Conny Duck @ConnyDuck@chaos.social

Me when ultramarine: 😍 but with blue hearts
Me when cobalt blue: 😍 but with blue hearts
Me when phthalo blue: 😍 but with blue hearts
blue 🥺

It is BLUE time 💙 💙 💙

Top ~third is done, so I'll need at least 4 more days to finish it.

I want all my brush strokes to be super visible, so I am using a synthetic bristle brush and mix impasto medium into the paint.

I'm having so much fun painting this, I mean look at them colors 🤤

Last and most fun part is covering all the circles with oil paint. I start in the top left edge with all the violets and purples.

Oh now one can already see where it is going 😯

I am painting the space between the circles with a thinned-down mix of Graphite Grey and Mars Black (also called Iron Oxide Black). Mars Black is a heavily granulating pigment and creates a very interesting texture.

...a lot of circles

Now I am drawing circles

Oh it already looks so cool? I am just getting started though 😳

Next up is the base color layer. For this I am using my trusted acrylic primary colors. They mix cleanly and allow me to get every color I want.

Once this stuff is dry, the surface feels almost like sandpaper

:3

First I am priming the canvas with a mix of Gesso and texture paste, and I am using palette knives and old brushes for this because I don't want the surface to be smooth at all.

Let's paint some abstract art inspired by this 👈 drawing onto this 👉 canvas (Conny for scale)

Can someone reproduce this with Tusky 18.0?
- Start a new login
- enter something that passes the "is domain" check, e.g. bug.test into the "which instance?" field
- go into airplane mode
- Click "Login with Mastodon" repeatedly
- Tusky crashes 😭