#plastic to oil

[samimarkart]

Genus Polystyrene, 2023, oil paint on panel

collecting human waste products and instead looking at them and organizing them as if they are a fictional genus of life, perhaps fossilized.

[isbergillustration]

I don't usually paint over paintings that are under a week old but the previous one just wasn't very good. Unclear whether this is an improvement

[unrealward]

How many of them are sitting at the bottom of the ocean?

[marzipanandminutiae]

Saw the most fucking morally bankrupt oil and gas ad on TV during the Macy’s parade today

A woman goes into labor – because of course they have to tug on the heartstrings – and she and her husband rushed to the hospital. Only to find the whole room is empty! Oh no! A magical nurse appears and says something about how this is what the hospital would look like with no oil and gas. But then – hey presto! Equipment and chairs and signage start appearing again! This is all the stuff in our world it’s made possible by oil and gas, so clearly we still need that!

Notice how they neglect to mention why we make everything out of oil nowadays, or why that’s apparently so great. When, you know. Our reliance on plastic is actually terrible for environment and potentially our health, and it really doesn’t need to be used to make things except for a few very specific purposes (single – use medical equipment, etc.).

Genuinely hope everyone involved in that one steps on a tack

[pin3-vin3]

I've had enough of vanilla and rain and smoke and whatever the FUCK sandalwood is. Here are some uncommonly used scents I've encountered and enjoyed in this life

Fresh clean laundry

Leather

Wood

Paper (old or new)

Sugarcane

Honey

Ginger

Straw

Rosin

Cocoa

Dough

Oats

Herbs (maybe not just mint bc her back is TIRED with how much she carries in here)

Any of the holy hard spices. Not just cinnamon‐ but also anise, clove, nutmeg, AND the savory queens like paprika and cardamom

Root vegetables (Listen. Listen. They're all good and unique and tasty and you need to hear me out on this)

Also since things like candles, incense, soaps, candies and teas can come in many different flavors/scents but will always have some underlying scent from their base material attached to them, they make for good layered/complex scents

This is more of a pet peeve than anything but an easy way to make up cooler scents is to just. Be specific. Especially if your starting idea is super broad. "she smelled like trees" pick a tree "they smelled like bread/pastries" pick one "he smelled like flowers" I'm telling you the are so many unique— and maybe even symbolic if that's your plan— flowers at your disposal rn

NOTHING wrong with these scent choices they're all good and I love them dearly but. I can only read about so many flower boys before I go a little crazy. The world has too many amazing scents for us to be running the one okay scent of general flowers into the ground

[marejadilla]

Susannah Martin, “Mazateca”, 2022, oil on canvas. Solo show, “Trouble in Paradise". 

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Piet Monderian, Broadway Boogie-Woogie, 1942-43. Oil on canvas.

Mondrian arrived in New York in 1940, one of the many European artists who moved to the United States to escape World War II. He immediately fell in love with the city and with boogie-woogie music, to which he was introduced on his first evening in New York. Soon he began, as he said, to put a little boogie-woogie into his paintings.

Mondrian’s aesthetic doctrine of Neo-Plasticism restricted the painter to the most basic kinds of line—that is, to straight horizontals and verticals—and to a similarly limited color range, the primary triad of red, yellow, and blue plus white, black, and the grays in between. But Broadway Boogie Woogie omits black and breaks Mondrian’s once uniform bars of color into multicolored segments. Bouncing against each other, these tiny, blinking blocks of color create a vital and pulsing rhythm, an optical vibration that jumps from intersection to intersection like traffic on the streets of New York. At the same time, the picture is carefully calibrated, its colors interspersed with gray and white blocks.

Mondrian’s appreciation of boogie-woogie may have sprung partly from the fact that he saw its goals as analogous to his own: “destruction of melody which is the destruction of natural appearance; and construction through the continuous opposition of pure means—dynamic rhythm.” —from MoMA Highlights: 375 Works from The Museum of Modern Art

Photo: Museum of Modern Art

[rlyehtaxidermist]

some quick math:

the united states uses 30 million plastic bags in a year, consuming roughly 12 million barrels of oil, or about 33000 per day

the international boundary of the keystone pipeline has a throughput of about 500 million barrels per day

that's over 15000 times as much as the united states uses in plastic bags

i'm all for the adoption of reusable plastic bags and fewer straws and a general decline in waste products but if corporations want to sell me on the idea that individual consumer choice is relevant, they need to accept that the optimal individual consumer choice for reducing oil consumption involves formaldehyde, ammonia, and nitric acid

[bmpmp3]

HAPPY birthday to Garfield, and meeeeee!!! he is 46 this year, and i am 26!

[talos-stims]

OIL OF EVERY PEARL'S UN-INSIDES

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[mushroominaforest]

Which material do you like most to use for painting pictures

Watercolor, gouache, acrylic, pastel, charcoal, oil paints, markers or pencils

It is probably worth clarifying, there are alcohol and acrylic markers

And also watercolor pencils

Well, or you can use pens to draw

I'm sorry, I'm probably talking too much (I just used all these materials to draw) but if anything, I'll wait

I like acrylic, but oil is my favourite! I despise watercolour, and I’ve never tried gouache. I can pull off an oil pastel drawing but not a chalk pastel one, charcoal can be frustrating to use but it isn’t too bad. I haven’t drawn with markers for a very long time, I mostly did that as a kid with crayola markers and I definitely can’t afford fancy artist markers lol. Graphite is very fun, I do enjoy a good graphite pencil, they’re the easiest (and cleanest) to use. (Graphite powder and crayons are fun too tho!)

[aiscapades]

my post abt global warming has officially left the touchstarved fandom blog sphere

[jokeanddaggerdept]

[marejadilla]

Valeria Duca, “Plastic waterlilies”, 2020, oil on canvas. Moldovan by birth, residence at Washington DC.

[hawnks]

Everyday I see a craft tiktoker doing something novel and I’m like wow I’ve never seen that before, I wonder how they did it.

And the answer is always, without fail, that they are using materials terribly, dangerously wrong.

[chromaticramblings]

if you feel guilty about something you love because it contributes to capitalism:

don’t.

capitalism needs you to be tired. it needs you to be so exhausted that you can barely think of anything outside of work, so that you can’t imagine how things could be better.

if you do things you love, you keep that energy for yourself. that’s energy you can turn outwards. that’s energy you can use to grow and help others and be human.

obviously we wanna harm reduce. obviously in an ideal world, that thing you love has zero negative impact. but you can’t work towards that world if you aren’t working on liberating yourself first.