Playing with background ideas for my Nostrich November* art challenge project. Need to get back to drawing, but this experimental part is fun. Mixed media is all about layers, so it’s a
Painting by a favorite painter, prompt by @carlo.isolabella.art 🎨 …. I have lots favorites, so for now it’s Jo Payne. This is “Headlands.” I’d love to have one of her originals
Because nostrich shoes need toes. One of the many design decisions I made last night while working on my #nostrichnovember 1920s fashion project. Using Procreate to draw the line work.
#artstr #art #drawing
Finally decided to buy a pack of Art Deco digital papers. Yes, I could create them myself, but that’s not my joy. Culling and printing and sorting and making thumbnail references in
Using washi tape to hold tissue paper to card stock to run it through my printer is a pain, but the results are worth it. Original French text about the fashions I’m
#nostrasia tshirts available for sats!!!
#grownostr #tshirt #art #buywithsats #nostrlife #artstr…
Mixed media art desk cleaned! Will be working on my #nostrichnovember pieces so I’ll have something to share with you folks at least every other day. Anyone interested in process photos or
“Basics: words, water, wonder” - 3” x 3” mixed media art on watercolor paper. Posting for the #ArtstrContest by @dan 🍞
#artstr #artcontest #grownostr #nostrlife #originalart #humanart #art #mixedmedia #smallart…
So @ZBD is doing this Internet Magic Thing (. I rarely consider my half-century status, but reading that made me acutely aware I’m not the target audience. But I am a #ZBDinternetcitizen
Slow stitching kit progress … is slow. Lightly glued down the loose fabric bits and am now stitching with a single strand each petal and leaf. Ignore the background showing through at the bottom
The Vitruvian Nostrich - Part art. Part math. All nostrich. Designed in celebration of Nostr, the decentralized, global, censorship-resistant protocol that is the Internet’s Renaissance. Available on mugs, t-shirts, and other
Slow stitching kit progress report: all pieces cut and mostly placed. Going to tweak and lightly glue down tomorrow. Then can start the stitching part.
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Slow stitching kit progress (more images in replies) - the water-erasable fabric pen worked just like lady at the quilt store said it would. 🎉
outline paper pieces on fabric
count out fabric pieces
Because @dan 🍞 asked, my Vitruvian Nostrich design is now available on tshirts ….
… and almost everything else Threadless sells like Homeware and Accessories.
I uploaded a black line version, so you can pick whatever
Star - last page in my 3” x 3” book for the #inchiechallenge
Need to use better quality paper if I’m going to do mixed media. Some of these pages are about to
Night: Day 8 of the #inchiechallenge
3” x 3” mixed media
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Days 6 & 7 of the #inchiechallenge -
Water and River. Each page is 3” x 3”. I used sewing pattern paper, alcohol inks, gold acrylic paint, and gesso.
#mixedmedia #artchallenge #smallart #inchies #art
Day 5 #inchiechallenge - mixed media in 3” x 3” tea-stained watercolor paper booklet I stitched together. Kept this one simple. I think the character is “picture”
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That time when @Brianna HD said “nostr is the internet’s renaissance” so you spend (according to Procreate’s Canvas Statistics… 6 hrs 32 min) drawing a Vitruvian Nostrich because you need it
Day 4* of the #inchiechallenge
The great thing about mixed media art is you can keep adding layers until you get something you like.
The less than great part is my phone doesn’
