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Playing around with some new brushes and rendering styles. I’ve just been craving a little more texture lately! I like my art slightly crunchy these days.

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cadmium red 🔥 all oil on wood panel, by me, 2022

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William Mason Brown (1828-1898) "Raspberries in a Wooded Landscape" Oil on canvas Located in the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas

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Being drawn to colours that they “associate with sunrise and sunset-times of transition and daily possibility” Livien Yin's paintings have an awe-inspiring palette and such a delicate, considered finish. “I try to render the way that sunlight feels against the skin, like a caress of the subjects in the painting.” Another recognisable quality of the artists work is their repetition of imagery, specifically hands and fruit. Sometimes the hands frame the face of the subject, and the fruit lies half eaten. And, sometimes the two images come together – a model's hands lazily peel an orange, another clasps an apple, mid-bite.

Livien Yin explains that their focus on hands is a means a of referencing both manual labour that characterised the first major wave of Chinese immigration and their connection to Chinese culture and cooking; “I like to paint hands to commemorate the cultural legacies and ‘acts of care’ passed down from the generations before us.” Whereas the fruit has a more specific reference – “when ‘paper sons and daughters’ were preparing to be interrogated at Angel Island Immigration Station, they memorised the details of their new identities using something called ‘coaching notes’ which were sometimes secretly sent to them inside fruit.” And, simultaneously, when placed in the hands of women, Livien intends for it to be a metaphor for sexual agency.

on Livien Yin

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Vincent Van Gogh painting details

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shades of green in Van Gogh’s paintings

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go follow my instagram! (if u want) :)

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naur cuz this tew much I’m too gay for this I’m malfunctioning beloved send help

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good luck ⭐~

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Vanessa Cooper

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2021, oil painting

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Laura Jones

“Cabramatta Table”

2015, oil on linen, 112 x 112 cm

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the only bad artists are those whose work perpetuates discrimination or causes undeserved harm. there is no “aesthetic” excuse for fatphobia. humans are diverse. if you’d like to draw them, learn to draw fat bodies. 

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Happy pride month 2021 guys! 🌈

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you know me I know you

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did we all have a goldfish growing up who we liked to call "friend"? polly jones / margaret preston / vittorio reggianini / elizabeth nourse / henri matisse / janet fish