This month, I watched a season of Love Island Australia, I had some commissions to work on, and I have been busy with work and taking a class. AND I am getting ready to move. Sooo I didn’t spend too much time creating. Or so I thought... Once I started collecting images of what I did throughout the month, I realized I made a lot more than I thought!
Sun paper
I got some paper that you put in the sun and it makes a little print of whatever you put on it. Woah!! It was fun and only took a few minutes. I used the bag that potatoes and oranges and such come in, and I think it looks like the bottom of a pool. I am excited to play with this more! You can get it here if you want to try!
Don’t forget about colored pencils
I often forget about them. I also forget to draw from life, I usually just spit out what's in my head that I would like to physically see. Here is a little drawing I did where I experimented with scribbling in little chunks in different directions. Cute!
Lines through lines
Here is a little drawing on yupo paper with my beloved Caran D’Ache Neocolor 1 (adult crayon) and oil pastels. I was drawing something else with the Neocolor, and crossed through the oil pastel and it made an interesting little gradient line. I felt like this woman in that one infomercial.
Serene
This is a little drawing of a polka dot horse with a long wispy tail. I named her Serene and I really like this drawing. I have been drawing a lot of horses lately, I have never been into horses before so I don’t know what that’s about. Maybe it’s because I like bad drawings and horses can look weird pretty easily.
Filling holes
I was scribbling around and decided to color in the holes of my scribbling. I really liked it, so I bought a big wood square and did it again. It was really relaxing, and it looks like spaghetti!
Entertainment Writes History
Sometimes, I think the more r/im14andthisisdeep your drawings are, the better. That’s how you know you're free. Bonus deep points if you literally write out the concept directly on the piece. If you can’t tell, I love writing on my drawings. Sometimes I wish the artists of old wrote out exactly what they were thinking directly on their oil paintings. Like, “The king paid me to paint this portrait of him, he is rather handsome and I am hungry” hmm.
So about this: I am currently taking a history class at my local community college for fun. I picked history because the current world we are in is scary, but things can feel less scary if you recognize patterns and feel more prepared and understand the world a bit more. Fear is sometimes born out of not understanding. It has been great and I would recommend taking a history class if you feel horrified.
Most people day to day are not cracking open history books, talking to historians, or time traveling to the past to talk to the subjects of history that often didn't get to tell their own stories (but are having their stories told for them) but we do watch movies/tv, listen to music and look at art every day in some way. In a way, I think entertainment “writes” history, and that is how we subconsciously learn about it whether we realize it or not. Entertainment is what people pay attention to.
Yeah, I am not always making art that explores the political and economic state of the world right now, but my impressions of the world around me could be studied by someone in the future to help make a guess about what was important to people right now. If you make tik toks, write poems, take photos... that is writing history. Wacky!
Crumple
For my birthday, I got a bunch of paper samples! Woah! This was a cool woven paper that alllllmost feels like a fabric. SO i drew on it and then crumpled it up and it looks pretty cool.
In the Know
This is a little drawing that I would like to make into a bigger format about knowing too much. I haven't yet partly because I have so much art layin around that I don’t know what the heck to do with it all.
Healthy advice
It’s simple, see what ever you want to see and believe what you want to believe and live in a little bit of a false reality
Katelyn Betz
March
This month, I watched a season of Love Island Australia, I had some commissions to work on, and I have been busy with work and taking a class. AND I am getting ready to move. Sooo I didn’t spend too much time creating. Or so I thought... Once I started collecting images of what I did throughout the month, I realized I made a lot more than I thought!
Sun paper
I got some paper that you put in the sun and it makes a little print of whatever you put on it. Woah!! It was fun and only took a few minutes. I used the bag that potatoes and oranges and such come in, and I think it looks like the bottom of a pool. I am excited to play with this more! You can get it here if you want to try!
Don’t forget about colored pencils
I often forget about them. I also forget to draw from life, I usually just spit out what's in my head that I would like to physically see. Here is a little drawing I did where I experimented with scribbling in little chunks in different directions. Cute!
Lines through lines
Here is a little drawing on yupo paper with my beloved Caran D’Ache Neocolor 1 (adult crayon) and oil pastels. I was drawing something else with the Neocolor, and crossed through the oil pastel and it made an interesting little gradient line. I felt like this woman in that one infomercial.
Serene
This is a little drawing of a polka dot horse with a long wispy tail. I named her Serene and I really like this drawing. I have been drawing a lot of horses lately, I have never been into horses before so I don’t know what that’s about. Maybe it’s because I like bad drawings and horses can look weird pretty easily.
Filling holes
I was scribbling around and decided to color in the holes of my scribbling. I really liked it, so I bought a big wood square and did it again. It was really relaxing, and it looks like spaghetti!
