Oh yes! My family used to vacation in Saint Petersburg Florida where the Dali museum is. I remember being memorized by those works as a kid. They’re good.
sim to joiners, sometimes when I travel places I like to make joined elevation collages like this. I also used to do some pinhole photography but it has been quite a while
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I am obsessed with Hockney’s photographs and videos. I’d love to see one of his video installations in person.
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I never saw the videos before. Very nice.
When I sketch in color it’s mostly in red or warm tones, and I used to only draw in red BIC pen so I understand the bias lol. When I do use color I lean towards warmer palettes, so it feels weird going in with something so contrasting, especially right at the start
Yeah the similar application and mess level of conte vs chalk pastel. The sensory aspect of different chalk-like materials like pastel and charcoal suck and I’m honestly not sure how much I’ll use these materials in the future because cleanup is such a pain. I still like working with them, just as long as I have access to a communal space to work in. So yeah I think oil pastel would probably be preferable
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The colors look messed up on my monitor and it’s kinda freaking me out but here’s where we’re at now
I did enough to get through critique this morning but there’s a lot I’d like to change. Besides the boot I think I’m the least happy with the grainy texture. There’s a ceramics major in my class that used his rubber clay tools to blend and I keep thinking about how mine might look using that technique. I wasn’t sure how to blend out the color without losing the intensity of the pigments so I just blended with pastels. Honestly I think I could have blended this better if both of my kits weren’t different densities of chalk. The hard pastel would blend over the soft pretty well, but I was struggling to do the opposite
I am very ready to move on from this project 
hoping they go easy on me today lol
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Thanks for sharing! I want to learn more about art and I’m a (fake?) Hockney fan - I like his paintings of naked men 
- so it’s good to learn more about him than what’s covered in my coffee table book
I have reserved the name “Hockney” if I ever get a border collie. A slight homage to the dog Rothko in Ingrid Goes West
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Small rant, I started this year excited to get more art done more often, and now I’ve just spun my tires on a particular piece because I can’t pull it together and it’s frustrating because this is exactly what I didn’t want to do. Maybe I need to let it be for a time and work on something else but I also just really wanna finish it.
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Yeah, obsession is a tool we artists use and it’s kept us motivated, observant and improving. However we don’t control obsession even if it appears that way when it’s serving what we want, but in situations like you’re describing it reveals that it also controls us.
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Yeah it holds me back sometimes. I think I’ve made it better. Might have to call it quits on this one soon and accept that it’s not that good but take those lessons to the next piece.
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Tools that you may have already learned in therapy can definitely help. You’re already aware of a it is already a big step.
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Yeah it goes both ways. I’ve been hyperfocusing on some gamedev stuff and solving problems throughout the day at work and such, then at the same time I obsessively need to make this piece work and might have done so faster if I just drew something else instead.
Problem is, I can’t see the hyperfocus until I’m out of it.
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Definitely hyper focus is by its nature an extremely myopic experience.
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Taking a short break from this pastel portrait because it’s annoying me lol
Just added the red on the coat and the vibrancy totally messed up the rest of the (largely finished..) work 
it bothers me a lot but this is due Monday and I don’t want to work on it tomorrow, so I’m trying to ignore it. Also when I was adding darker shadows to the coat, I used a hard pastel over the soft pastel and burnished my paper. I honestly did not think that was possible until it was too late lol
I don’t have access to pencil pastels so I’m using chipped edges of my chalk for fine details. It’s gone pretty well so far! I ordered those rubber sculpting tools I was talking about with my last pastel, so blending has been a breeze.
Here’s a closer look at the face; I still need to add glasses and I’ll probably add some more color to the skin to balance out the coat.
Early on I wanted to add a floral element to this, and a friend suggested adding a halo around their head. I think that might help separate the subject from the clouds, but I’m still on the fence. If you guys have any suggestions let me know!
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Working on something more “complete” than I’ve done in a while, and I like the thumbnail for it. Well, I usually like the thumb because I haven’t had a chance to ruin it yet lol. It’s satisfying to create a tiny facsimile of a finished piece in less than an hour. Sometimes way less!
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I get to go ham for finals so I am Going Ham
I’m looking at doing an 8x4 ft painting of my Memaw who passed when I was pretty young. I’m referencing old photos of her for this, so I took pictures in the same spot as the originals to use as a background. I plan on doing an image transfer onto watercolor paper, so I can paint the subjects in sumi ink on top.
I’m most excited about the interactive elements I’ll be adding. The paper will be pasted onto a wood board, and I’ll be installing a curtain (somehow) as a transition from life into death. I might have a fan blowing on the side so it’s easier to see there’s something to look at underneath, but that depends on how I attach the curtain. Beneath the painting I’ll have a box with framed pictures of the original references you can sift through.
Installing and storing this seems annoying and I have nowhere to put it in my house but I’ll deal with it later!
I’m also making a cake sculpture for another class, I wanted to base it off 2000s grocery store cakes
Something about plopping a toy on an airbrushed landscape speaks to me idk
I’ve never used air dry clay, or plaster, or decorated a cake (nicely), so tackling both of these projects might kill me, we’ll see
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