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“There’s no ‘we’re fucked’, it will get better or it will get worse.” Lovett or Leave It Podcast

"Despair is paralysis. It robs us of agency. It blinds us to our own power and the power of the earth. Environmental despair is a poison every bit as destructive as the methylated mercury in the bottom of Onondaga Lake. But how can we submit to despair while the land is saying "Help"? Restoration is a powerful antidote to despair. Restoration offers concrete means by which humans can once again enter into positive, creative relationship with the more-than-human world, meeting responsibilities that are simultaneously material and spiritual. It's not enough to grieve. It's not enough to just stop doing bad things." Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

“Talking about it makes it seem like giving up might be the cool thing to do, and it’s definitely not. It’s a betrayal of the future. It’s a betrayal of the past too! It’s also a betrayal of the present. Don’t give up! We are only past saving when we believe we are past saving.” youtube video “Is It All Hopeless?”, Hank Green

“If Carson had given over totally to apocalyptic rhetoric, she would have forsaken her scientific outlook on life. There may be no completely happy endings in the master narrative of scientific research, but neither is there a scene of total destruction. There are, as in tragedy, the signs of rebirth and continuance. The work continues, the search goes on.” And No Birds Sing: Rhetorical Analyses of Silent Spring, ed. Craig Waddell

"We could take the path of fear and despair. We could document every scary scene of ecological destruction and never run out of material for a Haunted Hayride of environmental disasters, constructing a shocking nightmare tableaux of environmental tragedies, in rooms carved from a monoculture of invasive plants, on the shore of the most chemically contaminated lake in the United States. […] What could such a vision create other than woe and tears? Joanna Macy writes that until we can grieve for our planet we cannot love it--grieving is a sign of spiritual health. But it is not enough to weep for our lost landscapes; we have to put our hands in the earth to make ourselves whole again. Even a wounded world is feeding us. Even a wounded world holds us, giving us moments of wonder and joy. I choose joy over despair. Not because I have my head in the sand, but because joy is what the earth gives me daily and I must return the gift.” Braiding Sweetgrass, Robin Wall Kimmerer

“We need all hands on deck, and there’s a lot of deck.” Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg

“Say these words when you lie down and when you rise up,

when you go out and when you return. In times of mourning

and in times of joy. Inscribe them on your doorposts,

embroider them on your garments, tattoo them on your shoulders,

teach them to your children, your neighbors, your enemies,

recite them in your sleep, here in the cruel shadow of empire:

ahh sorry anon I don’t dabble much in watercolors except for sketchbook stuff/journal things I literally just add water and paint fhfj but there’s a couple of channels/artists I can point you to who work with watercolors! :0

Atelier Sentô

Mateusz Urbanowicz

@raining-starshine !! :0 awwh shucks thank you/glad you like it so much! (I’m still really fond of that one ahaha) 

 nAY I neither own/worked on at all nor possess digital copies I am just a big fan of it because creepy body horror ocean eldritchy things hECK YEAH I would also love to read it (I don’t think it’s even out yet ahaha) but I can direct you to the creator/artist and the faq:

https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/longharbor–2#/faq

https://www.instagram.com/mirabal.art/

omg thank you I’M GLAD IT MADE YOU HAPPY fhhfjdf

@dishesoap​ YES splendid FEESH ahahah actually been a couple of asks for them so 👀

hello! and ooh trying out a different media is pretty fun/exciting; honestly it’s totally fine to kinda just go for it and mess around? there’s no like… ‘correct’ answer haha but hmm the one thing that’s sticking in my brain is keeping an eye on values/greyscale.

for example #1 has clear simple values and it makes the picture read clear! if you look at #2 you can see how there’s basically no value contrast and as a result it makes the picture feel a bit flat. #3′s just a different example of #1 and you can see how different values help make it more interesting as well as define like..the focal point/what is most important or aka the area you want people to look at. (not saying that #2 is incorrect either haha if that’s what you’re trying to convey) 

here’s another example but in a full painting!

grouping similar values can help with your painting, and focal points are usually areas that have the highest amount of contrast (sparkle/light rays against the black background). usually it helps a lot if you start out with greys and then overlay/paint over but most of the time now I go straight to color and just check the values while I’m working with the handy turn-to-greyscale shortcut in photoshop.

there’s a channel on youtube by Marco Bucci and he has a lot of really helpful videos about painting and light and colors if you wanna check that out.

Starry Seas part 2 for Redbubble!

(part 1)