a truth about my art.
The art gatekeeping is coming from inside the house….
What do you do when you know about a wolf in sheep’s clothing? When a monster hides among us? How does Cassandra feel reading the headlines?
I don’t doubt that many of us, especially marginalized people, have had these experiences. Someone lauded by a larger community singles us out personally to be a predator to. These abusers design themselves a web of no accountability and no possibility for criticism.
Intersectionality has become unfortunately a word that privileged “activists” have used to deflect their Whiteness by over emphasizing any minute personality trait that may make them seem marginalized in the eyes of Queen Elizabeth.
Mother Theresa and white money tried to train my art and my truth.
It’s just too bad that THE TRUTH is the strongest.
A new process video - illustrating a woodpecker!
Hello art followers new and dear.
I would like to share with you if you have not seen it through social media, a video I put together showing some of my drawing process.
I will be posting much more small art videos to my TikTok, but if you are not a social media user, I will continue to post my favorites here to my blog.
For this illustration, I began the layout with my Tombow markers. I have had this collection of markers for close to a decade and keep adding color by color, so now many of the colors are a bit dry. I supplemented the colors with Arteza brush markers.
To add depth at the end I went in with Micron black ink pens. I also used a Sakura gelly roll souffle pen in white to pull highlights! At some point in the process I also used a regular old HB pencil to make sure I had the shape exactly as I wanted.
Thank you for joining me in a discussion of my process!
the story of my left-handed mini series of paintings
6 special pieces for me. I painted all of these as art therapy as I experienced extremely limited mobility of my right arm for several months due to a fibro flare.
Since this series I use my left arm liberally in art making, writing, and all aspects of life.
the whole series!
So as not to overwhelm the small pieces, I used my condensed signature, a capital M.
Each piece was painted over several sessions. First I explored directly with washes, liquid watercolor droplets, and whatever gestural strokes felt right with my intensely high pain levels of that time.
Next, over a series of sessions, I emphasized color ways, added subtle details, and carved forms.
Finally, months later when I had undergone significant healing of nerve/muscle injury, I was able to meticulously paint along the forms with black acryla-gouache, as is my working process of this kind of series.
The exception to this way of working is the dream seascape which instead I framed in black.
enjoy this AI-generated suggestion from Photoshop Express.
Thanks for joining me to learn a little more about my life and its affects on my process!