon #surrealism #religious imagery #snake #art #watercolour art #illustration #red #teal #blue #turquoise #artists on tumblr #watercolor #this took me an embarrassingly long time to force myself to do #it should have taken like 2 days max lol #i cant believe i used to do stuff quickly #need a brain injection

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i've added a few prints to my store! just 5 to start with but i'll order more if needed :-)

In Search of Crumbs acrylic paint & color pencil on paper, 29x29cm 

prints

#im really glad people have been enjoying this painting lately bc its one of my favs

[velvetsart]

hi! do you sell any prints of In Search of Crumbs?

i’ll have a few prints going up on my store soon, ty for your interest! :-)

update: prints are here

#ask #i ordered *5 to start with (i said 10 before by accident) #in search of crumbs

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turn the key watercolour (23x23cm)

#art #illustration #watercolour #traditional art #surrealism #crows #corvid #corvidae #cemetery #graveyard #artists on tumblr #painting #watercolor #raven #ravens #snow #winter #death #macabre #tw death

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Hello! I saw some of your colored pencil works and I really love your style! I myself am trying to get into colored pencils as a medium and I just wanted to ask what resources or tips do you have for someone who's an intermediate drawer but a novice with color and colored pencils

thank you!! i don’t have any specific resources but when i first got ‘serious’ about colour pencils i did research into oil vs wax based (eg prismacolor) pencils before buying a set. i use faber castell polychromos because i prefer the qualities of oil based pencils, but it’s all down to personal preference

paper type also affects pencil drawings greatly, if you want texture & a lot of layers, go for a rougher tooth, and if you want minimal white spots at the cost of fewer layers use smooth paper (i use bristol board for pet portraits)

you can also experiment with using pencil on top of watercolour/marker etc bases or coloured paper, e.g. for this deer drawing i did a watercolour base which you can see in this vid

with paint people say to start with fewer colours and learn how to mix but for pencil i would say get as many colours as you can bc the only ‘mixing’ you can do is layering and there’s a limit to how many layers your paper (and hand) can take. its also hard to buy the missing colours later without rebuying the ones you already have. you can def make do with a smaller set if you want to do highly stylized art

'burnishing' is good to know about

for colour in general i think just study art that uses colour in a way you like, the principles will be similar across mediums. i don’t really believe in right or wrong ways to do things, as long as you’re achieving what you want. if you don’t know where to start, i recommend checking out james gurney, he has painting vids on youtube which give an interesting insight into how he uses colour. i just found a vid which shows him combining watercolour and coloured pencils

also find colour pencil art you like and think about how it was made. i love @ink-the-artist ‘s pencil art, i think they use marker bases in some of theirs and it gives it a rly saturated warm look (esp ones w yellow bases) & i love how the darkness is made up of different colours. they use prismacolor which gives it that waxy blended look

sorry this is kind of a word vomit, i hope at least some of it is useful to you. good luck with your colour journey! ♡

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just put these new celestial willowy deer pins up on my store! :-) ✨link✨

#im so excited #ive been waiting over a month for these to arrive #yay #deer #enamel pins #fawn #deer art #velvetsart #willow #celestial #etsy #artists on tumblr #pins #doe

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flower picking acrylic painting on 10x12" canvas

#yes its winter yes im painting about summer #theres no beating an endless green field on a sunny day #to be clear the fawn is picking flowers to make a crown #i could have laboured over this for many more hours but i made myself stop and thats Growth #painting #illustration #artists on tumblr #cozycore #cozy #green #field #cottagecore #meadow #dreamcore #surrealism #acrylic painting #traditional art #spring #flowers #deer #fawn #deer fawn

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update: got some sparkly stickers made too after a few requests :-)

the tragedy of etsy evilly deleting my original (popular) cowboy cat pin listing and having to make a new one that receives no views.. ive been nerfed.. just when i ordered new stock :') also ive seen it being ripped off on other sites which i knew was inevitable but still damages me spiritually.... anyway the pin is back and since etsy seo hates me now im going to yell about my cowboy Here 🤠

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#cowboy cat

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Beautiful.... perfect.... powerful.... unfortunately for him he must experience the hellscape known as capitalism as he will be accompaning me on my walmart vest :) thank you for the precious little guy :)

woah.. thank you for sharing!! :-) may he brighten your darkest shifts 🙏

#love to see it #ask

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mixed media on watercolour paper

#various types of prisons #gouache #although it looks more like #watercolor #colour pencil #oil pastel #collage #surreal art #illustration #art #artists on tumblr #drawing #doodle #surrealism

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thank you so so much to everyone who bought a pin the past few days!! i’ve almost run out as I wasn’t expecting such a high volume of orders in a short space, and the last batch my manufacturer sent me had so many more flawed pins than expected so there will be a delay before i get new stock because i need to find a different manufacturer to work with :/ there are still plenty of discounted cowboy kitties available though if you don’t mind a pin that’s a little rough around the edges!

the tragedy of etsy evilly deleting my original (popular) cowboy cat pin listing and having to make a new one that receives no views.. ive been nerfed.. just when i ordered new stock :') also ive seen it being ripped off on other sites which i knew was inevitable but still damages me spiritually.... anyway the pin is back and since etsy seo hates me now im going to yell about my cowboy Here 🤠

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fun portrait practice from last year 🌈 :-)

#my twitter mutual takes the best selfies so i had to draw them #every human portrait i do is 'practice' lol #color pencil #colour pencil #pencil #colour pencils #pen #rainbow #art #drawing #traditionalart #traditional art #artists of tumblr #artists on tumblr #portrait #portrait art

[velvetsart]

your art is so fantastic and makes me feel happy feelings about crows. Good job.

aw thank you so much!! crows in art are always guaranteed to hit

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feelings in dreams pencil + collage

#trying not to spend my whole life chasing #traditional art #colour pencil #color pencil #deer #red #dreamcore #monochrome #surrealism #surreal art #fawn #art #artists on tumblr #artists of tumblr #illustration #pencil #traditional artist #static #pink #scarlet #stars

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a quick glimpse into the process as promised :-)

inside watercolour collage (21x21cm)