#Molly crabapple art advice

[jasper-tarot-reader]

hi jasper! i'm crocus (she/her) — been trying to reconnect with making art again (after some really bad creative burnout) and was wondering what the best way for me to reconnect would be or any general advice about this situation!

Good morning Crocus! As established in previous asks, I am using the Lowbrow Tarot deck that I've checked out from the Missouri Evergreen library system. Your cards are Justice reversed by Molly Crabapple and the Moon upright by Jennybird Alcantara.

Oh, what an aesthetically fitting pair! The blue of the Justice card played nicely into all of the blues in the Moon card.

When reversed, Justice is about ruling one's life with irresponsibility; dangerous and inconsistent behavior can push one to the brink of misfortune from their own doing. However, Jennybird's interpretation of the Moon card focuses on the mystery and journey into the unknown.

Together, these two cards are laying out a few key truths: You shouldn't bite off more than you can chew with reconnecting, but now is the perfect time to try something new that you haven't done before. Something new, something that you're allowed to mess up. Part of your problem may be perfectionism that leads into disappointment - you want it to come out incredibly and are upset when you're done (or not even done) because it doesn't look how you imagined it. But it looks like you made it, and that's a good thing. Focus on that, create for the joy of creating instead of the stress of making something "technically impressive" or perfect.

As I've said in readings like this before, do it badly, but do it.

I hope this helps, Crocus! If you feel so inclined, please feel free to send feedback in my ask box, leave feedback in a reblog of this reading, and/or reblog my reading guidelines!

~Jasper

[acaseforpencils]

Molly Crabapple.

Molly Crabapple is an artist and writer in New York. She is the author of two books, Drawing Blood and Brothers of the Gun (with Marwan Hisham), which was long-listed for a National Book Award in 2018. Her reportage has been published in The New York Times, New York Review of Books, The Paris Review, Vanity Fair, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and elsewhere. Her art is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art. Her animated short, A Message from the Future with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, has been nominated for an Emmy award.

Read Molly’s New Yorker piece here.

Tools of choice:

Ecoline dyes

ultra fine manga nibs

ultra fine pilot pens

mechanical pencils

Arches cold press watercolor blocks

Dr Ph Martin's bleedproof white

matte medium for pasteups

Tool I wish I could use better: Oil paints!

Tool I wish existed: Something that could actually erase ink.

Tricks: Dr Ph Martin's bleedproof white!! It covers like acrylic, flows like dye, and you can use it to make the most ultra thin lines on earth.

Misc: The world is in chaos and no one knows what is going on, so you might as well do what you love with as much rigor and discipline and passion as is in you.

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Episode 319 - Katelan Foisy

Her first crush was Nosferatu, she started reading Burroughs at 12, she's fused Roma and Santeria, and now Katelan Foisy joins the show to talk about making art, magic, and a personal mythology. We get into the course of her artistic career, the perils of a public persona, the experience of making art for Smashing Pumpkins and William Patrick Corgan (& the genesis of their friendship), understanding the tarot as storyboards, learning to paint mosaics to make the Sibyls Oraculum, the allure of old hotels, the duality of Al Capone, and why she traded the East River for Lake Michigan. Plus, the great advice she got from Molly Crabapple, forming a Third Mind with Vanessa Sinclair, her adherence to William Burroughs' twin beliefs that you can write your way out of any problem and that photographs can change the future, and how her art tries to capture the Romany notion of the Stopping Place. • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

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