#creative art village

[glimmerbugart]

Welcome New Creative Art Villagers!

Welcome to all the new members of the Creative Art Village! We are so happy to have some new artists and creative people join un in our community!

I can’t wait for all of you to start sharing your wonderful creations, both from our lessons and projects as well as your own. It’s exciting to see what others are doing and sharing inspiration to keep us all motivated at our art tables.

And for those of you who may have missed the boat this time, doors will reopen for registration in March. So if you’d like to be notified, click here and we’ll get you on the VIP wait list! We’d love to have you join us!

But for now, let’s all get started working on some exciting projects, creating daily and encouraging our village members as we go. It’s so exciting to have you here!

[kaistrashbin]

teehee just a lil sneak peak of magic prof. Donna. Yes ofc she does plants n plant magic etc.

MORE TO COMEEEEEE

[thedrotter]

average minecraft gameplay of elementary school kids (+the og doodle of it I did like. months ago)

[lostinthewoodsomewhere]

Reluctant but proud members of the "Fuck the horrors, I just want my daughter back" club...

[makb546]

Process of making Jack against the Redstone Monstrosity.

This was a few days before my friends birthday and I really wanted to finish before then so it’s a bit rushed, I wish I added more light to certain areas or something to make everything feel more visible and less cluttered. Overall though I like how the Redstone Monstrosity turned out and how I redesigned him from his original Minecraft Dungeons look, he said he also used it as his wallpaper afterwards so at least he liked it!

[quibblequibblol]

chesecak 🤤

[krumpkin]

Great little AI picture . I love all things linked to the sea 😉

[bambopanda]

[muirneach]

we need to make rent cheap again for all the obvious reasons but also because art lowkey sucks rn and if we had cheap rent we would have a renaissance like its the information age baby why aren’t we living as such

[dollieclipsa]

Finally home.

I hope Link still has his house in ToTK and possibly learns more about his past??!👀

[glimmerbugart]

Doors Close at 9PM!

Last Call to Join The Creative Art Village – $19.99 is the Key to Your Most Creative Year! 🎨✨

👉 Join The Creative Art Village NOW!

Today is the final day to join The Creative Art Village, and I don’t want you to miss this chance to transform your creativity and joy. I know $19.99 can feel like a big commitment, so let’s put it in perspective. I wanted to extend the registration by a day to make sure you get in at the lowest price! We’ve got lots and lots of exciting things planned for 2025 and I want to make sure you get the chance to join us!

Here’s what you can expect as a Creative Art Villager:

🌸 Endless Inspiration – Step-by-step guidance to create meaningful art.

🎨 A Creative Spark – Build confidence and break through creative blocks in a supportive, welcoming neighborhood of like minded creatives.

💛 A Community of Creators – Connect with other creatives who uplift, encourage and inspire each other!

💛 Membership Appreciation – Because I certainly appreciate my membership and the community we are building together, I’ll send out fun and happy mail to brighten your day (and mailbox!). In fact, handmade Valentines are on their way out the door TODAY to current Creative Art Villagers! Who doesn’t love a little happy mail to brighten their day!

👉 Join The Creative Art Village NOW!

💫 Doors close tonight at 9PM EST! Don’t let the doors close before you get in. 💫

👉 Join The Creative Art Village NOW!

Don’t forget that if you join today, I’ll send you THREE FREE GIFTS!

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[kaistrashbin]

goofy kitty magic prof. Donna doodle LMFAO

[ronmayhewphotography]

The Fisherman of Nazare

  sardines and crackers The Fisherman of Nazare The last of today’s sun has cast its warm glow on Nazare, a tiny and inviting whitewashed stucco village covered in red tile roofs and knit together with curving narrow walkways. The huddle of tumble-down homes, the fishermen’s colorful high-prowed wooden boats, and the scent of fish drying in the sun are a testament to the fact that the people of…

[quibbs126]

I want to draw today but I don’t know what to draw >:(

It’s really frustrating

I keep eyeing my old Prismacolor markers since I left them out, and I want to use them, but a: they bleed and I don’t have stuff that works with them and b: I still don’t know what to draw regardless

I guess I did get some coloring pages with that Prismacolor set I got years ago, maybe I can try doing that

[brianshoe]

Village of the Gods

[thedaveandkimmershow]

To be honest, January felt a lot like an extension of December. As if December just kept going and going. The 31st, 32nd, 33rd...

And so on.

We actually closed out 2024 with an impromptu trip to hang out with family from December 30 through December 33. Not really to do anything but to hang out, live there a bit, indulge this other life we lead when we're in California. We even managed a party with friends to celebrate the ends and beginnings of things. :-)

January was a month of firsts. For example, we're not exactly grandparents but we have a granddoggy named Teddy. He's a light brown shepherd of sorts and Kimmer totally spoils him. Even before his first day staying at our place she'd bought him a bowl a mat and a big box 'o dog biscuits. She also pulled Linzy's old sleeping bag from the garage and arranged it in the living room so Teddy had something familiar in the house. Plus, Kimmer picked up a green stuffed toy just in case. :-)

Another first was that we bought a cat tree for our cat, Quarter. Kimmer was thinking he'd benefit from such a thing and, one day when she was browsing about the Shoreline GoodWill, she found it, had me check it out and think about it, then buy it, then bring it home, set it up. And presto!

