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With each new painting I move a little deeper into

With each new painting I move a little deeper into levels of detail and nuance with the digital brush. It’s like a jigsaw puzzle made of flower petals. The practice of being a student of visual art is what I’m performing, whilst my other self is wrangling words to draft a world, embroiled in conflict with inner personalities, lizard men, vampires, soup boilers, thief kings, root people, and women pure of heart.
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#digitalpainting #blueportrait #turquoise #learning #student #master #painting #digitalart #nft #practice #artpractice #photorealism #realism #postimpressionism #pixels #brushes #photoshop #dailymotivation #discipline #artwork #writer

Exploring the absolute wonders of digital painting

Exploring the absolute wonders of digital painting. I’ve recorded my screen while painting this and will soon release an inexpensive tutorial narrating the workflow. If you’ve ever painted with oils, you know that the physicality of the medium imposes certain technical strictures, maybe it’s obvious to everyone already, but painting digitally offers a ridiculous amount of freedom by comparison. In a way it feels like cheating. Certain tools almost obliterate the difficulty of training. However with an understanding of traditional painting and a good eye, these tools just supercharge the process. Speed painting becomes a truly apt descriptor. Stay tuned for news on my upcoming video release!
Photo ref: @aiony (unsplash)
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#portrait #tutorial #traditionalpainting #digitalpainting #photoshopcc #unsplash #digitalart #paintingtitorial #photoreference #brushes #seeingcolors #teachingartist #technique #speedpainting

Got a high off that text I tested negative Mama b

Got a high off that text
I tested negative
Mama bear give me a sedative
Ran away from the crisis, black eyes, and greater metropolitan high rises
Gladly passing on the muses, I’ll see my goddess Isis
Someday

Hot blooded, on the heels of a recession, not blessed with the nepotism of some semi-famous relative
Help me out little help with security
Cost me all my gold just to test the purity

Ushered in to an echelon of house poor, horse tranquilizer sellers, precious metals and lapidary cut rock peddlers, Grateful Dead played twenty four seven, chains in the gun case, cigs chasing the blow lines and moonshine.

Business was built on the backs of weed dealers, ex junkie bikers, dragon convention attendees and me. Crescendo of bronze cymbals as it all came crashing, I tipped my hat to the gatekeepers as I took my leave.
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#modernromance #modernrenaissance #rap #poetry #slam #digitalpaint #redgirl #digitalcanvas #eyedropper #tabletart #digitalart #nft #dope #beaniegirl #stoned #redeyes #thc #deadheads

Green girl digital paint study. It’s a rainy day

Green girl digital paint study. It’s a rainy day and I’m feeling drained, not gonna compose a poem rn, but I’ll just write a caption with the pretense of a neurotypical person writing a journal entry. However I’ll end up leaving everything personal out. I finished reading the contemporary fiction novel Killing Commendatore by Murakami. It’s written in first person from the perspective of a divorced man who is a portrait painter. About 750 pages. He doesn’t resolve all of the mysteries he sets before you, like a lot of postmodern art, or a David Lynch film. Not much gore, just lyrical mysteries and everyday kind of characters from Japan, going through mildly supernatural circumstances that relay with the underworld. You can exist in the mundane descriptions of a neighbor stopping by for a single malt whiskey, and picture the full outfits of the women, linger on metaphors that are steeped in the natural aesthetic of ancient haiku. I intend to buy Dune on the kindle, it will be my first time reading on that device. I need to read a lot more since I shifted into trying to become a novelist myself. As a kid I could read a 400 page fantasy novel in just a few days. Not anymore. Today I got an availability request from a background actor casting agency, to appear as a Purdue Employee on the show Dopesick which is filming in Richmond. I looked up the show, it’s about the opioid crisis. I don’t think it’s out yet, but it’s based on a book. I hope writing this won’t jinx me actually getting the part. I look forward to doing something outside of my normal routines. The sun is peeking out. Goodbye for now.
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#streamofconsciousness #journalentry #digitalpainting #backgroundactor #storytime #green #study #tonality #lightstudy #progresspics #swipe #rainyday #multimedia #writersofig #portrait

Digital Paint Study in Orange. Read on for latest

Digital Paint Study in Orange. Read on for latest poem>>>
2 and 3 is V
i.
She rubbed me with mustard oil
The pain was too good to me
Breathing spice vapors and love
That’s how I became permanently winded

Did I fold my hand
When we had so many rounds
Left to play?

