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Daniel F. Walthall

@axebane.bsky.social

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He/him. Hi! I love to draw/design stuff (like Axebane's Deck of Many Dungeons). My art is 100% human-made! Addicted to popcorn. Reposts art. #comics #poetry #art

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · Aug 26

I released another free hand-drawn map, it's free for everyone thanks to my patrons! Thank you so much!!!

As usual there are two versions: a full-page version with space for notes, and a version with numbers and secrets hidden!

www.patreon.com/posts/floode...

#art #drawing #cartography #TTRPG

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 41m

I think maybe I'm intimidated by my 24" x 36" huge canvas panel, because so far all I've done is put a background color on it

no idea what to paint on it, all my other canvases do not intimidate me at all, so it feels weird. Just because this one is so big? what am I scared of?

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Jon Bois @jonbois.bsky.social · 4h

i see you're doing something online that you have effortlessly done 100,000 times. would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? would you like to use this ai tool? w

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 2h

?? two of my exes are chatting with me today and being sweet to me. people like me? wtf is this?

what is this sorcery?!

haha, it's nice though, maybe I should have a bit more confidence in myself afterall :D

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

listen, the artist who organizes the event does sound like a nice guy, and he's clearly passionate about art

which makes it even more confusing and sad to me

well, I'm gonna make a bunch of small works (and large!) regardless, I'll just do it on my own terms which sounds more fun anyway

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

LMAO! I was gonna join the Small Works Challenge until I got to the part of the video where the artist who organizes that event recommends that artists use AI to write "more personal, more compelling stories" about their art...

more personal? the algorithmic theft machine??

nah, no thanks, gtfo

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

I feel really embarrassed about it, but I had to cancel my two commissions :(

I thought I was in the right mindset to start doing commissions again, but then my personal life got more chaotic, and the storm in my mind got stronger

I feel ashamed to be so unreliable, but this is who I am sadly

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The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 1d

The crowd estimate for Portland's No Kings protest is currently at 40,000.

More photos to come but you can read our live updates here: www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 1d

These are some of the paintings I'm currently working on:

(all of these are 16" x 20", on canvas panel, using casein paint)
#art #painting #abstract

An incomplete semi-abstract casein painting on canvas panel featuring three swords, five flowers, and a mostly concealed face.

An incomplete semi-abstract casein painting on canvas panel featuring a blank face, and a snake-like shape below.

An incomplete abstract casein painting on canvas panel featuring a large boxy red form in the center, a field of blues around and above it, green areas below it. There is a large blue diagonal line crossing over the red form.

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 2d

Maybe I should have a little bit of confidence in myself, and in my artwork. Maybe I could just have that?

If not now, when?

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 2d

finally, I have rose red pigment again!!

#painting #art

An incomplete painting, featuring several swords, a shrouded face, and five pink/magenta flowers. The painting is still in a very early stage, with many of the elements only being featured as sketched outlines painted with dark gray linework.

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 3d

oops, fallin' apart today

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Sonia is an Ignyte and Ember Award winner! @soniasulaiman.bsky.social · 3d

Noah is a trans friend being evicted. They’re badly in need of funds to move across state lines to live with family. Please help by sharing or donating to their fundraiser. www.gofundme.com/f/bvwcc-supp...

Donate to Support Our Journey to a New Beginning, organized by Noah Stark

I'm Noah, a gender-nonconforming, transgender man living in Albuquerque with two sen… Noah Stark needs your support for Support Our Journey to a New Beginning

www.gofundme.com

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 6d

You are absolutely right!!

I remember when I was drawing a tarot deck and you were so encouraging, and even though I never finished that (I still have the drawings!), it was still a moment that gave me so much confidence in my art!! That, and for the many times you were kind to me: thank you!! 💖 🫂😭

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · Jul 28

Listen to Me I Love You
#poetry

Listen to Me I love You by Daniel F. Walthall: "listen to me, okay?, I love you, and that, is that. listen to the sky, alright?, the whole sky loves you, and that, is that. listen to your heart, got it?, the voice in your heart loves you, and that, is that. listen even, my sweet love, to your very own mind, but only, during the times when your mind, is kind to you, because your beautiful and dazzling and clever mind, deep down it loves you, and that, as they say, is that."

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 6d

thank you, I really have to remember that and recognize that people do love me. It's not my fault that my brain wants to lie to me.

I hope you feel loved also, my longtime friend. I've never forgotten how you've believed in me over the years, dude!! 💖 🫂

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 6d

I really have to stop assuming that everyone hates me.

Who hates me?

I don't know anyone who actually does, but I keep assuming my friends and family do, when really there isn't much evidence of that!!

my friend gave me good advice tonight: "it's just your brain being a dick!" 🥰

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · Jul 30

Rustleaf
#poetry

Rustleaf by Daniel F. Walthall: "a dry, and rusty leaf, floating and fluttering and drifting in the air, after being let go by the branch. it drifts, it floats, it rises on warm air, and sinks in the cold, but someone will catch the rusty leaf, before it touches, the ground."

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · Jul 19

Please Forgive me
#poetry

Please forgive me, by Daniel F. Walthall: I beg you to forgive me, for being scared when you, needed me to be strong, for stumbling, for saying every thought out loud, every fear, and every phantom, when you were already in battle, with an army of shades. my sword broke, right at the moment I could have parried, the blow. even worse, I broke my own sword before the, battle had, even begun. please forgive me, please forgive me, please forgive me. I beg you to forgive me. and maybe somehow, maybe somehow. I cry out to the universe for somehow, somehow I might conjure an arcane blade, two arcane blades, at the last second, one for you, and one for me.

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 9d

I ordered paint! and also a 24" x 36" canvas panel!!!

the paint wont be here for a week though, so for now I'm using some dioxazine purple, and cobalt blue gouache mixed in with the casein (always with more than 50% of the mixture being casein) to finally get some freaking blues/purples again!!

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 10d

I'm gonna run out of paint if I don't order some today I think

all I have left is green, a bit of yellow ocher, some browns, plus black & white!! I'm still painting though, so my most recent paintings are mostly just light brown and dark brown at the moment, LMAO!

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 11d

I've completed 31 paintings in the last three months

as soon as I can get motivated to, I'm gonna photograph all of them, and I'll start sharing pics!!!

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 11d

okay, this is fuckin' weird, and I don't really understand it, but I'm so addicted to painting now that I still find myself painting even while I'm sobbing

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 12d

also, it's WILD how much more motivated I feel when I lean into my chaotic nature, and allow myself to start new paintings on a whim, and to have 10 to 20 paintings in progress at any given time

I've never worked this way before in my life, but it's the only way I want to paint now!!

Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 12d

I think I've latched onto painting so strongly lately because:

-I watched a bunch of videos of artists being interviewed, and it gave me a powerful craving to just go for it with painting

-my personal life has been chaotic this year, and I needed an escape

-a new-found love for semi-abstract art

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Daniel F. Walthall @axebane.bsky.social · 12d

I've been in such a painting frenzy for the last few weeks, that I'm starting to build up a stack of paintings like some kind of painting farmer growin' bushels of paintings

I really gotta take some pics to show you guys, it's sorta crazy

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