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My #ebook 'Art Making Zine' is available for #Free download from Amazon untill 10th June (PDT)! Doodles of inspiration for your art making! Thank you everyone that's downloaded it, please leave a review if you found it handy.

#Art #Artist #Zine #ArtMaking #Cteative

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My 'Art Making Zine' eBook will be available for free from 12am (00:00) 6th June - 10th June 2025! Get doodles of inspiration for your art making!

#ArtMaking #Art #Free #Ebook #Zine #Friday

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A doodle of a black spider and Web in the middle of the page is surrounded by stamped letters that spell out 'Capture.'

Someone here was lamenting a dearth of top-quality hand made Canadian art papers. I know, right?

Well, here's something to try - made in Montreal!

St. Armand - Handmade 100% Cotton Rag Paper
https://gwartzmans.com/search?q=St.%20Armand%20paper*
#artmaking #watercolour #printmaking
#madeInCanada #buyCanadian #buyCanadianMade

Tuesday is coming! \o/💃💐🎉

… when I take a break from what seems like *years* of political watchfulness, set some additional mastodon filters, & get back to enjoying the serendipity of social interaction here. Can't wait 🤗

Eventually I'll have to check in on what our politicians are doing. And some of it will find its way thru the filters. But my May priorities do NOT include activism. Just #rest, #artmaking, and work.🤞

That's hoping that #DougFordIsCorruptAF plays along 😖 #theBestLaidPlans

7cm thumbnails, based on my photos of last year's red tulips.
Thinking about composition and colour. I do love colour 🤗

This year's tulips are still just green shoots.
#collage #painting #artmaking

A 2 x 2 grid of quick sketches on an 8" square sketchbook page. Made using kids' tempera sticks, and some quickly-painted collage papers in pure pigments: quinacridone magenta, chromium oxide green, Reeves sage green.
© 2025 @deborahh@cosocial.ca (me).

Current work-in-progress: background for collage - acrylic on an accordion book of brown kraft paper.
Up next: collaging some random white-ish elements, and adding scribble marks.
Working up to: deep red tulips, eventually, I think! 🤞

We'll see what happens. 🤷‍♀️
#collage #painting #artmaking

Accordion book, partially opened out, on brown paper and white shower curtain to protect floor. Portion shown covers about 1 x 5 feet. Framed around two edges by white kitchen cabinet fronts.

Large abstract strokes of black, white, muted light blue, indigo and "green earth" cover the paper randomly. Also, some indigo dots made with jumbo bubblewrap.

Demonstrating Mary Cassatt's Color #Printmaking Techniques

/cc @minouette
#etching #artmaking
(13 minute narrated demo video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=Q-QfldafYsw&si=mS_8veONR8YoU5Tn

Creating collage fodder - getting ready for tulip season.

Managed to spill half a bottle of acrylic ink: Quinacridone Red of course, a staining pigment. Fortunately, my entire work surface is covered in silicone sheets, not a drop on my tables or my turkish carpet.*

* why, oh, why,do I have a turkish rug in my studio area? Printmaking is hard on the feet - but, really, for inspiration, of course!

#printmaking #gelliprint #gelprinting #collage #artmaking

Ten 9x12" sheets of medical exam table paper and rice paper, spread out on my studio floor, mostly on a polyethylene desk protector. All bear messy, abstract shapes in red, pink, white and light purple - streaks, dendrities, and the un-planned red ink blots of course 🤭

Under all that is my lovely, dark denim blue turkish rug with a dusty looking repeating medallion pattern (the more elaborate patterns are at the borders :-).

This is the west half of my kitchen, by the way. I'm a much better artist than a cook 🤭 (and that's not saying much, in fact 🤣)

Intaglio #Printmaking in your kitchen? Drypoint printing at home with recycled materials, no press and no ink!

(Half hour narrated tutorial with captions)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=9rhNCPLYmHI&si=EmKujX_20RRtXay6
#artMaking

Video still, showing small finished print

I took an art class this week, online, and am excited about the new dimensions it's adding to my way of art-making. This has quite a different feel to my two previous attempts to paint this (abstract, emotional) subject.

I'm celebrating the ambiguity, the depth, the move away from narrative and illustratoon \o/

Edit: The videos from the class may still be up here: https://pages.art2life.com/live/

#artMaking #painting

Mixed media on paper 8x12"
(Two pages in an art journal)

In a hazy, vaguely landscape-ish field, 5 darker shapes of different colours and sizes float and consider interacting. One object looks like two small red-hot chili peppers. Up close, on and between the shapes, you'll see small, pale marks of various kinds, which my teacher calls "the quiet conversation".

©2025 @deborahh preuss (me)

Me cataloguing myself making a sticker start to finish as that was the de rigueur online artist move a few years ago. #stickerart #artmaking #print #sticker #wip #process #graphicdesign #graphicart

Ooh! A free workshop from respected teacher & abstract artist Nicholas Wilton!

"This is the year everything can change. Your Art & Your Life.

It’s no accident that you landed right here, right now. … This is your invitation to overcome whatever stands in your way to making art."

