Author: Shel Kahn
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a few beautiful bugs and the phone lenses I used
Some of my fav macro shots from the summer. Love a sweat bee! I’ve been using cheap cellphone camera lens attachments to try out macro photography, and honestly it’s been incredibly fun! These are the two sets I got that have worked well for me – they’re kind of random to track down, Apexel is…
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tiny gouache view
I was doing a sketch with this fountain pen, which has non-waterproof ink in it, and I decided to try washing over it with a water brush, and then painting over the tonal result with some gouache, which I haven’t done in a while. it ended up being a very enjoyable if very small painting!
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oil pastel bird in the hand
painted on wood! I converted my reference photo to black and white, as well, and I think it did give me more permission to be weird with the color. you might not know this, but I kept pet birds from the age of 9 until I was almost 30, first a peach-faced lovebird named Pickles…
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oil pastel oranges
reffing a lovely still life from unsplash, i believe. done on slate blue 9 x 12″ canson mi-tients paper. I’ve been doing a lot of underdrawing with the cray-pas expressionist pastels, which are a lot firmer, so they don’t layer that well with themselves but they behave really predictably underneath the rest of my pastels,…
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digital studies exercise
For the past year or so I’ve been hosting a monthly remote lifedrawing/other digital art exercise session with my team at work, and I wanted to share this one with y’all because I think it’s been a really important exercise for me over the years and my team really got a lot out of it…
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Thermal printer tutorial:
This is a great short breakdown into getting prints out of your label printer! Hope this helps folks hack theirs while I keep testing the limits of mine.
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lovely new art toy!
a 27qhd cintiq! complete with pen, stand AND express key remote! seriously, I’ve already discovered how useful the remote is, it saved me yesterday during hours of setting up tiny assets in unity. it’s enormously more ergonomic for my partially paralyzed right hand than a keyboard right now and i wish I’d thought to try…
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how to bind your thermal zine
no answers here, folks, I’m asking! accordion and scroll address both honestly very cute; i suspect there’s a stapled version i could figure out too given time.
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thermal printer experiments
finally got some paper rolls for my label printer and started the important process of figuring out how to make zines with it 💪
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oil pastel boat
oil pastel pinterest study; i bought a pack of much firmer pastels and did the whole under drawing with those, and then layered the thick opaque pastels on top, and it really worked well!