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Keeping this shortish: A while back my prime wife @madnessism started a fun little collective over to the side called The Beasts of AI and I've been a part of it for a couple months. We're mostly twitter active, but because of the drama around twitter currently some of us are migrating some work over to DA to get new eyes on it. I didn't want the baggage of this account tied to it (and will not be active in any sense of the term apart from posting my work) so if you want to check out my stuff drop me a watch on @exquisitest. You can also check out some of our early-adopter comrades at @artistficially, @king0lightai and @L3VEL7 - and eventually we'll be setting up @thebeastsofai as a group to collect all our stuff in one space. Check us out @ thebeastsofai on twitter too - we run some neat initiatives. I haven't talked much about my life as an artist after my health issues in 2017, but I've had limited ability to create since then. This is why I'm embracing AI and I view it largely as
A Check-In
I'm Not "Back"
So don't get excited. I just know this is a convenient way to broadcast an update to y'all on where life has led me. I'm still not around much, if at all. I do check my messages maybe once a week and pop on the chat network when I get a snow day at work. I'm creating, but it's not meant for y'all. :pringles:
So illness sucks. That's not up for debate. All types of illness suck. A cold sucks. Scrambled nerves suck. Depression sucks. Vague autoimmune diarrhea sucks. Abscessed molars suck. Herpes sucks. (Not crotchpox. The shingles. I'm less sexually active than a Buddhist nun.) Then it all gets better. Medication juggling is an
One Last Update
Words?
So by now you've probably noticed I'm not around much. It happens.
My life has gravitated elsewhere. "Elsewhere" is this weird and wonderful place of reading tarot semi-professionally, growing okra, playing cards every Wednesday with my 78-year-old great aunt Annette over a bottle of moonshine, owning roughly half of a rapidly growing art-oriented web startup, and trying to find a local beer I don't hate since I've moved cross-country and they don't sell my brand here.
It isn't that I dislike DA. It isn't that my experiences here weren't important, or fun most of the time. The place just has a lot of memories, some good and some terr
Choosing Paints, Part II: HEAVY METAL HEXAGRAMS
Trad Basics Week
Re-Introduction
In the previous installment, Choosing Paints, Part I: Fat and ... Translucent?, we discussed picking your first paint, monochromatic painting and the two-colour and Zorn palettes. For 3300 words. And you thought that was enough learning. :evillaugh:
What we're trying to prevent: Bad life choices, and unsaleable art that leads to the ramen diet.
Today we're going to go over the basic palette of six colours as a launching point for artistic success. These tips apply to all painterly media - oils, acrylics, watercolours, gouache, pastel, you name it and it fits. Let's start with the dry stuff:
The Six Colour
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Ahhhh this is past the deadline I just realized! Here's the journal 
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So, like, better late than never??? Please?
Have a blessed day, thank you so much for doing this project! -Debra
Not Waiting For Someone Else...to do what I should do myself. Well, I've had it with thinking, why doesn't Somebody submit numerous of the fantastic deviations I keep featuring, for a Daily Deviation! Pining under a halo of doing something that's not ever enough to really help others, thinking it takes someone more knowledgeable and 'important' to make a real difference. No more.and the traditional art:
Starting with this feature, I am submitting others' works for Daily Deviations. I had this maudlin sense that it would take away all the joy of winning a DD for myself if something of mine was nominated as a 'return favor'. I realize there are far too many extremely talented artists out there that haven't won one either after more years of hard work, community involvement and support of fellow artists--more "paying their dues"--than I. So I am officially kicking the caboose off this self-pity train, following the simple instructions I recently found here: and ac
So, like, better late than never??? Please?
Have a blessed day, thank you so much for doing this project! -Debra