TQ, artist aspect @TQ@mastodon.art

Hello! I feel it's time for an updated #introcuction. I'm an #artist from Germany, exploring the boundaries between #abstractArt and naturalistic #traditionalArt. My art is usually colorful and energetic, and I like to use modern tools like acrylic #spraypaint, #markers and combine them with "traditional" #acrylicPaint and ink.
I sometimes still do #urbanSketching or #drawing. But #painting is what I currently enjoy the most!

OMG! Look what arrived in the mail! It's the Urban Abstraction Tarot!
https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/the-urban-abstraction-tarot.html

The quality is really quite good, the cards are printed nicely and cut very precisely. "The Hermit" must be one of the cards where the printer struggled the most with my strange colors and weird contrasts, but even that one is quite good! #tarot #mastoArt #AprilArtJourney

Did it! Sent out two new applications for contests - by snail mail. Can you believe it! Application via 🐌 ✉️ in the year 2019! #artistLife

Talking to myself, btw. owo

It may be tough to get rejections, especially when the work is very dear to you. But one more #rejection letter means one more experience and perhaps being a bit less afraid to write an application at all. I can feel the effects of that now, after having received 7 rejection letters from contests and about 5-10 from galleries.
It's okay. It's all about the practice. Lose your fear. Be kind to yourself. Allow yourself to ~just try it~. #artistLife #artistStruggles

My my, seems like my style changed a bit in the last 4 months. The painting on the bottom is from April, and I was still fully abstract back then. It may look like a landscape, but only vaguely. The one above is from last week. The size alone! And... the colors! And my technique! It's more what *hasn't* changed! #mastoArt #artistLife #traditionalArt

Another sunday, another art timelapse! Here you can paint with me one of my latest paintings, called "When Wet". 😁
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=09cdogRjs7k
If you like it, please feel free to share it, thank you! #timelapse #traditionalArt #mastoArt

I was looking for someone to perform at my vernissage later this year, and I was incredibly lucky and got Toona! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7py8Sosa5eQ
They are so unbelievably awesome! Give them a listen and boost their signal if you like them (as I do)! ❤️

For illustrational purposes: (cc @deerbard)

Today I saw 3 really bad portrait paintings hung up proudly in a kind of ancestral halls in a restaurant. They were newly made portraits with really distorted faces, and they looked unintentionally funny af!

ow I am again considering focusing on portraiture. That's a thing I am quite good at... So here are three portraits of #RosaLuxemburg I did last year. #mastoArt #portraiture #traditionalArt

*still hopes for some traditional artists to join the party*