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Thank you!!! I love the whole concept of a horse getting a bowl cut, the painting is adorable. Cool robot and skulls too! I finished the painting part of the portrait and wil be adding crystals and shiny stuff to it per my client's request, I have a ton of nail art stuff so that worked out beautifully 
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I recently tried something new and its becoming my new hobby - rubber stamp carving and print making. I'm combining this new hobby with my love for handmaking cards and sending them out in the goon mail exchange. Here are the stamps I've made so far: 1.) Gingko leaf. The first one I carved was PERFECT until I went back and tried to add vein detailing and ended up disliking it. So this was my remake, which isn't exactly how I want it. I will likely remake this a 3rd time. 2.) Daruma Doll. I am most proud of this stamp because of the eyeball detailing. 3.) Mount Fuji in frame.  4.) Zen garden birds eye view, set 1: raked sand and rocks (6 stamps total) Its hard to show with the photo, but in-person I think the white ink on tan paper with black rocks looks much better than the black ink on white paper. I'm also ordering some gray and brown ink to try out.   5.) Zen garden birds eye view, set 2: Large lily pad, medium lily pad, lily bud (3 stamps total) I'm not entirely happy with the lily bud. I'm not sure people would know what it is. 6.) Japanese kanji for "peace"  7.) Noodle, avocado, and potato. 8.) Bean with face and bean without face. 9.) Two faces. One with small eyes, and one with large eyes. (7 stamps total)  10.) Skull, jaw bone, ribs, pelvis, and bone shapes. (5 stamps total)   Over the course of 4 days I have gone from never making my own stamps, to making 24 stamps. I think I've made a good return on my investment. I've made one card for the goon mail exchange using the bones set of stamps so far. Blonde Thighmaster fucked around with this message at 06:08 on Sep 29, 2025 |
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Ulillinguist posted:I recently tried something new and its becoming my new hobby - rubber stamp carving and print making. I'm combining this new hobby with my love for handmaking cards and sending them out in the goon mail exchange. Here are the stamps I've made so far: These look amazing, well done!
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My client wanted SHINY and glitter wasn't doing it SO UV cured magnetic gel nail polish did! Very time consuming https://i.imgur.com/LrwKx5x.mp4 https://i.imgur.com/gV02kSn.mp4 Moonless Midnight fucked around with this message at 19:12 on Oct 5, 2025 |
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Made a new compilation of my second batch of paintings from the last few years. https://youtu.be/8d4hVmYAoTs?si=xPSuXJzaD0owtRU9
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Chernabog posted:Made a new compilation of my second batch of paintings from the last few years. Awesome. I've never seen anything like this before. My favorite is Migraine 2.0 Moonless Midnight posted:My client wanted SHINY and glitter wasn't doing it That's really good! The cat is very realistic and the flowers look 3D.
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Chernabog posted:Made a new compilation of my second batch of paintings from the last few years. Extremely cool!!!! Ulillinguist posted:That's really good! The cat is very realistic and the flowers look 3D. Thank you! the owner LOVED it, which is extremely satisfying
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This is a little stamp project I finished today:  I accidentally chipped part of the cartouche at the bottom, but otherwise I'm satisfied with how they turned out. Its fun to mix and match the icons in the cartouche frame. I plan to use them as decoration in some hand made cards. EDIT: I wasn't happy with the broken line on the cartouche or how simple the scarab beetle was, so I ended up re-making the cartouche (seen on right hand side) and this time it turned out better. And then I made a winged scarab:  I made some larger 2" x 2" stamps with an Asian theme: a bonsai tree, tea pot and cup, another daruma doll, the Chinese symbol for happiness, and the Chinese word for friendship. 
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I'm looking to complete some oil paintings as gifts (to be exchanged in January). It would be easier to paint them on my large drafting table (which could hold multiple), rather than my easel (capacity: 1). Since the table is magnetic, I would love to just hold the canvas with magnets while painting, then stretch them onto bars after they dry.
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can you just attach magnets to the stretcher bars instead? would solve issues 1 and 2 and would also just be a better painting experience. trying to mess w a drying painting on a piece of loose cloth sounds like a nightmare. plus you won't have to worry if you stretched the painting level w the bars. as for number 3 not that I'm aware of unless by bleached it's bleach damaged. but I presume it's just white
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Yeah, securing stretchers with magnets would work, but would require more and heavier magnets than just a canvas. I'll probably end up doing that to save time anyway.
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Hi thread; newbie question with a bit of introduction... 2 weeks ago I randomly picked up supplies to get into watercoloring, and a book "Everyday Watercolor" that teaches you how. I've some history in painting miniature figures, but that's about the extent of my "artistic background". A few days ago I found a video online that suggested making like a swatch sheet blending colors, but I can't find the video now. I tried to do that exercise tonight because I don't have the brainpower for this more complex assignment in the book I purchased. Justr finished and I suspect I did this swatch sheet "wrong"? This is what I came up with:  (still drying in that photo) Essentially, I went one color at a time. Paint the whole first row green, then the first column green. Then the second row/col yellow Then the third in ochre etc. Instead of this "wet-on-dryish" style, should I have instead mixed up the 36 blends on my palette instead? I feel like the result has very little variance in the ochre, sienna, rose and scarlet squares. Is this because I blended my colors mostly wet-on-dry, or is it more of a color theory kinda thing where similar-ish colors are just naturally going to yield similar-ish results? I think I'm gonna re-do this tomorrow and try actually mixing the colors on the palette instead.
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Sab669 posted:Hi thread; newbie question with a bit of introduction... One of the fun things about watercolor is how it layers. A lot of it has to do with the physical properties of the pigments, water, and surface. Different pigments settle and stain in different ways, and the relative wetness of the 'wet' and dryness of the ''dry' play into it. The binder quality can matter. Paper type. Some paints just don't play well together. There's an online course by Jill Poyerd called Foundations for Mastering Watercolor that has a really nice primer on how those all play together (Sections 4-6) All that to say, don't overthink it, just experiment with some variations in how/when your applying it. Mixing in the palette is sometimes discouraged but I do it a lot anyways. Much faster than waiting to layer everything that's for sure. Flambeau fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Jan 10, 2026 |
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If you're interested in different behavior, I am a huge fan of Inktense pencils: They're basically watercolor pencils (you use them to draw the pigment on, then brush with water) with the primary difference being that once you put water onto it, it becomes permanent, and once you let it dry it does not get lifted by the water on further applications. So essentially you can layer colors on top of each other the way you tried here and give you the results you were expecting. Watercolors on the other hand are generally not permanently settled after a single brushing and can/will be shifted around if water is applied even after drying. Examples of things I made with them:   
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Sab669 posted:Hi thread; newbie question with a bit of introduction... Yeah, you should mix the colors while they're wet.
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