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2013-05-23 13:03:01 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Taylor Swift at full volume, and an email from one of my favorite people in the whole world in my inbox first thing this morning.

Good start. <3

2013-05-22 18:39:07 (2 comments, 4 reshares, 24 +1s)

Painting of the Day: Even Ketchup Can Mold, 10" x 10".

"He was waxing poetic about ketchup and mustard; that was when I first started to doubt that this was going to work."

Even Ketchup Can Mold
10" x 10"
Encaustic on aluminum flashing.

From Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/120645158/original-abstract-encaustic-painting

2013-05-22 13:57:46 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

Gatorade is getting old, y'all. I miss coffee. 

I miss being able to focus for more than 5 minutes, and being able to leave the house, too.

2013-05-22 02:45:24 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

Hm.

Yahoo buys Tumblr, and Google overhauls G+. 

Be lying if I said this didn't make me antsy. Good reason to make sure I spend more time on my own site, me thinks.

2013-05-22 01:29:31 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Relisted on Etsy! <3

2013-05-21 19:36:59 (5 comments, 2 reshares, 27 +1s)

Sometimes the best thing for work
is to not. 
Still waiting for my insides to right themselves,
still playing Skyrim; 
letting the muddy water clear
instead of fighting it.

<3

Image: Wet Clay & Green Weeds, encaustic on aluminum flashing. 10" x 10".

Original available on Etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/121189661/original-abstract-encaustic-painting-wet?

#art   #painting  

2013-05-20 15:13:44 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 27 +1s)

May 19th, 2013.

Digital - Sketchbook Mobile, Samsung Galaxy Note 2.

#selfportrait #sketch #art

2013-05-19 00:54:54 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 12 +1s)

Skyrim.

Bbl. <3

2013-05-18 21:26:14 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 17 +1s)

BORED OUT OF MY DAMN MIND. 

Have been informed that if I attempt to leave the house, I will be tied to the bed and left there. 

I could keep working on shop stuff, but it's about to kill my brain. Bored with sketching. (On my fourth or fifth of the afternoon.)

Can't fall asleep (tried) either. BOOO. Trying to read a bunch of PDF's, but focusing is proving to be challenging. 

This too sick to paint but not too sick to be awake thing SUCKS, y'all.

I'm gonna go sign and pack prints. Just re-listed the below painting on Etsy. Someone go buy it so I have something to pack up and keep me busy, please! 

https://www.etsy.com/listing/120645158/original-abstract-encaustic-painting?

:goes to pack prints up:

2013-05-18 20:38:52 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 30 +1s)

May 18th, 2013.

Skeychbook Pro, Samsung Galaxy Note 2. Digital.

#selfportrait #sketch

2013-05-18 13:54:35 (6 comments, 7 reshares, 28 +1s)

It's not easy, forgiveness. No matter how many times you remind yourself to let it go, for a while, it will keep coming back, that anger and hurt, like red and yellow running over calm purples and whites, choppy and interrupted.

https://www.etsy.com/listing/151083879/practicing-forgiveness-no-3-original

2013-05-18 01:05:34 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 23 +1s)

Photo on bottom layer, 20% or less transparency. Once base lines in, hide photo and Go.

My daughter, making a silly face at the camera.

#digital #sketching #practice. #art

2013-05-17 23:22:10 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

And, another down. <3


https://www.etsy.com/listing/151490304/practicing-forgiveness-no-1-original?ref=shop_home_active

2013-05-17 22:27:27 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

Relisted. 

(Just did a count of items that will need relisting, first listing, and draft writing. 49 items. At least there is no lack of work for me to do!)

2013-05-17 20:11:55 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 11 +1s)

Feeling well enough to sit upright, so of course I'm going to work. 

Found a way to sync my actual blog and various networks with the Painting of the Day list.

Rawk.

Also,  gatorade is my friend.

2013-05-17 16:03:29 (7 comments, 1 reshares, 32 +1s)

Forward facing camera, Sketchbook Mobile: things to do in bed when too sick to move much. :D

#sketching #selfportrait #sick #digital

2013-05-17 15:28:35 (10 comments, 0 reshares, 7 +1s)

My body has decided it does not wish to contain anything that currently or at one time ever resembled food, nor will new food be accepted. Coffee is out of the question, and water is up for debate. 

