#Berliner kunstler

[dogandcatcomics]

Credit: George Grosz (Berlin, Germany, later USA, 1893-1959). Costume design for the play Methusalem, 1922, watercolor, ink, and pencil on paper. Thanks to @mepaintsme for the tip.

[tidalgrace]

Berlin snow (2023) #tidalgrace #art #kunst #berlinartist #kunstler #montrealartist #malagaartist #artberlin #deutschland #contemporaryart #visualart #modernart #digitalart #Berlin #snow #berlinberlin (at Montreal, Quebec) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cn-ksRMLUXG/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[purplephloxpress]

Another year, another Fanfiction Writers Appreciation Day!!!! If you are a writer of fanfic, please know just how appreciated you are!! Fandom would be such a different space without your creativity and labors of love. 💜

Holidays are all about making traditions, and the bookbinding friends with @renegadeguild once again came together to bind copies of fics for their authors as a show of our appreciation. This year I had the absolute joy of binding Emergency Help Wanted by the wonderful @piyo-13 and even got to collaborate with her on some of the design elements! It's a Modern AU Jiang Cheng/Lan Xichen fic that starts with a "help wanted" ad.

EMERGENCY HELP WANTED

I lied when I got my job. I told them I had a kid so I could leave early from work to pick him up from daycare, take him to doctor's appointments, and occasionally miss a day when he's sick. Long story short, I'm in too deep. I didn't think it through. Looking to rent a kid for bring your child to work day. Must be a boy ages four to six, longish dark hair, likes soccer. Must also be artistic as the macaroni noodle paintings I made seem a little advanced for his age. Also, I will pay extra for someone willing to play the role of husband when dropping him off. He's a prosecuting attorney who often brings his work home. Message me for further details. Serious inquiries only.

Ok. So. I may have gone a little feral with this one. Online "help wanted" ad spiraled into loading wheel scene dividers, spiraled into fake Google search result headers, spiraled into FULLY committing to those authentic looking text messages. In full color. (There are so many. I typeset in MS Word. It was SO worth it, but god what a struggle at some points.) And don't forget the "recent searches" title page! Or the computer cutout on the cover! (It's bluescreening, just like Lan Xichen through this entire fic!) Also that cover/title page image that I just kept adding details to. (It's supposed to be Lan Xichen's desk, so it simply didn't feel right until it had sticky notes on the computer, #1 dad on the mug, scissors and measuring tape, scribbles on the sticky notes) Did I have a ton of fun designing this one? Perhaps. Couldn't say. Maybe just a tad. (This is a lie I had an ABSOLUTE BLAST!)

Historically, I've waited until I finish at least the typeset before reaching out to the author, but not so with this one! I got the idea for the fake google search results from Piyo's authors notes, teasing the contents of the next chapter. But! Those didn't start until about chapter 4! So I reached out and asked if we could collaborate and I'm forever glad I did! Not only does this have teasers for each chapter, I also got to bounce design ideas off of her, including what shade of blue and purple for the text messages. Because my friends, that is a serious matter and changed SEVERAL times throughout the process.

Also shoutout to all my Renegade friends who gave input and encouragement over the past year while I worked on this (what endpages to use? how to make this shade of green perfectly Nie Huaisang? how do we feel about this text message design? or how about this one?) - I love you all dearly and appreciate you so much for putting up with my nonsense at all times.

Binding details below the cut!

Fandom: The Untamed/Mo Dao Zu Shi

Pairing: Jiang Cheng | Jiang Wanyin / Lan Huan | Lan Xichen

Bookcloth: Aqua/Purple Dubletta from Colophon Book Arts

Endpapers: Craft Consortium Ink Drops - Ocean pack

Textblock paper: short grain cream from Church Paper

Titling: We R Memory Keepers foil quill

Endbands: leather cording core, DMC embroidery floss for the bands

Body Font: EB Garamond

Title Font: Berlin Sans FB

Text Messages: Roboto

Additional fonts: Times New Roman, Kunstler Script, Magis Authentic

Title page image from Rawpixel and designed in Canva

Various computer graphics from The Noun Project

Tumblr insists on eating and doubling text in this section at its own whim, so if there's something missing that you're curious about, feel free to DM me an ask!

[the-city-in-mind]

The book this blog is named after

The City In Mind: Notes on the Urban Condition is a set of travelogues and essays from urbanism commentator, gadfly and magic-realism author James Howard Kunstler.

You probably know him from his TED Talk, and from his first book, The Geography of Nowhere, both polemics about sprawl suburbia.

