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While I didn't write this extremely funny and great Yes Men hoax Wired article, I'm honored to be included in it

The Climate Has a Posse: On the Power and Peril of the New Greenwashing Emoji

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Bat vase by Richard Freiwald

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Head of a Fellahin, Leopold Carl Müller (1834-1892)

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Shades of Green - Pekel Herman , 2024.

Australian, b.1956-

Oil and acrylic on cotton rag ,   74 x 55 cm.   

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Tabán, 1927. From the Budapest Municipal Photography Company archive.

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Call Your Uncle, NYC, Photo by Phillip Collier, 1977

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East Boston, Boston in the 1970s through Michael Philip Manheim’s lens

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I finally took the time to photograph my vintage dip pen nib collection, and I need to share with you all how wonderful and diverse their designs are.

These two are my favorite. Just look at them! One of them is named Gorille and the other Mephisto, but to me they're little pumpkins.

And of course you gotta love the Pinocchio nib. You get to write with the nose of a tiny guy! Just not something you get to do anymore.

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Kaoru Yamada (Japanese, 1975) Night

via Animals in Art through History

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Wake up babe new fish dropped

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タイガーロータスとクラウンテールのベタを描きました！

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I painted Tiger Lotus and CT betta!

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"there’s nothing wrong with using tracing paper or a light board or a grid or whatever helps you create"

Theatrical scenic artists and muralists have been using those techniques for literally hundreds of years. They're really not that new-fangled--tell the haters to go jump in the lake. Your pieces are beautiful, and they're yours, however you make them.

Maybe a silly question, but do you transfer your image sketches onto your greenware in any way before carving? I just started making pottery in the past year. I enjoy sgraffito because I love carving lino cut but hated the actual printing part. I’ve been making a copy of my design on printer paper and tracing it onto the greenware with a stylus. Do I just need to get more comfortable free handing it 👀

I always transfer my sketch onto my greenware! I use a pencil crayon to press through the paper and into the clay, leaving a subtle line to follow.

there’s nothing wrong with using a guide. you sketched the design out for a reason! I find if I don’t transfer the sketch, my carving tends to get out of control lol and escape the confines of the piece

I know some artists think using new tools and techniques (or even old tools and techniques) is ‘cheating’ but imo that’s ridiculous. there’s nothing wrong with using tracing paper or a light board or a grid or whatever helps you create

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