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drafted up a list of painting challenges for myself to get over my weird personal fear of having fun painting. first one is this dog statue we have on the windowsill that gives me gambler vibes, but specifically winning. he’s got people that owe him major debts

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finally birthed my baby btw #freshbaby

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fuck it releasing sketchbook pages from the drafts time

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peek at my studio shelf (beautiful mess) and this still life of a cut-in-half pear and two avocados on a lovely bed of lettuce in my painting sketchbook that i’ll never finish because it became time to eat said pear and avocados

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paintchewer 🤝 giving into the textural joy of really dense straight line quilting every time …

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OMG i finally finished it! my first hand quilted quilt. i pieced the quilt top and backing in 2 days and spent 3 months on the quilting… BUT im absolutely enamored with the texture and the absolute absurdity in the shape of my messed up “mitered corners”. this quilt is truly delightful to me + i love the scrap back more than the front design + i love that it’s an almost square (ended up 48x51”) . can you tell i’m really proud of this one lol

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in case u forgot. being genderfluid is based as fuck

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strikingly similar sketchbook drawings from months apart lol

one referenced and one .. idealized shall we say

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The curtain is finished! Three views of the front, one of the back. It lets in the light really well: no batting and a thin white backing fabric.

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finally made myself a quilt label linocut!! (+ my first in my long list of retroactive quilt labels) unfortunately i have to censor the name for privacy but trust me its beautiful and looks great ..,

i’ve been loving a lil bit (lots) of sequin beading glitz a lot lately too so had to have some of that

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be the pregnant boy u wanna see in the world btw ❤️ peace and love

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uhhh sorry i haven’t been posting. too busy being 9 months pregnant and dealing with torrential june storms or liquefying puppies type weather my b….. i’ve been working on a felt christmas stocking kit it’s like fiber arts legos. this one’s for da baby

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hey here’s a painting timelapse from times past

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as a follow up to this: day two of painting every day because i told myself i will : i worked on the middle panel of this painting :-D

i will be updating my blog with what i’ve worked on each day that assuming i’m successful letsa go 🤙

i’ve really got the summertime itch to get Painting Serious again, i’ve just spent so much time on my quilts and other fiber arts lately that my painting self (my artistic home) feels soooo neglected and foreign. so i spent some time this evening working on this panel and a pillar of the sorento, il painting :-)

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my mill grinds pepper and spice #youknowtherest

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i bought a toned grey sketchbook this weekend to be my casual painting and painting practice book. canvases take up a lot of space, and i thought my oils would pop beautifully on the grey paper. and wouldn’t you know it. look at miss naples yellow… glowing

this evening i started a painting of my wife in our days of being camp counselors together. weren’t we cute

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heyyy if anyone cares i started a fashion blog because i’m sooooo excited to get back into fashion postpartum because it’s one of my favorite art forms truly. anyway blog is @genderfluiddrip peace and love i’ve got a bunch of old photos queued for rn