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Little life update and PSA is in the next paragraph. If you wish to skip, please go to the paragraph after the next, thank you.
This week in my artistic journey I have been having a bit of motivational issues, which is why this post is coming out so late in the day, and for that I am deeply sorry. It has not so much been not wanting to create, as the fear to create. I have generalized anxiety, and I did one thing which put me on edge, I read an article about how this one gal had her artwork copied by a copy-cat "artist" in Mexico. Link to article HERE .This, plus reading all the comments about how other artists have had similar issues started to bring up my anxiety a bit. Though now I have started to calm down, possibly due to the act of creating, as well as the knowledge that I should not let my fear control me. I know I could legally copy-right everything I have ever created, but as a college student I do not have the funds to do that, nor do I believe my stuff is currently good enough to steal. I may in the future, but not right now. However, this does not mean I would take theft lightly. As a way of calming down my anxiety I have decided to let all of you, my readers, know that everything I post on here, as far as art, is my original artwork. As for the posts I did before I started to share my art, I gave proper credit, as far as I understand, to all creators. I encourage you all to do the same. If you share a piece of art you enjoy, give the artist credit, maybe even give a link to where you found the image. As for my artwork, you may share it if you wish as long as you give proper credit to me. I do not give anyone permission, however, to make money off of my artwork. I ask you all to please be courteous of my rights as the original artwork creator, and thank you for reading my little life update.
This is the artwork I decided to create today as my anxiety was acting up a bit. So please, excuse me for it not being the best. In hindsight I probably should have made the sky a bit lighter. I may try in the future to correct that error, as I have no more time to do that today as the day is coming to a close and I need to post before the day is up.
The time was not wasted though, I found out some little tricks when it comes to acrylic paints. One is to do the farthest back layer first. In this artwork that was the sky. You do this first, because one of the few luxuries of acrylic paint is it will dry quite quickly, meaning you can paint over the layer you put down previously. This brings me to the second trick I found out, which is layering. Each part of this painting I went over at least three times, to make sure it was opaque, since this was the look I was going for. If you are finding your paint is looking more transparent than you want it to be, try letting it dry a little and put another layer of the same paint on top of the previous layer. This trick on its own is the main reason why this painting has so far taken me a little over seven hours to plan and paint.
I hope all of you are doing well today! Creating is a great way to settle the nerves!
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