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radiantfracture) wrote2025-02-04 05:23 pm
radiantfracture) wrote2025-02-04 05:23 pm
Holly King Contemplates All that He Has Lost
It's been at least a year since I painted anything seriously, and more like two.
But artist Brett Manning (![[instagram.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/profile_icons/instagram.png)
brettmannignart)
posts the Faebruary art challenge every February, and I like the prompts.
I am behind, of course, but that's kind of reassuring. At this rate I will have prompts for all of February. Here's prompt #1, Holly King.
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The prompts seem kind of wintry this year.
[ETA: right, I was going to explain why it looks like that.]
I'm always a bit rusty when I approach these prompts because I paint very little when school is in session. I need a certain kind of expansiveness in my mind. Also, a certain kind of exhaustion helps. Maybe they go together.
Anyway, the first painting in a series can be a bit all over the place because of that. This is much less polished than I'd like, but I thought I should post it to get myself back in the habit.
In this case, I was looking at some stickers I had of Kandinsky's art and remembering how much I loved his playful visual language, and thinking it would be nice to make the king's portrait kind of break up into abstraction.
I can't really justify the combination of this style and fairy lore -- it's a strange soup, and not helped by my haphazard execution.
Oh well -- day one!
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These days most Insta artists seem to have moved to Patreon, which makes sense for money and flexibility but renders them much harder to find.
2025 is probably the last year I will participate in the art challenge. I've always loved it, but it happens on Instagram, and even if I weren't trying to work out what to do about the ethical situation, the designers have rendered the platform useless for sharing art.
Cross-posted fromradiantfracture on Instagram.
But artist Brett Manning (
brettmannignart)posts the Faebruary art challenge every February, and I like the prompts.
I am behind, of course, but that's kind of reassuring. At this rate I will have prompts for all of February. Here's prompt #1, Holly King.
* * * * *
The prompts seem kind of wintry this year.
[ETA: right, I was going to explain why it looks like that.]
I'm always a bit rusty when I approach these prompts because I paint very little when school is in session. I need a certain kind of expansiveness in my mind. Also, a certain kind of exhaustion helps. Maybe they go together.
Anyway, the first painting in a series can be a bit all over the place because of that. This is much less polished than I'd like, but I thought I should post it to get myself back in the habit.
In this case, I was looking at some stickers I had of Kandinsky's art and remembering how much I loved his playful visual language, and thinking it would be nice to make the king's portrait kind of break up into abstraction.
I can't really justify the combination of this style and fairy lore -- it's a strange soup, and not helped by my haphazard execution.
Oh well -- day one!
* * * * *
These days most Insta artists seem to have moved to Patreon, which makes sense for money and flexibility but renders them much harder to find.
2025 is probably the last year I will participate in the art challenge. I've always loved it, but it happens on Instagram, and even if I weren't trying to work out what to do about the ethical situation, the designers have rendered the platform useless for sharing art.
Cross-posted from
radiantfracture on Instagram.
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"Lyonel Feininger Paints the Fae" just dropped into my head as a title, so I am afraid that I am now trying to make it your problem. (I can't paint!)
[edit] I know Feininger was not one of the Russian Futurists, but he's right next to El Lissitzky at the Busch-Reisinger Museum and he painted Avenue of Trees (1915) which at size looks like the viewer could become lost between its transparent planes of tree.
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I'll see what I can do!