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Mixed Media Question!
Have any of you used nail polish on acrylic paint? Or between layers of acrylic paint? I've been trying to search it but my google-fu isn't doing well differentiating between acrylic paint and acrylic nails.
So I have lots of things saying it's fine to use nail polish on acrylic nails, but not it's behavior on dry acrylic paint, or if it's a stable base.
I was thinking it could be interesting to use some of my nail stamps to create a layer between my paint pour layer and my painting layer, but I'm a slow painter so really don't want to lose that much work.
I guess similarly, has anyone used masking fluid on acrylic paint? I was going to use it to try to keep the polish corralled...
#acrylic painting#using nail polish not on nails#mixed media#i'm new to this#who knew a temporary hobby to keep me out of trouble until I can wrap again would get so damn expensive#i need a cheap hobby
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ITS FUCKING OCTOBER ?????? THERE'S TWO MONTHS LEFT OF THE YEAR AND I'VE ALREADY DRAWN OVER 1K ARTS THIS YEAR ?????????????????
#WHAT IS WRONG WITH ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!#I AM LITERALLY ARTS GEORG#I WANNA BE LIKE OH I NEED OTHER HOBBIES BUT I LITERALLY DO HAVE OTHER HOBBIES. I HAVE TOO MANY OTHER HOBBIES ALREADY#AND A DEGREE IM STUDYING FOR. AND A JOB SOMETIMES#I THINK I JUST NEED TO STOP DRAWING TIL NEXT YEAR (jk i could never do that i think i'd keel over and die if made to not draw for a week)#talk is cheap#?!??!?!?!??!?!?!??!?!!??!?!?!??!?!?!?!??!?!?!#HELLO 999 CALLING THE BOBBIES THIS IS ILLEGAL#AND IMPOSSIBLE I DONT THINK A HUMAN BEING SHLD B DOIN THIS/?
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What markers do you use and what kind paper? The textures are so Delicious
Very basic paper, actually! I find I overthink when using expensive stuff and it makes my sketches worse.
As for markers, I use Copics! Not that this is an endorsement (my first set were a very nice gift), but I have really liked using alcohol based markers over water based ones; lovely texture, good blending, and less streaking. However, the price can be *brutal*, and you can very easily get by with other markers + pencil crayons.
#ask#art faqs#fancy supplies are nice but the dont really help THAT much for art skills. Consistancy and persistance does.#I balked the first time I needed to go in to buy a few new ones to fill out my roster.#if you are going to invest; my strategy was to make those fancy new supplies a reward for drawing X amount of days in a row#that way one doesnt buy a bunch of stuff for a soon to be abandoned hobby#Art is a relatively cheap hobby at its basics. You do not need the fanciest and most expensive things.#I think watercolour is the only exception for me; that paper better be high grade. The paint mix also matters#but I digress. Buy what you need and not what you want. Save your money.#Guilt will make you stop drawing. Hoarding supplies and never using them is wasteful#when I drop money on new colours I'm going in with a list of what I want#and looking through the swatchpad for hours until i get the right colour.#cant emphasize enough how fortunate I am to have been gifted my copics. I never would have bought them on my own.
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I have found a beautiful perfect humble rock specimen that is light yellow with a weird dark yellowy brown lining, somewhat resembling a chunk of smoked gouda cheese... effervescent
#I am still very into trash collecting at the moment and even went out and got one of those grabby sticks for cheap and a little#bucket I can carry around and put trash in. so I am going on walks in nature a bit more (not really to enjoy nature but more to play the#very fun Real Life Hidden Object Point And Click Game that is 'hunt for bottle caps and cans' .. but eh.. whatever gets me out of the#house lol).. anyway.. some nature places near water will have cool rocks#Which I know you're not supposed to take them and I MOSTLY dont.. but every once in a while it's like... when else will I ever find a#gouda rock... I have cleaned up 4 buckets of trash today.. I have helped the environment.. mayhaps.. i could take a One Single Rocke as a#treate... ANYWAY. but yeah. I don't know the names of rocks but there's a rock that's a matte muted marigold yellow sort of#color and I call them 'cheese rock'. I'm pretty sure this one is of the 'cheese rock' species but it just has weird brown coloration#like maybe it got stained or something on one side of it. Most of the other cheese rocks have no markings. though sometimes there will be a#auburn reddish sort of hue on a corner or something.. hrmm.. curious. I also got a Beginner's Hobby rock tumbler and some supplies#so I might try polishing some of the rocks from my enormous rock collection. even though they're all street rocks I picked up from sidewalk#and stuff. I saw a video where someone put random gravel and stuff in a rock tumbler and none of them were Stunning Gems or whatver#but some still turned out cool enough that I would be pleased with the result... OUgh.. I want to post more I need to like do costumes and#sculptures and stuff and be Active On Social Media and think about my Future and Career and how it always benefits artists to keep an#active social media or etc. but I just feel so tired and bad lately. I think the summer heat waves have really exhausted me. I also have#been trying to make new friends + on a weird schedule so I've been socializing and also watching media too much. I notice I always start#to feel this kind of unsettled stress of not making any forward progress in my life if I do that for too long. like 'Okay this week I've#done nothing but meet up with two friends & watch like 10 episodes of tv and only worked on a few projects on the side.. this is HORRIBLE!'