Of late, Kunstler’s become a bit of a reactionary doomer so his politics aren’t hopeful.

But this book was enlightening in its examination of the evolution of different cities: Paris, Atlanta, Mexico City, Berlin, Las Vegas, Rome, Boston, and London; infused with his preference for traditional architecture (take it or leave it), he reserves his satirical criticism mostly for the grotesqueries of Vegas and Atlanta.

I always thought this would make a great Netflix series, and I hope one gets made someday, but perhaps it does show its age and its author’s biases now.

[belikovaart]

https://www.momentumworldwide.org/exhibitions/birds-bicycles/

[keiross]

So it was my birthday the other day. To celebrate I cleaned my kitchen sink. I also went down to the canal in my neighbourhood to draw this and the coolest thing happened - as I was perched by the path a couple of guys walked passed, and then out the corner of my eye I noticed one of them was approaching me, and he was like "Is it you? I think it's you!" He seemed nice but I didn't recognise him. With a big smile which radiated all kinds of positivity he said "I love your Instagram!". How nice is that? I'm Insta-famous 😬

Well random passer-by-dude, thanks for letting me know because you made my birthday! 😊 It was such a nice surprise. I mean I do all this drawing because in many ways I have to, and I suppose it stopped occurring to me that my scribbles may give other people a smile or some form of enjoyment or something - so thanks dude, because being told that was the nicest birthday present, even better than a clean kitchen sink 😬

[eevgeen]

“Running around like a crazy animal” / acrylic, spray paint, oil pastels / 136x138 cm (53x54 inch) canvas / Berlin 2019 .

[fuckjagermanexpressionism]

BOI

Otto Dix, age 28 at an art function.

[the-outer-topic]

1965 07 Kidnap King of the Berlin Wall - For Men Only - Mort Künstler

[karmenkraft]

CLAUDIÄ I’m currently selling small paintings like this one. DM me. 30x24cm Markers, ink, acrylic, gold leaf and paper on canvas. 2020 . . . #artistsupportpledge #karmenkraft #berlin #kunst #kunstler #contemporarypainter #womenartists #berlinkunst #artmazemag (en HB55 Kunstfabrik) https://www.instagram.com/p/CIvNZj8nGM6/?igshid=a5aj9054pyu4

[dogandcatcomics]

#repost @viktoriamaliar Viktoria Maliar (Berlin, Germany, b. Ukraine, 1988-). Dog's Dreams, 2022, oil on canvas, 40 x 50 cm. I appreciate this sweet canine representation. Thanks to @baam.berlin for the tip.

[tidalgrace]

cosmódromo, Berlin (2022) #tidalgrace #art #kunst #berlinartist #kunstler #montrealartist #malagaartist #artberlin #deutschland #contemporaryart #visualart #modernart #digitalart #berlin #architecture #1970s #brutalism (at Málaga, España) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg9piRVNdWY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[orakel-von-doelfi]

Seit Neptun entdeckt wurde(1846), ist er zum zweiten Mal in den Fischen. Aber die Menschheit erlebt ihn erstmalig mit kollektivem Bewusstsein...

[irish-artist-ie]

#Repost @morrinartist • • • • • • Neukölln, Berlin, Germany Untitled, 2020. 100x100cm. #kunst #kunstler #pencildrawing #drawingonpaper #worksonpaper #charcoal #chalk #oil #artbuyers #paperdrawing #contemporaryart #contemporaryartist #neukolln #berlin #irishart #irishartist #irishartists #morrinartist #christophercolmmorrin https://www.instagram.com/p/CAq861BHOyU/?igshid=1jv99sq6fjzb9

[fabiofinamore]

Abstract district 2017 Series 58x148cm circa #artwork #canvas #artcontemporain #abstactart #abstractpainting #streetart #spraypaint #graffiti #gesture #gestures #kunstler #kunst #artgallery #gallery #artcollection #artcollector #artdealer #artcurator #artshow #contemporaryart #contemporarypainting #paintings #napoli #naples #nyc #manhattan #brooklyn #artlovers #berlin #art (presso Naples, Italy)

[keiross]

I'm trying to find ways to express feelings through art, or at least be able to identify feels and then channel them so my paintings have meaning for me. So I took this very familiar and mundane scene from my everyday and in my head, connected it to an existing strong emotion/feeling I have. I combined the emotional energy from the feeling and scene with some visual inspiration. In this case it was the work of an old British impressionist I stumbled across called Alfred Sisley, whose brush strokes are so fun and exciting for me. I put those two things together and then got lost in the painting.