#10x10 painting

[weatherera]

“There were many like you.”

[h0neyfreak]

I finished my painting of a boat I saw in Scotland while I was hiking and had Covid (but didn’t know yet) and it was the prettiest thing I’ve ever seen. It’s oil paint with oil pastels over top (and drops of oil pastel fixative that hasn’t dried yet but I didnt notice until I light corrected the photo lol)

[brynhildr13]

Haven't posted the updates I made! There isn't much. The butterfly is something I did in quarantine that I never finished hahaha!! And the most recent update to the other is I arrer the cat's tail!

Witching Hour

Oils on Canvas

9" x 12" , 2023

**Work in Progress**

Claimed for Sale- THANK YOU!

Butterfly

Oils on Canvas

10" x 10" , 2020, 23

**Work In Progress*

Available for sale!

[a-dauntless-daffodil]

im reminded of the Doctor Doctor professor who my mom's mom cleaned house for back in the day and how said professor and her professor husband (physics for both of them) couldn't figure out how to hang a framed picture on the wall and how they both watched with such awe as my grandma un-clogged their sink for them (they ended up sending their kids to public school so they'd have a chance to "learn life skills" XD) and im giggling now, imagining them also putting stat points into FANFIC instead of stuff like. How to use a hammer

I just found out one of my favorite AO3 authors of all time is a fucking neurosurgeon which was surprising initially just because I often forget AO3 writers are real people and not smut angels sent down from the heavens to make us feel alive, but in hindsight it makes perfect sense.

they are a fucking genius so. they just apply that genius to multiple fields.

[yuurenkyouko]

Mokou and Kaguya

Canvas on magnet, 10x10 cm. Medium: oil paint.

[hillbillyoracle]

How to Create Downtime Menus

As a lot of my posts are, this one was inspired by a conversation with my partner. She seemed to think some of my ideas were helpful so I thought I'd write them up and share them here.

I use a combination of these ideas to do two things - redirect myself when I get stuck doomscrolling/freezing/obsessing and redirect myself when I'm stuck on the "must be good, must be productive" hamster wheel and can't seem to stop doing chores until I'm fucking exhausted or have pushed/hurt myself. Knowing you need to stop is one thing - knowing what to do instead is another.

Not all of these will work for every person at every time. Pick one or two that seem interesting and give them a whirl.

Habit of the Month

This is a small habit I can do in about 5-10 minutes a day. These are sometimes habits that I want to audition for my lineup or just want to focus on as a way of rebooting a given area of my life. Physical habits have been things like stretching, a walk, putting on moisturizer, drinking water, making tea, etc. Emotional habits have been things like stream of consciousness journaling, bullet journaling, recording myself venting, etc. Spiritual habits have been things like meditating, altar work, reading sutras, tarot readings, etc.

If I'm stuck in a loop and I haven't done that task yet, it serves as an easy win that feels moderately meaningful to accomplish. This is easier to do than longer or less interesting tasks.

Side Quests

These are little challenges I'd like to accomplish that are 100% fun and completely optional. They are specific and can me completed within a given time frame - usually a month. They usually aren't the most meaningful to keep them more fun and so I'm not letting myself down if I don't opt to complete it.

They've been things like:

The Minor Expert Challenge - read three books in one subject

The Kanopy Critic Challenge - use up all of my Kanopy credits that month

The Regal Freegal Challenge - download all the albums/songs I can on Freegal that month

The Monthly Playlist Challenge - create a playlist of the month where each song represents something about each day of that month; like a playlist diary

The Reverse Tarot Draw Challenge - pick/list a tarot card you best think represents each day of a given month or other time period; like a tarot card diary

The 100 Words Challenge - learn 100 words in a foreign language

As you can see, I prefer things that are pretty low energy friendly so I can work on them on days I'm super tired. Just little chronic illness things.

Alphabet Lists

I use these for my cleaning routines actually but I also have been trying them with my downtime. The way it works is you list out the alphabet and choose one self care or hobby task you'd like to do for each. They don't have to start with the same letter, it just serves as an easy way to limit how many you pick and keep track of what you've done. It's satisfying to cross off the whole list.

