The Look Of Love

A circle weaving.

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Between my internship and the Asbestos Apartment Boogaloo, I haven’t really gotten to work on a painting since March.

My first run at this portrait, about 2 hrs of work, not including the initial sketch. Trying to get faster and looser with portraits.

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I’m considering this done. Just needs a coat of varnish.

Another painting in progress

I was posting art online back in the days of Elfwood, before Deviantart, so I’ve been around to watch the internet social rules of interacting with art posts shift over time.

Lemme tell you: Reblogs make me happy, but comments fill me with JOY. Whether it’s on the reblog or in the tags, even if it’s as simple as “I like this,” that means so much to me.

I can imagine there are a lot of artists in a position similar to mine: Working a full-time non-art job, with little time or opportunity to interact with IRL art communities. I was in art school for many many years, and I didn’t realize how important it was to receive feedback on my art until I wasn’t getting it anymore.

One of the things I’m trying to do, over on my bsky and my sideblog, is to leave a comment of some kind when I reblog another artist’s work. I know it means a lot to me, so I want to give that to artists whose work I enjoy.

To everyone who leaves comments on my art, even goofy stuff in their tags: I do see it, I do read it, and thank you so much!

To people who leave comments in the tags that say stuff like “this is so weird” or “why did they make the characters so ugly”: Please go look at more art and develop a broader palette. Maybe watch Simon Schama’s “The Power of Art” miniseries, as a fun way to learn some art history and theory.

(via original illustration fawn 2 by panicvolkushka on Etsy)

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I'd really like to tell you I'm happy I found your art blog. I guess I want to say that I find your self reflections to be really interesting and your approach as well. I just really happy to be following you! Thank you!

Thank you for taking the time to message me! It really does mean a lot.

My ongoing wall collage, pages from "Emergence," and a weaving I did. I'm interested in doing more fabric art in the future...

Reaching that point in working on a piece where I lose any sense of reality and my brain just chants "I AM A GENIUS I AM A GOD" over and over. Well, working in customer service until 11:30 pm will certainly beat down that overblown sense of confidence. Off to work!

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Like a Big Cat Purring

36"x20", mixed media weaving, utilizing a crochet shawl made by my late cousin, before her death, 2024

detail one

detail two

detail three

replying to anonymous asks

Anonymous said: I just met you and I already love you?? Your comics are so deep, I want to be an artist and you’re kinda giving me hope I can be happy with that :)

Thank you! Being able to inspire someone in their own art is on of the best things to hear. I wish you the best in your art-making. My advice (which I should listen to myself about) is to be understanding and kind to yourself. Art-making, even when it’s done spontaneously and just for fun, is a learning process. It’s taken years and years of practice, at least 5 of those years in the context of art schools, for me to make art the way I do. And I still want to learn more and change my art and I still get frustrated with it! So if you hit a stumbling block in your art, don’t give up!

Anonymous said: Would you do something with the KOTH character John Redcorn..?

I hadn’t really considered doing something with John Redcorn. If an idea came to me, I might do a comic.

Anonymous said: Honestly it’s time to kill off Peter and Homer or cancel both of the shows.

I’m biased, so I’d be fine with Family Guy being gone forever and Simpsons re-runs.

Anonymous said: Your comic about Bobby being a therapist to B*** and C**** is literally my favorite comic of all time, I’m always happy to see it on my dash, thanks for making it it’s incredible 

Thank you! :D

Anonymous said: good job!

Thank you, I do try.

Anonymous said: i just wanted to say i still really love your comic where bart simpson and chris from family guy are being counseled by bobby hill. its a great piece of media 

Thank you! It’s so weird to realize that comic is like... four years old.

Anonymous said: Hi there!! I followed u a year or so back bc of the bart/Chris therapy comic, and was wondering if you deleted the follow up comics u made ? I can’t seem to find them anywhere :0c 

Weird! They should be right here: https://panic-volkushka.tumblr.com/post/146046796495/its-here-a-hard-copy-version-of-my-comic