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Now that our Week of Winter…

Rustypuppy — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 18:54:18 GMT

Now that our Week of Winter has past, I can go outside to fixative and varnish my mixed media art.

This is my February Calendar Animal: an industrious little mouse planning plans for the year. 🐭

Second photo is a close up of the spray cans if you want to see the labels better.

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When I look at my art…

Rustypuppy — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 19:18:08 GMT

When I look at my art the next morning, and don’t want to add or change anything, then it’s truly a finished piece. ✅

Behold the Barn Swallow of April, a Travel theme!

This is the 4th mixed media artwork I’ve completed for the art challenge existing sprinkles ran last year.

Background is layers of old airline boarding passes, acrylic paint, tan tissue paper to create the land-looking bits, white tissue paper for the cloud-looking bits, gold ink, stencils, and various pens and pencils.

The barn swallow was generated by ChatGPT to my specs, printed on copy paper, fussy cut and colored with Copic markers.

Now …. onto May!

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When you finally find a use…

Rustypuppy — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 03:27:45 GMT

When you finally find a use for that piece of string you’ve been holding into for years… as a wrap for an artist exchange journal.

I make art on a page, then pass the journal on to my friend. He creates art on a new page and passed the journal back to me.

Only 3 swaps and the poor little journal started having closure issues, so I added the string to allow us to keep it somewhat closed and protected.

Second photo shows the last pages of the journal, where I taped the string to the inside back cover, then glued down the last two pages on top.

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I’ve done a little bit…

Rustypuppy — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 01:52:32 GMT

I’ve done a little bit of pyrography - the details in this art is top notch!

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3 layers layer, getting some nice…

Rustypuppy — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 23:56:38 GMT

3 layers layer, getting some nice texture. 💙 The theme is Travel, so I started with a collage of boarding passes from various flights I’ve had over the years. Then scraped on some gesso, and colored that with a mix of three acrylic paint blues. Before the paint dried completely, I scrubbed off bits with a wet wipe.

This is a work in progress shot of the background for my April art for existing sprinkles monthly calendar art challenge… last year. 🙃

Gradually, then even more gradually. 🎨

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Using my January mixed media calendar…

Rustypuppy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 21:14:55 GMT

Using my January mixed media calendar art, created for existing sprinkles art challenge, as my new Lock Screen.

Using a Copic marker sketch I did of a vase years ago as my Wallpaper.

Reminders to take it easy and that I can just sit down and sketch something with any kind of supplies and it has a chance of looking good.

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New year, new calendar! 🗓️…

Rustypuppy — Fri, 02 Jan 2026 20:14:47 GMT

New year, new calendar! 🗓️

Many thanks to Kontext for organizing and producing this with #artstr from across the #nostr - pick up a digital or print version via SATOSH.EE

March has a cool mixed media art piece 😎🏰

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Trying something new, along the lines…

Rustypuppy — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 19:45:49 GMT

Trying something new, along the lines of the Pottery Paradox from the book, Art & Fear.

A 500 sheet ream of copy paper will be my sketchpad for the year. Not intentionally trying to use all of them. It’s just practice, and somehow easier to tackle than a bound sketchbook.

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Back to work on my entry…

Rustypuppy — Sat, 27 Dec 2025 20:40:02 GMT

Back to work on my entry for the nostr.build video contest. ✍️

Loving my screen glove. So much easier to use Procreate when the canvas doesn’t randomly jump around when I accidentally touch it with my wrist.

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My citadel art in a calendar…

Rustypuppy — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 05:25:04 GMT

My citadel art in a calendar showcasing bitcoin holidays! 🏰

Print and digital versions of the calendar are for sale for sats or fiat at the links in the SATOSH.EE note.

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I finished my March Hare for…

Rustypuppy — Wed, 10 Dec 2025 22:05:41 GMT

I finished my March Hare for existing sprinkles 2026 Calendar Challenge… which I will be continuing on into 2026 so I can make a calendar for 2027. 😬

Went a bit simpler on this piece than January or February. The hand-written sentences in the background are the first lines from the stories in one of my microfiction collections. The iris is from a collection of vintage flower plates from Kew Gardens. And I didn’t color the hare to emphasize the engraving illustration style.

A collection of some of my creative favorites as a reminder to focus on what I love.

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GM! Sharing art I made for…

Rustypuppy — Sun, 07 Dec 2025 19:04:13 GMT

GM! Sharing art I made for the January NostrArtstr art challenge of A Month of Good Mornings.

It started out as random finger painting with acrylic paint, and turned into my favorite. Sometimes the Unplanned Art can become more than the Planned Art. 🎨

And this note therefore completes my December art challenge!!! 🎄

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Day 1 of artist Jo Blakey’…

Rustypuppy — Thu, 04 Dec 2025 01:01:22 GMT

Day 1 of artist Jo Blakey’s Winter Trees draw-along. First time using willow charcoal sticks. She supplied the photo reference.

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Worth a read for #artstr and…

Rustypuppy — Sun, 30 Nov 2025 23:42:49 GMT

Worth a read for #artstr and anyone selling via #nostr

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The print calendar with Satoshi quotes…

Rustypuppy — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 18:08:23 GMT

The print calendar with Satoshi quotes and #nostr #artstr images (including my citadel :) is now available!!!!

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Final week of this calendar art…

Rustypuppy — Tue, 25 Nov 2025 06:00:29 GMT

Final week of this calendar art challenge… and I just finished February. 😬🎉

This field mouse is about waking up from January’s hibernation and starting to Plan. Lots of ideas going around that little head. The column, not yet realized but slowly emerging from the many designs, is a background form brought into being by Plans and, more importantly, Actions.

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Laly Mille, one of my favorite…

Rustypuppy — Mon, 24 Nov 2025 15:09:02 GMT

Laly Mille, one of my favorite mixed media artists, has a free 20 minute lesson on creating a journal page: https://www.lalymille.com/give-back-friday

It requires an email address and is only available this week.

She has a few other short online classes in the Freebies section of her website, including an intro to art supplies. 🎨🖌️📔

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A friend found a book of…

Rustypuppy — Tue, 18 Nov 2025 00:38:17 GMT

A friend found a book of vintage flower illustrations that Kew Gardens turned into a grayscale coloring book.

Great paper for colored pencils, not great at all if you want to use watercolors, which is my friend’s favorite.

So I did a little experiment…

Brush the page to color with clear gesso and let dry overnight.

The page curled, so use clips to keep flat.

Use watercolors and watercolor pencils. Add gold highlights with acrylic marker for fun.

Look at back of colored page and be a bit surprised how good it still looks.

The clear gesso is rough to work on, but it did what it was supposed to do, so I’ll call this a success. ✅

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Beautiful photography in a lovely calendar…

Rustypuppy — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:36:40 GMT

Beautiful photography in a lovely calendar format. Postcards also for sale for sats if you check his other notes.

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Made some progress on my#2026calendarchallenge…

Rustypuppy — Mon, 10 Nov 2025 21:31:53 GMT

Made some progress on my
#2026calendarchallenge art: researched vintage images that express my idea and feelings for February of starting and planning, getting back to work after hibernating in January.

After cleaning up the images, I print them on copy paper. Then I use liquid and soft acrylic paint to give them an aged book look. The darker splots are alcohol ink from my Copic marker refill.

Also reposting existing sprinkles
note that has helpful prompts and info if you’d like to join her art challenge.

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