Tasks I put on these are things like

A - paint my nails

B - crochet a charity hat

C - write 5 letters for Letters Against Isolation

D - send a letter to a friend

E - play a solo rpg

F - play a solo board game

G - complete a puzzle

etc

They're fun tasks I'm not currently doing as often as I'd like but chill enough that it doesn't matter when precisely I do them more often. I try to pick tasks that are roughly 30 minutes to an hour long though some definitely take longer. I like to complete these roughly monthly but I try to complete a whole list before I start it again. Anything I just did not feel like doing and kept skipping gets scratched out and I rewrite a new list with new item to replace those. And I start again.

Whenever I'm like ugh I don't know what to do with myself, I try to pick at least one thing on the list and give it a try for 5 minutes. If I don't like it after that I can just put it away and pick something else.

10x10

10x10 lists are a different take on a similar idea. It's a list of 10 things you'd like to do at least 10 times in a given time period. Mine tend to be on the seasonal or annual timescale but maybe you're intense and prefer a monthly one. If I don't complete them in a given time period, I just continue with it until I'm done. Better to complete it on an altered timeline than not at all.

For me these tend to be slightly bigger tasks that take a little more planning or energy. I'm not totally sure why I use them this way since you could definitely use them for smaller tasks but that's just the space they occupy for me.

So examples of what would be on my list would be things like:

Grab a hot chocolate from the coffee shop (x10)

Complete a PokemonGo event (x10)

Have a spa night and watch a movie (x10)

Do something extra nice for my partner (x10)

Try a new game (x10)

Find a geocache (x10)

etc

Filing up a little 10x10 grid is pretty satisfying. Much more so than anxietying myself into my bed for the equivalent amount of time.

Seasonal Bucket Lists

I really enjoy making these though I really struggle with the current season (Spring) given my allergies. There's this idea my partner has told me about in DBT where you try to recall positive moments to help "build a life worth living". I think seasonal bucket lists are really good at helping with this for me. I look back on the seasons I made these lists way more fondly than the ones I didn't.

They generally center on seasonal activities I don't want to miss out on. So for summer that's stuff like going for a night swim/skinny dip, getting 5-10 good cloud photos, playing a yard game (like cornhole), seeing a street concert, etc. I also try to take pictures of those (if they don't already involve them) so I can reflect on them later and enjoy the residual happiness.

Conclusion

The point of these isn't to overwhelm you with options. It's just to have enough ideas prepped that you can find something no matter your energy level or time you're working with.

Remember - rest and enjoying yourself is necessary for human health. Folks how get good rest and experience flow states more regularly tend to heal better. People who spend time on what they enjoy are often more enjoyable to be around.

It's never a waste of time to make yourself happy.

[tommieglenn]

A fanart memory album project!

Okay here's the big reveal of the thing I've been working on last month (and going to keep working this month as well, since I have more ideas).

Long story short, last month I saw that one of my earliest paintings of Raul is dated 2014 (wow), so I thought, how about I make some sort of an artbook/fanzine to feature my paintings from different years, and maybe make another one for all the paintings of Freddie and maybe another for my original art. Soon the idea of just an artbook started to look a bit boring to me, so I switched to the idea of it maybe looking like some sort of a scrapbook. which also felt not enough for me. And eventually I decided that I wanted something a bit more personal, more tangible, more tactile? I wanted to make it a collection of prints that you can both keep in a neat "book", but also be able to take one or a few prints out and maybe hang in on your wall, or keep as a card on your table, or use it as a bookmark, or just give it as a gift? And I wanted another distinctive thing to be, that all the prints have a date on them, marking when they were originally painted. Drumroll, it's a photoalbum now! With prints of different sizes, some are folded like gift cards, some look like polaroid photos. There're also a few simple stickers and an A3 poster of Emcee ;3

There's gonna be a video, so you can see all pages. And I'll plan to make the same sort of album for Freddie's paintings, and I've already chosen a number of personal, non fanart paintings. For now those are the only theme that have enough material to fill an album with.

Right now I finished the first Raul one and already printed the second album, so it's waiting to be assembled. Please let me know, if you want one (you can message me on Boosty, Instagram, Tumblr, or just email me tommie.glenn@yandex.ru).

