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koipondering · 13 days
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Soon™
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God I'm not selling anything, at this point I'm not gonna make my rent.
Please help me, I need anyone's help, I need to be able to pay my rent and phone bill.
My PayPal is [email protected]
I never ask for anything on here, please help me!
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WITCHCRAFT!!!!!!!!
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koipondering · 14 days
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Rescan Revelation:  “Alternate Ending”  I am so happy to finally show this one in its actual color. Its hard to capture because I painted it on a round paper and so it did not want to photograph well but I was able to scan it, you can finally see the green undertones, this is the first and really only portrait I have ever done where the whole base was done with greens and then blues and reds painted over to bring it to the flush color. 
Original Text-   “Alternate Ending” - Cillian Murphy as Jim in the make-up test for an Alternate Ending of “28 Days Later”. Painted with @agallocolors new signature pallet. #watercolor #28dayslater #cillianmurphy #dannyboyle #zombie #halloween #agallocolors
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koipondering · 14 days
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Rescan Revelation: “Well Said Alfie”   This is one of the few works that I felt so upset because it never showed at its full color range, Alfies marks and the glow of the back light were lost.  While I do mix my own black with a blue base they are no where near how they photographed.   So I am very happy to be able to repost this as it actually looks. 
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“Well said, Alfie. Well said…” - Tommy Shelby I did the pencils for this piece in May of 2020. At the time I did not know how to even begin painting it. So, I stored it away, it’s one of the most intense and memorable scenes in the series history. I was absolutely intimidated by it. After the success of reworking my last piece I decided to pull the pencils out. I had long given up that I would be able to paint it. The paper is much larger scale than I have worked before. (I usually work 8x10 or less). However as I started to paint I found it no longer intimidated me, as Alfie’s face started to work out I was excited! So here you go, Tommy Shelby played by the brilliant Cillian Murphy and Alfie Solomons by @tomhardy who never fails to impress. Please check out @peakyblindersofficial for info on the series!
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koipondering · 14 days
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Aloft- Ivan will always hold a special place in my heart ❤️
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Sienna Smile- Cillian Murphy as Tommy Shelby study in Iron Oxide.
May age show in smiles.
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“Печь”- Furnace
“So he’s a ghost Story.”
This could have been titled “Why the artist decided to paint a 10 part series” Or alternately “The artist muse is the most expressive set of eyes and brows”  I’m not sure exactly why it is that I’m drawn to painting portraits above all else, but nothing else keeps my attention like trying to capture expression.  I tried to go a bit looser with the style and focus more on the color use, using almost only Quill brushes to give it that  almost animated feel.   As always Sebastian Stan  has the most expressive features that I love to explore and test with different techniques.
I am reminded on this, that quality paper always makes a difference, it allows me to lift up colors and adjust details, also layer up to the dark intensity.  As usual all colors by Agallo save metallic highlight and for winter soldier I have also included use of  McCraken black.
51/100 faces
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Cillian Murphy. Original photography by Mike Massaro for 52-Insights
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Young Sebastian Stan in watercolors 🥰 I'm still learning.
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koipondering · 15 days
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So I have read several people complaining that they can't be expected to know the "unwritten rules" of fandom. So here's what I wish people knew:
Fanfiction is fiction.
Fictional people are not real.
Fictional people do not have rights.
Fictional people cannot be abused.
Reading or writing about something does not mean the desire to do or support it in the real world.
If I find art upsetting/triggering/disgusting/outraging/unpleasant/squicky/distressing/offensive, it is on me not to read it, not the creators and hosts to remove it.
Curate your own experience. The back buttons exist for a reason.
If you don't trust yourself to do that, get someone you trust to do it for you.
Fandom is an adult space. Adults create and own and host fandom spaces. If minors want to participate, then the onus is on them and their parents/guardians/trusted adults to ensure they participate appropriately, not on strange adults to stop being adults.
You often don't know the assault status or mental health status or neurotype or race or nationality or religion or gender or sexuality or age of a creator or consumer, and they do not have to disclose to you to justify their fantasy.
AO3 is not a safe space. It is not intended to be a safe space. Proceed accordingly.
Just because you don't like something or find it offensive doesn't mean it is a "problem" that "has to be dealt with".
Most characters in anime are not white.
There is no onus on you to reblog or share anything.
Everyone makes mistakes in fandom and is less than their best self sometimes.
Persistent pseudonyms encourage long term relationships.
Ship wars are stupid.
Someone else enjoying things does not impact on your own enjoyment of other things.
Tagging and warning is a courtesy, not a requirement. Assume any fic might contain untagged content.
Rating is an imprecise art, not a science.
Don't hassle IP creators.
Most people who are in fandom are hoping to make connections based on a shared passion.
Trying to profit from transformative fanworks puts us all at risk.
No one is obligated to share your head canon or fanon.
Being kind rarely fails to pay off.
It is okay to block and remove people who make your experience unpleasant. You don't have to placate them. (Learn from my mistakes).
