I Was Posting Art Online Back In The Days Of Elfwood, Before Deviantart, So I’ve Been Around To Watch

I was posting art online back in the days of Elfwood, before Deviantart, so I’ve been around to watch the internet social rules of interacting with art posts shift over time.

Lemme tell you: Reblogs make me happy, but comments fill me with JOY. Whether it’s on the reblog or in the tags, even if it’s as simple as “I like this,” that means so much to me.

I can imagine there are a lot of artists in a position similar to mine: Working a full-time non-art job, with little time or opportunity to interact with IRL art communities. I was in art school for many many years, and I didn’t realize how important it was to receive feedback on my art until I wasn’t getting it anymore.

One of the things I’m trying to do, over on my bsky and my sideblog, is to leave a comment of some kind when I reblog another artist’s work. I know it means a lot to me, so I want to give that to artists whose work I enjoy.

To everyone who leaves comments on my art, even goofy stuff in their tags: I do see it, I do read it, and thank you so much!

To people who leave comments in the tags that say stuff like “this is so weird” or “why did they make the characters so ugly”: Please go look at more art and develop a broader palette. Maybe watch Simon Schama’s “The Power of Art” miniseries, as a fun way to learn some art history and theory.

Portrait Study 2023

Work in progress pictures can be seen here

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panic-volkushka

3 years ago

in case there’s ever been any ambiguity about the themes and focus of my art, Baruch HaShem for hairy trans masc titties.

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work in progress 2022

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panic-volkushka

6 years ago

painting progress

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work in progress 2019

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panic-volkushka

7 years ago

Got my shelves built and painted and my comix printed, folded, stapled, neatly packaged & ready for @shortrunseattle on Saturday!

You can find me at table H43!

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panic-volkushka

9 years ago

So if you go to grad school for art therapy, you may end up taking a ferry out to an island to visit an aged psychoanalytic art therapist and present her with drawings of serial killers in exchange for her wisdom.

That's what I will be doing with my Saturday!

I'm giving her a picture of Jeffrey Dahmer and if the trip turns out to be some sort of elaborate murder mystery, please avenge my death.

Also, a collage piece about Edith Kramer and Margaret Naumburg, two early art therapists.

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panic-volkushka

11 years ago

I got kissed by a turtle dove upon a cold Paris manger I was waking up to my love, first moment dawning danger everything was new every sock and shoe my face and your face, tenderly renewed

tenderly renewed

"Christina's Farm" by Antony and the Johnsons

Based on a photograph of a man who survived a gunshot to the head during World War I.

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panic-volkushka

11 years ago

you are my son and i am saturn do you see it? this is you and me i want you to know as you're being eaten the lights will be on and that this is you and me

"Saturn" by Xiu Xiu

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panic-volkushka

6 years ago