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Gouache and ink on paper.

Acrylic on 5 x 7 inch paper.

Inspired by this video. Required too much brush control for me. I need to be messy.

Gouache on paper.

Planning a portrait of my grandma as a young woman. I've got a black and white photo that doesn't have much shadow to work with so i'm trying to figure out where to add some for contrast. I'm going to make it a colorful abstract and add some flowers near her collar.

My mom requested a valentines day style painting, and I love how the flamingos look, but I hate this background. Id love some suggestions on how to change it. That can mean adapting the current background in some way, or completely covering it and doing something new. I have no problem doing that.

Can anyone offer their ideas? Thanks in advance.

Project was too ambitious for just starting out with oil pastels. Don't mind sharing a portrait of myself, given it looks nothing like me.

Why?

If you're in the US, you should know this because if you want to apply for a passport, you'll be required to provide information about your parents such as birth dates and places. If you're divorced, you will have to provide the same info along with marriage and divorce date, even if it was decades ago. So if you have access to that info, make sure you record it somewhere safe for Future use.

If you're not in the US, you should know because this information can be difficult for people to get if they never knew one or both parents, or have a bad/non-relationship with them. Or if they had a contentious divorce or an abusive partner. Which is another reason why just leaving the country can be difficult for people who are already marginalized.

Acrylic on wood, 26 x 20 inches.

Thanks to everyone here who convinced me to keep the lemons. I'm really happy with how this came out.

This dog has been roaming the neighborhood for at least 3 days. No collar, the police are aware and unable to get it, animal control won't try until tomorrow. Pic has been posted to a missing pets facebook group.

It's below freezing. I tried bringing out food and water, but it won't let me anywhere near. Is there anything I can put out to help this dog through another frozen night, assuming it comes anywhere near my house again?

Edit the following morning: I never saw it again, but a neighbor saw it this morning, so at least it survived the night. Hopefully the pros can take care of it today.

This TV movie was funnier than it had any right to be. I don't normally enjoy slapstick, but I laughed out loud several times. Also nice and short.

Acrylic on wood.

Not ready to share the whole painting. I added these lemons because the composition needed something to balance it and i was really happy with how they were coming out.

Last night, 2 am on my way to the bathroom, I glance at it in the dark and realize these lemons are life-sized - while the rest of the painting is double that. And they're in the foreground. So now I have to repaint them.

Acrylic on canvas, 16 x 20"

I started off painting an owl, and worked on it long enough without seeing improvement so I wanted to abandon it. But I could see this little critter lurking under the owl.

It's fantastic when I only have my reading light on at night.