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Been hella busy with life and stuff, many more hours to go :)

Just sharing. I really love the orange and black color combo. 🧡🖤

Acrylic, gessoboard, Golden colors

I have searched

Based on a covered bridge in Woodstock VT 😁

Inspired by childhood memories of baking traditional pineapple jam cookies with my grandmother.

It’s been three days of hard work at a local museum, and the last day was coincidentally my birthday too. Happy to have spent it doing what I love!

Once a year, ABQ crushes the Balloon Fiesta. A week long festival where the lines to get in the park create a river of red brake lights at 5 in the morning. The colors from over 500 ballons in the sky is truly worth seeing in person. This little piece done in acrylic gouache was fun to paint

Mass Ascension I | Acrylic Gouache on Paper

All done with acrylic. Obviously hyperfixate when I see a film I enjoyed.

My previous works:

https://www.reddit.com/r/painting/comments/1wlyzqf/after_the_rain_acrylics_4050sm_naive_painting/

Oil on canvas board. Haven’t painted anything since high school 20+ years ago, and haven’t used oils before in my life. Got a set of Gamblin 1980 and some Amazon brushes. Used a projector to keep the proportions on track since that’s where I always screw up portrait drawings.

encountered in Florence, Italy

Did this earlier this year for a friend (surprise 30th birthday gift) she’s got a very colourful apartment so wanted to
Make something that would fit in

Started playing with low quality acrylic paint and paper. Made a portrait of my mom and her cat. Love the colors. She said she doesn’t look like that, that she didn’t see herself there. I spent a lot of time on it and thought I captured some of her features (although she looks still and the anatomy is not the best).

How can I improve with acrylics? Not sure if it is the quality of the paint but it was a bit a pain in the ass to use. I love the high contrast tho.

Thanks!