#(ppl who follow me here that I talk to on discord: this isn't about you! Im specifically just referencing being tired of introductory talks#with a new round of random strangers during my Friend Hunt. Just clarifying so it couldn't be misinterpreted as vaguepost implying that I'm#secretly bothered by talking to you or etc. lol.. anyway) . Which I know to MOST people 'I talked to a lot of friends and watched some cool#stuff!' sounds like a GOOD relaxing time but.. to me it is not ghhj.. Those are 'external' focuses on things outside myself which bothers#me if not moderated. Like.. i MUST retreat internally to work on my worldbuilding and my own thoughts and etc. at very regular intervals or#it will really start to bear on me too much. Brain Mandated Hermit Isolation lol. Just being too detached from my world and stuff for#too long feels increasingly bad. PLUS. every day I don't make tangible progress towards my goals is a day wasted that I could have been#investing in my future by working on novels/games/sculptures/actual career relevant stuff. Not even in a Capitalism way i just genuinely#enjoy Completing Tasks & feel miserable if I don't for too long. EVEN the media I'm watching I turn into A Task since I rank in a detailed#google doc list after viewing lol.. Like EW movie too boring on it's own. NEED to turn it into something I can categorize and analyze ghghj#LOVE to make things more complicated than they need to be. like YAAAY organizational tasks! yaay meticulous sorting!! BOO ''mindless fun''!
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End of an era. I donated my instruments today.
#after years of trying to make myself enjoy bass and pick up playing guitar.#i have accepted i just don't enjoy them. and that is okay. i have tried so many times#since having lessons in middle school. and picking it up. and putting it down. and picking it up. and putting it down.#because my whole life i thought “i need a hobby” but it isn't like i ever really tried anything else. so i thought i could just pick and#make it happen.#had nothing to do with skill that was the other part that i think caused me grief. thinking i “should” enjoy this#i have an aptitude for it. i love music. i love the sound. i'm gifted with good rhythm sense. there is no reason i shouldn't enjoy it#but then i realized outside of personal things i have an aptitude for a lot of things like when it comes to work and my education#and i freely accept that i don't enjoy many of those things either even though i'm good at them#so yeah. good riddance. if i ever get the urge to play something again i will let myself get something small cheap and silly.#like a ukulele#or some shit. but i bet i don't. i have released myself from the chains of string instruments. plus i have actual hobbies now that#i do enjoy#and things i want to try as well not just out of “idk what to do i guess i should do this”#-pers
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Coworker: I'm so lucky I have my husband. I don't know how anyone could do it on a single income.
Me, barely surviving on a single income:
#people could claim i dont need Mocha#but she's legitimately the one thing i spend money on that isnt a necessity#my one current hobby and passion#by barely surviving i mean we're choosing which bills get paid that month and eating nothing but cheap pasta
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trying to second hand pill more ppl by posting my hobby collections that are 90% hauls from collectors selling their pieces, flea markets, n auctions. keep shit circulating. buy more used dvds. etc.
#like u wont always find shit u want but u never know when ull go to to like an antique mall n find something uve been#desperately needing#or someone just happens to be trying to get rid of that thing u want on mercari#dig n hunt good luck#obviously like my collector dolls r mainly bought firsthand but like#not everyones trying to make a quick buck n scam u some ppl out there will sell that hobby thing for a decent price#got an entire row of precious moments dolls i got for suoer cheap at a flea market once#i could go on#these rnm funkos i got for $4 each n then they wanted to get rid of n discounted further. love n light
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#went to our new hobby lobby#needed a frame (found a good one for cheap)#admired but ignored the yarn (I do need some but not now)#then wandered into the craft supplies and found some stuff for mending and sewing and then THIS#it’s wildly impractical (a lighter wooden one makes more sense) but I don’t care#mine
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A thing that kinda grinds my gears when it comes up- if someone asks how much it costs to get into a game, answers like 'oh you can just proxy everything in cardboard' or 'if you 3d print its basically free' are deeply unhelpful responses. Yes, I realize I can spend less money by not giving it to James Workshop or whoever, I'm asking because I want to know how much time/money I need to invest to start playing the 'proper' way and then make a judgement about whether or not I want to actually do that orput my energy into cheaper ways to play.
#hobby#miniatures#warhammer#battletech#mild rant#wargaming#text post#also to all you Makers out there championing printing as a super cheap alternative to buying minis#yall are selling short the value of your labor#ive seen the care and hours you can need to put into babying a printer and its just not a hobby i want for my hobby#but i will still pay you to do it for me
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Writing is not real enough to me I need to build a chair or something.