So the album consists of: 1 poster (size A3,folded), 8 stickers (5x5 cm) 14 prints (size A6) 4 prints (10x10 cm) 8 prints (8,8x10,5 cm) 12 prints (6x10 cm) 4 prints (4x10 cm) 1 vertical card (size A6) 2 horizontal cards (size A6)

The price is $50 (which already includes international shipping). I'll make a Hipolink payment via PayPal (here's a link for that https://hipolink.me/tommieglenn/products/raul-esparza-fanart-memory-album ), or if you're okay with paying with card, then you can use my Boosty's tip jar (here https://boosty.to/tommieglenn ), but please write me beforehand, so that I can let you know if I have an album available (and can send it the next day), or you'd have to wait a few days for me to make it for you.

[radioactivecowgirl]

is now a good time for me to post my Nina expressionist oil painting i did for my senior bfa show bc i love her sm

Propaganda

Rosalind Russell (His Girl Friday, Auntie Mame, The Women)—Hugely influential in her role as Hildy in His Girl Friday, Russell is perhaps the greatest influence on the character of Lois Lane. Catty, hilarious and charming, Russell is the blueprint for every sharp tongued transatlantic diva. In The Women she wears a series of incredible fits including a wonderful Schiaparelli dress covered in eyes. Later in her career she was the incredible Queer Icon Mame, a model of bohemian life that still resonates today

Nina Mae McKinney (Hallelujah, Pie Pie Blackbird, The Devil’s Daughter)—One of the first black movie stars, Nina worked with Bill ‘Bojangles’ Robinson, King Vidor, and Paul Robeson. She was the first Black Actress to be signed to one of the major studios, MGM, but her career was stalled by a lack of roles.

This is round 2 of the tournament. All other polls in this bracket can be found here. Please reblog with further support of your beloved hot sexy vintage woman.

[additional propaganda submitted under the cut.]

Rosalind Russell:

She's funny! She's glamorous! She stood up for herself! She took her own initiative to make sure her role in His Girl Friday was funny enough to stand up to Cary Grant!

Funny, fast talking, witty, triple threat, so charming that her husband of 35 years watched her in a movie and decided he needed to meet her and he was going to marry her, and got Cary Grant to arrange a meeting. Grant was best man at their wedding. Was a big supporter and funder of arthritis research and was honoured by Congress for her work in that field.

She’s just so fucking funny. She gave another woman a permanent scar from biting her leg in a scene and this is a story she herself told in interviews. This maybe true maybe not piece of IMDB trivia is never far from my mind: At the wrap party, Rosalind Russell was dancing with George Cukor, when Ernst Lubitsch passed her and said, "If you want more close-ups in the picture, never mind dancing with your director, you'd better dance with Norma Shearer!" Without missing a beat, Russell took Shearer's hand with a wink and danced her across the floor.

Nina Mae McKinney:

Hollywood's first Black vamp, and have you seen her dance? 👀

She has such delicate features and such a delightfully impish smile

[heather-wright]

Is there even coffee?☕️💨 #foodpaintchallenge ➡️Swipe for close ups, wip, reference and rules!

▫️The #foodpaintchallenge has only one rule: to use the same given reference picture(a) and give their interpretation of it.

▫️From Friday to Friday. Of course you can paint old entries as you want. They are there to practise! 💪

✨Available!

🎨Oil painting on a 25x25 cm ~ 10x10 in cradled wood!

[comikbook]

What canvas size do you typically use for your paintings? I'm struggling to find a size that's not too big where I get overwhelmed (and too big for my computer to handle) but not too small where it's hard to add small detail without it looking pixely

me personally i LOVE a big canvas, but since i use procreate im limited with size and layer availability so the absolute smallest ill use is 10x10 in (i always convert it to inches bc its easier for me, also i like square canvases :) ) but the most common ill use is 12x16 in, sometimes a little bigger or a little smaller if i crop. also oh ! always 300 dpi.

[azurbright]

Most of yall said you'd like to see this tutorial on how to make the cubito heads. So here I am, ready to serve the people. I'll be making Doc, but obviously this tutorial works for whoever you'd like to make.

Technically, the poll hasn't ended, but like forty people said they wanted a tutorial and I had time to make one today, so here you go.

Tutorial under the cut

Materials you'll need.

1 10x10 inch canvas (or you can use whatever size you want as long as it's square)

Paint Brushes, specifically the flat edge ones

Acrylic paint. (You could probably use whatever paint you have on hand, but acrylic is the best for this)

A mixing plate, for your colors, I'm not a professional, so I use a paper plate.

