#representational art

[farrenmoss]

A plein air painting of Filucy Bay in Washington.

[craigmtaylor]

I started oil painting recently. This is a hill in Sweet, Idaho. 12x16” oil on canvas

[emmaklee]

Pyke Koch

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Francesco Hayez, The Kiss, 1859, oil/canvas (Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan)

[de-mykel]

Alan Constable. Not Titled, 2023.

glaze, earthenware

[thtflns]

J. M. Hurowitz - Untitled - 2024 - pencil on paper - 44 x 30 inches

Began this piece the later part of 2023, and completed it today. Read what you will in to it. Art should make the viewer think. All thoughts are valid.

[emperorsfoot]

For Mother's Day, my sister and I took our mom to the park to paint.

My sister and I painted landscapes.

While my mother waited us painting.

[greeneggsandsam2]

Messy little drawing of a finch having a dust bath

[rootcat-shop]

“Hometown Chandelier” is now for sale! This 34x34” collage of hand painted and magazine cut out squares on recycled canvas is ready for a new home! DM me if you can see this on your walls!

"Hometown Chandelier" is inspired by the ceiling tiles at Union Station in Kansas City. I had to do some trial and error when it came to finding colors and textures that I liked for each square. The final product has 1,156 individual one inch squares. Some are from interior design magazines, cookbooks, children's books and others were hand painted. In the process of finding the right ones, I'm sure I cut out over two thousand squares- maybe some you'll see in a future artwork! As much as I try to prepare, creating is always a learning process, one I appreciate when it's finished because now I know and I had fun doing it. I look forward to continuing this style I never thought I would be interested in and seeing where it takes me. Stay tuned to see where it goes!

[evnglsan]

[farrenmoss]

Flowers from Normandy by Henri Fantin-Latour

[craigmtaylor]

“Inversion” oil on canvas 16x20

[saszor]

Overview of some topics when it comes to drawing characters who are burn survivors.

DISCLAIMER. Please keep in mind that this is an introductory overview for drawing some burn scars and has a lot of generalizations in it, so not every “X is Z” statement will be true for Actual People. I'm calling this introductory because I hope to get people to actually do their own research before drawing disabled & visibly different characters rather than just making stuff up. Think of it as a starting point and take it with a grain of salt (especially if you have a very different art style from mine).

Talking about research and learning... don't make your burn survivor characters evil. Burn survivors are normal people and don't deserve to be constantly portrayed in such a way.

Consider supporting me on ko-fi if you find this to be helpful.

edit: apparently tum "queerest place on the internet" blr hates disabled people so much that this post got automatically filtered. cool!

second way more important edit: How are people seeing this post where I specifically talk about burn survivors being normal, real people, and still tag this as "TW body horror"? Not a single one of these drawings or pictures is a fresh injury. All of them are healed. How the hell would you feel if someone tagged a photo of you as "trigger warning: gore"?

Disabled people are not your fucking body horror. Grow up.

[nancydrewwouldnever]

Balthus, The King of Cats, 1935, oil/canvas (Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne)

[hamletthedane]

Thinking about him (the soldier in Poynter’s Faithful Until Death painting watching an apocalypse unfold around him with horror in his eyes as he tries to keep himself standing beneath a doorway, based on an actual 19th century archeological find of a man in full soldier’s garb under a doorway at Pompeii)

[stil-lindigo]

lead balloon (the tumblr post that saved me)

if this comic resonated with you, it would mean the world to me if you donated to this palestinian family's escape fund.

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no creative notes because this isn't that kind of comic.

I know I don’t owe any of you anything but I still felt compelled to write about my long term absence. And I feel far enough away from the dangerous spot I was in to be able to make this comic. I have a therapist now, and she agreed that making this could be a very cathartic gesture, and the start of properly leaving these thoughts behind me. I am still, at seemingly random times, blindsided by fleeting desires to kill myself. They’re always passing urges, but it’s disarming, and uncomfortable. I worry sometimes that my brain’s spent so long thinking only about suicide that it’s forgotten how to think about anything else. Like, now that I've opened that door for myself, I'll never be able to fully shut it again. But I’m trying my best to encourage my mind in other directions. We'll see how that goes.

I am still donating all proceeds from my store to Palestinian causes. So far, I've donated over $15K, not including donations coming from my own pocket or the fundraising streams which jointly raised around $10K. In the time since I made my initial post about where this money would be going, the focus has shifted from aid organisations to directly donating to escape funds.

If you'd like to do the same, you can look at Operation Olive Branch, which hosts hundreds of Palestinian escape funds or donate to Safebow, which has helped facilitate the safe crossing and securing of important medical procedures for over 150 at-risk palestinians since the beginning of the genocide.