Heya!

[batiferrite]

I've been surprisingly busy the past couple of days after a long stretch of nothing -- yesterday and the day before, we suddenly started rearranging all our furniture and planning a garage sale to deal with all the excess junk, and today I went to a family reunion (my relatives who moved to Texas a couple years ago suddenly decided to come up for a visit. we're also going on a little road trip tomorrow and various other little meetings through the week while they're here).


Aside from all that, my aunt commissioned me to make her an artwork based on the word, "chaos," and I was planning on working on that this week. I was thinking of making a mixed media sort of collage where it has warning labels with depictions of natural disasters, pollution, etc all over, malware popup-style? I already dissected a couple of old manuals for electronics / appliances to harvest some labels and have been checking out a couple of different secondhand stores to see if they have any old cheap magazines I could cut up, and I'll try to figure out where to go from there...

Also, last week, I made this little guy:

 

He's made from an old desk calendar that I painted over to look like one of my cats, Gus. I do think he turned out really cute (even if he looks kinda sad). My acrylic paint is so awful quality, though! Do you know how many coats it took to do this?! I've been wanting to try Holbein's Acryla Gouache for a while, and maybe now's the time...

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Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

I love the cat.

Gouache is a great opaque paint, but it behaves more like watercolor than acrylic (according to artist friends). Experiment with it, but expect to do some test exercises before tackling a real project.

There are also opaquing media you can mix into paints such as acrylics to change their behavior.

[blueshiftofdeath]

Omg!!!!Your cat is adorable!! You did an amazing job. The collage sounds like it'll be cool too!

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[batiferrite]

Thanks! ^^

Yeah, I have a mixing set of regular gouache already that I’m reasonably familiar with. Acryla gouache is a bit different, though; it has the same matte creamy texture as regular gouache, but it doesn’t reactivate with water when it dries. I’ve seen people use it for painting polymer clay sculptures and that sort of thing, so it should be fine for general crafty purposes.

I’ve never played around with the different types of acrylic mediums, though, so maybe that’s something to look into, also…

[batiferrite]

Thanks! <3

[vegetablearian]

That cat is so cute! Yeah, he does look sad bless him! The fur looks really good :)

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[ysabetwordsmith]

>> Yeah, I have a mixing set of regular gouache already that I’m reasonably familiar with. Acryla gouache is a bit different, though; it has the same matte creamy texture as regular gouache, but it doesn’t reactivate with water when it dries.<<

Fascinating.

>> I’ve seen people use it for painting polymer clay sculptures and that sort of thing, so it should be fine for general crafty purposes.<<

That makes sense.

>>I’ve never played around with the different types of acrylic mediums, though, so maybe that’s something to look into, also…<<

Go for it. There are lots of things you can mix in to change opacity, drying time, texture, etc. I researched some of them for stuff I was writing.

[batiferrite]

Thanks! <3

👋

[a_flyleaf]

(Hello, found you through an addme community, hope you don’t mind the random comment on a non-sticky post!)

The “chaos” artwork idea sounds extremely cool :Oc And the cat’s really cute! That big patch of white around the collar sorta reminds me of a mane, looks fuzzy~

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[batiferrite]

(Hey! It’s fine, feel free to comment wherever you want. ^^)

Thanks x 2! We actually do call it his mane, lol. My family always jokes about how he’s our little lion boy.