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Is this a rainbow?

A few years ago I started a tradition of painting Abstract Pride Flags in June. I had already been making my diagrams for a while and had been exploring the idea of using fine art methods and supplies to make abstracted venn diagrams, pie charts and other recognizable structures. I

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Everyday Objects + Art

This month I wanted to show you some of the objects I keep in my art area that weren’t designed as art supplies. These are the little hacks and repurposed objects that make my space work well and feel like mine. Timer My friend gave me this hourglass for

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EDI Live - Tomorrow, Sat June 25, 12PM PST

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How to make a self portrait

Note: I wrote the draft of this piece using voice transcription as I took care of my new 4lb puppy, Miyoko. I’ve now gone and edited out all the puppy bits (hi sweetie and wow your teeth are so sharp and how can anyone be so perfect?), which I’

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June 2022: The Selfie

Every June I paint a self-portrait for my birthday. It's a way to spend time with myself, notice how I'm changing, and knit that together with how I'm evolving as an artist, making it into a physical thing that, too, will begin to age.

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May Q&A

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Follow up notes from EDI Live

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EDI Live Ref Photo

Hi friends! I'm going to do an acrylic mug sketch during our Live today. Here's a couple of reference photos if you'd like to do your own.

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Acrylics: types & brands! And a video!

Hi! Here's a two-part follow up to this week's first post. Up first is a bit on the 3 types of acrylics with my personal preferences for each. Then, I've got a 12 minute video demonstrating the different types of paint and how they

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Acrylic Paints: A beginning

Somehow we've made it all the way to May without me writing about acrylics, which is amazing since I love them and use them so much. What are acrylics? Acrylics are super versatile – they come in many consistencies, and can mimic the other types of paints (oil, watercolor,

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EDI Live - Sat May 28, 12PM PST

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May 2022, Part 2: Skills

Hello EDI friends, In Part 1 we explored how to approach consistency and skill building without getting washed away by a pressure to be “good.” This week I’d like to build on that idea. The pressure to be good masquerades as something that will make our creative practice more

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May 2022, Part 1: How old do you have to be to make a bad drawing?

In Making Comics, Lynda Barry asks: how old do you have to be to make a bad drawing? This brilliant question catches on all the snags in our tangled thoughts about good art and who gets to make it. And if we let it, it dissolves them right out. I

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April Q&A

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EDI Live Soon! Reference Photos in here :)

Hi everyone! Here are the reference photos I'll be sketching from in today's live. I'll be mixing my media, trying to use more drawing sticks as we explore ways to simplify a piece and make something satisfying regardless of how much time (or energy,

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EDI Live - This Sat (Apr 23), 12PM PST

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DRAWING STICKS: my story of pens, pencils, markers, crayons and pastels

As a kid, I started out making marks with crayons and markers, pens and pencils (we'll just call this group of things drawing sticks for simplicity). My familiarity with the handfeel of these tools made them a really attractive starting point when I revisited mark-making as an adult,

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How to change

My art is changing. I feel both excited and apologetic, shy and inspired.

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April 2022: One thing at a time

One thing that makes art-making a satisfying experience for me is exploring one(ish) thing at a time. When I was just beginning, trying to paint a realistic portrait was not very satisfying because it asked me to attend to a lot things I wasn't skilled at -

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March Q&A

Welcome to our monthly Q&A! Submit your questions and/or requests for in depth posts on Discord or by email any time and I'll round them up here. This month we're talking whether or not to clean your palette, which art supplies to keep

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EDI Live Today! Reference Photos in here :)

Hello Light Tier friends - I'm looking forward to seeing you all in a couple of hours (12PM Pacific). I wanted to send you these two references photos that I may be painting from. You're welcome to paint along!

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Watercolor 2.0

Let's talk water and color. It's magic. We started the conversation back in January with this intro to watercolors, which mostly addresses what watercolor is, some of its intrinsic properties, and the brands and colors of paints that I enjoy the most. Now it's

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Digitizing Art

Hi friends! This is an expanded question that was submitted last month for the Q&A asking how I digitize my art. There are two major goals you might have in wanting to digitize. One would be to accurately represent your art digitally, and keep it as close as

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Making Color 1.0

Making color is hands down one of my favorite parts of playing with art materials. I want to show you how I think about it and offer some ways that you can start to explore mixing satisfying colors. I've found that the best way to begin color mixing

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EDI Live - Sat Mar 26, 12PM PST

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