TQ✏️ @TQ@mastodon.art

I'm becoming more and more aware what kind of #art I want to make:
I want my art to be spontaneous. Like a feeling straight from the gut. No self-censoring.
I don't want to pack additional meaning into my paintings. I don't want to construct it consciously. Subconsciously has to suffice.
I want my art to be accessible. I want it to be raw, understandable without the need to know too much about art, art history etc.
I want my art to be easy to ship, without excessive amounts of waste. #manifesto

#introduction So here we go again! This is yet another replication of myself in the fediverse. I want to use this account to connect to other artists and post my artsy stuff. I've acquired a taste for different styles and techniques: I love #urbansketching with #watercolors and #ink and like #characterstudies. So here are some of my more #sketchy pieces!

Also: I just got sucked into thinking "Hey, perhaps I want to try this again, printing my art on clothes!" Then I spent some time trying to design things and remembered how much I hate it.

Then I realized that my art isn't made for mass (re-)production /consumption. It's made to be physically visited in it's true, singularly existing form. #artistProblems #mastoArt

Here, have this painting! It's from my "whiteout" series I didn't know I was making until yesterday. It's called "They said I am hard to love (it was you not me)" and it's about friends who are shitty to me. #mastoArt #traditionalArt #abstractArt

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

"For Exposure (You Love What You Do, So Do It For Free)"
Every creator of art, music, design, writing has to battle with the conception that a) you do what others do as a hobby so it must be FUN, right? b) if it's fun, it isn't REAL work, c) getting paid for fun things is optional.
Blergh.
Creative people need to live and eat, too. And the creative process may be fun at times, but requires hard and constant work beyond what can be called recreational. #mastoArt #abstractArt #traditionalArt

"Where is up anyway?" is already some weeks old but still relevant. #mastoArt #abstractArt #traditionalArt

Here's my painting process for the piece "Where is the Revolution", if you're interested
https://youtu.be/8tgehg2eAsw #mastoArt #traditionalArt #urbanArt #abstractArt

I got new safety gear!

Photo shows a person with a mask, eye contact.

I've applied for another residency program and an exhibition! Yay me!

I try and try, I mean, if I stop trying I won't get any of my paintings out there into this world and they have to stay with me forever and I don't haVE THE SPACE! GET A LIFE; PAINTINGS! #artistProblems

Sorry for the typo in the picture description. It's a "painting", of course, not an "antun", whatever that may be. 😂

Good morning! Here, have some art! #mastoArt #abstractArt #goodMorning

The more affordable version of the Urban Abstraction Tarot is ready! If you're interested, you can find it here
https://www.printerstudio.com/sell/designs/the-urban-abstraction-tarot.html
I was able to keep the price unter $22.
You can find the cards with slightly better quality paper (330gsm vs. 300 gsm) and a slightly better fitting format here
https://www.makeplayingcards.com/sell/marketplace/the-urban-abstraction-tarot.html for $28.
Additionally, shipping costs are lower for most ppl via printerstudio.com #tarot #AprilArtJourney #mastoArt #traditionalArt

So what am I doing? Of course I'm researching the next contest I can take part in! \o/

Yay, I got my first art contest rejection!
No, it's fine, I'm fine. Not "dog in burning house" fine, I really feel this is part of the things I have to take as normal part of the process of being an artist. And I think more along the lines of "the more I try, the more I can be seen and the more good may come of it."