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‘Bird Pot’, acrylic on loose canvas, 2022

#acrylic painting #painting #art #artists on tumblr #still life #I sold some prints of these at a market last year and they went over really well! more liked than I thought #oh also at that market a guy came up to the table (he was another vendor) and was like explaining my art to another guy #but used she her pronouns for the artist not realizing I was the artist I guess? so uh 💅 enjoy my girl art #he was very focused on the colours / colour relationships? so I imagine he had some weird idea about colour use and gender #it was all very funny to me tbh shout out to that guy for giving me a memorable story from one of my first markets #also I have nicer scans of this one somewhere but I don’t feel like digging them up

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‘Green Lure’, Gouache on grey paper, 2024 (April)

Another lure! I think I captured the texture better on this one

#artists on tumblr #painting #art #gouache #fishing #so there’s that clear phalange thing to the left of the string and I have no clue what that’s for and how it helps the lure function #and frankly I think it looks weird and considered omitting it #but maybe it’s important? idk I don’t fish I just think the lures are cool

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‘Bonaparte’s Gull’, acrylic on loose canvas, 2023

More birds! Once again the reference is from @northernpintail ‘s photography, also this is my favourite type of gull, maybe because it’s the only one I can identify!

#painting #acrylic painting #artists on tumblr #birds #seagull #I love how the gull’s expression turned out

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This one doesn’t have a title or anything, it’s just a watercolour sketch of some apartments I covet by the marina in the town I live in. I did it last year, I think, and though the colours aren’t ‘pretty’ per say, I like it!

#watercolor #artists on tumblr #painting #art #landscape #ish it’s landscape ish #and tbh I consider it a drawing more than a painting! #anyway thanks for looking if you see this

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‘Quilted Chicken’, gouache on grey paper, 2024 (April)

A painting from yesterday I did of a quilted chicken my partners grandmother made. It’s such a fun and interesting object, I really enjoyed deciding how much detail to render in the fabric strips.

#art #chicken #gouache #painting #artists on tumblr #gouache is such a tidy little medium #it’s really lends itself to crisp and sharp rendering hence it’s use for illustration I suppose #I hope to find a more painterly style with it though like I have with acrylic #had so much fun with this one!

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Two small gouache studies of a nuthatch and a mallard, I did them some time last year and they’re both pretty small, shout out to @northernpintail for letting me use his photos as reference

#gouache #gouache painting #birds #painting #artists on tumblr #I’m gonna do more bird paintings in the future I think #they’re such neat creatures

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‘Blue Lure’, gouache on grey paper, April 2024

#gouache #gouache paint #painting #art #artists on tumblr #just did this one today and it was so fun! #I feel I can obviously see where I didn’t know how to handle the finish of the lure (quite shiny) but I think gouache is such #a beautiful medium that the piece turned out lovely anyway

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Hello!

I’ve wanted a place to catalogue my art online for awhile now, and decided it was time to try, and tumblr feels like a pleasantly low stakes place to do that!

I have a backlog of work to go through but I won’t be posting in any particular order, it’ll be a mix of old and new.

I work primarily in acrylic but am venturing back into gouache, and though I work in other mediums as well I’ll primarily be posting those two.

If you’ve read this, thank you for stopping by! If you have any questions about my art I’m happy to answer! I’ll leave with a bit about me,

My name is James, pronouns are he/him, I’m in my 20’s, I’ve done an amount of art schooling, I’m queer, and I have a lovely cat and partner.

Take care !

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‘Cat ornaments’, acrylic piece from the end of 2022, 5 ish by 8ish inches

An old one, but it charms me, and I feel it marks a moment when I started to get much more confident in how I handle paint!

#painting #art #acrylic painting #artists on tumblr #this is my first post on this blog but I’m hoping to post more and use this as a neat way to look back on my work #so if you see this thanks for looking!