Advice for residency!

Hi! I am leaving for a 12 week residency in a few days! This is my first residency, and I want to make the most of it.

Does anyone have any advice/tips?

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u/1296223 — 8 days ago

Advice for residency

I am leaving for a 12 week residency in a few days! I'm super excited! Does anyone have any advice to make the most out of a residency?

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u/1296223 — 8 days ago

My cats face when I take too much

Feel free to delete this if it's too low effort, but this is how my cat looks at me when I abuse substances.

u/1296223 — 11 days ago

Dwight Shrute/Sherlock Holmes similarly

It sounds weird but I feel like they are almost the same character.

Both are extremely confident in their own intelligence and socially unconventional, also intensely interested in niche subjects.

And they tend to be very literal/blunt, and they both secretly care about people more than they let on.

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u/1296223 — 13 days ago
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Daytime junco vs Nighttime junco. Which looks better?

u/1296223 — 16 days ago
▲ 524 r/painting

Adding the finishing touches to my crawfish painting

Or it crayfish?

u/1296223 — 22 days ago
▲ 30 r/Paintings+1 crossposts

My very first painting (top) vs one of my more recent paintings (bottom) [OC]

u/1296223 — 23 days ago
▲ 264 r/birds

+10 years of bird art

First is a drawing from 2015, vs my most recent painting!

u/1296223 — 24 days ago

20 years of making art

First drawing is from 2007, second is from 2026! I always wanted to be an artist and have consistently been making things for 2 decades.

u/1296223 — 24 days ago

2008 vs 2024

First is a colored pencil drawing from when I was 11, second is one of my oils paintings completed as an adult!

u/1296223 — 24 days ago
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Junco/Clouds, u/1296223, oil, 2026 [OC]

u/1296223 — 1 month ago

Advice on painting convincing clouds

Trying to add clouds behind this bird. Does it look convincing?

Also this is oil on panel.

u/1296223 — 1 month ago

Advice on painting clouds

I'm trying to add some clouds behind this bird, any advice on how to make the clouds look more like clouds? Oil on wood panel.

u/1296223 — 1 month ago

What is my art style?

All oil on canvas. My goal is surrealism/hyper-realism

u/1296223 — 2 months ago
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Varnished my crawfish painting

Oil on canvas

u/1296223 — 2 months ago
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"The World Looking Back Upon Itself" Oil painting by me [OC]

u/1296223 — 2 months ago