Limbs will work only under threat of being removed.

Hello, Friday.

(If this keeps getting worse, please cremate my remains and no flowers, as the dog eats them.)

2013-05-17 13:00:19 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

First image shows how it's hanging on the wall, the orientation of how it is being painted. 

Second image is what I'm seeing while working, turned 90 degrees.  (Yes, I am working bent sideways, but that's what it takes to get the paint to do what I want it to do. :shrug: )

Not saying it's done. Not saying it won't get painted over. Just figured someone might get a kick out of seeing this piece from another perspective - mine.

Figure someone will catch what I'm doing here. 

#art   #painting  

2013-05-17 03:52:50 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 26 +1s)

Detail. #wip #art #painting

2013-05-17 03:12:14 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 19 +1s)

Going home.

2013-05-17 02:45:08 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 16 +1s)

Moar paint? Only now I'm REALLY tiree.

2013-05-17 02:24:20 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 11 +1s)

... something with pink and orange, apparently.

#wip #art #painting

2013-05-17 02:05:06 (1 comments, 0 reshares, 16 +1s)

These, giant floor squeegees, and big sponges. Favorite tools.

#art #behindthescenes #painting #studio

2013-05-17 01:57:48 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 5 +1s)

If it doesn't sell and I don't like it enough to hang it in my house or show it...

It's fair game for being salvaged.

Bring on the flowers!

#art #painting

2013-05-17 01:44:52 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

And the other part.

Roll these, toss in corner, change into work clothes, MAKE A MESS.

2013-05-17 01:34:58 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Irritation; there are three distinct shades of blue in this and my during-work camera can't capture them.

Gaaaah!

But, this one is cut once now. Only now it has the curse of the evens.

#art #painting #fish #koi

2013-05-17 01:22:26 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Made it. Now to open the door and paint...

2013-05-17 00:21:02 (1 comments, 3 reshares, 17 +1s)

Testing cover photos - and so this is a VERY large image. 

If you've ever wanted to see some of the details of encaustic paint the way I do... zoom in on this one. 

#art   #painting   #encaustic   #macro  

2013-05-17 00:03:37 (6 comments, 5 reshares, 17 +1s)

Dees ees purty. 

#art   #painting   #encaustic  

2013-05-16 23:35:13 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

Working on proofing images for prints. 

Damn near brain dead, but got them done. Trying not to think too hard about writing the listings for nearly 20 prints though. That is daunting.

#art   #painting   #encaustic  

2013-05-16 20:07:56 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 9 +1s)

"I make very beautiful things out of chaos, intentional mistakes, and paint."

Speaking of which, hoping to make it to the studio tonight to finish off a painting and give the Patreon Patron system a real test! (Are you a patron of the arts yet?)

2013-05-16 15:54:24 (7 comments, 2 reshares, 25 +1s)

Let's test out how tags and cards work, shall we?

Work in progress, one of the Wild Koi. My favorite in the painting, currently, mostly for the textures. Go ahead, zoom in. ;)

#art   #painting   #FineArt   #koi   #fish   #AbigailMarkov  

2013-05-16 15:19:40 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

... and the new print line up for June/July.

Once they are finalized for printing, that is.

See any you wanted?

2013-05-16 15:05:38 (1 comments, 1 reshares, 5 +1s)

Want three columns but your screen is too small for three columns? Click on Settings and downgrade the Zoom level.

#ProblemFixed  

2013-05-16 15:02:36 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

You know what? As much as I have left to do, and as far behind as I feel... I really am doing okay here. It looks good. Things are getting done.

I am doing okay.

:exhales: 

2013-05-16 14:47:00 (3 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Painting of the Day: Ignition, 10" x 10".

