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Kat Gifford

@studiogiff.bsky.social

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Painter! traditional/digital/animated loves funny things and the macabre would maim for a fluffernutter sandwich www.kgifford.com for more art

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Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · 17d

I love painting spooky eerie stuff, especially in October... 💀🍁
#painting #spookyseason #portrait #creepy #happyoctober

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Sep 11

Spinning Lemon 🍋
Painted animation experiment
#animation #paintedanimation #stilllifepainting #lemons #spinmeround

Reposted by Kat Gifford

Margaret Killjoy @margaret.bsky.social · Sep 4

Always remember: pay enough attention to what's happening in the world so that you can get scared. Only the scared can be brave, and everything is better when you're brave.

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Aug 29

getting ready for the upcoming spooky season with an animated painting loop 👻🔦
#animation #paintedanimation #spooky #darknight #gloomyart #moodypainting

Reposted by Kat Gifford

Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · Aug 13

Alexander Petrov explains his paint-on-glass animation for Winter Days (2003), dir. Kihachiro Kawamoto

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Aug 13

Fish still life painting 🐟

Image of fish and apples on a table and a painting of those apples and fish is sitting next to it on a tabletop easel

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Jun 6

Sketchy self-portrait turn around with bones 💀💀
#animation #selfportrait #framebyframe #painted #bones #skull #turnaround #procreate

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Jun 2

Waiting to bloom with 🐜🌸
Animated loop made with gouache and Procreate
#animation #peonyseason #ants #antsmarching #procreate

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Apr 14

Croissant with daffodils, oil on panel 6x6
Local bakery sourced pastry and spring flowers 🌼🥐
#stilllife #painting #oilpainting #croissant #foodart #daffodils

Oil painting still life of a croissant on a blue tablecloth surrounded by yellow daffodils

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Apr 3

Sneak peek of a new still life. Daffodils are so fun to paint 💛
#stilllife #painting #daffodils #springart

Close up of an oil painting still life with daffodils on a blue background

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Mar 17

Figure study - painted on canvas paper
#figurepainting #timelapse

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Mar 10

When life gives you lemons
🍋🖌️
#oilpainting #lemon #stilllife #fromlife #stilllifepainting #lemonlove

Reposted by Kat Gifford

Owl Daily @owldaily.bsky.social · Mar 10

Did you see something? The Yellow Eyes?

Thanks ©being_roy_ for video
#wildsecrets #Owls

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Mar 6

Thank you!!

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Mar 6

Still life vase, flowers in shadow.
Digital painting lighting experiment.
#painting #stilllife #flowers #shadow #digitalpainting

Painting of glass vase of flowers with bright and shadow light and colors. Background is teal colored.

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Mar 5

Walking through the first week of March like 🪿
#goose #animation #drawing #walkwithme #march

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Mar 3

White carnation study 💮
#flowerpainting #oilpainting #stilllife #carnation

Small square oil painting of a white carnation flower on a cerulean blue background. The painting is leaning against a vase that has the carnations in it they were used for reference for the painting.

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Feb 12

Drawing the studio model today
💀
#drawing #studio #skeleton #bones

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Feb 6

❄️
#snow #animation #painting #sketch

Reposted by Kat Gifford

Shannon Downey @badasscrossstitch.bsky.social · Feb 1

Happy National Embroidery Month my friends!

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Jan 31

'Portrait in Turquoise and Pink' oil on panel
I've been all about different color combos and high keys recently
#painting #turquoise #portrait

Oil painted head and shoulders portrait of woman in turquoise and pink. Painting is square shaped and features both light and heavy paint texture. The model in the painting is facing the viewer's right at a three quarter turn.

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Jan 29

Cobra animated sketch for the lunar new year 🐍
#yearofthesnake

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Jan 24

Jar Bouquet - oil on panel
Fresh off the easel still life 💐

#painting

Still life oil painting of a bouquet of flowers in a glass jar on a turquoise tabletop. The painting features dramatic lighting that lights the flowers from below, and behind the bold colored flowers is the shadow of the bouquet projected on a blue fabric background.

Kat Gifford @studiogiff.bsky.social · Jan 17

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