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I'm starting a 30 day Mini Art challenge where I will make a small oil pastel piece on a 4x4 canvas each day. I've never done an art challenge before so this should be fun! I have no set theme for the challenge so will basically just be drawing things that I find interesting.

Day 1:

To dive right in I decided to draw a fried egg for day one of the challenge. Who doesn't love a fried egg?! 😋🍳

Stay tuned- I'll be updating this post each day so you can follow my journey!

"I don't believe in astrology."

Bringing this back because there’s been a bit of a push from Mormon influencers to normalize Mormonism, and as an exmormon I’m here to say fuck that

this is an EXTREMELY fun style to work in, and also

many of the most iconic romance novel covers you’re probably picturing when you think “classic painted romance novel cover” were produced by one prolific, masterful artist

Her name was Elaine Duillo, and she had a long and extremely productive career spanning from the mid 60’s to her retirement in 2003. She worked mainly in acrylics.

She did illustration work in other genres as well, but she really found her niche in romance novels. She pretty much redefined the aesthetic conventions of the genre, popularizing male models and male nudity and sexualizing men to cater to the female gaze in a way that simply wasn’t the norm before her work. You know Fabio? she’s the one who started using him as a model, and essentially launched his career. And honestly, just look at her work:

take this quiz to see how many USA states you can name in 10 minutes, because i was curious to see if i still remembered. i got all but blanked on wyoming, maryland, and oklahoma. (and i only got nebraska, missouri, and mississippi in the last 10 seconds. when i blank out i BLANK out.)