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Title: paintings
Post by: neen on Thu, 2025 - 09 - 04, 10:25 PM
started this awhile back, did more tonight
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: RT-55J on Thu, 2025 - 09 - 04, 10:28 PM
man, i can't remember the last time i've painted something besides a wall... :pensive:

looks neat!
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Thu, 2025 - 09 - 04, 10:36 PM
i love oil. linseed oil is so cool
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Post by: RT-55J on Thu, 2025 - 09 - 04, 11:14 PM
I just remembered that I made a painting back in 2018, but I apparently didn't take a good picture of it and I don't know where it is now :pensive:
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Post by: neen on Thu, 2025 - 09 - 04, 11:21 PM
i bet it was cool. you should do another
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2025 - 09 - 07, 01:36 AM
need more quinacridone magenta
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Post by: neen on Tue, 2025 - 11 - 04, 11:26 PM
i'm counting this as a painting
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Post by: RT-55J on Wed, 2025 - 11 - 05, 12:42 AM
in spirit, it certainly is
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Post by: Cera Sizzle on Wed, 2025 - 11 - 05, 03:54 PM
love the hazy look and colors
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2025 - 11 - 16, 12:15 AM
asdf
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2025 - 11 - 16, 12:19 AM
this too
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Post by: neen on Mon, 2025 - 11 - 24, 08:14 PM
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Post by: Cera Sizzle on Wed, 2025 - 11 - 26, 02:57 PM
Love these ♥
Title: who put bella in the wych elm
Post by: neen on Fri, 2026 - 01 - 02, 07:07 PM
bought a TON of prussian blue today. idk why but im kind of obsessed with this pigment. it dries really fast for an oil paint which is great and it's a great blue. the other pigment i've been using a lot of is quinacridone magenta which dries extremely slowly. so these are on opposite ends of that spectrum. which can be a little annoying to deal with

post #10 above in this thread was the first of what is so far a series of three. just kind of exploring similar visual stuff: visually indistinct distant hazy images. expressionism. "who put bella in the wych elm", unsolved murder from the 1940s in england. nightmares about things that you can't physically look at.

and so on
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Fri, 2026 - 01 - 02, 07:28 PM
the painting so far
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Post by: Cera Sizzle on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 03, 02:03 AM
This is amazing. The ways the light interacts with the texture is really impressive, I thought it was speckled with something until I looked closer and saw the paint surface
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 03, 02:08 AM
thanks.  :smug:  unfortunately it was very wet when i took that and it's going to change as it dries. eventually i will try to get a good glossy surface on it but we'll see how it ends up.

a lot of the stuff i've been painting lately has been hard to photograph cause it's so dark. i carry a flashlight on me most of the time so i use that to look at them
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 10, 12:29 AM
started prepping a canvas tonight

sometimes i like to add layers of gesso and sand the canvas once it's dry. this gives a smooth surface for painting. unmodified canvases have a very textured surface from the open fabric underneath.

going to use mostly prussian blue on this one. should be able to do both the underpainting and first layer this weekend because it dries so fast
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 10, 07:36 PM
got tired of the oil being too slow. gotta make trees
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 10, 08:48 PM
also this one is almost dry so i put it on the wall
wychelm2.png
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Tue, 2026 - 01 - 13, 08:33 PM
another day, another expressionist painting of eldritch treez
...and another day of trying to figure out what size i should embed at

wych7.png
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Thu, 2026 - 01 - 15, 09:01 PM
it looks slightly different now
wych7_2.png
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Post by: Cera Sizzle on Fri, 2026 - 01 - 16, 02:39 PM
very pretty. I like the pairing of the trees with what looks like a root system on top
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Post by: neen on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 17, 12:19 AM
thank you. it's some mysterious eldritch thing up there dw about it
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Post by: neen on Sat, 2026 - 01 - 17, 09:41 AM
got bored after not sleeping eough
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2026 - 01 - 18, 09:04 PM
lil variations
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Post by: neen on Thu, 2026 - 01 - 22, 11:07 PM
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2026 - 01 - 25, 08:08 PM
started another one. i need to get practice in on the mechanical ability to draw stuff like clouds, ghostly clouds and wisps, stuff like that. also still using nothing but prussian blue for the time being. there are two layers here, probably going to do at least two more

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Post by: neen on Mon, 2026 - 01 - 26, 08:05 PM
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Post by: neen on Wed, 2026 - 01 - 28, 10:23 PM
new neencoin. buy now

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Post by: RT-55J on Wed, 2026 - 01 - 28, 10:52 PM
it's smiling back at me  :smug:
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2026 - 02 - 01, 04:07 PM
sweet.png
based on
https://museumofzzt.com/file/view/sweet%20dreams/
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Sun, 2026 - 02 - 01, 09:57 PM
back to our regularly scheduled weird

i kinda get paintings running away from me often, because of how easy it is to keep filtering and layering. if you keep going it just kind of disappears
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Sun, 2026 - 02 - 01, 09:57 PM
and the rest
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Post by: neen on Sun, 2026 - 02 - 01, 10:17 PM
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Post by: neen on Tue, 2026 - 02 - 03, 09:21 PM
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Post by: RT-55J on Tue, 2026 - 02 - 03, 09:54 PM
imagining this is an enhanced view of the root system of the great world tree
Title: Re: paintings
Post by: neen on Tue, 2026 - 02 - 03, 11:28 PM
some older ones