"It is the moment when chaos and madness catch fire in your mind, heart, soul or what have you- as if you hit terminal velocity in the free fall and the friction between you and the chaos was enough to create flame, a wave of flame that billows out from you, consuming everything but you and this thing you have to do."

http://ow.ly/l5CkM

2013-05-16 14:04:32 (3 comments, 1 reshares, 18 +1s)

One foot in front of the other is great when there is ground in front of you; walls, cliffs, and bodies of water require other strategies.

2013-05-16 12:35:25 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 5 +1s)

Painting of the Day: Freefall, 10" x 10".

"It's a bit like free falling through madness and chaos while in a state of near-perfect zen; the madness and chaos touches you, and at times it even seems to BE you, but you keep moving through it, always you keep moving, faster and faster."

Freefall
2/6 from Max's Six [The Chaos is Mine]
10"x 10"
Encaustic on aluminum flashing.

http://ow.ly/l38TQ

2013-05-16 12:20:05 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 17 +1s)

I should get this one in the Etsy shop. Then again, Noah rather loves these, so if they don't sell, then at least home has art work.

The Beginnings of Courage
Oil and resin on canvas, 12" x 25".

2013-05-16 12:11:31 (0 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

2013-05-16 01:31:48 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 10 +1s)

Was going to head to studio and paint until I nearly fell asleep on the couch... sitting upright.

Bed it is then. Corporeal form wins tonight.

2013-05-16 00:08:19 (13 comments, 0 reshares, 24 +1s)

Just matting left, for a show at the end of the month.

Excited on several counts, will be great to show an encaustic piece. :D

#art #painting #behindthescenes #encaustic

2013-05-15 21:29:13 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 6 +1s)

Starting to pull a week's worth of thinking, sketching, visuslization, together.

2013-05-15 20:48:28 (7 comments, 0 reshares, 14 +1s)

For +Spoony McMooch - a few examples of what I've done on the Note 2 [aka: my phone]. Using Sketchbook Mobile.

All digital sketches.

2013-05-15 20:24:17 (28 comments, 1 reshares, 36 +1s)

This is the wild koi. 

(Mantra: Abstraction is okay. Abstraction of things is okay. ABSTRACTION OF THINGS IS OKAY.)

2013-05-15 19:11:22 (4 comments, 0 reshares, 4 +1s)

And a brave (kind, generous) soul has become my first Patron! (To that person, thank you dearly. You know who you are. <3)

The cool thing about this system is that you pick how much you sponsor, from as little as a dollar a month. (No, seriously. I'm not imitating those old school charity commercials.)

Of course, there are also perks to being a patron... but you have to scroll down to see those. ;)

2013-05-15 17:56:27 (2 comments, 0 reshares, 8 +1s)

It's "Say Something Nice to Someone" Day. 

Yes, I made that up. 

Go forth and be kind. 

2013-05-15 17:54:06 (16 comments, 1 reshares, 15 +1s)

Stopped by the studio today to pick up a few things, and grabbed a few shots of this one, still on the wall. Noah was with me, and was the first human to see this piece, other than myself.

Mentioned to him I intended to cut it apart, as it probably wouldn't sell whole (and would smaller, or would be more likely to as smaller pieces) - don't be so sure of that, he said.

I wish I wasn't. 

Also mentioned to him I wasn't a fan of the top left fish, and he said he liked it. 

I'm working out the last bits for this one, and then will decide if I cut it apart or leave it be.

Tired and worn down enough that I'm not sure I even care that much. I'm painting right now because I have to; it's like breathing. 

A low-feeling artist is a rather pathetic thing to witness, more so to be. I'm listening to my own thoughtsgo... more »

2013-05-15 17:38:19 (0 comments, 2 reshares, 4 +1s)

New on Etsy: 

2013-05-14 23:08:24 (0 comments, 0 reshares, 3 +1s)

Print of the Day: ColorCommentary: Not Quite [Black & White], 8" x 8".

An 8" x 8" signed print of the sixth painting in the ColorCommentary series, Not Quote [Black & White], (Original: encaustic on panel original painting from Abigail Markov.)

Professionally printed on lustre finish photo paper with a 1/4" white border, perfect for framing. Signed in silver permanent ink by the artist in the bottom right corner.

http://ow.ly/l0U4v