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Michael Barrett @abouthalf@mastodon.art

Had an OK figure life drawing session last night. Started with a loose sketch, followed by a greyscale painting, and finally digital "glazing" and opaque color.

a painting i have been working on for about a week on and off!!! i'm really happy with this and i put it up on redbubble if anyone is interested in buying it on anything!!

redbubble.com/people/zheida/wo

boosts are really appreciated! I'm using this as a bit of a test to see if anyone would be interested in buying more food prints. hope yall like it!!

Made a digital painting of a photo of my dad's childhood home.

Work in Progress from figure drawing last week

A train sketch from the other morning.

Lilo and Stitch dressed as characters from ALIEN.

I lucked into a seat on the train this evening, so got in a little drawing on my commute home.

Trying to "sculpt" my paintings more instead of painting on top of drawings...

Saturday portrait study of a protester with a pink hat.

Oh it's been a while tooters.

Here. Have some arts.

Tonight's figure model was Dave. He has a great, expressive face, and holds a rock-steady pose. He's quick with a Dad-joke.

Portraits are so gratifying when they go well. She’s looking down and to the left. . What’s over there? What’s on her mind? This makes me want to real portraits with people whose stories I actually know.

This was my 3rd issue of - I'll post a new one tomorrow.

I've started on another web-painting.

littleoverripe.com

I have a little more work to do - some animation refinements plus a few more elements.

I like the idea of paintings as web sites as public art.

It becomes a sort of mural.

Here's the first post from my newsletter, just to give an idea of what I'm going for...

tinyletter.com/abouthalf/lette

Well!

I'm trying something new this year. I want to make more art more often. And I want to share it with folks who might find it meaningful. I also want to contribute to the open web outside of of Facebook.

So!

I'm starting a small newsletter at TinyLetter where I'll publish once or twice a week. The goal is to create 100 doodles this year...a mix of painting and blogging in your email.

If you like this sort of thing, please subscribe!

tinyletter.com/abouthalf