#chit chat#knitting takes too long sewing only has one fun part and writing isn’t tangible#i need a new hobby#google how do I get into carpentry for cheap when wood is like $10 for a 2x8
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The beast.
#life update#I haven’t heard back from the job I got an interview for even though they said they’d call me so :(#I’ve been working out and eating better recently and my mom says I look nice so there’s that#but I’ve been growing apart from my friends which makes me sad#the style of friendship doesn’t work for me though#only texting and not seeing them in person much makes me feel lonely#that’s why I never really did make friends online I think?#I’m kinda flat broke but all things considered I feel decently ok#I think I’ll get a nice job soon#my dad keeps trying to get me to join the army tho#not my tranny ass no thank u. I’m not American but still#he also tried to send me out to the Alberta oil sands? also no. for SEVERAL reasons#I need a new cheap hobby to fill the void Pokémon cards are expensive to collect
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Wait are people actually celebrating the R/eddit userbase migrating to Tumblr? I'm sorry I'm not a nice person, R/eddit culture is abysmal and they'll bring that with them, too. Like nothing is probably going to change very much, but if you hate replyguys and nitpicking and general lack of media criticism, that is not the website culture you celebrate. But I guess it's a moneymaker.
Most of my R/WBY analysis hinges on cyberbullying R/edditors. What am I to do.
Yes I am literally censoring R/eddit so it doesn't come up in the search. Bite me.
#this is not serious business by the way#I understand that R/edditors need that clarified#I don't mean to generalise about a website but using R/eddit is the worst thing ever#unless you need something specific for a hobby#and when you go to that hobby subreddit there is an enormous fight over which type of tea is okay to use or how cheap your audio set-up is#dick measuring contest at all times#I think R/eddit and Twitter are about as bad as each other in slightly different ways
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My coworker's got me on an auction site seriously thinking about bidding on a loom mislabeled as a quilt rack lmao
#crap#i dont need any more hobbies but man think when else i might be able to score a loom of questionable functionality for cheap#but also i have no room for a heckin loom
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i should learn how to draw maybe
#listen. i know. i know ok.#BUT. i also dont fucking know. what im doing =w=bb#im just. throwing colours down and hoping it works. and. i know i could do betterrrr#unrelated to this :) wifefox is very cutee =w=bbb ehehehe#im mostly wanting to improve in my ability to make dimension. yknow. the basic drawing stuff.#and dont get me wrong!! i am proud of most of my work!!#its just the neverending strive to be better.#like. i look at my stuff. and i NEED to get better at creating dimensions.#but at the same time. i dont fucking wannaaaa#this is a hobby. and spending time to actually get better and practise instead of just. trying without help and failing. is hard.#whatever.#sillyposting#anyway im excited about the thingy im working on its very cute imo =w=bbb yyayayyayy#also i found a drinky thats better (higher %) than the cheap but good wine YIPPEE#i fucking looove cassis (<- soda i mixed with) yall are missing outt.#i dont drink often bc the voices tell me ill get addicted erm. but im allowed bc im preparing for 3 continues days of christmas work. =3=
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setting up a linkedin for job searching and connecting with my high school friends and seeing them married and in good paying jobs really hits home just how many years ive lost to mental illness and physical disability
#all of 2016-2020#then i managed to get therapy and meds and diagnosed and i was on track for uni and graduate last year and get a job and then#new government guts and destroys the specific govt sector i was planning on working in (media)#and my health takes a bad turn in may leaving me in constant pain only for both of those to contribute to my contract being cancelled#and now im stuck at home. trying to keep busy by keeping my parents house clean and helping with the move#participating in hobbies and reading and losing the weight ive gained these last 2 years#and i feel so guilty because the healthcare i need isnt cheap. its been thousands of dollars already. before i was contributing my paychec#now im scrabbling to find jobs when the whole city is in a decline. shops and cafes/restaurants are shutting for good#govt agencies from health to education are cutting hundreds of employees each and theyve all undergone job freezes#i dont have the money to go back to studying and refocus on a career path that will work out#the media jobs and policy jobs arent here. everyones being forced to stop working from home as of this week by announcement of the pm#if i want to be hired in my field i have to move to another country. and i dont have the money for that. im stuck in bed#every day for a third/half of that day waiting for my codeine to kick in#perpetually exhausted because whatever's happening to me is giving me constant fatigue#im just so tired.
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The MEHTAL BAWKSES are ready for the table. I decided to replicate the scheme from my Awesome onto these lads for easier painting and after a little grief with the resin prints they're ready to blow some shit up.
#hobby#mini painting#miniatures#battletech#mechwarrior#tanks#LRM carrier#these little dudes are so cheap in the tt#now I just need to get them some spotters#because dear lord should you not use them in a direct fire config
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