➔ If you'd like to get back into art, this is a gentle way to do it! See you there!
https://pages.art2life.com/cvp/5-day-workshop-l/

See how he teaches on his youtube channel, here: https://youtube.com/@art2life?si=q7mrZF2PfrxIXR1B

#abstractart #artMaking #selfCare

watching DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE on #CriterionChannel

I've seen it before but now it has even more significance in a way. What a special and wholly unique person and artist.

#art #artmaking #DavidLynch #film #cinema #movies

A screenshot from the film DAVID LYNCH: THE ART LIFE showing Lynch in a contemplative moment, holding a cigarette and looking upwards.

A teacher sent me an email: "You might not need any more references for your thesis but I thought of you when I saw this exposition."

Not only is the exposition very useful as a reference, I'm also ABSOLUTELY DELIGHTED by it!

Cleaning in progress : the line between art and life by Ulvi Haagensen

https://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/887950/887951

#ArtisticResearch #ResearchCatalogue #artmaking #bricoleur #everyday

Oooh, look what I found!

Rummaging around for a blank notebook for a new project, I came upon this blank 7x9" japanese rice paper accordion book!

I got it second-hand, somewhere. It'll be easy to add the missing back cover.

Yum!
#artmaking #ricepaper #painting

On a small white computer table:

cream-coloured paper accordions across the foreground; timer, computer and podcast paraphenalia, in the background, are all white and aluminum-coloured. A small timer and pencil case add a touch of red.

It's unusual for me to shoot an all-white photo, but eventually even that happens, LOL.

I've started watching #DavidLynch on 3Masterclass. Although he's not a sophisticated "orator," I find myself loving his ideas. He keeps it simple and humble. He's practical and humble. And what he says makes a lot of sense in terms of the kinds of films he makes.

#creativity #writing #filmmaking #cinema #film #movies #artmaking #art

My landlord allows nails and screws, but nothing can be stuck to the walls. This is a pain in my studio workarea.

Voila!
My shower curtain / magnet bar hack :-)
(Description in #AltText)

(This is my 2nd shower curtain hack. I use another colourful one, with big bold designs, as a video background. Cheap and cheerful! :-)

#printmaking #artmaking #smallspacesolutions

A colourful vinyl shower curtain hangs on the wall behind my studio table, on nails.

Behind it are two meter-long magnet bars, one above the other. They're meant to be stuck to the wall. But instead, I've stuck them to the shower curtain using big magnets in front.

So now, above my work table: many, overlapping work-in-progress gelli prints and drawings to inspire whatever I do next. They are held on with neodymium magnets ✔

Predominant colours in this photo are white, turquoise, blue. Prints and drawings are turquoise, blue, pink, purple, yellow.

I'm also doing some light blogging at #ShroomsForLess, like this new post about enhancing #NeuroWellness for 2025 through modalities like #meditation, #journaling, #artmaking and yes, #microdosing https://shroomsforless.net/shroom-blog/2025-wellness-reset/ #2025WellnessReset #blogging #PsychedelicWellnessBlog #MagicMushroomStrainConsultant

Various #ThingUmbrella and #GenArtAPI updates from this week:

- Added null pointer checks & guards in https://thi.ng/wasm-api. This also includes support for structs with fields using Zig-style optional pointers.
- Updated the https://thi.ng/wasm-api-bindgen code generator for #TypeScript to produce smaller code for structs using many string fields
- Did major ground work on #Zig #WebAssembly bindings of core https://thi.ng/genart-api functionality (see small demo below)
- Fixed/updated/simplified time provider logic
- Updated the debug time provider with its FPS analytics/visualization overlay, now computing moving min/max and moving average (default period = 200 frames) and the viz is dynamically/smoothly rescaling to current peak
- Released new GenArtAPI v0.9.0

As for the Zig/WASM example: This is only interesting from a technical POV, no visuals here! All canvas drawing and parameter declarations/evaluations are done via Zig, using the aforementioned https://thi.ng/wasm-api infrastructure to provide a new API module which can be seamlessly used with the other hybrid WASM API modules, here for DOM creation (https://thi.ng/wasm-api-dom) and to handle Canvas2D drawing (https://thi.ng/wasm-api-canvas).

At the moment, this GenArtAPI WASM module is still a fixed part of this example, but will eventually be extracted & distributed as separate package.

Demo (with param editor):
https://demo.thi.ng/genart-api/param-editors/?url=https://demo.thi.ng/genart-api/zig-test/

Choose one of the two GUI implementations, then make any parameter changes and you should see the new values applied immediately (btw. the demo is likely not very usable on mobile)...

Source code (TypeScript in `/src`, Zig in `/zig` directories):
https://github.com/thi-ng/genart-api/tree/main/examples/zig-test/

#GenerativeArt #ArtMaking #Interop #OpenSource #Workflow #TypeScript #JavaScript

So, after trying some other stuff, I'm going to stick to videos about art techniques again today.

I figure it's the dopamine without the calories or addiction factor. Or … well … ok, but it seems a more constructive addiction?
#selfcare #rest #sadness #artmaking

#ArtMaking

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