Britpicking is a good thing.
You don't have to justify why you like a canon/pairing/trope/kink. Sometimes navel gazing is fun, but you don't have an obligation to explain yourself, especially to strangers. I share the overwhelming desire to refute an unfair accusation, but the people accusing you are rarely doing so in good faith, so you're batting a losing wicket.
I'm not your Mum. (Well, okay, a very few of you can call me Mum or Mom, but if you are one of them you already know who you are ❤️)
If you aren't mature enough to take responsibility for your online experiences, you aren't mature enough to be in fandom spaces.
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koipondering · 15 days
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All of This Unreal Time (2021), dir. Aoife McArdle & writ. Max Porter
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koipondering · 18 days
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i do feel sympathy for my parents because they often got called to school for meetings whenever i got a little too macabre. My special interests from second grade on were the Bubonic Plague and Vlad the Impaler so this happened as often as you might imagine,
so anyway my school made us go through Confirmation in seventh grade as 12 year olds, which is whack. It’s the Catholic sacrament wherein you retake the vows your guardians made on your behalf at your baptism. It signifies your transition to adulthood in the eyes of the church and God. So you should be, you know, an adult. All of my other friends did it between ages 16 & 20.
You can’t really commit in a genuine way when you’re 12 and the sacrament is written into your class curriculum as homework.
But I digress.
When you get confirmed, you choose a Catholic saint as your patron and learn everything about them and try to model yourself after their values and faith to follow their example.
You’re supposed to envision the sort of person you want to become in the church and look into saints with relevant patronages.
But I got in trouble because my teacher found me googling specifically which saints were martyred by Rome via “eaten by wild beasts” as my baseline criteria
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koipondering · 18 days
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I was meeting a client at a famous museum’s lounge for lunch (fancy, I know) and had an hour to kill afterwards so I joined the first random docent tour I could find. The woman who took us around was a great-grandmother from the Bronx “back when that was nothing to brag about” and she was doing a talk on alternative mediums within art.
What I thought that meant: telling us about unique sculpture materials and paint mixtures.
What that actually meant: an 84yo woman gingerly holding a beautifully beaded and embroidered dress (apparently from Ukraine and at least 200 years old) and, with tears in her eyes, showing how each individual thread was spun by hand and weaved into place on a cottage floor loom, with bright blue silk embroidery thread and hand-blown beads intricately piercing the work of other labor for days upon days, as the labor of a dozen talented people came together to make something so beautiful for a village girl’s wedding day.
What it also meant: in 1948, a young girl lived in a cramped tenement-like third floor apartment in Manhattan, with a father who had just joined them after not having been allowed to escape through Poland with his pregnant wife nine years earlier. She sits in her father’s lap and watches with wide, quiet eyes as her mother’s deft hands fly across fabric with bright blue silk thread (echoing hands from over a century years earlier). Thread that her mother had salvaged from white embroidery scraps at the tailor’s shop where she worked and spent the last few days carefully dying in the kitchen sink and drying on the roof.
The dress is in the traditional Hungarian fashion and is folded across her mother’s lap: her mother doesn’t had a pattern, but she doesn’t need one to make her daughter’s dress for the fifth grade dance. The dress would end up differing significantly from the pure white, petticoated first communion dresses worn by her daughter’s majority-Catholic classmates, but the young girl would love it all the more for its uniqueness and bright blue thread.
And now, that same young girl (and maybe also the villager from 19th century Ukraine) stands in front of us, trying not to clutch the old fabric too hard as her voice shakes with the emotion of all the love and humanity that is poured into the labor of art. The village girl and the girl in the Bronx were very different people: different centuries, different religions, different ages, and different continents. But the love in the stitches and beads on their dresses was the same. And she tells us that when we look at the labor of art, we don’t just see the work to create that piece - we see the labor of our own creations and the creations of others for us, and the value in something so seemingly frivolous.
But, maybe more importantly, she says that we only admire this piece in a museum because it happened to survive the love of the wearer and those who owned it afterwards, but there have been quite literally billions of small, quiet works of art in billions of small, quiet homes all over the world, for millennia. That your grandmother’s quilt is used as a picnic blanket just as Van Gogh’s works hung in his poor friends’ hallways. That your father’s hand-painted model plane sets are displayed in your parents’ livingroom as Grecian vases are displayed in museums. That your older sister’s engineering drawings in a steady, fine-lined hand are akin to Da Vinci’s scribbles of flying machines.
I don’t think there’s any dramatic conclusions to be drawn from these thoughts - they’ve been echoed by thousands of other people across the centuries. However, if you ever feel bad for spending all of your time sewing, knitting, drawing, building lego sets, or whatever else - especially if you feel like you have to somehow monetize or show off your work online to justify your labor - please know that there’s an 84yo museum docent in the Bronx who would cry simply at the thought of you spending so much effort to quietly create something that’s beautiful to you.
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Aloft- Ivan will always hold a special place in my heart ❤️
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Legendary Eyes- Cillian Murphy Study
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