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

If you're curious, these are the ones I chose. #traditionalArt #mastoArt #NeonExpressionism

I'm so happy about the opportunity, so grateful. But I'm so stressed out about how to achieve this. I've wrecked my brain for the last day, and the easiest way would probably be to sew some kind of backing into to and bottom for stability and hang it that way. Without framing for the moment. Oh my...
#artistProblems #artistLife

I was asked to lend some paintings to the town hall where my exhibition starts next week. Problem is: I don't have them ready to be displayed. I paint on unstretched canvas for various reasons, and if I want to display them, I first need to find a way to do so.
And I only have about a week to get things done, and my week is already filled with a birthday party, a trip to Frankfurt book fair, hanging my paintings for my exhibition, and the vernissage! And I'm as good as out of vacation days...!

"artist" -> "just"

I've come a long way from "I'm just not good with colors, I should stick to pencil drawings". And this is hard work. 0% talent. I've worked for years almost exclusively on coloration, getting a feeling for colors. Sometimes working on artist quick sketches, sometimes for weeks on the same painting. It is worth it.

If you're currently struggling with learning something new, please let me tell you: You can do this. You can!

Things the previous versions needed:
More definition in some places
Less definition on others
More depth
Just some hints of red and green in a careful examination of the color palette used
More layers
More thought

I think now it's done. #traditionalArt #mastoArt #NeonExpressionism

You know what's the toughest part in being an artist? For me, it's coming out of my comfortable hiding hole of anonymity and standing by my work in public. Waiting for strangers to throw rotten tomatoes at me or - worse - laugh at me. Ah, the horrors of being an artist... #artistProblems #artistLife

I have feelings about this. I think I know a bit more where I want this to go. But now I have to prepare the birthday party for #child and do breadwinning work, and I'm painting and painting in my mind... #artistLife #artistProblems

And I see another session coming, adding juuuust a tiny bit of depth and definition back in. Hope it works out.

I opted for subtraction. #mastoArt #traditionalArt