Hello, tumblr lovelies!

Yours truly has submitted a design to Linkin Park’s Castle of Glass tshirt design contest, and voting starts today! It will go until the 28th of May and two winners will be chosen to have their design printed and promoted on LP merchandise! More info on the contest here!

Vote for my submission here!

If you vote for my submission I will send you a thank you drawing in return, whether I win or not =D If you have a specific request for a drawing message me on tumblr, twitter, or facebook and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Otherwise, I will post thank you drawings as they come with each new vote I get.

Please share even if you don’t vote to get the word around!

Thank you, and much love =)

fuckyeablackart:

by Scebiqu

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nikolawashere:

Stunning crop art has sprung up across rice fields in Japan. But this is no alien creation - the designs have been cleverly planted. Farmers creating the huge displays use no ink or dye. Instead, different colours of rice plants have been precisely and strategically arranged and grown in the paddy fields.

As summer progresses and the plants shoot up, the detailed artwork begins to emerge.

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I get extremely annoyed when people consider drawing text as not art.

referencesforartists:

dimespin:

lampfaced:

stephenmccranie:

This essay is kind of the second part of an essay on taste that can be read here: 

http://doodlealley.com/2012/10/01/taste-is-your-teacher/

YES

also, the message made me think of this - 

Rebloggin’ because this is good stuff.

reblogging this again because it really changed how I feel about my own art and how I view the art world

thefemaletyrant:

poodleduke:

thefemaletyrant:

poodleduke:

searchingforknowledge:

thebigblackwolfe:

searchingforknowledge:

hamburgerjack:

searchingforknowledge:

I am using yellow personally. Sunlight purifies.

I chose green long ago

I like that idea too!!!

I’d go for blue. Symbolizes water, often seen as a renewing, healing, and cleansing element~

I considered that. And I like it as well!

I learned about Yoruba color theory in this African art history class that I took. The prof is Nigerian and he went and worked with these traditional women painters in Akire and they paint with pigment from soil, he calls it the terrochroma technique. The women told him that black is where all the colors come from because when you burn different metals you can see different colored sparks, sorta like firework. In the end you end up with black. In western color theory white is where all colors come from, but the women painters of Akire don’t subscribe to that. Every time when they start painting, they prime the surface with black as opposed to the western tradition of priming the canvas with white gesso.

Kinda off topic but I think it’s worth mentioning

This is really interesting about Yoruba colour theory. Really awesome stuff from women painters in Akure. I’ve known that red is a good colour too. White is for people who can’t afford any other colours.

Sorry I read back what I wrote and it sounds terrible bc I have been up all night trying to write this essay! but ok my professor’s name is Moyosore Okediji, he’s well known in the African diaspora artists circle. It’s been really awesome this semester taking two of his classes. (altho he’s kinda famous he’s not stuck up or has an attitude like some other art profs at my school… not gonna name no names… Prof. Okediji is an extremely humble person I really admire him)

Anyway he traveled back to Yorubaland multiple times in hopes of bringing traditional Yoruba women’s art into our school’s (UTexas @ Austin) very own Blanton Museum of Art, but the people in charge said that ceramics is not high art and they didn’t want traditional ceramic pieces made by Nigerian women in the museum. Professor Okediji later remembered when he was in art school in Nigeria, his grandmother once told him about the Akure women painters. They are a group of women who see themselves as healers. They paint in a closed space in the temple where men are not allowed. They do this at the beginning of every year to cleanse the world. The paintings are also seen as clothes for the orishas (Yoruba divinities), so they are making tributes basically. You can read more about that in this pdf file. So he basically went and worked with these women artists and brought their works into the contemporary art scene. 

There’s also a lot of other amazing stuff, Moyo has this website where he has these pdf files explaining a lot of things about Yoruba traditions and art, so if you are interested, go take a look. 

http://universityofafricanart.org/press.html

This is really awesome! Thanks for the extra information and the links. I’m very interested!

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the-art-armory:

LeslieAnnODell

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damedaniel:

metaneira:

freckles04:

metaneira:

buzzfeed:

Watercolor is changing the tattoo game. 

Wow. i wonder how well they hold up, though? I don’t know much about tats except that I have this idea that they totally fade after time but maybe I’m a moron.

If you take good care of your tattoo, it should last a long, long time. AFAIK, when tattoos fade, it’s usually because of exposure to sunlight or not caring for the skin properly.

I have a tattoo on my leg that never sees the light of day and after 17 years it’s still just as bright as it was when I got it.

So as long as these folks use sunscreen and care for their tattoos right, I imagine they’ll last for quite some time.

dude most all of my skin never sees the light of day let’s be real

these are all really gorgeous and I literally cannot believe that certain people are trying to be elitist about work like this.

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turecepcja:

Digital Painting by Charlie Terrell

sassy-fangirl:

foreverwholocked:

dumpsterfetus:

gaksdesigns:

“Tearful” by Christina K

wow

are you joking

can u not

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