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In all my art classes, I was never taught HOW to use the various tools of art.

Like yes, form, and shape and space and color theory and figure drawing is important, but so is KNOWING what different tools do.

I’m 29 and I JUST learned this past month that India Ink is fucking waterproof when it dries. Why is this important? Because I can line something in India Ink and then go over it with watercolors. And that has CHANGED the ENTIRE way I art and the ease I can create with.

-Yo painters, use pencil if u must underdraw beneath an oil painting, the lead is archival but ideally you should be doing underdrawings in a muted earth tones (siennas, umbers, ochres or earth green) with some titanium white added to it. (The white nearly matches the canvas and earth tones naturally blend with all colors on top unless u do super thin glaze washes).

-Trying to make a natural looking warm black? Don’t use black straight from tube, Mix alizarin crimson and viridan. add raw umber to adjust for light depth.

-If your into mixed media ALWAYS use acrylic first and oil on top (the gesso on primed canvas is acrylic based and oil sits on top of it great). NEVER put acrylic paint on top of oil, the acrylic will crackle/decompose and fall apart/off the canvas.

-India ink is permanent and if your using ink from a jar it should say it’s permanence. professional art grade pens usually have there permanace listed either on the pen or the companies website.

-Red cinnabar is poisonous, DO NOT EAT IT, no matter how much like fruit loops it smells.

-Translucent and transparent are NOT the same. translucent is *shiny* and a cloudier color, ideal for mixing usually ordor making vibrant colors like for eyes, cars, etc. Transparent is matte and usually a 50% transparency from an opaque color.

-ALWAYS DO A TEST SWATCH OF ANY NEW MATERIAL.

-any paint made with “true alizarin crimson” “red lake” and “chrome yellow” pigment is a fugitive paint. Fugitive means the pigment fades dramatically and disappears over time, (usually 5 to 15 years) lots of van goghs paintings have this problem. be very careful with these pigments. Alizarin crimson especially smells extremely sweet and like fruit loops or fruit loops, don’t eat it.

-gauche is a mix of watercolor and ink, proceed with caution as this material can be an asshole.

-Watercolor can be made darker/thicker by letting it dry slightly in cake form or in liquid form and can be dry brushed if u get the timing down.

-Paint liquid rubber or lay down thin pieces of painters tape on edges in watercolor paintings to Prevent bleeding between lines if u need super sharp edges.

-always tape down the entire paper edges when u paint with watercolor to a board to prevent the paper from curling as it dries.

-add salt directly into wet watercolor paintings to absorb pigment and make shit look like space.

-Always paint in well ventilated areas and avoid getting lots of paint on your hands. lots of paint is made with heavy metals and can cause cancer.

-natural materials aren’t always safe, especially

-Ones u collect yourself, do your research before grinding, burning, sanding these things especially indoors.

-natural sable is good for watercolor if you can afford it, i have two smaller brushes i shelled out for to try it, and while i probably didn’t treat the finer point one right, the other one is a miracle i’ve had for nearly 20 years.

hey there, it’s jo! i’ve gotta admit love tumblr a lot (probably too much, at times), but there’s just so much useful stuff you can find here! and so here’s some helpful stuff i’ve collected, put into one masterpost and cut up into various categories. (see bottom for masterposts on other stuff)!

the masterpost of stuff: health stuff

appearance

make-up starter kit

makeup for beginners (intro and essential items)

elf makeup masterpost (cruelty free)

best drugstore makeup

on contouring and highlighting

a guide for mascara

on dyeing your hair

a visual glossary of bras

visual shoe glossary

first aid

free first aid courses

more free first aid courses, with cpr

bleeding but don’t have any band-aids?

limits of the human body (temperatures)

seizure first aid

workout / exercise

quick stretching for backaches and stuff (this has some cute af visual aids!!)

a quick workout for everyday life

guide to gym memberships

a lazy girl’s workout

make your own cool af deodorant

superhero workouts

sports anime workouts

body weight burn (no equipment needed) workout

recipes of smoothies that can help with weight loss

food stuff

how to cook (on the technical aspects)

broke af? use these food tips

hella tricks and tips for cooking

100 recipes for the starving student

on boiling tea

make some bread

different types of tea and their uses

you can still stay hydrated even if u don’t like water!!!

here’s how long u can store your groceries

self care

look good and feel better at the same time

wave that acne goodbye

should i see a obgyn (a q&a for vagina owners)?

a guide on bras and stuff

identify your emotions

for the bad days

ten rules positive people live by

on self-improvement (a masterpost)

four steps to take before you self destruct

reasons why you should be confident in yourself!!!

hygiene/body care masterpost

what should you put in your bath?

hoe tips

a self care masterpost

how to make a bath bomb

wear your armor.

just read this

miscellaneous

a study guide for health

a guide on how antidepressants work

a masterpost for vagina owners

the sex ed your parents didn’t give you

for my people with eczema

i hope this helps y’all lovelies!

find other masterpost stuff: school | life (how to adult) | humanities | miscellaneous i

i mentioned this briefly in my recent vlog about how important it is to gain a better understanding of finances + i figured that it might be nice to share some resources for gaining financial literacy! hope this helps ✨

why financial literacy is important

resources on financial literacy from the national credit union administration

harvard’s take on financial literacy + additional links within that page

how credit cards work

tips for improving your credit score

how to check and improve your credit score

khan academy course on finance

cnn money 101

mymoney.gov from the financial literacy commission

gcf lessons (includes lessons on work / career / internet / microsoft / etc as well)

ally wallet wise

money as you grow

adult budgeting 101

tips for paying off student loans

common ways you waste money

strategies for paying off student loans

how insurance works

personal loans 101

guide to getting out of debt

— 19/03/19

Today was a rather difficult one to get

productive as I wasn’t feeling my best, but I managed to do a small amount of integration practice. Better than nothing!

A spread I quickly did while the sun was out today. ✍🏻☀️

I don’t care if you think “this is just how Degeneres/Kimmel does comedy”, I don’t care if they did it for laughs. The overall tone of their segment is to show their reaction; to show how ridiculous and childish they find the KonMari method. We get it, white liberals don’t have time for wishy-washy Japanese mindfulness woo-woo and their enlightened views make them too rational to take seriously any other cultures that are based in spirituality and animism

Kimmel made a long, over-winded joke that deliberately put both Marie and her translator into an embarrassing situation, deliberately highlighting and mocking Marie’s lack of English, and then mocked the Shinto cultural background that Marie’s methods come from. Ellen’s writer acted as if Marie was going to overturn his office, then shoves Kim Kardashian’s ass into Marie’s face, then admit that he’s going “put everything back anyway” after Maries leaves. Both of them act as if her “greeting ritual” was some form of Weird Hokey Japanese Gimmick. 

White “progressive liberal voices” are turning non-white cultures either into a commodity or into a joke without any self-reflection or foresight into the damage they’re potentially doing. They take no care in the hurt that they as white comedians are sowing; in turning Marie’s traditional Japanese cultural values and contexts into a joke, they’re making the act of othering and disrespecting non-white cultures more normative and easier to do. Their activism and political commentary is nothing but performative white bullshit.

1. Trying to please everyone.

2. Fearing change.

3. Living in the past.

4. Overthinking.

5. Being afraid to be different.

6. Beating yourself up over mistakes.

7. Thinking you’re not good enough.