“People who criticize new technologies are sometimes called Luddites, but it’s helpful to clarify what the Luddites actually wanted. The main thing they were protesting was the fact that their wages were falling at the same time that factory owners’ profits were increasing, along with food prices. They were also protesting unsafe working conditions, the use of child labor, and the sale of shoddy goods that discredited the entire textile industry. The Luddites did not indiscriminately destroy machines; if a machine’s owner paid his workers well, they left it alone. The Luddites were not anti-technology; what they wanted was economic justice. They destroyed machinery as a way to get factory owners’ attention. The fact that the word #Luddite is now used as an insult, a way of calling someone irrational and ignorant, is a result of a smear campaign by the forces of capital.”

Ted Chiang in the New Yorker.

Fantasy Island
By Hanne Lore Koehler

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I can't whistle anymore.

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Black Cat

2023 04 12-13 day 293-294 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). I’m doing something art related every day for a year in an effort to develop art skills. I’m very much a beginner.

I did this painting using four brushes:

Calligraphy/Monoline (for sketching)
Ittai Manero’s Crazy Nebula brush (for the nebula in the sky and reflection)
Ittai Manero’s Randomized Dots 01 (for the stars)
Ittai Manero’s Super Wet Flat Brush (for everything else)

The monoline brush is a standard Procreate brush. The Ittai Manero brushes were free as part of his freebie packs.

I have projects where I’ve used 15 or 20 brushes, maybe more, and I’ve done projects where I’ve used only 2 or 3. It’s interesting limiting myself to only a few brushes. I don’t think it makes art necessarily better, but I learn from it nonetheless.

https://lmashton.com/black-cat/


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A black cat looks out a window …

Sleeping Cat

2023 04 11 day 292 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off). I do some kind of art every day as an effort towards developing some art skills. I’m still very much a beginner.

https://lmashton.com/sleeping-cat/

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A watercolour painting of a bla…

Toucan

2023 04 09-10 day 290-291 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

This is me playing around with watercolour-esque painting. And having fun. 🙂

https://lmashton.com/toucan/

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Watercolour painting of a touca…

Moonlit Tree

2023 04 08 day 289 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

If you’re new to following me, this is me learning how to be an artist. I started nearly a year ago with close to no art skills and decided to trust the process – do something art related every day in the hopes that I can develop some art skills.

#Procreate #DigitalArt #DigitalPainting #WomensArt
Night. A lone tree with dark pu…

Butterfly

2023 04 07 day 288 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I created this, using standard Procreate brushes:

Luminence – Lightpen
Luminence – Bokeh Lights

I used assisted drawing in vertical mode for the symmetry.

https://lmashton.com/butterfly/



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A butterfly painted to look lik…

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My microwave beeps, so of course I check on my bread in the oven and wonder why it's about five minutes underbaked. It still has five minutes left on the timer. 🤪

#baking #cooking #WhatThe

Moonlit Blossoms

2023 04 06 day 287 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I started with painting a bird, but it wasn’t going well. I then realized I had a massive headache happening (yes, it’s true – I don’t always realize these things immediately), and those tend to impair my ability to think clearly when they’re that bad, so I dropped the bird and did a tutorial instead. I’ll do the bird another day.

I ended up doing a Joel Create tutorial. Follow the link below.

https://lmashton.com/moonlit-blossoms/

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A digital painting of a pink-bl…

2023 04 05 day 286 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I don’t understand abstract paintings. I fully admit this. And yet, today, I did an abstract painting in my attempt to understand them better. I would like to improve, but I think this will require a more immersive approach.

I followed the tutorial by Flow Works in the link below, as much as one can follow an abstract painting tutorial and still making one’s own original. I used my own colour set and brushes.

https://lmashton.com/abstract-1/

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Abstract painting in pinks and …

Spring Forest

2023 04 04 day 285 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

I did this following a tutorial by James Julier. Link is in the link below.

https://lmashton.com/spring-forest/

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Digital painting of purple flow…

Lemons

2023 04 03 day 284 of doing art every day for a year (mostly – I took sick days off).

And yes, I’m severely behind posting. Oy. The life of the chronically ill.

This is a tutorial by Tatyworks. Link is in the link below. I went rogue, of course. 😀

It’s done using gouache brushes in Procreate. And this is where I mention in passing that I have no idea how gouache is pronounced. I heard another artist pronounce it in his youtube tutorial the other day, and it sounded entirely wrong, so I have no idea if he’s pronouncing it incorrectly, or I am, or we both are. Alas.

I really like how this turned out, by the way. I’m really happy with it.

https://lmashton.com/lemons/

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Three lemons handing from a bra…

What are your favourite recipes for beef or lamb tongue, kidney, or heart? Any cuisine. Oh heck, if you have a favourite for liver, I'll take that, too.

I've had heart before and liked it. Kidney and tongue are completely new and I like expanding my horizons. Liver is too strong a flavour for me unless it's chicken or preferably duck, but the hubs likes it.

#cooking

When you take a photo, do you expect, in general, that it will also include recording of sound from a short period of before/after it was taken? I'm not asking about recording a movie.
I recently had a discussion on an adjacent topic to this question, and was wondering what's the general opinion/expectation.

Boosts welcome.

Golden green and red dahlia magic

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IT'S HERE: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1471891082/red-dahlia-with-a-green-background-and

A group of #zebras is called a dazzle.
A dazzle of zebras.

#TermsOfVenery #AnimalGroupNames #animals #wildlife #nature #english #AnimalGroupingNouns #trivia #fun #words #mammals #zebra

Something #dreamy I did several years ago based on a photo of the old Equitable Building in #Atlanta that was demolished many years ago (1971).

See prints here: https://mark-tisdale.pixels.com/featured/fleeting-dreams-of-you-mark-e-tisdale.html

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