Those are some dope looking roots. Hope they taste good

That is kind of you to say. I appreciate it! I will post more as I make more, although I may have some older things kicking around that I could put up. Posting on the fediverse is kinda the only place I want to put art online.

Thank you for the compliment. I enjoyed painting it!

The model was really convincing in the role, her expression was perfect for it. She brought the outfit with the cool headscarf too.

Thanks, I had to embellish things a bit after the fact to give things a sense of completeness

Knowledgeable people hate this one simple trick

Thank you :) It’s one of the more interesting challenges about painting people, esp from life. Skin is quite weird in the way it contains so many subtle hues.

No you won’t

Cyclists: Everyone hates me, tells me to ‘get off the road,’ or if I’m not on the road, I get told to get on it. There’s barely any legal thought or consideration given to where I’m allowed to be and if I get hit or killed it’s framed as being my fault.

Attempts at creating a safe place for cyclists to be that is separate from either of these places is seen as an inconvenience to the people who don’t want cyclists on the road, or off it, and so creating lanes and bike-specific infrastructure is met with stiff opposition.

Surely a licensing, inspection, and insurance framework won’t be abused to further erode the viability of cycling in a society that doesn’t want cyclists around in the first place.

Never mind that bicycles predated cars, used to be more popular and never needed these things in that time.

Insurance, inspections and licensing of motor vehicles was created because of motor vehicles and how dangerous they are.

There are other places in the world where lots of safe cycling infrastructure exists and it’s considered normal, even desirable to commute by bike, and they don’t have or need shit like this there.

I can do no better than to second this sentiment.

Unless the ground nearby contains some off tasting minerals. Friend’s dad had a well on his property but there was some kind of sulphur deposit in the ground or something because it made the tap water stink and taste bad. Like farty water. You had to boil it to get rid of the flavour.

Rather not. Why do we have to be next door to this BS.

Thank you. Came to see if anyone had done this, was not disappointed

Nah, must look similar I guess.

Damn lol

hope you’re ok

If it was, she didn’t let on! I’ll have to ask her next time if it was sore the next day

Yes, I am okay. Thank you for asking

The model we were working with has acting chops, she was actually holding the sad face for most of the 3 hrs and tearing up. Was pretty impressive.

Thank you. Portraits are one of my favourite things to do, and it’s a bit unusual to get to paint/draw a sustained facial expression from life–was fun. Hope to follow it up with another 3 hr session in a couple weeks

What a waste of skin, hope he dies in a car accident

Yep. Bastards aren’t getting my dollars for the forseeable future. Fuck em