Entertainment Writes History
Sometimes, I think the more r/im14andthisisdeep your drawings are, the better. That’s how you know you're free. Bonus deep points if you literally write out the concept directly on the piece. If you can’t tell, I love writing on my drawings. Sometimes I wish the artists of old wrote out exactly what they were thinking directly on their oil paintings. Like, “The king paid me to paint this portrait of him, he is rather handsome and I am hungry” hmm.
So about this: I am currently taking a history class at my local community college for fun. I picked history because the current world we are in is scary, but things can feel less scary if you recognize patterns and feel more prepared and understand the world a bit more. Fear is sometimes born out of not understanding. It has been great and I would recommend taking a history class if you feel horrified.
Most people day to day are not cracking open history books, talking to historians, or time traveling to the past to talk to the subjects of history that often didn't get to tell their own stories (but are having their stories told for them) but we do watch movies/tv, listen to music and look at art every day in some way. In a way, I think entertainment “writes” history, and that is how we subconsciously learn about it whether we realize it or not. Entertainment is what people pay attention to.
Yeah, I am not always making art that explores the political and economic state of the world right now, but my impressions of the world around me could be studied by someone in the future to help make a guess about what was important to people right now. If you make tik toks, write poems, take photos... that is writing history. Wacky!
Crumple
For my birthday, I got a bunch of paper samples! Woah! This was a cool woven paper that alllllmost feels like a fabric. SO i drew on it and then crumpled it up and it looks pretty cool.
In the Know
This is a little drawing that I would like to make into a bigger format about knowing too much. I haven't yet partly because I have so much art layin around that I don’t know what the heck to do with it all.
Healthy advice
It’s simple, see what ever you want to see and believe what you want to believe and live in a little bit of a false reality
Katelyn Betz
March
This month, I watched a season of Love Island Australia, I had some commissions to work on, and I have been busy with work and taking a class. AND I am getting ready to move. Sooo I didn’t spend too much time creating. Or so I thought... Once I started collecting images of what I did throughout the month, I realized I made a lot more than I thought!
Sun paper
I got some paper that you put in the sun and it makes a little print of whatever you put on it. Woah!! It was fun and only took a few minutes. I used the bag that potatoes and oranges and such come in, and I think it looks like the bottom of a pool. I am excited to play with this more! You can get it here if you want to try!
Don’t forget about colored pencils
I often forget about them. I also forget to draw from life, I usually just spit out what's in my head that I would like to physically see. Here is a little drawing I did where I experimented with scribbling in little chunks in different directions. Cute!
Lines through lines
Here is a little drawing on yupo paper with my beloved Caran D’Ache Neocolor 1 (adult crayon) and oil pastels. I was drawing something else with the Neocolor, and crossed through the oil pastel and it made an interesting little gradient line. I felt like this woman in that one infomercial.
Serene
This is a little drawing of a polka dot horse with a long wispy tail. I named her Serene and I really like this drawing. I have been drawing a lot of horses lately, I have never been into horses before so I don’t know what that’s about. Maybe it’s because I like bad drawings and horses can look weird pretty easily.
Filling holes
I was scribbling around and decided to color in the holes of my scribbling. I really liked it, so I bought a big wood square and did it again. It was really relaxing, and it looks like spaghetti!
Entertainment Writes History
Sometimes, I think the more r/im14andthisisdeep your drawings are, the better. That’s how you know you're free. Bonus deep points if you literally write out the concept directly on the piece. If you can’t tell, I love writing on my drawings. Sometimes I wish the artists of old wrote out exactly what they were thinking directly on their oil paintings. Like, “The king paid me to paint this portrait of him, he is rather handsome and I am hungry” hmm.
So about this: I am currently taking a history class at my local community college for fun. I picked history because the current world we are in is scary, but things can feel less scary if you recognize patterns and feel more prepared and understand the world a bit more. Fear is sometimes born out of not understanding. It has been great and I would recommend taking a history class if you feel horrified.
Most people day to day are not cracking open history books, talking to historians, or time traveling to the past to talk to the subjects of history that often didn't get to tell their own stories (but are having their stories told for them) but we do watch movies/tv, listen to music and look at art every day in some way. In a way, I think entertainment “writes” history, and that is how we subconsciously learn about it whether we realize it or not. Entertainment is what people pay attention to.
Yeah, I am not always making art that explores the political and economic state of the world right now, but my impressions of the world around me could be studied by someone in the future to help make a guess about what was important to people right now. If you make tik toks, write poems, take photos... that is writing history. Wacky!
Crumple
For my birthday, I got a bunch of paper samples! Woah! This was a cool woven paper that alllllmost feels like a fabric. SO i drew on it and then crumpled it up and it looks pretty cool.
In the Know
This is a little drawing that I would like to make into a bigger format about knowing too much. I haven't yet partly because I have so much art layin around that I don’t know what the heck to do with it all.
Healthy advice
It’s simple, see what ever you want to see and believe what you want to believe and live in a little bit of a false reality
Katelyn Betz