A cat tree in our home.

Quarter took right to it. Although I've gotta say that he's kind of lazy about it. He could, if he wanted to, climb/leap the first three levels to the top which we call the Crow's Nest. Instead, he realized early on that the third level is more easily accessed from the desk right next to it. So that's what he does. He jumps up on the desk and almost walks across to the third level. If he's feeling ambitious, he'll leap straight up and into the Crow's Nest from the desk.

Bit of a cheater-pants, if you ask me.🤨

Now, we did get the cat tree for Quarter but Dinker uses it, too. The two cats actually took to playing Storm the Castle and Defend the Fort with Dinker as the attacker and Quarter as the defender. Quarter will actually poke his head out the bottom of the Crow's Nest and swipe and Dinker... and Dinker will swipe back.

Other times, though, we find Dinker in the Crow's Nest and Quarter on his blanket at the base of it. No claws out. No hissing. Just everyone being chill and all is right in the world. :-)

The next thing's not a first time but yeah. Kind of. We wanted to start in on the Harry Potter franchise again, top to bottom, in January. Only we didn't want to play any more streaming games. Bad enough the movies went from Netflix to Peacock to Netflix to Max. So we figured we'd buy the DVDs at GoodWill, Value Village, and Half Price Books. Which is how it worked out except for two things.

The first is we had to buy two Order of the Phoenix DVDs because the first one failed about halfway through. And then the second one failed at the same spot. So we gave up and watched the rest of the movie through a YouTube rental.

The second thing is that the movie we bought to kick off our seventh maybe eighth time through the franchise was called Harry Potter & the Philosopher's Stone.

Whoops.

That's the title of the British version of the book and, of course, the movie... for Brits. Yeah. We somehow wound up with a European version of the disc, encoded for European DVD players. Popping this disc in, we immediately got a Not available in your region message because yeah. European DVDs don't play over here. Like, at all. So we went back to the store and bought a proper Harry Potter & the Sorcerer's Stone and everything was right in the world. :-)

A coupla things that added to the vibe of an extended December: my friend Hilary gave me a Lego Severus Snape that's super adorable and owns a prominent piece of real estate next to my edit workstation at home. Linzy also had something for me in January: my December birthday card she didn't give me on my birthday but instead gave to me toward the end of January. Hand-crafted. Very cool deal.

Speaking of Linzy, she had a bit of a month. She traveled with The Little Lies (Fleetwood Mac tribute band) to perform at the Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco. She flew out the morning after a Midnight High gig, went straight from the airport to the rehearsal space in San Francisco and practiced 'til evening. The next day, the band got to visit The Record Plant in Sausalito just the other side of the Golden Gate bridge. This is where Fleetwood Mac recorded their iconic, classic album, Rumours. Bit of a visiting Mecca experience for this group of musicians. :-)

A coupla weeks later, they're in Los Angeles at The Regent Theater. Prior to these California performances, the band did shows at The Moore in Seattle and Aladdin in Portland. These performances are an integral part of a live podcast tour, a co-production of the You're Wrong About podcast and the American Hysteria podcast. We actually flew down the 23rd to the 26th to catch this show, once again living a few days in Irvine with family and embarking on quite the adventure the night after we arrived to probably the sketchiest, most dystopian part of L.A.. The evening involved many moving parts including, yes, the dystopia but also an authentic Mexican dinner along a historic street, a walkabout in Union Station, the logistics of trying to find the kind of parking that seems, you know, safe, a bar where the bartender is also the DJ for all the vinyl records up on the back wall of the bar that take their turns on a turntable, and finally, of course, the live podcast itself.

Having seen the show, I still can't properly describe it. It's a bit podcast, a bit history lesson, a bit of a play, a bit music. It's an eclectic bunch of ingredients that are expertly crafted to work. Rumor has it the show may move east in the fall. New Orleans maybe. New York maybe. And if they do play New Orleans... I'm pretty sure we're going. :-)

So January, Linzy had a bunch of solo restaurant/winery gigs, a Midnight High show, the two shows in California, and then finally a songwriter's showcase at the Rabbit Box Theatre a block off the Pike Place Market. This was three songwriters taking turns on stage, this time around Linzy pulling songs from the vault and doing those old songs quite a bit of justice.

Makes us wanna hear more of those early tunes. :-)

On the professional front, Kimmer's still wall-to-wall-to-wall work and doctoral studies. I'm being a little more experimental, taking some AI tools out for a spin to see how close to a travel show I can get using high-resolution photographs the AI manages brings to life.

Not necessarily a professional thing but a work thing, UW Video treated its full-time and part-time staff to an evening of bowling and appetizers. Great team-building experience. Great opportunity to talk shop, especially with the photographers, bringing them up to date with what we can do in Post these days.

Most importantly?

I didn't embarass myself. 105 and a 115. :-)

I also started up a new blog, My Brain on Creativity, that focuses a little more intently on Creativity and Neuroscience. I actually started up two new blogs. The second one is called Very Angry? Count to 100. It's a space in which I'm working out how some of the foundational lessons I learned in college pursuing my Communication degree and my Psychology degree... I'm working out how they apply today.

Anyway... that was our January.

Onward!