Love, a heater plugged into a snow bank
A remote corpuscle of warmth
In an otherwise cold world

When she told me I was a ruin
I believed her
I pictured my bones as fallen ionic columns
A Parthenon without the tourists

The squandering of untold youthtimes
Your time, and mine
Throwing good money after bad

All that time wasted
Like dumping wine into the Seine
Surplus of a good year
Left too long on the vine

ii.
If only people liked a neuro-atypical boy
Society batters them for being themselves when
They themselves are diseased

Vicarious Reality is the new program
I spin to the endless arpeggio
Timescape ruined for I am god now
Locked in my own internal chambers

So it was terrible to find the escape
Was only from all other forms of escape
Not external, but nested, like cups
The world of sex
Concatenated
From boredom into doldrums

Calluses of the myelin sheath
From synaptic tendons rubbing
Back and forth along their grooves
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#studyinorange #digitalpainting #lightstudy #colorstudy #monochromatic #photostudy #poems #poetry #doubledown #digitalart #instagrammodels #ginger #orange #colorfulart #lightbath #writinglife #photoshopcc

A proscenium filled with flowers for Human suffer

A proscenium filled with flowers for

Human suffering
Full to the brim

Not just the surface of the stage
Up to the rafters, even covering the actors that were trying to take their bows and exit to the dressing rooms (to remove unwashed and ill fitting costumes that make pinkened impressions in the soft parts, and to remove makeup that will peek out from the recesses of pores for the next couple of days)

When human suffering takes the stage this is the reception it gets. Always. The people love it. More than anything.

Do I really understand myself, really, the way I cavalierly think I do?

They appear to be on some sort of program.
Click
Because some friend said that there was a new idea that they should adopt
Click
Because they all are so interested in human suffering.
Click
The adoption of ideas comes out of their own survival instincts.
Click
Friends equate with survival.
Click
Because it really seems like none of them really think about it, how some one thing could be good for the entirety, what are the side effects of their caring?

Master of sadness
Rub the pinkened denting of the skin
Imprinted by fabric
Pleasantly itchy

The drooping vapor of burnt roses as they are singed against the hot stagelight bulbs

A play regarding a great purging of evils, A hell time worthy of the Mahabharata
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#morepoetry #experimental #pencildrawing #drawingandwriting #practice #whocares #storytelling #brainexercise #ideologies #mahabharata #cartoony #understanding #humansuffering #skinimpressions

How do you feel about your cellphone addiction????

How do you feel about your cellphone addiction?????
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#cellphoneaddiction #brainwaves #brainfog #anxiety #disconnected #society #illustration #drawing #dailycreativity #isolation #disease #malaise #newgeneration #copingskills

Done with purposeful authenticity by the talented

Done with purposeful authenticity by the talented @ratward !!! 🐀🐀🐀🐁
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#thehangedman #tattoo #blackink #tarot #tarottattoo #inked #symbolic #pictographic #rvatattooartist #richmondva #collaboration

There is a lump Of garbled communications The pa

There is a lump
Of garbled communications
The parties are formed
In a cocreative eristic escalation
The battle of the dilettantes

Melting down

The ego and the Grand Poobah have both gotten so fat they can no longer inhabit the same elephant

Can you paint loneliness?
If you can eat your feelings then why not?

Normalcy may already have
Become latter day normalcy
The odd have taken on a conformist bent

Narcissus is the patron saint of Millenials

Go over to a bookshelf in your house and look at a shiny sexy book just sitting there. Think about what it took. Crack an egg in a glass and drink it down like Rocky Balboa and then sit down in front of the computer and slap your face until you begin to write. See how that feels.

He mellowed out between sessions

Trying to Kill the lizard brain, beating the amygdala to a fucking pulp just to get some work done

Just breathe

Be yourself or die
We live in a glut of media, with everything having been said

Ad nauseam infinitum

No one worships the lingam any longer; the stupas have crumbled to the ground

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#anger #stupidity #modernity #lonliness #ego #poetry #drawing #anxiety #caringforothers #darkhumor #darkpoetrysociety #exhausted #lingam

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