Pencil, to map out your squares.

Ruler, to make sure your lines are very even. (My rulers small, I couldn't find the big one, I'd really recommend a regular 12 inch.)

Alright, now move everything to the side, grab your canvas, your pencil, and your ruler.

The first thing you'll do is use your ruler and find the center of the canvas. If you're using a 10 inch, the center should be at 5 inches. Once you find the center, draw a line directly down the center using the ruler to keep ot straight.

After you do that, you'll want to find the center of each side. The left side measurement should be 2.5 inches, and the right side should be at 7.5 inches. Once you find draw a line.

Now, you should have 4 equal segments. On each of those 4 segments, find the center and draw a line directly down.

Alrighty, now you've got 8 (mostly) even lines, turn your canvas 90 degrees and do it all again. Find the center.

Once you've drawn that line you know what to do, find the center of the two different segments you made and draw a line.

Nowww, you'll have to do it 4 more times, find the center of each and draw line down.

And now, you've got a mostly perfect grid.

Next, you'll find a photo of your specific MCYTs head. Mine is Doc.

It doesn't really matter which colour you decide to start with, but do all the colours of that value first. I'm going to start with the blacks.

I guess it's quite simple really, just paint the black where the black goes.

It doesn't have to be perfect, but try to stay in the lines. Then add the lighter values, your grays and whites.

From there, I added the Red in. To make the darker reds, I just mixed black in with the reds.

And then the green

And the final touches of brown, which I usually do browns last because I can mix together all the colors I already made to make it.

And you can hang him up on the wall with all his other friends <3

So anyways, I hope this was a decent tutorial, and it helps you make one of these cute little guys. If you have any questions on how to mix colors or the process, feel free to ask, I'd never judge you for asking.

[cypent]

:3

Painted on a 10x10 cm magnetic canvas with gouache and a couple of liners

[polish-art-tournament]

paintings* round 1 poll 64

note that the second image is three examples of works from a series

From 0 to 100% of black by Ryszard Winiarski, 1975:

propaganda: maths and art what more could you possibly want

The game 10x10, a series by Ryszard Winiarski:

propaganda: Winiarski tworzył dzieła często związane z algorytmiką i statystyką. cykl gier 10 x 10 zawiera plansze sterowane algorytmem, ale także plansze gdzie następne zaciemnianie pola były losowane przypadkowo, przez rzut koścmi do gry albo rzut monetą, etc. Najlepiej jego prace prezentują się obok siebie :D [Winiarski's works are often related to algorithms and statistics. The series of 10x10 games includes boards dictaded by algorithm, but also boards where the consecutive sections painted black were decided by chance: by rolling the dice, tossing a coin etc. They look best presented one next to another]

Ja go lubię bo po pierwsze te prace stanowią fajny komentarz do rzeczywistości w której żyjemy, a po drugie pojawia się we mnie taki nerdowaty stworek który krzyczy matematyka!! za każdym razem jak się patrzę na te prace. [I like him because these works are a fun commentary on the reality we live in, and also because it makes my inner nerd creature manifest and go maths!! every time i look at these works]

about the artist: inżynier z wykształcenia, ale poszedł w sztukę - malarstwo i scenografię, co imo jest bardzo fajne [engineer by profession, but he got into art - painting and scenography, which is great imo]

dude was such a nerd I love it

[brynhildr13]

I'm sorry I'm so freaking bad at posting on here. I always forget cuz tagging doesn't work the same when I just post right from Instagram, even tho that would be easiest for me.

Anyways, I finished two more art pieces the last few days, doing color studies like I did in quarantine with my oil paints. I can't wait to see where it takes me cuz once I get these photographed I'm going to gloss varnish the Garnet piece! First time I ever used a varnish so we'll see how that goes!

Blooming Rose

Acrylics on Canvas

8" x 10" , 2024

$130

Garnet

Acrylics on Canvas

10" x 10"

$150

[solstice-snakes]

my limbs hurt so much lately that removal is looking like a more appealing option. they already feel like they're tearing away from my body anyways.

10x10 in. acrylic on canvas. 2024.

[zorya-reads]

THE painting. (This moment as anything but oil is a crime tbh.)

Roughly 15 min, 10x10 cm (Paper Cube)